Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-10

Inc AUTOMATIC type OIL Car, worked ny press
buttons and used in most residences, is one
| of the safest known. The electric witch pre-
vents the current from being established
while the doors are open. When the car is In
motion it cannot be called by another person
wishing to use it. If a passenger pushes
button to go to a certain floor, and changes
his mind, he informs the car by pressing the
| emergency button, and then the button or
the desired floor. The automatic electric ele-
| vator responds to you desires IN a way that is
almost human.
Electric elevators have taken the place of
the old hydraulic cars almost everywhere, for
passenger service. "Old," in speaking of ele-
| vators refers to no date farther back than
l1S7O Before that, six-story building was
a towering monstrosity, too high for every
day use. The new invention maze posslDle
twelve-story structures but New York's forty
| story skvscrapers were still in the air castle
stage.
! This was partly because the hydraulic con-
veyor depends on water pressure usually
| forced by plunger-a long piston under the
car This plunger mas 10 De as lohe do rloo
elevator shaft. which means that for Two
| hundred-foot building, hole two hunoreu
| feet deem has to be dug to hold the plunger
when the elevator is down. 10 dig one 1oot
costs about 500, so that the plunger elevator
| is ANYTHING but inexpensive in tall structure.
when the electric elevator was invented
buildings began to shoot skyward, especially
in New York where elbow room was no
longer to be had at any price. SKyscrapels
seem to have reached their limit Wnen the
Woolworth building-the worio tales s'i-o
was huilt in 1914. This 785-foot structure
has fftv-four floors It's elevators attain
| sneed of nearly 500 feet minute on express
| trips.
For some years the Washington monument
was the tallest building in this country at
555 feet It's elevator makes the run to the
| ton in five minutes, low rate of speed Delng
| COSMOPOLITAN
ter of the visitors. That is, in the WoolWortn
or Singer buildings office workers demand
high speed and rapid elevator service, put all
sorts of persons visit the monument and some
| hf them become nervous as they look up the
unbroken line of wall to the top. The SLOW,
steady trip up the monument is lar more
nerve-racking, to many persons, than the one
minute run to the top OF new YORK SKY
scraper There is so much time to imagine
how Won would look if you dropped four or
Ave hundred feet to the ground. AS a matter
| of fact the monument elevator is one OF the
most reliable anywhere. It's ropes are the
largest in the city, and rules OF satety are
carefully observed.
The newest type of elevator is the electric
traction. A single high-powered car of this
| kind with all new devices costs as much as
| $40, 1000 These elevators are absolutely safe,
| but their cost is prohibitive in many cases,
| and they are not capable of attaining full
| efficiency in a building less than twenty
|
| ing 500 feet a minute, but this speed cannot
even be approached when stops must be made
every twenty feet to let passengers on or OIL
| The head OF a fire department said recent
! " that a large percentage of fires are caused
| by trash in elevator shaftways, becoming
| ignited. AS it is against the law everywhere
to dump papers or other refuse in such places
there is no excuse for these fires. An elevator
Inspector says that he often finds hatchways
in which paper and rags are piled three rect
deep until they are level with the floor
Before this is cleaned out, some man gets
| into the elevator with cigar or cigarette,
and finding women present, he CALAMITY 1icks
his smoke through the grating. Sometimes
it goes out More often fire is started, and
while most shafts are made as ireproof as
possible by solid iron and glass enclosures,
still all elevator shafts are smoke pipes in
is obviously that if you find ourself in an
| case of fire. The moral for elevator habitues
| is obviously that if you find yourself in an
elevator with ladies and a cigar you should
hold your weed unobtrusvely. instead of care
| lessy lighting a fire with it.