Show ACRE 25 ROOF ON GLASS GLASSHOUSE HOUSE London Crystal Palace Was Vas Favorite Target in Wai Wartime time LONDON Lor Aug 17 By 17 By The As- As Associated Press Luckily no one lives In n London's London s gla glass glaS s house the Crystal Palace So the old saw about the throwIng of stones dots does not hold The Crystal Costal Palace one of the largest argest Is s famous 0 amusement for ml Its roof halls ll with 1 i the 25 world worlds acres of f glass Two hundred feet above the he ground it contains thousands of f panes When the Palace was re- re reopened reopened opened In 1920 was spent In n reconditioning the roof root Since I then hen workmen have all aU but lived on the he roof keeping it In condition Wire netting Is stretched under undermost undermost undermost most of It During the war the Crystal Palace was a favorite target for raiding German airplanes All the glaziers were at work on the roof when one ne such raid was announced One of f the glaziers slid down dO the railing of f a circular staircase so s fast that he e burned out the seat of ot his trousers rousers and was so dizzy he fell fello to o the ground unable to move The building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and was con- con constructed constructed originally In 1854 largely from rom materials of the hall halI set up In n Hyde Park for the exhibition of ot 1851 |