Show IMPRISONED IN CAR GAR CARONE GARONE ONE PERILOUS HOUR Passenger Attempts to tb Operate Elevator and Comes Conies to 10 Grief Imprisoned for over an hour in the tho elevator cage cago at V the cIt city nn and c coun county un- un nty n ty b building was the uncomfortable experience of or a carload of or passengers yesterday morning when Oscar Ocar II Skidmore an electrical engineer of or the city engineers engineer's office cs essayed n lc to operate operate operate oper oper- ate tho the car in tho the a absence enco of ot the the- reg reg- ul ular r operator Harold H II King ICing King ICing had left the tho car at the first floor to go o into tho the engine room and hadn't been Jeen gone moro more than a n few tew seconds when SI l moro nn and several sc others who work in the tho city engineers engineer's ollice oHice entered the car Two young oung hadies la ladies ha- ha 30 dies were among tho pa passengers took the operators operator's seat and started stalled the car the button button button but but- ton that released tho brake bralo and put the machinery in motion The car started upward and released his hold the controller The car stopped an and then It started again Being unfamiliar unfamiliar un us- familiar with the working of the car C J was up In the thc air all literally as won well as ns figuratively and half a dozen ozen passengers were with him Sid Case the engineer Ine r noticed the peculiar actions of the machinery and suspected that some Bomo one oneas was as tampering tamper tamper- I lug ing 1 with the car Tho The peculiar action or of the car had caused a short circuit and the cage was hel held suspended betwee between between be be- tween twee l two floors The engineer tried to bring the car ba back 1 k to th the bOttom of or the shaft but Instead it shot up UI to the top lop an and then receded The passengers passengers pas pas- seng rs were frightened and expected every second to feel the floor of or the car sink with s great at rapidity After an nn hours hour's in iii whIch T. a great deal eal of the U machinery was taken apart Mr lr Caso Case had the car In working work worl- in Ins ing order again and the regular operator operator oper oper- ator was once more installed |