y suites of apartments for families, and fifteen for
bachelors, at a yearly rental of from three thousand to two thousand
dollars for the former, and from one thousand four hundred to six hundred
and fifty dollars for the latter. These suites are entered from the
hallways, each suite having a separate entrance of its own, and at the
entrance to the principal suites there is a small antechamber, from which
a servant may announce the names of visitors. The family suites embrace
a commodious parlor, a large dining-room, with butler's pantry attached,
a kitchen, three bed rooms, and a bath room. Each suite has its own
dumb-waiter; a dump for coal and refuse, and the proper provision for
ventilation; while the suites intended for single occupants are furnished
with every appliance necessary to the securing of perfect comfort and
ease. Although every accommodation is furnished by the house, some of
the tenants have chosen to go to the expense of decorating their own
apartments, and have had their rooms elegantly frescoed and painted by
some of the first artists in the city. The mantels are either of walnut
or the finest marble, of elegant design and workmanship. The supposition
is that a majority of the guests will cook for themselves, but
arrangements may be effected by which the cooking may be done in a
general kitchen for the purpose. There is a steam elevator, and a
general system of kitchens, sculleries, pantries, store and ice rooms,
with the engines, and a well-devised workshop for the engineer. There is
a steam laundry, capable of washing one thousand pieces per day, where
guests may have their washing done at a cheaper rate than could be
possible under any of the ordinary methods; and also a drying room--all
of the principal work of the establishment being effected by steam. Each
apartment has its bell and whistle, communicating with the basement. A
janitor, or porter, has a lodge in the main hall, within which there is
also a 'post-office.' In the basement is another porter's lodge for the
facilitation of business with the butcher, the baker, and the
expressman."

These houses, however, are accessible only to people of ample means. The
apartments rent for sums which will secure comfortable dwellings, and the
other expenses are about the same one would incur in his own house. The
great need of the city is a system of such houses in respectable
neighborhoods, in which apartments may be had at moderate rent