The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-01

visitor, but I refused to allow her, for
what had tho man done? Nothingl
He was civil and quiet, and had gone
away ct my request. and had left it in
my power to say that I had received
one offer at least in my life."
HOUSEHOLDS OF 1EW YORK
Whas . 1sza's-1ys Study q zhsn r.
voals:
From, tho New York Sun.
There are half : dozen. points from
which they can be seen-Trinity steeple;;
the Field building, the Produce Ex-
change tower, the Equitable CompaDys
roof, and tho fiat, broad ridge pole Of
the Western Union building: But the
most popular and comfortable point of
view, and the only; one that affords .
good view If Brooklyn in the bargain;
is the East River bridge. From the
highest point on the curving foot path
one fully realizes the fact that nearly
25O, 900 roofs lie below-1OO,O 600 in
Brooklyn and 135, 900 in the principal
city.
At first the scene is bewildering, aud
the eye refuses to bring instant order
out of the confusion of chimney pots,
pipes, signs, poles, wire, and sheets of
tin and slate but q minute of fixed at
tention Strengthens the tangle out, and
the spectator is able to scan the scene
intelligently, especially when he takes
note of section of it at time. Myriad
threads of smoke, scores of towers, and
steeples, forest Of ratings and posts,
and countless Tapping flags helped the
first bewilderment, snd this was furth-
az increased by the misty indistinctness
Of those most distant roofs which seem
to lie close under the palisades and be-
bond the blurred foliage Of Central
Park.
In what is left of Old New York there
are many pitched roofs rising from low
cutters to high ridge poles, and among
them are some that are covered with
bent earthenware tiles. A long line OF
these on Fulton street calls to mind the
views artists have sketched of street
scenes in Antwerp.
Less precipitous housetops, coated
with shingles, are to be seen on every
hand when the eye turns toward Brook
Ign. There the brightest spot in all
the broad expanse spread out on every
hand is line of luxuriant gardens be-
tween the Fulton and Wall street fer
ries. The gaudy flowers and umbrage-
GUS trees, the garden paths, summer
houses and squares of green lawn mis-
lead the senses into the belief that this
is row of ordinary gardens, yet these
are merely the roofs of the riveIai
planted with vegetation. Of
these storage buildings reaeno the
basement of the mansions of Columbia
heights, and the rich residents there
would have no gardens if these roofs
were left bare. Rounded green treetops,
shivering in the breeZes, peep between
the roofs all over Brooklyn.
Close to the bridge on the New York
side are many blocks of tenements, and
their roofs are very interesting. Nearly
all are fenced in at the sides, and many
of them are boarded over. Modern
roofs are nearly fiat. and tenement
roofs in such crowded districts as this
are equipped with clothes poles and
lines from which drying garments are
always waving, for since each family
has the use of the line on its own par
Gcular day of the week, it may be said
to be always washday in these neigh
borhoods. But the tenement roofs are
too precious to be given up to clothes
drying exclusively.
They offer delightful retrent from
the close and sitting atmosphere of the
crowded buildings. So it happens that
those who cross the bridge at daybreak
in the summer time often see men and
boys stretched out asleep upon the bare
boards or upon mattresses brought up
there for the purpose, and during the
last hour of daylight, when all the
young people are home from the work
shops, one frequently sees young men
and women whirling over the boards to
the music of an ACCORDION in the hands
of youth seated out of the way of the
dancers on the stone coping of the side
wall of the building.
On other tenement roofs, seated in
the shadows of dry sheets or counter
panes, are sewing women and groups of
talkative girls, while perched on Chin
ney tops or on the very edge of the
lofty platforms, little boys send their
kites up into the sluggish air currents
overhead. Shrewd advertisers who
have noted the advantages of places in
the range of near vision from the busy
bridge, have painted on other roofs the
names of patent medicines, new sewing
machines, and other wares, and other
roofs are otherwise utilized for business.
One is given up to racks for drying pot
terry, another to long lines of split canes
for chair seats. Hides hang on frames
on yet another roof, and here and there
the sun touches the slanting window of
of photographers ceiling and turns it
into sheet of dazzling light.
At night nearly all the roofs are shad-
owy and dark. The towers and Chin
neys show indistinctly above dim line
of dull brown. One roof, however, is
distinguished among all others. It
seems to be covered with a mass of little
yellow globes. It is the top of an up
town theatre Uttered with tables, chairs
and Towering plants in pots and boxes.
The little globes are lamps arranged in
arches overhead to illuminate this aerial
garden. Landlords are beginning to
utilize their roofs now that open air is
so scarce and so highly priced. On
Cyrus w. Fields new building the roof
is used for restaurant, and the roof of
the great roller skating hall, soon to be
erected up town, is to be one of the
main attractions in the project. Trees,
plants and flowers will ornament it,
and there will be music and eating and
drinking amid the leaves and blossoms
there.
Bursting of Bubbles.
We have our seasons of speculation,