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Show WOMAN IN NEW ROLE V Runs Elevator in New York's Most Fashionable Hotel She Has Charge of the Mcst Perfectly Appointed "Lift" in the World, the women ever got on without ta.em. "Of course, the one problem which confronted us was the running of ths elevator leading to these rooms. It did not seem at all the thing to put a man at this job. So we decided to put one of the housemaids on. It required re-quired a girl with a steady head and one who bad some knowledge of mechanical me-chanical construction. These requirements require-ments were found in Mary Yorke and she certainly runs that elevator Just as well as a man could." There isn't another elevator conductor conduc-tor in New York who gets as much nay as the pretty girl who directs the f5T"""rjn OMAN elevator conduc-wVVrTS"! conduc-wVVrTS"! tor! She is the most vjrf f talked of feature of the WLaws Waldorf-Astoria, New fajGa J$& York's most gorgeotn hotel. She is a sugges- tion of the twentieth century. Mary Yorke is her name, and Mary now enjoys the distinction of being the only woman in the world who runs an elevator. This beautiful little lift is all white and gold, and mirrors are fitted up in such fetching style that one regrets when one gets into it that this attractive attrac-tive box does not run ten stories instead in-stead of one. Yes, this new elevator in the big hostelry on Fifth avenue, Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets, is unquestionably unques-tionably the very daintiest and most perfectly appointed lift ever built, and the girl who runs it is quite in keeping with her surroundings. Mary Yorke is pretty, petite and always charming and respectful. She wears a white frock and snowy apron, with a cute little white cap setting jauntily on hei raven hair. So Mary and her elevator eleva-tor are in as perfect keeping as are nearly all the other accessories in the Waldorf-Astoria. The new elevator is exclusively for woman. That is why it is so perfectly perfect-ly appointed, and that Is why a woman wom-an conducts it. The elevator all white and gold runs from the main floor to the mezzanine floor above, where it opens into a room as white as snow and as light as day, with great plate glass mirrors from floor to ceiling. This is a woman's wom-an's dressing room, and no fairy princess prin-cess could have a more lovely place in which to make her toilet. Every accessory to the feminine toilet known in modern art is to be found in this The Grand Stairway, car of white and gold, and If shy doesn't get tips, then the other girls in the big hotel are greatly mistaken Since she started upon her new duties all the other girls in the house have become ambitious to run elevators, and there's no telling where the innovation; will lead. Of course, with the introduction intro-duction by the Waldorf-Astoria, the new St Regis, the Knickerbocker an the New Brunswick will have to have their elevators even more gorgeou, than that of the Waldorf-Astoria, and within a few years it is likely the great hotels in all parts of the country will have girls who act the part of Maryj Yorke. Mr. Hilliard says the car of whit and gold and its attendant equipment cost more than $10,000. That's a lot of money to spend for an elevator that! only runs one story, but money is never considered when there's a question ques-tion of adding to the attractiveness of a Exeat hotel. The Waldorf-Astoria. is one of the leading show places of the city, has more than a thousand visitors a day visitors who go there simply to see what the hotel is like, to explore the kitchen, the palm room, the parlors, the dining rooms, the galleries gal-leries and every nook and cranny of the immense establishment. To these thousands the car cf white and gold and the elevator girl will be something some-thing they never will be satisfied without seeing, and the name and fame of Mary Yorke will be carried far and wide. Main Entrance to Hotel. room. There are wall and hand mirrors, mir-rors, dainty white dressing tables supplied sup-plied with brushes, combs, manicure sets, powder, rouge, perfumes and what not. There are great white washstands cut out of solid blocks of marble, big enough almost for a full bath and supplied with the most costly cost-ly of soaps, nail brushes, finger towels and lotions for chapped hands. Opening out of this twentieth een-tury een-tury dressing room is a luxurious resting rest-ing room for women, furnished with comfortable lounging chairs, divans and writing desks, with neat maids in attendance who take charge of women's wom-en's wraps and parcels, and for their general comort Here, when a woman comes in from the tiresome round of shopping, calling call-ing or of other duties, she can find the absolute quiet and rest so much needed, and after which she can make a toilet which will make her look as fresh as a new blown rose. Mr. Hilliard, general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, in speaking of this new little white realm, fitted up for women, said: "It as the one feature we sadly needed here. When the ho- Main Dining Room. tel was built we were quite a distance from the shopping districts, and we did not have so very many coming in to luncheons and afternoon teas. But for the past year or two so many shops have been established in this neighborhood neigh-borhood that we are practically In the shopping center, and every day more and more women coming in from suburban su-burban homes as well as those living war uptown make this hotel their headquarters, so that really we felt that we must do something to make our women patrons more comfortable, hence these rooms were built and fitted up, end now we wonder how |