| Show camhe rahway radway advertiser tells the following amz good story of one of the upper ten mr nin is one of the merchant prince princes odthe the empire cita and though living ieng in one of rif the most mansions on the fifth avenue his entire family consists of himself and wife die Ale meeting eting a friend from the country one day he lip invited d him up up to view his house holise the friend wis shown iha tha gorgeous room with tessellated and m frescoed ceilings and finally wag wi taken into the lower rooms in one of which ha he found a mali maii mall small regiment of colored servants seated at a boun bountiful tirui firul dinner on his fetui return n home he lie was asked if he had seen mr so and so oh yes dwhit whit is he doing now well weil when I 1 saw him he was 11 keeping a boarding house boase on the fifth Par venue largest room in the world under a single roofard roof and unbroken bv pillars or other obstructions i nt at st petersburg and feet in length and andt feet in breadth by daylight it is used for military displays and a battalion can conveniently in it in the even inar in it is 9 often converted into a vast ball room when it is warmed by sixteen prodigious stoves boves and wak wax wax a pire pime required to light it properly thereof The roof of thi structure isda isae isa lse isaa single arch of iron the bars alone on which it restel rests beighl weighing inn ing 0 |
