Show MoW POOR ELE- VATOR W. J. Silver Adds to Our Article on the Careless Elevator In your i ue of March 3 is an article on levator Its statements are true to a considerable although from what I have seen the majority of elevator runners are fairly careful The young lady who was reading a book should not have E been reading when intending to take the read when you m but do not try to do 4 two things at I have read Ss much as most and when Tread I devote my attention to but not on a railroad train or a street I have too re-tj for my eyes to use them in ff On A New i trouble where it exists can be stopped by the if he so It is an enough matter to so arrange door that the elevator cannot e started while a door is open and until it is shut and Also arrange the doors so that they cannot be opened unless the starting lever is in its' neutral Electric elevators can be controlled better than as every door when open can open the circuit and the elevator cannot be started till the door is Too Low Another remedy is give the tenders living I understand the usual wages are forty dollars a with some few running fifty for extra It is ridiculous to expect to get good civility and honesty for such a Any man who will offer such wages to another deserve I would like to punish such by giving him that wage for one and expect him to live on with no chance to Opportunities on the The trouble with the plutocrat is that in order to keep up his pile he will grind the face of any one who can be and as the elevator men are not united they have to take what is It is surprising that so many men can be obtained to fill such positions while the opportunities on The land as farmers are so far Judging from the statement of the Socialists that no man ever made big pile of money but that there were some very equivocal transactions in the making of is to a great extent It is a good deal like the butter that we used to get here in the early days there were dark streaks in which if you were hungry it did not pay you to but take it as it the taste was not affected if you did not look at W. J. |