Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-10-24
DOUBLE-DECKER BEDSTEADS.
Threc-Dcckers Are Also
Manufactured.

"What?" said the furniture man
to a New York Sun reporter. you
never heard of doubledecker bed
before? Well, they are not new, but
they are used now in wider vari-
ETY. of situations than formerly and
there are more of them sold.
Their construction as you see is
very simple. The four corner posts
are carried up to n sufficient height
to support a second bed frame di-
rectly over the first and on above
that to terminate in the usual man.
ornament for finish.
"Of course the original purpose of
the double decker bed was to save
room; and one of their earlier uses
was in a newsboys' lodging house,
instead of hunks. There have been
built, in fact, for lodging house use,
three-decker iron bedsteads, carry
ing three beds. one above the other.
"But the double-decker iron bed
stead is by no means designed for
lodging house use alone; it is used
on shipboard, on transports, and, in
suitably finished styles, on passen-
ger steamers in saloon staterooms
or cabins in place of hunks. Used on
shipboard they are, of course, Sc
curely clamped in position; and for
sea use the bedsteads are equipped
with front guard rails, equivalent to
the front board of n bunk.
"Double-decker iron bedsteads are
commonly made with amply suffi.
cient head room between the lower
and the upper bed so that the occu-
pant of the lower bed can sit up in
it without touching the under side
of the upper bed. We have built
double-decker bedsteads with lad
ders attached by which to mount
conveniently to the upper bed and
steads so constructed that the upper
bed could be turned up out of the
way like the upper berth in n sleep
ing car or into a vertical position
quite out of the way.
THE double-decker is used in
small rooms in flats and also in pri-
vate houses, as for example, IN
house where there might be avail
able but one comparatively small
room for two servants, where two
beds would monopolize too much of
the floor space. There they put in
double-decker iron bed, with
great saving of room, and / have no
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the users of it.
81 have heard Of college men
building up to save space in a small
bedroom two cot beds, with home
made supports, one above the 9th
err: this improvised double-decker
serving its purpose very well as
long as IL served it at all, but likely
to prove unstable, il not actually TO
collapse.
Clearly the light but strong. rigid
and secure double-deckcr iron bed
stead would be a boon in such a
place as that; and, as a matter of
fact, such bedsteads have been put
to use here in bachelor apartments,
where two men are occupying
suite of rooms. They don't want
folding beds in their parlor or to
give up the room required for two
beds anywhere, and so they put in
double-decker bed.
"And this would not of necessity
be cheap affair. You can buy dou-
blc-decker beds, plain and of simple
construction, at a low price, or you
can have them built in any degree
of elaborateness as to design and
finish and you can furnish them
with bedding equipment in whatever
measure of righteousness you may
wish to pay for.
take it altogether, the double
decker iron bedstead is really good
deal of an institution"