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Show explained Jurgmsen Engineer When the air Is first drawn into the building and subjected to n preliral GIRL EASY VICTIM OF WILES OP nary filtering, it is. tf course, of the OLD CLOTHES MAN. tame temperature as the open atmos phere. lacing passed through the first filter, it is cooled nn Mown between According to Fair New Yorker Ho Had the he;itd coils and thence Into this the Art of Disparagement Down or, it acquires Fine Made Her Ashamed of Her steam room, litre or the humidity times eleaw r, and hence healthier, rather, roacqqjres Lack of Taste. tlna the atmosphere In other and moisture which was filtered out simtil more densely populated sections in taneously with ti dust microbes, and If you want to realize how really the metropolis. Yet in thtlr ambition ther foreign patJUIt. To that e and what an to put the St. lle?:is In a class by tent the air IS ultlflcial, but as the cheap and ruean ou are, In the clothes cut itself as a Illy white Inn Col. John most necs-.uIngrAlknt of air is awful figure you bad taste you Jacob As tor, the owner, and Manager oxygen and a certain humidity, we be you wear, and what that It Is a other and few things Ilaan deeljodji spend 30U,0tu) on air Hove that our guests breathe the best have, a New said to for know," you filters. Their dream was to make it air that it la possible to furnish In good to York woman, "Just try dispose of the most sahjtrrry as well as luxurious New York." some of your old clothes to a profeshotel In existence, and apparently the By special permission a sample of sional old clothes man." dream has come to pass. the diut gathered from the St. Regis Oh, I never could, said the girl Is an Behind it and its fulfillment filters anti spread thlfly on a plat from Jersey. Interesting and intricate gtiry written four Inches In diametet has been subIn machinery, dynamos,. air screens, jected to a chemical and inlscroscopic Td like to know why you couldnt, wonderful radiators which . heat or analysis by the Department of Health remarked the other scathingly. "Do cool the air as the need may be. In This Is what the St. Regis guest you fancy you are too good or too reconjunction with Immense troughs of escapes when he breathes in an at spectable? Why, Mrs. Astor does It! boiling water to revivify tlfe vitiated mosphere that has been specially Mrs. Vanderbilt and the old clothes air preparatory to Its being fanned combed, washed and dried: Five bac man are hand In glove. He told me through the abnormally tall and nnr terla germs, of which three were com so himself. He showed me a cotton of mon bacteria; one an Incipient tu- velveteen dress that she 6old him only structure by mean ten linear miles of piping. bercle bacillus, and one a common in last week. Yes, indeed; and youve carbon Properly speaking, the story of the fluenza germ; no idea how scornful and how gorgeSi. Regis air combs or filters Is a ro and several metallic and vegetable ous be Is. raancc below stairs. For In illustrat particle?, so fine as to be almost inI had a lot of last years garments Ing It Chief Fngineer Jurgensen con- visible to the naked eye. New York that I had outgrown not that Im getducted the Interviewer by a round- Times. ting fat, my dear, so dont look at mo about passage from the office on the with pity Jn your eyes; ICO Is not fat main floor down one flight of marble Man Who Was to Do the Worrying. Well, I had been seeing all sorts of stairs, through a subway dining room, Representative Dresser of Rradford, advertisements in the papers about y down another flight through a for castoff kitchen as white as marble Pa., is a large manufacturer of oil 'highest prices all given so anxious seemed can make it and down still another well supplies. Since he has been in clothing. They politics he lias allowed his son to to pay out their money that I decided marble stairway Into a manage some parts of his business. A to get rid of my clothes in a lump. I week or two ago he went up home to couldn't seiect among them, all were look over the factory, and while he so full of golden offers. So I Just shut was in bis office a man from one of ny eyes and put my finger on one, and I sent that one a postal card tellthe oil districts asked to see him. What is it, Jim? Representative ing him to call. Dresser asked. He came early the next morning and rereally, my dear, he was so gorgeWhy, Mr. Dresser, the visitor 1 ous and smart and beautiful in bis silk plied, I am in a heap of trouble. owe $600 and it is keeping me up hat and Prince Albert coat that I wantnights worrying how I can pay it I ed to run when he caught me in my kimono, with my bangs done up In havent got the money. 1 wiggers. My dear Jim," Dresser replied. Alas! my dear. Do you remember don't see why that should disturb you. do the worrying. that mink jacket I felt so proud of last Let the other fellow I have found that the best plan. winter? Is that a good plan? The one with the frogs and the cut Best in the world. Whom do you steel buttons? asked the girl from owe the money to? Jersey. To your son. I bought some stuff "Yes. Well, would you believe It? Detroit Journal. of him. Though I gave a ccol hundred for it, that fur wasnt real; and it must have been moth-eatewhen I got it; and, Didnt Know About Caesar. Miss Marie Manning, the author, although I thought it very smart, I tells this incident of her recent Euro- assure you it was quite out of date pean trip. The novelist was seeing at least, it was beside Mrs. VanderRome for the first time, and in the bilts cotton velveteen gown, so the old was anxious clothes man assured me; and. If you course of her sight-seeinto include a