Show G lea O W nn n O ASp Aspect e c Hot Not Nights Bring Crowded City Life to the Roof Tops Taps and andOpen andOpen andOpen Open Streets New York Oriental Oriental peoples for centuries have been making use of their house tops The cause of course Is the Intense and protracted heat hent of those lands lauds Their dwellings lacking In ventilation as we know are almost unbearable and almost every possible activity is carried on In the open air Public affairs crowd the tile streets domestic domestic domestic do do- life Ufe seeks the roof According to this standard it has bas struck more than one student of I racial characteristics that New ew York Is becoming more and more an oriental oriental orien orlen tal city especially when hot weather comes along The trouble Is that New Yorks York's architecture is not adapted to that sort of an existence Roofs coated with tar and anti gravel gra were never intended Intended Intended In In- tended as sleeping places for the tho multitude Fire escape galleries are aro not built upon the same st style le as us Eastern balconies hot curbstones are arc poor substitutes for grassy terraces leading down to tinkling fountains Roofs Are Crowded Yet every hot night in n New York will wUl find these uncomfortable and heat-enfolding heat roofs crowded with restless sleepers above every tenement tenement tene tene- ment rookery and apartment house hive It will find thousands of fire escapes filled with restless roped children It will find the panting b populace seeking what air the weather weatherman man vouchsafes upon stoop and curb park purk bench and und grass plot Hundreds of small merchants whoso whose stores line the long avenues and whose staffs of employees ees are made up of their relatives sit and und talk and doze and wander about the doors of ot their shops far Into the night rather than take the tho damp dump hot plunge Into their indoor sleeping quarters It reminds me the of Bombay or Bagdad Bag Bag- dad said a man who has hus traveled much In the flip and on 1 wh m n h v- v 1 u uv 0 wag H no av- av yIng y- y Ing his first glimpse lImp e of New York outside outside out out- side the bright lights ts It Is true that you have a very large oriental population lation or tatton-or or at nt least a very large pop pop- whose traditions and Instincts are those of the East y You u can see that b by the unconcerned wa way In which the they resort to sleeping out of doors But your buildings are entirely unsuited un- un suited to fo that sort of life Why dont don't you vou build your house tops as fiS they do doIn doin doin in the Orient and md give these people some come real comfort Of course they will huddle h to together ether Indoors They dont don't know what privacy Is as you and I understand It The living space of their ancestral homes has hns always Included the outside as ns well as ns the Inside Farmer Has Advantage It Is true that out on the farms of or orthe the Middle lIddle West est you vou will find that on ona ona ona a hot some sonic of the boys will find finda a cooler bed hed on a a pile pUe of hay and some somo of the girls will sleep in a hammock on the front veranda but you would Rould never neer find pa and anel ma dragging a h mattross mat hat hattress tle tress tross s up on the roof no matter how hot it might be It might be he that conditions here are arc due to the great con congestion In New NewYork NewYork York some sonic one sug suggested ested No 0 replied the traveler If It you will look at nt these people camping out for the night you on will see that most of them are of eastern or southern tern stock The northerners and westerners are sticking Indoors perspiring of ot course but dignified at nt all costs costa |