A HOUSE OF GLASS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 2

A HOUSE OF GLASS.

Mr Parker Woodbury, New V"ork financier, baa engaged Mr Albert Swazey, an architect of that citv, to draw plans for a private dwelling house constructed eutirely of glass, which is to bo erected at Bocohurst, Long Island. Bricks of compressed opalescent glass will form the walls. The interior and the nartitions are to be of the same material, worked into thin slabs, aud, of course, the roof is to be of glass. In fact, everywhere it is possible glass is to be employed. The wall glass aud interior generally are to be of a cream tint, and an elaborate arrangement of outside window blinds will regulate and moderate the light which eulers the house. Mr Woodbury is a great believer in sunlight. “1 have had this idea of a glass house in my mind for a long time,” ho said. ‘"‘lf light is good, it is manifestly beatter for a man to live in a house where he oau enjoy sunlight all day than in one which is practically nothing but a cavo of bricks. I am poitivo that my experiment will prove all I expect from the health-giving standpoint.’!: In recent years American financiers have been subjected . to much criticism, and to-day the woll-wom jibe about people who iivo in glass houses” is hurled at the ventures some Mr Woodbury,