South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-16
HERE'S AN ELYSIUM FOR
ARTISTS AND AUTHORS
Seventeen-StOry Hotel 10 be
Erected in Gothic Style at
Cost of S1,230,0O0.

NEW YORK, April 16.-New York
artists and authors are about to build
an Elysium, a private Paradise. where
their every want shall be on tap all
the time. 1t is TO be perfection Il
stories high in the Gothic style. ANY
pen or paint genius not happy here
never Will be.
Having disposed Of the sordid little
detail OF 81 100000, Paradise express
ed in terms Of gold, 1 proceed to rhap
sOdize.
There are two grand divisions. Cd
authors on the south side 60 artists
on the north side
1t seems the sun is supposed 10
bring the DrIliancy Of authors TO full
fruition. to make them hatch as 1t
were. Likewise, artists smile and purr
softly when baSking in north light.
The name-ah, that is the only
dreadful part can't leave it out
hush-softly-"H Hotel des Artistes."
Considerable fall, as Mark Anthony
might have remarked. The muse,
when this horror was composed, slept
at least-was perhaps in even worse
state.
fastening on, for tourists use,
state this Isle OF the Blessed is TO be
Of Central park. Each stakeholder
occupies space in the building equiva-
lent to his stock holdings.
And here is how the servant prob
lem is met and-as the war headline
writer's insist-decimated
On the second floor is a great white
tiled modern, up-to- the-minute kitch
en-, where works a corps of chefs in
the employ of the building. Their
salaries are figured in the running eX-
penses of Paradise. just like the pay
of the elevator boys.
Each apartment has what at first
view looks like a kitchen, but it is
service room" You only store and
prepare food for cooking here When
your potatoes are peeled and your
roast is sailed and peppeTed, you send
ii shooting down on the electric dumb
waiter to the chefs below, like a soul
going for a period in purgatory.
Properly done and at the correct min
ute it returns unto Heaven and is
consumed by the Celestials.
Everything is electric, or nearly
everything. There's an electric ice
box which makes cubes Of ice; and
thermoStat, guaranteed to work 365
days in the year, keeps the room at
just the temperature desired by the
divinity who happens to inhabit it.
All the apartments are duplex-that
is, you have two floors, even if up
stairs is the 18th floor and downstairs
is the 14th.
But / didn't finish up with the SER
want question. Perhaps you thought
you had to peel your own potatoes
and salt and pepper your own roast.
oh, no! You employ maids at %
cents an hour for just as long as you
desire-then out they go before they
have time to set a banquet for the
grocer's boy or the gas inspector
All the old hotel stunts are here.
There is a big ballroom and a large
banquet room. These two can be
thrown into one. for picture exhibit
tiOns. The first apartment house
academy will do a series of wall Goth
erwise muralD decorations.
In the basement are a swimming
pool and shower baths On the roof
is a squash court. Another corner of
|, the roof is set aside for children
playing Here the future artists and
authors can skate or play in sand
under a glass covered roof on the
coolest days. There is still further
sun parlor on the roof for those who
would read or sew or gossip.
Not content with promising all
these things, the participants in this
enterprise say it will be cheap