“Have a thirteenth floor in this building?” queries a part owner
of one of the famous office buildings in New York. “Never! The
thirteenth floor is sometimes difficult to rent; tenants would
prefer to go higher or lower.
“The thirteen hoodoo affects more otherwise sane men than is
acknowledged. Many of the most famous business buildings in the
country have no thirteenth floor--the fourteenth story follows
the twelfth. By following this plan, we take the least risk.
As the names of tenants are arranged alphabetically on the
directory, the omission is seldom noticed.”--_System._
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=Thorn, Value of the=--See CROSS, GLORIOUS.