The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-10-17
MANHATTAN MAN
HAS IDEAL OF HOME

II,
view over the harbor, towering Of
fee buildings for next door-ne'gh-
bors-such is the up-to-date, 1922
ideal of home for the Manhattan
dweller.
The fashion is said to be spreading
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 ever insinuated that the innova-
ton has come to combat the high
cost of living or to be simple, eco-
nomical solution of the housing prob
lem.
In fact the contrary is the case
and experimentors in the field OF
literal "high life" boast that their
new abodes represent step "up-
both figurative and literal-from for;
mer dwelling places in palatial RlV-
erside Drive or Upper Fifth Avenue
auartment houses where annual
rents are computed in sums of tive
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, 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 rs Broad
way, % stories above the noisy
hustle of the most famous and the
most congested thoroughfare in the
world.
Even more elaborate and extern
sive are the quarters of Mr.. Doherty
on the roof of the Is story Battery
Park building. Here the elderly
hachelorly's "fbungalow" covers the
entire top of the large building, con-
.a;ning 16 rooms besides Railways,
porches, sun parlors and hurricane
decks"
Here he lives alone with retinue
of servants, as isolated as if he were
in theheart of primitive country.
After the hush of night closes over
the tip of Manhattan, when a pede-
strian 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 har-
bor which lies beyond it.
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
ventor 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 quar-
ters which, by merely pressing an
electric button may be made to move
automatically through a concealed
opening in the wall to sleeping
porch outside.
More than II miles of telephone
wire are said to have been used to
install the apartments communica.
ton 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, al
the head Of flight of stairs from
the fourteenth floor, is adorned by
an oaken frame with the legend "a
D. 1920" and a stone sill, botf
brought by Mr.. Doherty from, the
home of his grandfather in Colum
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