The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-03
HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS.
1e1ty-ons Built in this City During the Year
1879

IoIy.00o 6ullC In THIS City Uur1nX tn6 1ear
1879.
One of the most important branches Of
business in our city Is the manufacture of
hydraulic elevators. Nor Is 1t of import
suce to the builders only, but to our mer.
chants and property owners also. The
former deriving a fair income from their
sales, and the latter being afforded first
class facilities for storing their goods in the
upper stories of their large stores and ware
house, and the tiresome and weary task Of
climbing long stairways is dispensed with
N our hotels and business blocks in which
are situated numerous Offices. And again,
cur city comes in for its share of the bene-
At in the shape OF water rents on these ma.
chimes, which form no small part of the
Wa'er-works treasury.
II Is now about fifteen years since the
hrst hydraulic elevator was erected in the
hctory of Gould. Pearce & Co., and it cost
the builder about three times as much as
hs receives for it, on account Of inexperi-
snce regarding the principles of water
power as applied to hoisting purposes, and
the many changes in the working parts OF
the engine necessary to insure its working.
The erection of this machine attracted CON-
Ederaruiie u.,t.cc:..tion at the time, as this
mode of hosting was not only surprise
10, but considered by our best mechanics
q an utter impossibility, and was the sub
ieet of much comment regarding Its sue
ccsa As matter of course it, like all 9TH
sr inventions, was compelled to bide its
time, and come to notice through the tardy
and rugged routine Of q favorable introduc-
ton of its merits.
By experimenting, the weak and defec-
tive points were discovered and remedied,
and by hard struggle, and after much valua-
bic time and talk was expended, some of
our foremost and most enterprising proper
n owners concluded to furnish their
houses with these machines and thus rem
der their property more convenient to
merchants. As to the question OF success
the following list of machines erected dur
ing the years 1877, '7S and 70 will fully at
test: In the years II and '7S Lane & Bod
ky erected 60; james L. Haven & Co., 3d.;
: II. ]. Reidy & Co., 81; William Miller &
Co, %; Warren Warner, 81; A. Lanton, Z;
Gould, Pearce Il Co., 8; Neal M. Dennis, o;
]. b Mooney, l. Total 230.
The above list shows rapid increase
and proves the success Of the invention, as
veil o. the benefit derived over the old
style OF hoisting by hand. For the year
1879 forty-one machines were erected by
the following builders, in the following
houses: James L. Haven & Co., 25, As, ll6
and lis w. Second street, 1873 and 140 Wal
nat street, 104 e. Second, southwest corner
Of Pearl and Walnut and ia Second
street; H. ]. Reidy & Co., 104 and 1876 and
ISS Main street, l84 and 1873 Second street
S 4 Pearl and 81 and 81 w. Pearl street,
16s Third street. for the Stone Estate
Noa 80, 80, "a, SO. 3S, AZ q machines) and
a Vine street; Warren Warner, 65 Walnut
street, Cincinnati Gazette Company. l6 w
Third street, 25 Vine street, Ecksteir
Building, Exposition Building, northwest
sorner Of Second and Race streets, 43 Wal.
mt street, n Pearl street; William Millel
4 Co, 10 and q Pearl street. corner o.
Second street and REYNOLDS alley; Jame
l. Haven, l59 and 161 Third street.
Al the price of water Is Of vast interest t.
eur citizens who have hydraulic elevator
IN their stores, we submit for their perusa
the following list showing the difference il
prices between our city and other points:
fRICI PR THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER CHARGE
BY DIFFERENT CITIES