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Show RUN BY PEnSPITtATION powen. Peculiar Elevator That Lifted Bishop Potter's Dlotlnoulshod Guest During an uncommonly hot week ot n suminor whon Bishop Henry 0. Potter Pot-ter resided on North Washington squaro he had as a guost a distinguished distin-guished English churchman, a bishop nnd member of tho Houso of Lords. The visitor was afflicted with rheumatism rheuma-tism and was unablo to ascend tho stairs from the dining room without considerable suffering. Tho resldonce wns equipped with a hand-power freight and baggngo elevator, largo enough to accommodato ono passenger, passen-ger, nlthongh not ortlinnrlly used for that purpose After noticing tho ovl-dout ovl-dout pain caused by tho stairway, In tho caso of his distinguished guost, it occurred to Bishop Potter that the freight elevator might bo available as n more convenient means of ascont. After dinner on ono of tho hottest days In summer tho experiment was tried. Tho visiting bishop stepped carefully Into tho gloomy box. Two young men who had also dined well, and to whom post-prandlal oxertlon was In the nature of a soro burden, were pressed Into service to haul on the ropos. The distinguished and afflicted af-flicted guest was of a portly habit, and weighed more than tho average of "stone." The elevator was not built for great weights, and Its lifting power dopond-cd dopond-cd almost exactly upon tho main strength nt tho end of tho ropes. With prodigious heaving and hauling tho ascont wns begun. Tho two flushed nnd panting young men looked at each othor and had emphatic thoughts. As the galtered calvos of tho ecclesiastic wero disappearing up tho shaft, nn 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 duot, the reply ascended from below: "Yes, my lord, by perspiration power." Now York Mall nnd Express. |