The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-10-30
CONCERNING LADDERS.
These convenienees Are Made IN
Large NaFietF-some OF the
Modern Notifications.

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Time has worked changes Ia ladders.
a. IN all things else, Great improve
ments have been MADE. The step lad
der. which isnow very commonly used,
5 in all the larger sizes made Of a skel-
sion construction. The modern Amer
lean step ladder Is, indeed, In its way
eminently characteristics combining
lightness, slightness, with economy Of
material, says the New York sun.
OF the old familiar. straight ladder,
with two continuous side pieces and
rungs between, called a pole ladder,
because the two sidepieoes are made OF
the two halves of a spruce pole split
Tor that purpose. there are fewer in
use than formerly. This is especially
true OF the larger sizes. The change
is due 20 the introduction and wide
spread use Of hoisting machines, and
also In some measure TO the increased
use OF swinging scaffolds by painters
these scaffolds. however, being made
by the ladder manufacturers. In the
old days when the hodcarrier climbed
the front OF the building rs its walls
went up, with the hod upon his shout
der, long ladders, 80 feet or there
abouts. were in common use. Now,
comparatively few such ladders are
used. Ladder manufacturers make and
keep always IN stock pole ladders ten
TO s2 feet in length, which would in
clude the sizes In demand now. Such
ladders are used now by painters and
masons and carpenters, and also in
There are sold, nowadays, especially
IN cities, many more sectional ladders
han formerly. One of these, the win
Low cleaners ladder, with its peculiar
iapering top section, made to fit over
rest against the corner bar of a
window frame, is practically a new lad
Ter within ten years. Within that
ime, too, window cleaning has come to
a trade followed to such an ex-
ent that the window cleaner himself,
going to or from his work with his
bucket in one hand and his jointed lad
ser on his shoulder, is no longer an
unusual sight.
There are, however, other jointed
n sectional ladders that are used
n much larger number and those are
ectional ladders that are patented.
'ome are made in two and some in a
number of sections, which nest
ogether when the ladder is not in use.
he sections are made to be set up
ito ladders of various lengths, gen
IS feet and, upward. Sectional
ldders are used by timers and paint.
RS and sign hangers and others. Lad
ers of this kind can be conveniently
arried on a wagon. There is another
ort of folding ladder that is, as it has
ing been, in common use for the spe.
al purposes for which it is designed
is a ladder in two sections hinged
)gether at one end. In use this lad
ar is opened out at the ends not
to stand upon the floor in the
'rm of an inverted v. Two such lad.
RS thus standing are used together,
anks being laid between them, the
IDS of the pSanks resting upon the
lngs of the ladders, the planks form
g a platform to stand upon. Such \
dders are used by plasterers and !
and decorators. This kind of I
lding ladder is made in various !,
Of eight to 20 feet.
There are in New York city a number 6
manufacturers who sell many thou g
nds of ladders annually. q
W0MEN I'M OT "