Show elevator making slow headway with britons jil although though the centuries old grgat great tower of windsor castle whose topmost floors ore are the repository of state documents Is to be equi with a modern elevator or lift as they describe it tn 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 tor for using elevators he never uses the elevator in the law courts because he finds that the exercise of walking up and down the stairs Is beneficial to ills his health hut but oldfield thomas a distinguished scientist who died a few years ago at the age of seventy four left in his will to install an elevator la in the natural history museum ne ile had tolled up two long flights of stairs at the museum dally daily for 48 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 then began to set aside some of his own money for that purpose A few days ago this lift was opened to use by the museum staff it was on tills this occasion that on behalf of the trustees lord IIan flan worth received it and spoke disapprovingly of the use of such contraptions by persons under sixty five nevertheless the elevator idea Is spreading la in britain now and then one still runs across even a siew new building of four or five stories unequipped with lifts probably because the old buildings replaced had none in the majority of cases however they are features of the new structures tor for higher rents can be charged where they exist new york sun |