Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — Elevators. [ARTICLE]

Elevators.

The following mention of one of the earliest elevators is taken from the “Greville Memoirs:” "Genoa, March 18, 1880.—Went to the King’s palace. The Klug aud Queen sleep together, and o® each side of the royal bed there is an assortment of ivory palms, crucifixes, boxes for holy water, awl other spiritual guards for their routs. For the comfort of their bodies he has had a machine made like a ear, which is drawn up by a chain from the bottom to the top of the house; it holds about six people, who can bo at pleasure elevated’ to any story and at each land-ing-place there is a contrivance to let them in and out.”