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Show the old buildings replaced had none. In the majority of cases, however, they are features of the new structures, struc-tures, for higher rents can be charged where. they exist. New York Sun. Elevator Making Slow Headway With Britons Although the centuries-old great tower of Windsor castle, whose topmost top-most floors are the repository of state documents, is to be equipped with a modern elevator or lift, as they describe it in England that cftnvenience of modern life does not appeal to a large number of Britons. Lord Hanworth, master of the rolls, who is sixty-eight, thinks the government should fix sixty-five as the age limit for using elevators. He never uses the elevator in the law , courts because he finds that the exercise ex-ercise of walking up and down the stairs is beneficial to his health. But Oldfield Thomas, a distinguished distin-guished scientist who died a few years ago at the age of seventy-four, left in his will $6,000 to install an elevator in the Natural History museum. mu-seum. He had toiled up two long flights of stairs at the museum daily for 46 years. Frequent appeals were made to the government by the museum authorities to appropriate money for a lift, but none was forthcoming. Mr. Thomas then began to set aside some of his own money for that purpose. A few days ago tin's lift was opened to use by the museum start. It was on this occasion that on behalf be-half of the trustees Lord Hanworth received it and spoke disapprovingly of the use of such contraptions by persons under sixty-five. Nevertheless, the elevator idea is spreading in Britain. Now and then one still runs across even a new building of four or five stories unequipped un-equipped with lifts, probably because |