New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-15
MR.. BAGLEY'S GREAT SCHEME.
PLAN FOR SAVING MUCH OF THE SPACE
NOW WASTED IN FLATS.

! "Nv idee.s said the man with tie long neck and
red ewes as he sat in an elevated IT came to
stop opposite an uptown 1at-houSe, while they piied
a broken-down engine off the track my idea Is that
there is TOO much room wasted In these ere Hats
No one said anything and the outlook for tho noc-
nccked gentleman dark. bat at last the man with
the soft hat said. Yes? % with rising infection and
/ looked tired This wasn't much. but Il was enough
Eyes sir, that's my idea,' and he put strong ac-
cent on the "my." Now look at that afr Fat right
thero-mebby twenty families in h-say five persons
10 fanly-nve times ought's nought. FIVE times
two IS ten-huudrcd people altogether in that fat.
Might jess as well he hopsan' 'cording 10 my i'm
proved idec."
clever live in a Dat ~ asked an old fellow with a
! gold-headed cane and the dyspepsia.
"No,7 promptly replied the man with the idea.
Thought not" snortcd the elderly individual and
he went on reading the day-beore Yesterdays Even
ing Posts
NO. ! never lived in one, of course continued
the inventor addressing the fifth page of The POST
behind which literary uminary the dyspeptic mt h0!
retreated 81 live up at Newburg where they amt
need particularly, but i have idees bout 'cm jess
the same"
"You would condcnse 'em, would yOu?" inquired
the man with the soft hat.
"Thats what" answered the inventor, and the man
with the gold trimmed spectacles and Prince Albert
coat caught the scent Of alcohol on his breath.
You've caught my idee precsely-Td condense 'em
F'r instance. now. take the matter OF sleepn; they
put two r three bedrooms In ev'ry fat; mebby each
one Of em eight nine feet squaIe-Say three, eight
by eigbt-eght times eight r sxty-four, three times
four r twelve an to carry. three times six r
eighteen and one IS nneteen-hundred an ninety
two square feet OF space ted in each fiat that might
Jess as well be saved"
greatly fear said the Prince Albert man, that
bringing the people in the average apartment house
into any closer compass would result in Noticeable
increase of sickness"
Well. III be-er-Ius and the man from Newburg
stopped and looked appcangly at his soft-ha friend
Go ahead and explain your scheme' said this IN
divldual, encouragingly.
My plan is this said the inventor as he looked
ideways at the Prince Albert man. DO away
with beli Ooms and sleep the whole crowd Of folks
on the Bagley Patent " arehOusing plan, especially
intended for medium priced flats. That Is name,
pentIemen,- Bagley-Lemucl r. Bagley. Experiments
show me that the healthy adult requires space Of
eighteen inches in width in which enjoy good sleep.
hats all they need for healthy sumbeIeig inches
will have spring mattress, eighteen inches wide
an five feet inches lOng-thesc 'ere men mOre'n
five feet ten he'd better hire house an not fool
scoItnd with a fiat This mattress will a light
frame which Will rest the floor, the head an
foot boards Will be exactly eighteen inches high, rs
well as eighteen wide-mahn' EN- square you observe.
IN the basement ! shall have what call my tunnel,
though It viii only be room with one END opemh'
fun size into another room. This tunnel VIII he
twenty one feet wide. eighteen feet high an thirty
six feet Iong-the dcmenshlOns VIII really be Jess
a few inches more than TINS, each olo Oh en-, 70
low for perttiOns. youH In this ere tunnel
viii 20 Inc storage cars each eighteen feet high,
twenty feet long an five feet Ten lnches thich
They viii be mounted on wheels, an DacAcu Ihlo
the tunnel Six Of em VIII exactly M ihe tu t,
The storage VIII be composed OF pigeon holes
eighteen inches square five and ten deep, open 10
he front. Eighteen feet high. Two pigeon holes 10
hree feet three into eighteen six times, Twice SIN
tweIve~twelve holes high by-thrce goes into twenty
me seven times twice seven is fOurcen-lWeNe
pigeon. holes high by fourteen lone-twelye times
Is twelve an four Is sxteen-hundrcd m sAN-clehi
pigeon holes in each storage case lis car usei 90
get into their beds an 20 10 sleep al eght lSl1S
At five minutes 10 the beds are brought lIOm me
rooms by the handles on each ehd an sion Ju uo
the pigeon holes. At exactly the car Il naheu III.
Another for the folks what register as WahIH ~ Eo
to bed later goes IN at 10 O'Clock deh.ior3
folks hat have been 10 the tlnatre you seeIl call Il
the Opera Reservoir AT l o'clock an0lheF IOul 80
IN an at the last lot, consisting OF i9lhs ina @r
men, IS inserted an things closed mp for nc nlgI
resi- air constantly pumped into ench pgeo, .
sqS Rs bne i S% Se cs segV S times six
hrysM n four Is forty, six times one SIX an oui "
carry iet-thousand an eight people &c bav /
peaceiully III less n twentieth OF the sPsItc Mu8
now occupy. but with practically jess as much room I1
q. they have now. rs the biggest thing thar ever
struck New-Yorh. gentlemen. But that Is Only OF |
Of nv ldees-I have the Baglcy space Annililaune
Dining Room. an
SIR said the dyspeptic man, folding up MS
deposit i In the cornerstone Of blind asylum. SIR
no sd msat n ~ wei d q9p your crazy scheme mere
agree With you-it Is far from being practical"
lodded the Prince Albert man
'ut his chin hRd dropped forward on his breast and
le slept, taking UP considerably less than eighteen
lls ss Of space And when they shook him up at
~ feiTy ne ,wantd 10 night the guard Tor NOS
seking him al Forty secondEL