New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
BIG ELEVATOR CONTRACT.
PLUNGER SYSTEM WINS.
Wanamaker to Spend Deer $780,
900 scith the STANDARD PIunger
EleUatOr Company.

The largest contract for the installation OF els-
vators awarded IN this any other country
has been secured by the Standard Plunger Elevator
Company OF this city, from John Wanamaker' Tor
his new store IN Philadelphia and his new building
in this city. The amount OF money involved is
over o00,000 II is noteworthy fact that the
style OF elevator manufactured by the Standard
Plunger Elevator Company is being used by yari-
Gus buildings IN New York and elsewhere Con-
tracts within the last year have been received
from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. IN this city; Tiff
sany & Co.'s new building, at Thirty-sev enth-st-
and F1fth-ave; the Trinity Building which is now
being erected at No III Broadway; the Wabash
Terminal building, at Pittsburg; the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel In Philadelphia; the large apart
ment house at Fffth-ave. and Fffty-hfth-st. this
city. and the Madison Square Apartment House.
Wanamal1er's contract calls for 10 elevators Of
which forty-six viii be placed in the new building
IN this city and sixty-four IN the Wanamaker store
in Philadelphia These 10 elevators win require
twenty-eight miles OF wire rope. seven hundred
door openings and over three and one-han miles
Of drilling; that IS. the total drilling for the
plungers and cylinders for all the elevators aggre-
gates over eighteen thousand feet a striking
feature OF this contract is the clause which calls
for eleVntors-elevators which the auto
mobile VIII be lifted 10 the different floors
OF the store. where they VIII be loaded and taken
20 the street again The new WanamRker store
in Philadelphia IS being built around the OLD Gtore
without disturbing the business operations OF tbs
concern. while the work OF boring into the ground
time without in any way interfering with the con-
structon OF the foundations for the new structure.
In this connection II is interesting 10 note that
the company is installing elevators at the Wal
dorf-Astorfs Hotel without disturbing in any way
the operating OF the old elevators. the places OF
which the plunger elevators VIII take just soon
~ the work OF boring IS completed. The accom-
panying picture shows the men at work with their
drilling and eKoavating machines at this hotel
plunger elevator must Of course. have
cavation for its punger equal to the rise OF tho
car; that IS. IL the building is 500 feet high ana
the elevator goes TO the top. the plunger must Of
necessity descend equal distance into the
ground. The highest punger elevator in the world
viii be installed in the New Trinity Building. in
this city where holes win have 10 be drilled rang
Ing between 2si and laA feet There viii be seven
az 2G feet. and the balance win have the nominal
rise OF l54 feet. In addition. there will be side
Vue-stratford Hotel in Philadelphia has eighteen
ssnv BSine ~i G his cfy vii have twelve eie
Vators with rise Of l85 feet; the Wabash TerIni-
rise OF Is feet the apartment house at F1fth-ave
ana Ftfty,fh.st has i've With rise o. - feet
four with rise OF l35 feet.
by John Wanamaker Tor his two stores Is The
largest IN the history OF the elevator trade, the
oeived this contract IS figuring on work which
sars and which NAV exceed even the big order for
The WanamalSer stores. An officer OF the company.
remarEaBis proeress Which the standard PIuneeP
Elevator Is making, said that. IN his opinion the
solute sefety. to the cheap cost OF operating the
cars, and the OF motion experienced in riding
in these elevators OF course any elevator which
absolutely FREQ from the danger OF falling viii
appeal 10 people who thinking OF installing
elevator service in their buildings.
INCREASED DEMAND FOR PLUNGER ELE-
VATORS.
The use Of the plunger elevator IS becoming
more general every year but there are few people
who understand the method by which Il is worked;
and II informed that the long steel tube. which
they attached 10 thu bottom OF the elevator,