The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-10


time for a decision by the county COM
missioners as to the kind of elevator to
be selected. one need not stand at the
foot of the shaft and ring for the boy
for a few days yet, because the choice
has not been made.
Commissioner Christopherson was to
have voted last evening, but he did not.
In lieu of deciding for water or electri-
city, he found something to delay mat
tiers.
A few days ago, Christopherson was an
electric man and Geddes was correspond
ingly pleased. He was certain Chris.
would come to the front, inaSmuch as he
had volunteered the information without
ing, Christopherson gravely informed all
concerned that he had changed his views
and was going TO vote for water power,
and the broad and rosy face of the mem
Der from Bingham was Suffused with a
smile of hydraulic hope.
When he came into the room last night
he was happy. He greeted Trent with a
cordial expression, bestowed a gracious
glance on Clerk Reese, nodded to Archl-
tect Dallas, beamed on GeddeS with a
satisfied grin, met Whittemore with a
voice redolent with triumph and stuffed
chicken, and threw at Mckay and Hay
ward an off-hand salutation. He and
Martin had shaken hands across the
'
and ldloWatt and why not be genial and
jovial?
WHITTEMORE FOR ELECTRICITY.
The conference opened with a statement
by the county attorney. He left this city
on trip to see Weary, take the plaster
of Paris corset off the broken leg of Mar
tin Hayken and inspect the injured arm
of L. c. Davis a thorough and consistent
advocate of the hydraulic elevator. But
after dining at the Union club couple of
times and indulging in a voyage of dis
covery among the various sky scrapers
of the Windy City he had reformed.
Electricity was the thing. 1t was safe,
economical and durable. He knew this
because he had visited the basement of
the board of trade and fitted up the
shafts of the Masonic temple; bowled
from floor to floor on the lift in the
Monadnock and been yanked from cellar
to attic in the Tacoma He had visited
New York and looked at elevators from
the Battery to Harlem and from Brook
lyn bridge to the Delaware, IackaWanna
&c Western pier He did not care which
company received the contract, but he
did want to see the principle accepted.
The question of cost ought to cut no
figure either. The commissioners should
see to it that a good machine is obtained
no matter if the price is a little high. He
would be glad to see a machine obtained
and paid for without the odium which
chung around the other appurtenances in
use.
When Whittemore had concluded, Mr.
Hayward of the Salt Lake and Ogden
company explained that he would furnish
the power for $50 per month, or 5 cents
per kilowatt hour, based on 200 trips per
day. He would make a. rate of S36 fiat on
no other elevator than the Sprague cleo
trio, because he knew no other company
could run as cheap as they could.
The balance of the discussion, up to the
time Christopherson addressed the ex-
pectant multitude, was between Mckay,
Dallas, Hayward and Mr.. Trent and con-
sisted in the main of a combination of
amperes, kilowatts, hydraulic energy, cold
steam, hot steam, cylinder heads, throt-
tie valves and electric hoists. Nothing
was said which would interest the public,
beyond the declaration of Mr.. Mckay that
the elevator in the Scott-Auerbach block
consumes. $6S in coal per month, accord
ing to the statements of the firm, which
shows that hydraulics are somewhat eX-
pensive at least. This declaration was
not controverted. although Trent cited
the machine in the Commercial National
as making sixty trips per hour each day
at a cost Of $4S per month.