Show Elevator Making Slow Headway With Britons Although the centuries old great tower of Windsor castle whose topmost topmost topmost top top- I most floors are the repository of state documents is to be equipped with a n modern elevator or elevator or lift as they describe It in England that England that convenience of at modern life does not appeal to a n large number of at Britons Lord Hanworth master of or the rolls who Is s sixty eight thinks the government should fix sixty five as the age limit for tor using elevators He never uses the elevator in the law courts because he finds that the exercise exercise ex ex- exercise of at walking up and down the stairs is beneficial to his health But Oldfield Thomas a distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- scientist who died a n few years ago at the tho age ngoof of seventy-four seventy left in his will to Install an elevator in the Natural History museum mu mu- seum He had toiled tolled up two long flights of stairs at the museum daily I for tor 4 40 46 years Frequent appeals appeals' were made to the government go by the museum authorities to appropriate money for fora a lift but none was forthcoming Mr Thomas then began to set t aside some of his own mon money y for that purpose A few tew days ago ngo this lift was opened to use by the museum staff It was on this occasion that on behalf be be- behalf behalf half of at the trustees Lord ord Hanworth received it and spoke disapprovingly of ot the use of or such contraptions by persons under under- sixty Nevertheless the elevator Idea is spreading in Britain Now r-ow and then one still stitt runs across even a new building building- of four tour or five stories unequipped unequipped un un- equipped with lifts probably because the old buildings replaced had none In rn n the majority of cases however they are features of the new structures structures tures f for r higher can can n be charged 1 where they tiley exist New New York Sun |