figure, however, for the same style of lighting, heating,
ventilating and fireproofing, and provide an elevator and outside
fire-escape, the cost could not be put below $40,000.

The same amount of available space, _i. e._, 4,859 square feet in our
"flat" would cost at $3.65 per square foot as above estimated,
$17,735.

If now we consider that the management of a private kitchen and an
Irish cook does not actually constitute the essence of a home in its
broadest sense, but, that on the contrary, it really deprives a home
of its greatest charm, namely, peace of mind and rest of body, the
kitchen and the cook's bed-chamber may be omitted from our "flat" in
view of the public kitchen. The area of our "flat" then becomes 4,475
square feet, which, at $3.65 per foot, brings the cost down to a
little over $16,000.

Finally, if we omit the dining-room also, with its china-closet, our
area becomes 3,931 square feet, and the cost only $14,350 for the
"flat," against $40,000 for the "tower," the former being but little
over a third of the latter.

So much for the saving in the case of a large family and large suite.
For a small suite, such as would be required for a single person, or a
small family of two or three persons, the saving at once mounts to a
very much larger figure; so much so, indeed, as to render the use of
the isolated house in such cases a most inordinate extravagance,
except for the very rich. Thus a single person, or a family of two or
three, could be very comfortably provided for with three or four
rooms, and a bath-room in an apartment-house having a good cafe.
Estimating the rooms to measure 18 x 22 feet, their area would be a
little over 400 feet each, including closets, and their cost $1,460
apiece; or for smaller rooms of, say, 14 x 15 feet, or 224 square-feet
surface, the cost would be but $818 apiece. An isolated dwelling, on
the same land, of only eighteen feet frontage and fifty feet deep,
would cost, including the lot at $5 a foot, not less than $18,000 or
$8,000, without the land. Of course, in such an isolated dwelling,
electric-lighting, steam-heating, fireproof stairs, and other luxuries
of the "flat," would hardly be expected.

By the arrangement of our apartment-house, there are twenty-four
corner-suites out of the eighty. These have direct sunlight on either
one or both of their exposed fronts, and may be estimated as worth
fifty per cent more than the rest. In other words, 3/10 of the wh