The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-13
BUNK in BAGS
/ THAT'S LATEST
new YORK FAD
Many Abandon Steam Radiator
To BE Out in the Open With
Fahrenheit
ROOF SPACE SOLD
IN LEADING HOTELS
Baltimore Has Half Block Di-
vided Into Squares for
Sleeping Boys

: NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE growing
desire for the open air and free ana
unrestricted snore rs dotting our city
roofs as far away as Flatbush with
sturdy citizens who bunk In bags ana
WOO Morpheus after the manner OF
the well.known chrysalis.
Disregarding all meteorological
signs, no fewer than 400 persons nave
abandoned the freside and the steam
radiator TO be out In open with f,ahr
enheit. They face the star'studdeo
vault OF blue with only Llama WOOL
mummy case between them ana the
high westerly winds,
ny one desiring roof space on
city hotel has only TO communicate
the fact to the obliging room clerk
and he can get sleeping section WIN
a southern and all the other ex-
'posures, and such icicles as form on
the caves after night fall.
John Bowman at the Biltmore, who
recognizes that in the bontface trade
a guest Is q guest, no matter what
his relations with the THERMOMETERS
may be. is prepared TO divide half
city block OF roof space into bag sizes
and serve ices at interals from MID
night on.
Even now he is planning TO have
disrobing and baggiIg room on the
top floor A guest may get out or MS
dinner toys and after surrounding him
self with a comfortable loose-ftting
bag nightie, and taking TO his couch,
may be trIndled out onto the open
roof, leaving call for trundle back
in the morning
Space on the Algonquin roof "a
. marked off in 7x3 sections. There
they ride any out-of-door guests that
come their way up on the freight ele-
vators and push them into their res
creations.
An aviator passing over New York
after bedtime with the aid OF a well'
directed searchlight would see many
men and women roof sleepers.
In the West Eighty-siyt zone,
near the park, there are a number OF
members Of the sleeping bag 400.
over in the MadisoD-ave. section there
are others. Brooklyn has large
delegation, including the Pioneer VII.
locks on Hancock-st, and down In
Flatbush Parker Kerby or his neigh
Dor Harris will give details OF the
kTON'H VI TIC SuStVui " h"VANi "AhN"
ever II is.
There are several graceful ways
OF entering the front door OF sleep
ing bag. although many insist that at
some stage OF the trip one is likely to
fail unless he carries an emergency
shoehorn.
Sleeping bags, like automobile tires,
have inner and outer tubes. You have
10 get into them both Backing into
the main opening is one way. This has
the advantage OF operating in the day.
light, for you can see what YOU are
doing at the successive stages, and
once you are In you are facing the
front which Is an advantage.
Parading into sleeping bag by
direct forward movement is open to
objection, for when You arrive at your
destination il Is necessary to make
half turn or remain in darkness and
smother a little at a time during the
night and wake UP more or less I'M
conscious
The real way TO effect an entrance
is to hold the sleeping bag with hands
at the back and raising one foot at
time-never two-step In the lower
sections. Once in from the hips down,
the upper half can be pulled over the
head and shoulders
Unless the side wall or the cot
Is close by the inclosed person is in
darger OF losing his balance--and fall
ing. Once down, the struggle TO rise
is likely TO be prolonged indefinitely
and TO end in a draw.
Experienced persons among the
sleeping bag sleepers do not tempt fate
They usually have n kindly assistant
handy who, when they are properly
bound and helpless, push them gently
on the way and wave the customary
au revoir through the chill night air.