What to see in New York . DRY-AIR COLD STORAGE. The Wanamaker Dry-air Cold Storage Plant pro-vides the most perfect form of fur storage yetdevised. It is of absolutely fire-proof construction—steel and concrete—with a capacity for storing overfifty thousand garments, rugs and similar is kept at a temperature of about 20 degreeswhich effectually prevents any damage from pipes enter the vault, hence all danger fromdampness and mildew is avoided. A constant circu-lation of pure dry cold air is maintained, whichkeeps the furs in the best possible condition. 26. PIANO SALONS. T
What to see in New York . DRY-AIR COLD STORAGE. The Wanamaker Dry-air Cold Storage Plant pro-vides the most perfect form of fur storage yetdevised. It is of absolutely fire-proof construction—steel and concrete—with a capacity for storing overfifty thousand garments, rugs and similar is kept at a temperature of about 20 degreeswhich effectually prevents any damage from pipes enter the vault, hence all danger fromdampness and mildew is avoided. A constant circu-lation of pure dry cold air is maintained, whichkeeps the furs in the best possible condition. 26. PIANO SALONS. The Wanamaker Piano Salons on the first galleryof the New Building are undoubtedly the most su-perbly appointed salesrooms in the world. The splen-did Greek Room is exquisitely decorated. Its wallsand columns are covered with elaborate marquetrywork, and the ceiling is done in gold leaf. Some ofthe rooms are decorated in pure Venetian Gothic;others are in simple Colonial style. The Art Roomis an adaptation of the Louis XVI period, in whiteand gold, with decorative panels over the six rooms that surround it are each decorated ina different period—Louis XIV, Louis XV, Empire,Italian, Renaissance, Colonial and Flemish. In these rooms are assembled the worlds greatestpianos—Chickering, Schomacker, Emerson, Linde-man Sons, Kurtzman, Marshall & Wendell, Camp-bell and Knabe. In the foyer the above pianos are shown, and withthem are such player-pianos as the Emerson-Ange-lus Grand, the Knabe-Angelus, the Schomacker-An-gelopian, the Lindeman-Angelus, the Lind
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