The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-05
EUROPEAN HOTEL LIFTS.
NOT NAM TO FIyD THEM. BUr NO
FUN ~ USING THEM

A Travellers ESpcrisnce On the Continent
Elevator, That 60 Up Hut not Dowr
| in tb, Ordinary ssnss-Automatic Con.
| triysnces Duties of Elevator Boys
Lift Asccnscur IItt" When one passe.
OF, OF a railroad station on the Continent and
faces the line OF hotel omnibuses that are backed
before the door 10 seize him, bag and baggage
and whlak him away 10 experience foreign hotel
lIfe-thcse are the words most likely TO he seen.
They will he written large and entcingly on
the back Of nearly every omnibus Afterwards
they recur often to his mind. They haunt his
dreams when he ~ tired: they will suitably voice
his hopes when he returns from Sightseeing;
they will be his hotels las, hooking words when
! he departs For the foreign hostelry, whatever
! it's other cScccnces is weak In elevators And
this applies mainly to the first class. high priced
hotels the ones that sends buses To the trains,
for few Of the others make 80 much as prctenco
/ Ia having any
one may even fancy. after some experience,
/ a forbddlng portcnt In this disregard on the ON
! nlbls II the American term and tho use Instead
! Of tho English word. lift" That suggests un-
| natursl STAINING And AZ bad, IL the French,
: 'ascenscur" which has. In its very sound, some
! thing that Is weak and inadequate TO the occa-
| sion The combine alton on the back Of the omnl.
! bus ~ doubtless meant u assert fact In a
cosmopolitan way. Instead II pictures an interna-
tlonal appeal. LIZ Ascenseur. lat" oh. why
can't you iIn? Be an elevator" That is the
! wny the European tourist learns To finish the
phras-
Some earlier experience In travel on tho Con.
! tln,nt had made a traveller suspicious OF tho
! prorIsrs Of AN "nscenssur" by foreign hotels,
and ~ when no went again. he took notebook
and wrote down in /, description Of the different
! I, In
| In typical foreign cities This then. il q true
! history Its record IL no reflection on the hotels
! visited because they were az we'll provided as
A mi. as any other in the place. Tho sailing
was IN Bremen and the FIRST hotel elevator cn.
! countercd was in that pretty and busy German
! CITY The hotel was fine one II looked out
! on a lovely garden; but the elevator proved To
| be a small dark cell, which ctrpt 20 slowly up
the shaft In the middle Of the building that prob
ably Il rarely carried an able bodied guest moro
! Than once After the frst ride one preferred TO
walk
! From Bremen the traveller went TO Berlin.
! There was 10 he considerable stay In the German
capltnl and for once the entcements OF big hotel
were resisted in favor Of a hrstclass pension on
| potstammer strasse The room was on the
! fourth floor OF a handsome APARTMENT house at
the business end OF the street Passing through
| an impodnp arch 10 the court ono found the Gle.
| y,tor shaft there A card at the side Of tho door
| s.ld that the car was run only between 7 A NJ
and 10 p. NJ. on week days, and between A. NJ
| and ) p. NJ on Sundays The card. freely trans
lated. said run but Of course the elevator was
| 80, =, 81. IN do such , thtng an that Further
NV nia'o ~" wv 'ui e w -, a.. .
the intending passenger was Invited u mig mo
sc.,c.Iy NEEDED for N. doc, 10 IN. elevator was
49,, -, 80. ,.,s,,,, .,.. n A,
| always locked ana herc was mourning e'So '" W.
ukely IN have ring
| .r.,n md ,h.r again and the, p.rbsp- after
asan' a.'I ,,a'. III. Ts.,. go. n,iv an.
whiunR gteat umc walk. lnero was oniy oiio
| porter In the house. and the management Of the
elevate, was onIv ON. az his manifold carea Some
times. when he was very long In coming ne apollo
gized By ing you that he ION tho roof when
you rang the bell One never knew wha, was ae-
compiIshed up thefe. ou' " was e''uenHs some
thing enErosrins. On other OCCASIONS he was at
..' 49,, -, 49, -, ~, So ,,.,,,,,~, In =,
true foreign spirit he could no, be disturbed IN 80
rn,ss ,s,sn,.Iv A. rs, o,hs, ,,m.. h, wa, down
town on an GRAND and the bell rang In vain He
ha,. " S roold ,,., ssIon,
delay more than halt dressed and would button
| his collar while tho car Iaboriously assembled
And 1t carried only four persons-'hree' that ia,
besides the porter You and your friend might
have waited a long time and then lust As the car
-, 49,, -. III -, 80, -.
arrived TWO women would come ana courtesy
suggested that one Of you walt lonRer-or walk
From p.,,ip IN. n.,, sion N, mon.n, ma. =,
ou, ~, ''Ie H S"p y. "o""' was
ptcsnen. Inc piinc.pai no,e, McIs = Webers
| The elevator works modsfateiy WELL but the car
| Is small one; Is ighten ny an OIL lamp, and Is
80 ultctly wiuloul Nchiihlon ,Ilat IN uir long.
slow journey between noors u becomes ins'lf'er
Ably not Inc boy VINO runs the elevator Is at
me age when n. would IKE 10 be called a man"
| lie Is short and has Iounded chest which dis
| plays TO advantage uhe brass buttons on his blue
uniioini WIEN you e M ,hs car ne hurried
side OF inc SHAFT me something was mystery.
| Nhrn ne came Dack ana uls car bryan TO move,
ne regularly TUNED 20 the mirror, wherr he gard.