New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-18
DIETING Up 4 HUNDRED FEET.
UHE FINE WORK OF THE TRIBUNE's NEW ELE
yAToRS-HOw THEY WE'RE PUT IN.

THE FINE WORK OF THE TRIBUNE's NEW ELE-
VATORS-HOw THEY WE'RE PUT IN.
man stepped into OF the Tribune Building
elevators the DAY who had not been In the building
before the old elevators werc taken out AS the
light winged car shot suddenly upward look Of horror
hasbe5 over his facs Gracious" he cried, gasplng,
WHAT'S the with the elevatorP
am a old-timer," be said when he reached his
landing this age travels rapidly for me. don't
Ike it."
The new elevators in The Tribune Building fully
four times as rapid old And yet
when the old Whittier elevators placed the building
10 1874 they thought be remarkable advance In
elevator system They had then the highest lift
probably any elevator in the world and excited much
the building to take ride of 40
up the air. Elevators going through than
two or three that time still something Of
novelty NewYor, and almost entirely unknown in Lon
and Paris. The idea Of making the ninth or tenth
stories of building attractive than the first
scarcely dawned the average real estate mind
in NewYork and almost unthought of elsewhere on
continent The Equitable Building then but a
Of its size and its elevators had excited
little attention The Western Union. following The Trib-
une depended upon elevators for making its upper stories
attractive, either bought II impiactcabe mex
pedient TO carry Tough than SIX stories The
gigantic once buildings downtown which have followed
pioneers did exist then 10 the conception Of
architects SO far is known these oldashionei
Tribune elevators out the other day stood for
some years the elevators OF longest lift in the
world. Their speed was matter Of general talk
among business men, and led the to the intro
ducon Of like facilities in the buildings OF great
height which followed the erection Of The
Tribune Building. The old were never
slow although their speed now seems far from
rapid by comparison with that Of the new elevator
express They inadequate, however, to accommo-
date the almost endless flow Of who daily used
them and after years Of service in which time
the weary legs 1000 900 passengers saved
from laborlous climb. given and
better
The rapidly with which the make trips
enables 1000 passengers daily TO be shot and down
the shaft without appreeabe delay the landings.
and without their being forced suffer inconvenience
from overcrowding. The change from the old 70 the
new system was effected with much facility possible
The iron Of the ready he set
up when brought the building. One OF the old
taken pieces and work was begun getting the
new one into running order Immediately After the first
making regular trips there the slightest incon
yenience passengers the Of greater
sDeed than the two old had been together
Although only expected to lift 5000 POUNDS,
al test days IL from the bottom
the top the shaft carrying 312G pounds, in fftyve
seconds With an ordinary number Of passengers in the
car IL up 10 In just eight seconds This
immensely faster than the rate at when It runs
dnariy but full Roadway was given the
experiment Many people stood in the corridors
the car 60 up 1t shot past them swiftly that the
most they could a black streak, while sharp
rattle followed by sudden check above, ced that
the lightning trip ended almost begun.
Those who occupy Offices in The Tribune Building arc
praising the elevators although they have been
IN use some weeks They wondering how they ever
got along with the old