Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21
AE RIAL HOUSES
CONSTRUCTED BY
n. \. RESIDENT
Cottages on the Roofs of
Down Town SkyscraperS
Is the Up-to -Date 1922
Ideal of Home.
lBy The Associated rress.l

New York, oct. 2O,--A snug lit
tie cottage on the roof of u down
town skyscraper, Battery park for
a front yard, a view over the har-
Dor, towering office buildings for
next door neighbors--such is the
up-to date, 1922 ideal of home for
the Manhattan dweller.
The fashion is said to be spread
ing with such rapidity that the
sight of a family washing out to
dry some hundreds Of feet directly
over the heads Of the busy denizens
of Wall street is looked for any
day now.
But. however its popularity may
grow by leaps and bounds no one
has even insinuated that the inno-
walton has come to combat the
Pile, economical solution of the
housing problem.
Represents Step Up.
| In fact the contrary is the case
and experiments in the field of
literal high life" boast that their
new abodes represent a step cup"
both figurative and literal
from former dwelling places in
palatial Riverside drive or upper
Fifth avenue apartment houses
where annual rents are computed
in sums of five figures.
Among the most recent pioneers
in the realm of aerial dwellings
are Henry L. Doherty, head of the
Wall street banking house of that
name; Percy A. Rockefeller, finan-
cler, and Sir Ashley Sparks, head
of the Cunard line in the United
States.
OF these the last two have fitted
up sumptuous apartments-haI
dwelling and half office-atop the
new Cunard building at 25 Broad
way, twenty-five stories above the
noisy hustle of the most famous
and the most congested thorough
fare in the world.
Even more elaborate and eX-
tensive are the quarters of Mr.
Doherty on the roof of the l5'
story Battery Park building. Here
the elderly bachelors bungalow
covers the entire top of the large
building, containing 16 rooms be-
sides Railways, porches, sun par
Tors and hurricane decks"
Here he lives alone with a reti'
nue. of servants as isolated as il
= he were in the heart of a print
tive country. After the hush Of
night closes over the tip of Man
haitian. when a pedestrian in the
streets is rarity, the only sound;
: which penetrate to his aerie are
the low-voiced fog horns of Graf
plying rivers which enclose the
battery on two sides and the har'
Der which lies beyond 1t.
= Bungalow Is Complete.
Besides the reception, sleeping
: and drawing rooms, the "bunga'
low contains gymnasium, hand
ball and squash court, billiard
room and chemical laboratory, II
the last of which its master, WHIT
is also an. inventor and scientist
spends many hours a week in eX'
perimentation.
A feature of the apartment OF
J which its owner is particularly
proud is the bed in his own liv,
ing quarters, which, by merely
pressing an electric button may b,
made to move automaticaI y
through a concealed opening IL
the wall to a sleeping porch out
side.
More than 16 miles of telephone
wire are said to have been used
to install the apartments COM
munication system, which includes
portable transmitter and receiv-
err which may be plugged in at
anv 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 flight of stairs
from the fourteenth floor. Is
adorned by an oaken frame with
the legend "A. D. 1929" and a
stone sill, both brought by Mr.,
Doherty from the home of his
grandfather in Columbus, o.