Show AN APART ENT r IN N THE CLOUDS Owner to Live on Fortieth I Floor Float Fl or of Building r feS ft c DAY LIFE IN SKYSCRAPERS IN t r Equitable Building Building- In Iri Course of Con Con- In New Yorks York's Financial District Will Be Bo Be Abiding Place by P Day of of Soul Figures Show Remarkable Congestion To many wonderful fo things that exist In New York lor but which to the average New Now Yorker are matters of ot commonplace commonplace common place lace Interest Is soon to be added an apartment which will will be higher than any other habitation In the world This will be the tho home bome of Frank W. W Woolworth who Is going to establish a suit mutt of f rooms on the fortieth floor of ot his great office structure which towers to a h height liht of one fifty one ty-one stories t The eyrie eyrle In the clouds for tor such It will be as the apartment will be far removed rem ved from the humdrum life ute of ot the theIl f a Il sidewalk crowds will unquestionably rank as the most desirable of the city's thousands of desirable costly housing accommodations Situated feet 1 above the level of the ih sidewalk high higher J. J er r than all but Jut one of the very tIl tall l 7 buildings s. s the Woolworth apartment 1 will ha have havo vo unobstructed views of ot all the thet t city and as for toI light and air no other i wit molt extant wUl equal Its facilities t The tower tower section of ot the Woolworth I r rr building which occupies the blo block k front on Bro Broadway dway between Barclay I street treet and Park ParI place has an un urea area or of t square ra feet feet- of which about 2500 feet the hi size of a a. a standard city lot Jot are available for tor use the remainder l. l r being for walls waIls partitions and elevator wells t. t May Be Bo Permanent Residence Tho The home bome In la the skyscraper will probably be utilized only as u a resting t place during bus business n s hours but Its establishment will wUl direct the thought of persons persona Interested to speculating that it may may solve tb obi problem r of f nn un rented spaces space In tall buildings which is coul could could-be be adapted f for r similar purposes when they fall taU to rent for tor the business r i as AI planned The merchant f who ho pays paYI close clotie attention to details and for that rea reason reason- on findS findS' it hard to tot t wean himself away avay from his com commer mer duties maybe be ed to reflect y on oa possibilities of duplications of sued such accommodations but probably they will not become numerous However the apartment directs at at- tendon to to occupancy occupancy of great gleat sky a scraping office buildings I For or Instance instance In stance of the one one ne signs numerous surrounding sue sur rounding the new Equitable building In n course of construction In the Una ti tidal dal cial Ial district tells that It will be the tile ag place by day of souls That number of human beings us its mo most t any s schoolboy can cun tell equals the die t It population of or If many tunny lar large e towns d tad ami some cities ns as well veil An interesting ng phase of the I esti- esti 1 i 4 stated mated mil too population of or this b huge strut iture which sure which I la Is to cover a It square block t of Vol square feet teet and with a usable h- h area areu of square feet reet on everyone every every on ono one of ot Its Ita thirty six floors bounded byh by h Cedar 1 rite and Nassau Nassi ti struts ls Is Is that will It have e like ilkI un Ins any municipality its own police pollee force WM wit I I hospital recreation centers I sand other departments No o other lither structure ture in New Nw York Vork II p equals the new Equitable In size th the near nearest t U to lu It being the th Woolworth 7 building with Ith 1 Inhabitants These Thep faures are art interesting to the of T housing conditions l who hH has devoted de let research In the th direction tion or of cheap tenement bun s. ca The I in I the latter is 1 greatly o owes owed by th the population of lit Ing lag office buildings In proof prot of ot this might be mentioned the report of lit the Charity Organization society a n few rw 1 months ago which stated that In tn 12 blocks on OD the east side lived 31 souls louls a t population on larger than that of ut oft ofa t a n dozen of the leading cities of the United United States State But Rut RutI a I more specific of comparison between the tenements and and office I mC building population a as regards regards' re ye- 1 gards' gards congestion was given in tn the same 11 me report report relative to one one block block near the ibe Williamsburg burg bridge in whose tenements approximately men men women and children principally ba bl blest were huddled Congestion Is II Considered The congested condition Mal dal district In the matter of ot office I building po population has bas been heen duly on con considered In connection with the f tion of construction by President Me- Me I Aneny of ot the board of ot aldermen wh who o has stated upon advice of ot competent experts that further multiplication of lit them would make snake Impossible transit in subways at the morning and even evening lag ing hours because e of ot the great massof mass massof of population that pours In concentrated I ed numbers out and Into the big build In logs ings at these ho hours rs Mr Ir Woolworth's proposed apart apartment apartment ment will wUl doubtless lon tong long be without a 1 at t parallel unless one cue be established establish d ini In i th r the Singer ginger or Metropolitan etro tow r. r r er or which hl has bay a n great n t lIel height ht but hut seen even should one be set It up III In lu either building build Ing which affords l the nearest motion to the Woolworth building buildings It would not be bt hl higher ller than the Woolworth Woolworth Wool Wool- wo worth b suit for tor that will be he feet teE up while the extreme height of ot the th Metropolitan Is 18 feet teet and the Singer I tow tower r feet |