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Apartment House Built on
Stilts
So valuable is New York City land
that even the side of a precipice
must sooner or later become the
site of an apartment house. Re­
cently the owner of several lots
situated on the steep slope of a hill
overlooking the Hudson River de­
cided to build an apartment house
on his land, despite the fact that at
the street end his land was thirty
feet below the level of the side­
walk, falling rapidly to a depth of
some seventy feet at the farther
end. The architects in charge of
the designing and erecting of the
apartment house did the only thing
that could be done under the cir­
cumstances. They constructed
stone walls or "stilts" ending level
with what would ordinarily be the
basement or cellar of the house,
on level ground.
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GETTING MAIL TO THE AZORES ISLANDS
This croup is too small to be a stopping-place for transatlantic steamers, but the inhabitants must receive
their mail. In order to accomplish this, the mail for the Azores is gathered aboard ship and placed in a
small, substantial kee, This is sealed hermetically. A wee flagstaff is then set up with a wisp of red
cloth at each end to float on high, no matter how the keg may turn in the ocean. Nearing Fayal, the
siren sounds and instanter craft of every sort come out in a mad race for the prize.