OCR Text |
Show BUILDS HOUSE IN PINE TREES Man Who Has Tuberculosis Will Sleep in Room He Has Constructed in Tops of Trees. NEW YORK. Sept. 21. Charles Battersby of Wrentham. Mass., says a special to the Times, has built a house in the tops of two adjoining pine trees on his farm aud will spend the winter there. Battersby is Sj vears of age and has suffered with tuberculoses tubercu-loses f-r several y-ars. The "house." r rather room, for it ia al"iit 9x6 feet in dimensions, is painted white and is visible from a long distance. There is a U or and two windows, but the latter will be closed only to prevent suow from entering en-tering the room. Acre t the tree top is had by means of a rope ladder, whirh. Robinson Rob-inson Crusoe-like, Battersby will pull up each uiv-lit. |