Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-01-28

Il have an anarchist friend" said the
man who knows a good many people,
''who has q design for an apartment
house that will work a revolution in
accommodations for those persons who
room. He has fitted up an apartment
In his own house as a sample, and it
really promises amazing results. 1 was
talking to him the other evening on the
problem of city living for people Of
small means. bachelors and bachelor
maids, and 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 foor-he is able to
own a house of his own-and he ush-
cred me into an apartment which was
about twenty feet long and ten feet
wide, with a fine large window at one
end and a small door at the other. He
asked me what I thought of it, and
looked around minute to reach con-
clQsfon.
1T was nicely carpeted. There was
one chair, and there was two-light
chandelier about the center of the cell
ing. The room was nicely papered on
one wall and at the ends, but the oppo-
site side wall was entirely wainscoted,
as I thought. l told him it looked all
right for a sittingroom for one, but
beyond that it's usefulness seemed to
me to be somewhat restricted. He
laughed and asked me II / really
thought so, and going over to the wains-
coting he turned up 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 a
drawer for shoes and that sort.
''Then he went right on with his
revelations, leaving me to stare at him.
He turned down a nice bed similar to
the sleeping car variety; adjoining it
was a chiffonier with half dozen
drawers in it and a glass at the top,
the glass being concealed by 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 door that fell down,
making a small table, and revealing
a cupboard where dishes and food
might be kept; in still another, a SINH
lar lid dropping made writing table,
and revealed space and shelving for a
good-sized library with nook for ink,
pens and such things. A half-dozen
leather-coyered seats were hidden in
the same way, ready to be pulled down
for use and behind each of them was
shelving, the depth of the wainscoting
being about two feet. Above the bed
and elsewhere about the wainscoting
were drawers and shelves, room for a
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.
Il forgot to say that the inside of the
high closet for clothes was a mirror
feet by 6 feet in size, and hung just
right to see ones self in when he was
ready to go out. 1 looked at the layout
Of household conveniences in amaze
ment, and when he had shut it all up
again, leaving the handsome, well-light-
ed sitting-room could scarcely realize
that was not in the home of magi-
clan who touched the walls and brought
forth what he wished. My friend told
me he had more conveniences 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 a 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 man
or woman might get some of the COM
forts of home in room that would
cost only SIS 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.