The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-17
FOR MILLIONAIRES WHO FLAT.
VERY EXPENSIVE APARTMENT
HOUSES IN NEW YORK.
Comforts OF . Fve-Mmion-DoIla Fiat.
house With $500 Rooms-Houso.
keeping Made Easy New York
Flats Better Ihan Those OF Paris.

Keeping Meoe Easy New f0rk
Flat Better Than Those OF Paris.
The increase in size and number Of apart
ment houses In large cities Of late has been
beyond all precedent. A single apartment
house Is being built In New York at a cost
OF IS 900. 900, which will contain 800 rooms.
1t Is possible here TO secure rooms on the
same plane. suited to every purpose OF
housekeeping, from a kitchen to a ballroom.
The various apartments are so arranged
that any number Of rooms can be thrown
into q single suite, the position Of the rooms
being left TO the tenant.
The rentals for single apartments vary
from - 900 to S2o. 900 yearly. Now these
rentals are much higher than those Of most
private houses in NewYork. The preference
Of fats. even at increased rentals, is due.
doubtless, to their greater convenience.
Every feature to be found In the finest
dwellings Ia duplicated in these apartments
with the important exception OF the stairs.
The suites vary In size from six to thirty
rooms. The best apartments contain from
two to five bathrooms. with special quarters
for servants.
The rooms are heated In winter with hot
air and cooled In summer with refrigerated
drsughts. Hot or cold or Iced water.
each filtered, Is supplied to every room.
By living In an up-to-date apartment.
In short. q housekeeper can save everything
but money.
Not only does the economy Of labor In
housekeeping attract residents, but the
apartment houses, by their lavish decora-
tons, draw many TO them. The archi-
lecture OF these great buildings, their en-
frances and halls, are far more elaborate
| than anu air nlA tnnant nA,,lI aHArl In N
house Of his own.
In other words, a man who bays $4,000
a year for a fat has the satisfaction OF
entering a hallway as elaborate as that
Of many European palaces. Several of
the apartment houses IN New York, for
instance, have plate glass doors covered
with bronze scroll work valued at IS 900
a panel. The hallway Of one apartment
house contains several ornate lounges
costing 81 400 each.
Perhaps the most Important feature OF
this modern form Of living Is the economy
Of time and patience which has been made
possible in housekeeping. A good ono
third Of the drudgery Of house care is per-
formed by machinery. The heat IL sup
piled from the cellar. and can be regulated
TO q degree.
The foods are preserved in porcelain
refrigerators cooled by cold brine, which
can be turned on or OF by an ordinary
spigot. II ice be desired the cold brine
10 IicItly tuTUtu Ou luh hcap a low
minutes and zero weather Is produced.
though II be the hottest OF summer days.
Electricity has entirely superseded gas
for Illumination. Each apartment has.
besides. a telephone OF its own, and the
hostess talks with her cook from any room
or with a friend a thousand miles distant
with equal facility.
To an outsider a most interesting part
OF one of these mammoth apartment houses
is the cellar. 1t is here That the greater
sA-f l. -.. Aa rfARn
These cellars resemble nothing so mucn
as the hold OF an ocean liner. They are
crowded with com plicsted machinery at
tended by a score OF engineers and cleo
uiclals.
IL must be remembered that the heat,
light and general convenience OF hun
dreds OF living rooms are controlled from
this centre. And tenants who pay thou
sands a year for their suites are very Tn
tolerant of any neglect.
The bulkie~t equipment OF these cellars
10 the complicated system OF pumps and
engines used for forcing the water Of
various temperatures to the apartments.
Every we'll regulated apartment house
cellar is supplied with enormous hiters.
which clarity all the water used throughout
the building. The water Is then heated or
cooled, az the oass may be. before passing
To the pumps.
There ara house pumps for the ordinary
hot and cold water. brine pumps for the
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the Ice water aud the very hot water which
heats the great buildings. The tempera-
ture OF all These systems OF piping must
be controlled TO "A degree, or endless lncon-
yenience will follow
Each cellar mas besides two complete
electric plants, with complicated switch
boa rds and buzzing dynainoe
The cellar proper has beside a number
OF brick walled rooms. one corresponding
10 each fat, where the tenants may store
Al--I-- .-..La hahU naTFl QtsG and HlmH-
I.r acc.imulatlons These o.llar- are fire.
proof and ars lighted by electricity
sill another feature Of the newer apart
msnt house arr the public zach
tenant has a stationary tub lh the o-ilsI
with an approved rack Tor cio'h"s "hIch
are dried by hot All blasts
The csllaT door ls the back door OF the
APARTMENT. The servants ana trad"siro-
Ole first enter the cellar ana then prOoe-od
L. the apartments by SPECIAL frasht elo-
yaton In soms Apartment house, ia.
freight elevators are 80 large that a Loaded
rlr'Itur van may H. hOist-d 20 the upper
foon intaGt. there 10 H. unloAd"d
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