COSTLY APARTMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1912, Page 7

COSTLY APARTMENTS.

-r — — *tt?~. T— Even niiillionau-es nowadays contract t lie habit of living- in flats. To mcci the requirement's • of , spine ..of; them a house- which has a •■.rental 0f,£60,000 a- year has ■beQn-erec-.e.d in the "exclusive" .quarter .of fifth. Avenue, New York. . k. has < two , great ■''claims to .distinction, in.: American eyes. It is situated near Mr. , Arid,rew Carnegie's mansion, 'and it is bebelieved .o be "tlie mosz expensive residental building- in the. world," .It is the Jirsx. "apartment 1 . 7 house .-chat has been built m Fifth Avenue,. and it" is designed to- accommodate eighteen .tenants. They will sliare , the burden of the enormous rental, . paying on an average at the rate of a year for each noom they .occupyThe rental seems ridiculous, ; even for millionaires,' but '.apparently money is no object in vhe case of. the wealthy people who prefer -paying 'jreru: ki maintaining mansons .. of thTeir, own. All save one or two. of ahe apai'tmeii'.'s were ..taken '-. before .thebuilding was- completed, ■ among- ;.he tenanits . .being Mr. Levi P. Morton, who was Vice-Fresidenr oj ahe .Um.,ed : , States twenty years ago, and two prominent members of . the llegisla tiwc , Senator Root and Senior Guggenheim. Senau>r Root, who is known to fame as a former Secrctaa-y .of State having- held office under -Mr ..M'lOnley and Mr. Rosevelt, ejijoys the dis-tinction--of paying- a higher rental than any othea- tbiiant -in the building, his little bill amounting' to £5000 per annum. The house is divided •into 'simplex' and 'duplex' apartments, and 'Mr .Root, of course, has secured a 'duplex' set, occuping iwo floors and are connected by private 'Stairways. The 'simplex', apartments boast one floor only. • -Tho descriptions of the house that have been pub- 1 lished by the newspapers :i,n- New York show chat the unhappy millionaires who are condemned vo .he l? tn rooms'' will be able to ob.ain at least a meastue ■ of comforv. r lha kitchens and laundivie.s a-re said .o be -the lines', in New York, and all tin? rooms are to be cleaned by '.he \acuum process. It is realily soothing- to 'learn that this cleaning and the wash inig of the windows ac included in the rental." The millionaire.' «;enanv.s must be quite economical persons.