Show elevator making slow headway with britons although the centuries old great tower of windsor castle whose 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 convenience of modern life does not appeal to a large number of britons lord master of the rolls who Is sixty eight thinks the government should fix sixty five as the age limit for using elevators he ile never uses the elevator in the jaw courts because he finds that the ex enelse of walking up and down doan the stairs is beneficial to his health but oldfield thomas a distin gulshen scientist who died a few 3 bears ears ago at the age of seventy four left to in his will 6 to install an elevator in the natural history tory mu seum scum he ile had toiled up two long flights of stairs at the museum dally 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 tl en began to set iside some of his own money for that purpose A few das dabs ago this lift was ocene I 1 to use by the museum staff it was on this occasion that on be half of the trustees lord banworth hanworth Han Ilan worth received it and apol e disapprovingly of the use of such contraptions by persons andr sixty five nevertheless the elevator fidei Is spreading in britain now and then one still runs across even eden a new building of four or five stories un equipped with lifts probably pro bibly because the old build replaced had none jn in the minority mijo rity of c aises ices however they are features of the new tores tures tor for higher rents can be charged where they exist new bew york sun |