The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-19
Operator of Lift
Goes 5000 Miles
In Two-Year Trip

From coast TO coast and back
again TO tho starting point is the
distance Travelled lu her elevator Boz
q years. timo bv Mics Catherine
Jones. operator in the world build
Ing. Miss Jones has boon operating
the M since 'tho lfh of Dcccmbor
boo 1920 ana during that time ahr
hIs ridden moro than 600 miles.
Probably fow tulsa motorists have
Travelled as far In linear miles aa has
this girl who day In and day out
carries passengers up md down In
tho world building I'm her car. She
has no FbocdOmCtcr ana no need for
one for she always travels nt tho
same rnto oc speed. There nro no
traffic cops 20 regulate driving hnbita
ana they're mover missed for thcro
has never been a passenger ~ Miss
Jones' but who felt perfectly safe
with hor at tho wheel. And she never
has an opportunity for u solitary
journey for there's always someone
signaling her TO stop and t1ko on n
passenger. Just how frequent these
signals arc lH evidenced by the num-
bcr OF trips, on an average, she
makes nm hour-72.
Every time shc makes n round
trip Miss Jones travels 30 feet. This
Is an average of nearly two miles mn
hour. and 10 miles a dlY. She covers
a distance Of noArly 100 miles In q
week and I'm month N she had 4
specdomctcr attached 10 the mCChnn-
ism Of her car. n would register 3si
miles to her credit. I'm yc1r'a time
she has Travelled 5,072 miles. and
since she first began operating the
world elevator she has made a
a. u, IL
~ rough average, az Miss Jones has
sometimes run the elevator for SOW
cral hours Sundays. and only week
days were counted In the average
total,
Consider where Miss Jones could
have Travelled had her car been of
the ground gripper variety and she
could have iourucycd under open
sky instead of under roof. In lcss
than four months time she could
have been seeing the sights of san
Francisco or gllmpsng the wild
waves of the peaceful Pacific. In
about the same length OF timo she
might have found herself In the
midst OF tho bright lights and gay
sights OF Broadway In III old Now
York, or could have stepped from
her car into tho mtlst OF the brill
more than three months and she
could have parked her vehicle out
side tho white House and watched
Oklahoma's congressman ana the
other great men go by. Eighteen
weeks, and by magic known only to
the Little Lame Prince and his
magic carpet she could breathe tho
warm scented winds of wcll-advor-
tised Havana. About twcnty-one
moro months and she could be in
tho midst OF exotic Hong Kong or II
she wanted To get some place moro
quickly. n little moro than six weeks
of travel would give her tho privi-
lego OF struggling to keep her hat
on while attempting ~ cross tho
famous windy corners along state
street and Michigan avenue in Chi
CaEo.
But while playing tho game Ia Just
! suppose, why not suppose n good one
ana say that in q hundred years or
so she could reach the moon!
But if she were to make sup
/ positltlous journeys Ike these, she
would have dust ana dirt and Ciuders
and hot sun and cold winds all mixed
! mp with the lovely scenery As II IS,
| she has Just clean atmosphere and
! her scenery * people, mostly. All
| kinds ana sizes, from the very blue
| eyed and peach blossom skinned
| baby daughter OF one Of The World
| editorial staff men, who rides all
alone with great dignity after hay'
ing punched tho signal button. she
! herself personal. TO tho occasional
! celebrity who rides the elevator
like Clara klmban Young, frln'
stance And every minute that she
Isn't plotting passengers she's busy
She emhroidcrs and reads and she
knows that IL is most amazing what
can be done with minutes. Just ~
II is most amazing what can ho done
with 1i0-foot Journeys. 72 20 the
| hour