Ebook The Cliff-Dwellers

From such conditions as these — along with the Tacoma, the Monadnock, and a great host of other modern monsters — towers the Clifton. From the beer-hall in its basement to the bar ber-shop just under its roof the Clifton stands full eighteen stories tall. Its hundreds Of win dows glitter with multitudinous letterings in gold and in Silver, and on summer afternoons its awnings ?utter score on score in the tepid breezes that sometimes come up from Indiana. Four ladder-like constructions which rise Sky ward stage by stage, promote the agility of the clambering hordes that swarm within it, and ten elevators — devices unknown to the real, ah original inhabitants — ameliorate the daily cliff climbing for the frail of physique and the pressed for time.