The daily gazette., 1882-12-26
JOHN WAxzH4KEEs.
J0HN NWAxAMAkHHs.
TO-Day
Tuesday December 26.
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John Wanamaker's.

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Let's coin a word /; car for
elevator" The time is COM
ing when people will go up
and down by machinery far
more commonly than now
and shall they continue to call
the car in which they ride
down, as well as up, an eleva-
tori Turn about and think of
going up in a depressor! Car
then; and, when distinction is
needed, house-car. Railway
car, street-car, house-car.
We are putting in six cars
four for goods, two for people. |
| One OF the latter is ready.
JOHN wANAMAKER.
1896 Chestnut.
Before trusting human lives
in this up-and-down car, we
thought we would try and see
what would happen if some
thing should break and let the
car fall sixty-seven feet with
its twenty-five hundred pounds.
Up it goes to the very top.
A paper bag containing a half
dozen eggs and a glass of water
are put in it. In the first
. second it falls sixteen feet, as
every school-boy knows. In
. the second second three times
E sixteen; that's sixty-four-
5 what stopped it! There the
/ eggs are just as sound for
e Matching as ever! and the
water isn't even spilled What
n stopped it !
d d We forgot to say there was
St a selfacting brake on the car,
t, + to stop it, if an accident should
On happen. We took off the
brake. We wanted to know
what the result would be, if
the car should fall and the
N, brake fail to stop it. The car
.ps 1, did fall, really fall the paper
os, ,;. bag OF eggs and glass of water
sic in it and no harm done The
;" car fell into a big hole in the
ib- ground ; and the air in thai
Is, big hole had to get out, before
.sy the car could get in. Tha
IN en- hole is an air-cushion, or buffer
,so a. That's what stopped the car.
E., Now let's try the brake
the We put it on. Up the ca
iS ,iIs goes to the top. 1t falls. TIL
2s 2sd brake stops it in half a second
Of in a cars length not with
,eTs eaa jerk gently.
A maker of house-cars ono
M M,ar exhibited the action Of hi
The brake, and his confluence i
{ .oDl Dl it, by letting the car fall, wit
l, Ills brake on. ne standing under
ade meath. The brake didn
u the work. Neither did the MAJ
,n's ,, after that. Brakes do M
lime always work. That's why "
Se% S1ln wanted something to depen
My on besides the brake.
ing If our house-cars ever ia
,u,s na,ss : and the brakes fail to worl
1I rlaly; :; somebody may get bad
little scared by quick transit to tn
air-cushion in the ground; b.
eriy. riy, nobody will be hurt. It's iii
|; s{s aP. falling on a sea of feather
,del- Still nobody wants to fall fro
orei i a four-story building, even
] per- .r a sea Of feathers.
1t :of II our car should fall and Il
ctl ccr- brake work, it would stop
KiSst 1igst gently that nobody would ST
lrses, pect it had fallen. Still '
srEs, sH's' don't propose to have it fall
rious Ii,sr We have taken all t
teal a known precautions to preve
Ioase a'ase falling at all. lfa car sheu
y ,i1 in fall, however, the brake W
Cos stop it; and if the brake shor
innc5 nlns5 fail, the air-cushion wor
surely save any worse ha,
jn'9gs r. than scare. Our house-ci
!. h the the are, we believe, safer tn
ms W in street-cars or railways cars, "a
iorthy raSRy very much safer than carria!
e, e Isl Is drawn by horses.
tMs Tf 1o,, ooro to knn1u w