Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-10-24
DOUBLE-DEcKER BEDSTEADS.
They Are so Made 90 Save Room
Tbrcc-DcckcrS Are Also
Manufactured.

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"What2" said the furniture man
| 20 a New York sun reporter. "You
never heard Of a double-decker bed
before? Wen, they are not new, but
! they are used now in wider yari-
ETY. OF situations than formerly ard
there are more OF them sold.
Their construction as you see is
very simple. The four corner posts
are carried up TO sufficient height
To support second bed frame di-
rectly over the first and on above
that TO terminate in the usual man
ner, even with n brass knob or other
| ornament for finish.
"Of course the original purpose OF
the double-declSer 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,
thrcc-decker iron bedsteads. carry.
| ing three beds. one above the other.
But the double-dccker iron bed
stead l. by no means designed for
| lodging house use alone; il 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.
Client head room between the lower
and the upper bed so that the occu-
pant Of the lower bed can sit up in
IL without touching the under side
OF the upper bed. We have built
| double -decker bedsteads with lad.
dcrs attached by which To mount
conveniently to the upper bed and
we have made doublc-dccker bed
steads SO constructed that the upper
bed could he turned up out of the
way like the upper berth in n sleep.
ing car or into vertical position
quite out of the way.
THE double-decker is used in
small rooms in fats and also in pri-
yate houses, as for example, en-
house where there might bc avail
able but one comparatively small
room for two servants, where two
beds would monopolize too much OF
tho floor space. There they put in
double-decker iron bed, with a
great saving OF room, and ! have no
doubt 20 the entire satisfaction OF
the users 81 IT,
81 have heard % college men
building mp 10 save space In small
bedroom two cot beds. with home
made supports. one above the 9TH
er; this improyised double-deckcr
serving its purpose very well as
long as II served II Al all, hut likely
10 prove unstable, n not actually 10
collapse.
Clearly the light but strong. rigid
and secure Gouble-deckcr iron bed
stead would be boon in such a
place as that: and. ms a matter OF
fact. such bcdstends have been put
20 use here In bachelor apartments,
where two men are occupying "A
suite Of rooms. They don't want
folding beds in their parlor or 10
give mp the room required for two
beds anywhere. and so they put in a
ble-decker bed.
"And this would not OF necessity
be a cheap affair. You can buy dou-
blc-dccker beds. plain and OF simple
construction, at a low price, or you
can have them built in any degree
OF elaboratcness as 20 design and
finish and you can furnish them
with bedding equipment in whatever
measure of luNuriousness you may
wish 20 pay for.
"Takc il altogether, the double
decker iron bedstead is really a good
deal OF an institution"