Show t NEW ELEVATORS IN SAFETY TEST Heavily Loaded Cages In Hotel Bigelow Are Cut Loose Loaded with five men hoon who combined weight 15 1 1066 pounds together with 1500 pounds ot of o Iron weights one of ot the tho new nw passenger elevators Installed In the Hotel Bigelow wa was cu cu from Its supporting cables Saturday after coon after noon when hen dropping at t full speed Yet Tat the th safety devices on the elevator ele stopped the cage c c In a distance distance vt Ot t three thre or four feet teet Ith only the slightest t Jar Had HaL one on riding the elevator not known what was being done the sensation would have been sImIlar to a slip like tIt tilt OcCaSIoned on many older elevators In da days gone by according to those taking the drop The Th drop was a test made nade by the th Otis Oils Elevator com corn company pany any to assure assur the absolute safety ot the Hotel Bigelow elevators elevator More than a score ot of o men gathered around the elevator shaft hatt at the time the th test was made They were given riven the op- op opportunity op opportunity to make the unusual ride rid with the th assurance th that t the elevator company had hid Installed safety devices which ought to stop top the th cage cac In 1 Its It lt drop P WY of Lusk ot of San Francisco represent represent- representIng representIng represent represent-Ine Ing the th elevator com company pan made the final adjustments 4 A J Janke representing the he company In Ofden Og den took charge chares of o the elevator controls The Th Iron weights were loaded Into the car A halt half dozen men who had ex- ex expressed i ex pressed a II desire t to see everything possible of the tho experiment were loaded on the car and taken to the eighth floor left lett there while the th others continued to the top floor 15 floor If stories above the thO basement level With the two elevator men menwer were A A P Bigelow Bl president ot of the th Hotel BIgelow G a R H one of the gen gen- general general gen gen-eral eral contractors J S Krof building superintendent and W WE E E of The Th Ogden Orden Stand Examiner ard-Examiner MOMENT T OF TEST When the top Of o the th building was reached Lusk crawled onto the top of the elevator He H sig- sig signaled sir to Janke to start the elc- elc do- do de delator Vator lator down at full speed When hen the eighth floor evel was as reached reachel he cut the elevator loose loos front from the cables The Th group on the eighth floor saw the th release There was Just a second of ot sue sue- sus suspense pense The Th elevator did not seem to torain gain momentum And then It stopped with no perceptible Jerk an donly the slIghtest Jar ar At the seventh floor It settled down at exactly the floor level Wed have hae gone eon a hundred feet If If the safety devices hadn't worked was the comment of President Bigelow as ho he stepped from the th car cu Its ns its 0 1 K was wal the comment of Lusk The Th remainder of the th descent was continued In the th other el el- el elvator vator el-vator vator which was similarly test tested d da a few tew moments later According to President BIgelow every possible safety device lee has Included In the th delator ele In- In In Installation There Is even an auto auto- automatic automatic matic leveller tor for the elevator SO that It floats Into place at the exact level of ot each floor With complete Installation ot of the elevators another Important step toward Hotel Bicelow v com corn completion has been made Another Saturday was Installation ot of the beautiful light fixtures In the maIn lounge ScaffoldinGs ScaffoldinG's are ar be beIng be- be Ing Inc removed from the tho lounge lounce and lobby so th that t floors can be cleaned up In II a a very ery ery few days And President Bigelow Is s confident dent that the hotel will be b com corn completed sufficiently by next Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day evening e to be opened for guests thouGh the formal open open- openIng open open-In In Ing will not be b until late lat In March hi arch |