Show I BUILDING CROOKED ilOUSLS One of the curious things to attract the attention ot visitors to Holland is the leaning of a great majority oC the houses To see certain parts ot Rotterdam and Amsterdam it would In these clUes whIch were originally and unmistakably built out of trim For Instance not far from the Hotel VieuxDoelen where the delegates to the peace conference have been staying stay-ing there is an extension being built JW rgLI I It7 I1 Wi T l cSaa ii t F I Jt A Maze of Solid Supports Constructed In the Latin Quarter Paris to HoldBack Hold-Back Two Massive Leaning Buildi ngs seem as though there were no houses there standing perfectly straight and that great numbers of them must collapse col-lapse In buildings side by side some will lean forward some backward and others shlewise Their old cracked walls suggest that it is the result of age While of course it Is principally due to the sort wet ground on which they are constructed There are however many buildings I to one of the churches and although i the walls are not yet completed they lean outward more than twelve inches Another instance of this is found In some of the corner houses whose walls lean out over each street In many cases new houses are evidently put up to match the houses alongside Strangely enough though there are comparatively few cases on record of collapse At FranktortontheMain though of course such construction Is not so cpm man In Germany there is one street in tshtch two houses on opposite sides of the street lean so far out that their roofs meet over the street In one at these houseS Lord Rothschild was born In Paris on the other nand It Is noticeable no-ticeable that In many cases the builders build-ers intentionally construct the houses so that they lean backward slightly to add to their stability But almost in the center or Paris there Is one heavy stone bUilding which leans out fully three and onehalt feet over thc sidewalk So solid however are the Paris bUildings that this one is claimed to be safe Imagine our American skyscrapers If our builders should take the liberties of the French or Dutch they would be sure to form either prnmfds or encroach en-croach over neighboring property |