Boats Are Hotels

1920

Floating Hostelries Relieve New York Housing Conditions

ALBANY, N. Y. — Floating hotels were put in operation here to relieve the housing conditions, and particularly the congestion which has marked Albany hotels the last two years.

Two of the largest night line steamers plying the Hudson River, after having had their light and water systems hooked up to the municipal supply here, were opened to the public as floating hotels and ready for business.

Each of the boats has accommodations for 400 guests, and on each meals will be served and hotel service maintained. It is believed this is the first time in the history of the country that boats, compelled to cease operations by freezing of a river, have been utilized as hotels.

The Fabulous Leonard "Foodarama" Refrigerator

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Refrigerator advertisement recreated, combining a color postcard photograph and an old newspaper ad. The original ad is from 1955.

Freezing an Easy Death

1914

Freezing to death, writes a medical authority, is preceded by a drowsiness which makes the end painless — the body actually feels warm and goes comfortably to sleep. Experiments have been made with animals to show just how freezing to death proceeds.

In one of these experiments, in which the animal was placed in a temperature of 125 to 150 degrees below zero, the breathing and heart beats at first were quickened, the organic heat of the body actually rising above normal.

This rising showed a sudden and an intense effort on the part of functions to preserve the body's temperature. Then the violent heart action gave out suddenly and death came when the temperature of the body dropped to 71 degrees.


In a "Higher" Grade

That juvenile human nature remains pretty much the same always would seem freshly indicated by the quaint incident related in a famous author's recent reminiscences of his childhood. The said author had an older brother whom he admired hugely, and whose society he desired to enjoy as much as might be. There came a time, however, when the older boy revolted against the too frequent companionship of the younger, and thus gravely explained the grounds of his superiority:

"I play with boys who curse and swear."

Attempted Suicide by Freezing

Syracuse, New York, 1902
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A New Method of Suicide.

Syracuse, April 11. -- Joseph T. Boylen tried a new method of suicide yesterday and was unsuccessful. He lay on the bank of Onondaga creek, dangled his legs in the ice-cold water and endeavored to freeze to death. He was discovered when unconscious from the cold, and revived by stimulants. He said he was out of work and discouraged. He did not have the nerve to jump --

--Naugatuck Daily News, Naugatuck, Connecticut, April 11, 1902, page 1.