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Show barrel of soft soap. The four passengers pass-engers then stepped into the elevator p. ml the man at the wheel set the machinery ma-chinery in motion. The car starN I to rise. It did not ascend more than about ten feet between the two floor. when it stopped. Everything known to mechanical self nee was done but the elevator r-fused r-fused to respond. Its occupants, realizing real-izing their predicament began to Inugh. Then w ishing to attract tl ' attention of the employes In the mailing mail-ing room of the oostoffice they began be-gan to shout, net ween their should and laughter, the employes thougnt thr party was Just having a lauj'i. For more than a half hour the four run were Imprisoned, when odc of the employes in passing, accidental';, discovered their predicament, and reloaded re-loaded them. It was necessary to remove re-move ono of the steel panels that surround sur-round the cage. The quartette swore to keep the story, but nevertheless, It leaked out. WERE CAUGHT IN 1 THE LEVATOR An amusing piory i6 being told In lie postofflce circles of an Incident , happened In which Postmaster L tt. Shurtliff and Ahfisum Postmaster Post-master Rurus Garner were parties The manager of an elevator fl ,ru I H Salt Lake City, accompanied by spect tho large passenger elevator In ce?tnUhal bu"dlnt?' ,n ord t as certa In how much weight the "lift" would carry. tht. postmaster end a- 3.,,nt postmaster were Invito! to r weight aboard, th manager of the elevator company loaded on a lurg"' |