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Show uu- FLIGHTS OF AN ELEVATOR MAN. , There are persons wlu, in thc course of their employment, will in a few years ascend to a distanco which would reaoh the nioon. Let- us pause bc-foro one of the gigantic sltycrnpeijs, . of Npw York -.colossal buildings twice tho height of the dome. of i St. Paul's. An audacious architect has put forth a project to build oue oi these, skyscrapers to the height of the Eif-lel Eif-lel towor rjcarly 1,000 feet. Well, in this skyscraper there will bo frontl base to s.immit many olevatois, .which' wllj ascend nnrt descend without rdas-iiig rdas-iiig in order to "set down at their re-: re-: fir.ivo flcpia the inhabitants of tho gij'anllc hive i I.i t ii- ,i i- iqn to Up e ol. .Uoi s 1. n a tout an houi whuh ib not exces sive malciug 2jO ftfr the twbnty-four ' hr.dre, ol- 87,C0rf ascouts a year, rop-robenting rop-robenting nearly 10,000 miles, or nluch more thairhalf the circuit of .the-globj?, .the-globj?, In lesslthan fifteen years -the attendant .of; one of these oleva'JorKv r-M have7 'covered nearly 240000' miles, which represents, approximately, approximate-ly, .-r uis.uitco from tho eurth to the moon. So much for the man as he ascends. As to his descents, 'ho would have abundance of time by the end of the year not only to cover a distance equal to that which would be required to reach tho center of the earth, but v'rtually to travorso tho earth from side to side. Strand Magazine, |