Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-31

PUBLIC WORKS. continue to pay the rent of their apartment all summer while not occupying it-for few are the landlords who will accept a tenant for less than years time-have found to their delight that there Is growing demand for flats between the months of June and October.
 Their summer outing admits of many more pleasures when their apartment is sub-let ct home, and they have, beside, the security that moths will not corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal their goods and movables at home. This de- mand for furnished flats during the sum- l mer months Is something new and arises from the fact that many Southerners are discovering New York Is pleasant place in which to pass hot months. The heat here as compared tc that in their South ern homes Is as nothing, coming only in spurts of a few days at time, instead of being long, continuous and unchangeable as with them; beside which watering places arc 60 near and convenient that when the heat becomes so intense they can run away a day or two to the hills or the seashorc and escape it's worst effects. The Southerners have always been fond of New York in the summer as headquarters from whence they make cx- petitions to all points of thc compass. The New York hotel, their favoritc stopping place, always looks forvaluable summer patronage from them and only last year they discovered a cheaper method of living here than in hotels. | The owner of furnished flat who is of moderate means is very loathe to be at | the dead loss of four months rent and will sub-let his apartment, completely | furnished, for very small advance over the sum he pays his landlord, and a vis- itor to New York finds himself enabled to 1 step into convenient and agreeable | home without any of the worry of the | preparation, and which he Is only obliged 1 to keep for three or four mOnthS costing him about one-half the sum he should have to pay for the same accommoda- | tions in hotel. It also solves the un- | pleasant question of having to give up a | servant every spring and begin with new one every autumn, with the whole course of training and teaching to be | gone over again, for these summer ten | ants take the servant with the flat, rule and turn her over to the original | owners i'll the autumn when they leave. 1 This class of summer visitors to the | city includes not only SouthernerS, but many from the rural districts in the west and east whose occupations will not permit them to visit the metropolis in winter, but who like to come here once a year for the sake of the libraries, muse- ums, theaters and shopping. Many lead CTS of fashion in provincial towns find it to their advantage to spend several | months of the summer in New ork for the purpose of seeing the fashions and | getting their gowns made cheaply and fashionably by the swell dressmakers in the duil season. Teachers in the schools and colleges all over the country derive great benefit from several weeks near the | great libraries and museums, and find that lessons can be had in both music and languages very cheaply in the sum- | mer
 Thus the modern flat has new claim
 on the public, for comparatively few out
 of town people would take a house for a
 short stay. I recall that 1t is only about
 twenty years since Rutherford Stuyves-
 ant built the first apartment house in this l city. It was on East Seventeenth street, | and a few years after the Rhinelanders
 followed his lead on Fourth avenue.
 These flats are still occupied, but are
 very old-fashioned, having no elevator l and being without heat of any sort eX-
 cept that furnished by open fires.
 Tho real founder of the system of
 huge apartment houses was Gen. Butter
 fieid who at this time built the Albany on
 Fifty-flrst street and Broadway, and very
 shortly after that was done put up the
 Rockingham, using in its construction | seven mlleS oI olu lron raliS WHICH he Sot
 for one cent foot, saving eleven cents on
 every foot between that and now iron,
 and making it absolutely fro proof. He
 introduced the lift, and the porter in liv-
 cry in halls, and made the flat here what
 it is in Paris and Vienna. Since that | great buildings, as large as small town
 if all It's different
 dwellings were ssrsa.Sssss
 spread out on the ss"I-ss,,sSs,sssa
 ground, have been SM
 erected, and most ~ NSN
 of them pay very H ESW | well. One of the SH | handsomest is the E%Ma ,,isNa
 Dakota near Gen. ly&$SSAhNg>A
 tral park, which AISgn nzHM ~
 is the largest sin <sSMMS& .syyy&gW
 gle house in the 'TfszgSksf yssY N\/%
 city, and is nine S' |~'
 stories high, has r ',