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Show RUN BY PERSPIRATION POWER. Peculiar Elevator That Lifted Bishop Potter's Distinguished Guest. During an uncommonly hot week of a summer when Bishop Henry C. Potter Pot-ter resided on North Washington square he had as a guest a distinguished distin-guished English churchman, a bUhop and member of the House of Lords. i-Tlltf T iSilTir was1 arnifteTMTh'CTina-'' tism and was unable to ascend the stairs from the dining room without considerable suffering. The residence was equipped with a hand-power freight and baggage elevator, large enough to accommodate one passenger, passen-ger, althongh not ordinarily used for that purpose. After noticing the evident evi-dent pain caused by the stairway, in the case of his distinguished guest, it occurred to Bishop Potter that the freight elevator might be available as a more convenient means of ascent. After dinner on one of the hottest days in summer the experiment was1 tried. The visiting bishop stepped carefully into the gloomy box. Two young men who had also dined well, and to whom post-prandial exertion was in the nature of a sore burden, were pressed into service to haul on the ropes. The distinguished and afflicted af-flicted guest was of a portly habit, and weighed more than the average of "stone." The elevator was not built for great weights, and its lifting power depended depend-ed almost exactly upon - the main strength at the end of the ropes. With prodigious heaving and hauling the ascent was begun. The two flushed and panting young men looked at each other and had emphatic thoughts. As the gaitered calves of the ecclesiastic were disappearing up the shaft, an inch at a time, a deep voice floated down to the volunteer crew: "I say, does it run by water-power?" And in a gasping duet, the reply ascended from below: "Yes, my lord, by perspiration power." New York Mail and Express. |