Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07
CHEAP CITY LIVING.
ARCHITECT PRESENTS A VERY
INGENIOUS IDEA.
Has Planned Comfortable Apartment.
for People of Limited Means-Here
the Bachelor of Either Sex May Live
Nicely in One Room.

Il have an anarchist friend" said the
man who knows a good many people,
who has a design for an apartment
house that will work a revolution in
accommodation. as for those persons who
cannot afford to have more than one
room. He has fitted up an apartment
In his own flouse as a sample, and it
really promi' ses amazing results. I was
talking to b i'm the other evening on the
problem OF. city living for people of
small me: ans. bachelors and bachelor
maids, an d that kind principally, when
he asked me to come with him and see
what he had evolved on that line. We
went up to his third tioor-he is able to
own a house of. his own-and he ush-
cred nae into an apartment which was
about twenty feet long and ten feet
wide, with u fine large window ut one
end and a small door ut the other. He
ash ed me what l thought of it, and l
looked around a minute to reach q con-
clusion.
ut was nicely carpeted. There was
I n chair, and there was q two-light
chandelier about the center of the cell
Ing. The room was nicely papered on
II wall and at the ends, but the oppO-
Site side wall was entirely wainscoted,
as 1 thought. l told him it looked all
right for a sitting-room for one, but
beyond that its usefulness seemed to
me to be somewhat restricted. He
laughed and asked me if 1 really
thought so. and going over to the wains-
coting he turned up a little handle
really opened a door. 1t revealed a
closet big enough to accommodate all
the clothes an ordinary person would
care to have. Below it there was u
drawer for shoes and that sort.
"Then he went right on with his
revelations, leaving me to stare at him.
He turled down a nice bed similar to
the sleeping car variety; adjoining it
was a. chiffonicr with half n dozen
draw ers in it and Il glass at the top,
the glass being concealed by a lid which
dropped down, making a shelf for toilet
articles. Beyond was a wash stand
opening up in the same way, with wa
ter tank, bowl, slop jar and all. In an
other place was IL door that fell down,
making a small table, md revealing
a cupboard where dishes and food
might be kept; in still another, q SINH
lar lid dropping made n writing table,
and revealed space and shelving for a
good-sized library with a nook for ink,
pens and such things. A half-dozen
| Ipp thQp.1nt,n,.oC cA,t, ,,o, I:ll,> t.,
the same way, ready to be pulled down
for use, and behind each of them was
shelving. Ii depth of the wainscoting
being about two feet. Above the bed
and elsewhere about the wainscoting
We're drawers and shelves, room for u
trunk, and little cubbyholes for storing
things, until really in that one wall,
twenty feet long and ten feet high, was
room for more stuff than nine-tenths
of people have.
II forgot to say that the inside of the
high closet for clothes was a mirror 9
feet by q feet in size, and hung lust
right to see ones self in when he was
ready to go out. 1 looked at the layout
OF household c%onveniences in amaze
ment, and when he had shut it all I'm
again, leaving the handsome, w%ell-light-
ed sitting-room, l could scarcely realize
that l was not in the home of IL magi-
clan who touched the walls and brought
forth what he wished. My friend told
me he had more c~onveniences in mind
for rather larger rooms, one being a
shower bath to take the place of the
wash stand. He said his idea was. that
this kind of Il room could be used in
houses of any kind, but he designed IT
especially for the apartment house of
the future, where in small space a man
or n woman might get some of tile COM
forts of a home in a room that would
cost only SIS a month rent, and still be
a good investment for the real estate
owner. The Lord only knows when
that good time is coming" concluded
the talker, but thousands are waiting
for it."-New York Sun.
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