The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-17
BUNGALOWS ON
 SKY SCRAPERS,
 THEY'RE COSTLY

New York, Oct. 17.-A snug little cottage on the roof of downtown skyscraper, Battery Park for a front yard, a view over the harbor, tower ing office buildings for next-door neighbors - such is the up-to-date, 1922, ideal of home for the Manhat- tan dweller.
 The fashion is said to be spreading with such rapfdity that the sight of a family washing out to dry some hun dreds of feet directly over the heads of the busy denizens of Wall street is looked for any day now:
 But, however, it's popularity may grow by leaps and bounds, no one has ever insinuated that the innovation has come to combat the high cost of living or to be a simple, economical solution of the housing problem
 In fact the contrary is the case and high life' boast that their new abodes represent step 'up'-both figurative and literal-from former dwelling places in palatial Riverside ments houses where annual rents are computed tn sums of five figures.
 Among the most recent pioneers in the realm of aerial dwellings are Hen ry l.. Doherty, head of the Wall Street banking house of that name; Percy A. Rockefeller, financier, and Sir Ash ley Sparks, head of the Cunard line in the United States.
  sumptuous apartments, half dwelling and half office-atop the new Cunard building at 25 Broadway, 22 stories above the noisy bustle of the most famous and the most congested thor oughfare Tn the world.
 Even more elaborate and extensive are the quarters of Mir Doherty on the roof of the 15-story Battery Park building. Here the elderly bachelors bungalow covers the entire top of the large building, containing 16 rooms besides railways, porches, sun parlors and hurricane decks."
 Here he lives alone with a retinue of servants, as isolated as If he were in the hea1t of a primitive country. After the rush of night closes over the tip of Manhattan, when a pedes- trian in the streets Is a rarity, the only sounds which penetrate to his aerie are the low-voiced fog horns of craft plying rivers which enclose the battery on two sides and the harbor which lies beyond 1t.
 Besides reception, sleeping and drawing rooms, the bungalow" con- tatns gymnasium, handban and squash court. billiard room and chem ical laboratory. in the last of which its master, who is also an inventor and scientist, spends many hours a week in experimentation.
 A feature of the apartment of which it's owner is particularly proud is the bed in his own living quarters which, by merely pressing an electric button may be made to move automatically through a concealed opening in the wall to a sleeping porch outside. More than 6 miles of telephone | wire are said to have been used to in- stall the apartments communication l system, which includes a portable | transmjtter and receiver which may | be plugged in at any one of the half | dozen or more contrivances with | which each room and hallway is | equipped.
 The entrance of the apartment, at the head of a flight of stairs from ! the fourteenth floor, is adorned by an | oa6en frame with the legend "A. D, | 1929" and a stone sill both brought l by MT. Doherty from the home of his l grandfather in Columbus, O. | A farmer originally was one who l collected taxes.