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...interested in some scheme for bettering the tenement houses in New York. The effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower in the inside of the house and to give every family the domestic privacy secured by a front door of its own and no connection with the other occupants of the building. The pleasure taken...
...buildings that they are scarcely thought of in the ordinary course of college life. But this is no reason why the necessary precautions against them should be overlooked. Many of the dormitories are built in very old style with very little provision for escape in case of fire. The stair-ways are narrow and all wood, so that they would make a perfect flue for the flames. It ought to be the duty of the college to furnish every room above the ground floor with a rope or other means of escape-There are ropes in some of the rooms...
...tower is covered by a revolving copper dome containing a wide slit which can be turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower. The building contains one large and two small rooms for a library and other uses, a photographic room, and apartments for clocks and minor instruments. The whole structure is substantially made of brick and stone and is not only well adapted to its purposes...
...main floor are Turkish baths, sponge-baths, shower-baths, vapor-baths and a magnificent plunge-bath, which is 75 feet by 30, and 15 feet deep; it is lined with encrustic tiling, and is constantly kept supplied with fresh water; a private stair-way connects the dressing-rooms with these paths. Down stairs is a bowling alley which is very well patronized...
...always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures, approach within a dangerous distance of the ridiculous...