visit to the tomb of Cae- had ever seen him, you couldnt havq sar. Meeting a citizen on the street,' doubted his word. she inquired in her best Italian, the And my $40 foulard was a mere location of the tomb. rag, scarcely worth fixing over. The man looked greatly embarrassway engine and boiler region three And that French hat I paid $28 for floors below the street level. All the ed. was a complete bit of bunco-steerinhe on St. Regis stairways are marble even I am desolated, Signorina, the part of the milliner. Why, the in the engine and boiler region sixty apologized, speaking in excellent EngCaesar has ostrich feathers on it werent even off I do not know. feet under Fifth Avenue. lish. an ostrich, but just made of cotton. Chief Eugineer Jurgensen controls been dead so long! Harpers And you should have seen the fine the lungs of the hostelry. During scorn with whichvhe glanced over all he or every hour of the twenty-fou- r my silk petticoats and my last winhis assistant has a finger on the pulse Two Homes. ters suit and relegated them to the of the great, breathing building. was in the island that we love home My rags. Should it flutter for the slightest inSet in the seas. And then what do you suppose he stant the fact is at once communi- The heaven alternate smiles and frowns above: offered me? Five dollars for the lot! remchief to a the cated engineer and The stately trees fields and And are the what did you do? asked the Beset the hedgerows, edy prescribed. gay sympathetic girl from Jersey. Unlocking a polished oak door of With blossom-storsea washes, the still gray While a and handsome Well, I was so ashamed of those night expensive carving and day, door that would not shame the averdisgraceful garments, and so impressThe white cliff ed shore. ened with the Idea of my own frightful as a main portal the age hotel the' wide in is solemn, home Karoo, My bad taste that I accepted it to get rid gineer entered a narrow passage, The boundless veld. of them, and went out and bought a lighted by electricity and walled on Spanned oer with infinite dome of stainless blue, one side by a queer arrangement of collarette. Here have I dwelt You silly girl! cheese cloth shutters, each shaped Until the giant hills, the arid plain Of sand and stone. like the letter V. Walling the other And, oh, I forgot to tell you, the The thorny bush, a thirst for tarrying was old clothes man suggested that I come a sysside of the compartment rain Are homelike grown. tem, of radiator coils, twenty deep,, right down to his shop and . spend with narrow interstfees through which Sometimes my heart looks back, and ;hat $5. He felt sure I should be cries d charmed with Mrs. Vanderbilts cotair were blowing yearning gales of To seek once more on velveteen gown. shutters. Passing The fragrant from the New York hedgerows and the changskies. on through another door, the heating Press. ing lanes of yore, room was revealed. Here were long And The then the wide, wide veld far rows of parallel troughs filled with stretched below Laugh at misfortune but do not Jet The high, blue dome, which from steam the water,, boiling he unfortunate person observe you. whispeand arms, Holds me with- mighty arose steadily as from a singing firers,-Lot n that case some day he may laugh am home. I thy place kettle. at in tho your misfortune. Anna Hovrarth. Spectator. ONLY FILTERED AIR IN NEW HOTEL ST. REGIS 1 When a St. lodger pays $123 a day for apartments In the most ex pensive h)iklry that New York ever had, he or she purchases not only those pieces do resistance fer which the artistic uml culinary frontiers of R-gi- $ two hemispheres have been ran racked, hut also the privilege of breathing air that has been filtered and prepared Just as carefully as are the hundred and one other luxuries awaiting those who can afford to pay for them. St. Regis air Is Simon Iure every cubic foot of It being filtered of a barrel of dust a day. By reason of Its remarkable system of air filtration If for no other rcasrn tha new hotel occupies about the softest place imaginable In the lap of luxury. All Its patrons are Insured absolutely against breathing contaminated air or air in the viewless 'jungles of which crouches the omnipresent microbe. No other public or ,prlratc structure In this city or country Is equipped with such extensive ,&r.d remarkable air filters as the new jFlfth Avenue temple of luxury. On the lip of every visitor. In the endless pilgrimages being made to the new shrine of the millionaire. Is the question: How is the twenty- story building ventilated? This question is natural because no one ever aces a window open and but few H SELLING OLD "DUDS. 1 w row-cheste- d three-quarter- s sub-subwa- sub-subsub- n g g RECSIVTN6 TANK F0& YUS. $lFTiNCj$ open doors In the St. Regis. From one end of the year to the other its windows will remain closed if the new air filters prove successful. Their success thus far is attested by the statement of Chief Engineer J. C. Jurgensen that nearly a barrel of dust had been filtered daily from the air since the hotel was opened some seven weeks ago. .According to Chief .Engineer Jur4 gensen, during the forty-oddays that filters in the have been operation ex-- ; thirty-threand a fraction baractly rels of dust have been combed, so to say, out pf approximately one hundred million cubic feet of air as inhaled v arid exhaled by the hotel during Its brief existence; of less than two months. A vbarrel of dust a day! Startling this Is as a first impression, it be-- . fM comes more so when it Js considered ."Jthiat the , air in the region around street Fiftji A venue and Fifty-fiftIs section millionaire' many the' d e ! , - h , - e; . ice-col- |