Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1915 — WASTED A LOT OF TOUCHING [ARTICLE]

WASTED A LOT OF TOUCHING

Perspiring, Stout Individual Discover* He Has Squandered Energy In Pushing Elevator Buttons. On the eighth floor of one of Salt Lake's office buildings a stout man raced perepiringly the circuit of the signal buttons of the four elevators. “Why touch them all?” asked a thin man. “Because I want to catch the first car down,” ahswered the stout one determinedly, the while he mopped his brow and waited with a confident expression of having corralled the service. “But the touching of any of the four buttons signals the first elevator going down,” protested the cadaverous i«imi “Is that not right?” he asked the elevator boy as they stepped aboard a car. The youth answered In the affirmative upon hearing an explanation of the question. "Well." aaid the stout party. “I've sure been wasting a lot of button touching.”—Salt Lake Tribune.