Show LETTERS BY TROLLEY SYSTEM A Unique Package Elevator In Use In Brooklyn Pedestrians on lower Broadway at intervals tervals during the days of last week witnessed wit-nessed the trial of a unique package elevator eleva-tor that an ingenious friend of the postmen and expressmen has rigged His place of business is on the top floor of a high building build-ing A small wire rope on which runs a box attached to It by means of rings is fastened to his window and extends to the railing alongside tho steps at the sidewalk As I was passing the other day a postman stopped at the entrance to the building and called up through a speaking tube In a moment a mans form appeared at the un permost window and ho let down on his wire trolley the mail box When it reached the bottom Uncle Sams agent put a letter Into it and away it went whirling up into the air as though there was a weight attached at-tached to the other end of the line Thats a good idea was the verdict of many peoplo who stopped to watch the little incident As a means of saving time patience and shoe leather to the busy letter carriers this seems o be a scheme worth adoption by Herald many occupants of high offices JHfew York |