The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-25
SNUG COTTAGES SOON ON ROOF
 OF SKYSCRAPERS
New York Buildings May Have Homes on Roofs
 Fashion Spreading.

NEW 1ORk, Oct., lo.-A snug little cottage on the roof of a down. town skyscraper, Battery Park for a front yard, view over the harbor, towering office buildings for next door eighbors-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.
 grow by leaps and bounds, no one has ever 'insinuated that the inno- vation has come to combat the high cost of living or to be a simple. economical solution of the housing problem.
 .'-,'si Real High Life. a
 In fact the contrary is the case and experimenters in the field of lit- eral high life" boast that their new abodes represent a step "up''- both fgurative and literal = from former dwelling places in palatial Riverside Drive or Upper Fifth Ave- nue apartment houses where an nual 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 Wal; Street banking house of that name; Percy A. Rockefeller, financier and Sir Ashley Sparks. head of the Cum ard Line in the United States.
 Of these the last two have fitted up sumptuous apartments - half dwelling and half office-atop the new Cunard Building at 20 Broad wa, 22 stories above the noisy hustle of the most famous and the most congested thoroughfare in the world.
 Bachelors Bungalow.
 Even more elaborate and extensive are the quarters of MT. 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 hall ways, porches, sun parlors and 'hur- ricane decks"
 F. Here he lives alone with a re- tinue of servants, as isolated as if he were in the heart of a primi- tive country After the hush of night closes over the top of Man hatan, when a pedestrian in the streets is a rarity, the only sounds which penetrate to his aerie are the low-voiced fog horns of craft ply ing rivers which enclose the battery on two sides and the harb0r which lies beyond it.
 Finely Fitted Up. s Besides reception, sleeping and drawing rooms, the bungalow contains a gymnasium, handball and squash court, billiard room and chemical laboratory, in the last of which its master, who is also an in- l NCutOI SClcHtiot, oPCh0c hdhy 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 con- cealed opening in the wall to a sleeping porch outside.
 More than 16 miles of telephone wire are said to have been used to install the apartments communica. tion system, which includes port. able transmitter 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 flight of stairs from the fourteeth floor, is adorned by an oaken frame with the legend "A. D 1928" and a stone still, both brought by MT. Doherty from the home oi his grandfather in Columbus. o.