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Show USE FOR' INCLINED ELEVATORS. English Port Has Four Labor Savers In Operation. The latest application of the Inclined olovator, moro commonly known as tho moving stairway, Is found In a freight elevator for carrying trunks mall bags and boxes between steam era and wharves. This olovator, which .s practically a gangplank and can be ihlftcd about, contains within Itself ;lio entire apparatus, Including the electric motor. Its floor, Instead of being composed of planks, Is a movable platform. Thero aro only four such elevators, now In uso In the world, and theso are nil at Dover, England. Steamship men at this port are considering Its uso hero. Another uso of the inclined elevator Is in stores, from basement to sidewalk. side-walk. On It men with hand trucks and with rolling boxes or baskets arc carrtod, as well as merchandise. Another novel uso for tho Inclined eldvntor has been found In Kngland, at seaside resorts on Its southern coast Here, In many places, the beach runs from high bluffs, from which visitors must descend by stairs to reach the shore. At a number of these places Inclined elevators havo been Installed New York Sun. |