The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-12
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G. H. FRANKLIN,
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and court livery guards the electric lever
and the travellers in the elevator, all of
whom are landed on the third floor. There
they are ushered into a dressing room,
wraps are removed. toilets touched up, and
the charming butterflies are ready to meet
tneir male escorts and join the gay process
SION moving down the great stairway.
Mrs. George Westinghouse. however who
owns one of the most gorgeous homes in
the city OF Washington, has gone Mrs
Astor just one better in the completeness
OF very up-to-date conveniences Her
hallway is provided with a tufted satin
elevator on both sides. One is used TO
carry guests up, the other to bring them
down, and gilded baskets attached to the
corners of the elevator hold the pro-
grammes of the dances, music, or what
ever especial entertainment is provided for
the evening. Though so exceedingly i'm
portant on occasions of festivity, the pr-
Vate elevator is not for such Slight conve-
nlence alone and 1t is a commentary on
our American civilization that eight out
of ten of the private elevators have been
put in at the commands of the family ply
stefan. There is one New York woman of
wealth who boasts that in twelve months
she has not walked up or down not only
her own stairway, but that of a friends
house, since she only leaves cards at those
places where no elevator is provided
OF course it all depends upon circum-
stances whether the private elevator shall
be costly or inexpensive addition to the
modern comfortable house. Since electric
ity has come so rapidly into use as a do
nestle servant for lighting and heating. a
small elevator, capable of holding three
persons, can be fitted into house at an
outlay of about $500. II is Unanswered by
touch ON button, and is safe indeed. No
elaborate interior decorations come for this
price as, for instance will be found in the
exquisite little basket affairs that some
women use in journeys from floor 10 floor
of their homes. These are wicker cars. and
hold but the owner and a couple of friends
On stepping inside a wicker elevator, the
sensation is of having entered gorgeous,
gigantic wastepaper basket. The walls are
of rattan treated with gliding and enamel
paints, the floor covered with white goat
skin rug against the broad seat uphol-
stored in delicately tinted china silk, pill
lows are heaped, and the roof is a prettiy
woven dome of wicker with a cluster of
electric lights falling from. the center.
In the rear of the majority of the new
houses one large elevator is arranged for
the service of the domestics and to carry
up all the coal, luggage, etc, and tho tiny
affair used by the mistress, runs in shaft
that extends from the cellar to the garrett
BY this means she IS able every day 10 go
over every floor an the house if she is so
minded.
AT regular intervals these private eleva-
tors are all most carefully inspected, and
though among the wealthy their contribu-
ton to comfort is invaluable, it is the wo-
men of moderate means who find the grow
ing popularity of little elevators absolute
ly destructive to their domestic peace. Not
a whit less luxury loving than the mistress.
is the American servant, who, having once
lived in house where the stairs are
scarcely more used than the fire escapes
not only resents. but fatty refuses to hire
out in what she calls the old-fashioned in
convenient homes. This complication as
much as anything else has forced the fit
ting up of elevators in dwellings, the hum
ble-minded owners of which believed until
recently were the very models of scientific
luxury.