Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1916 — The Costly Elevator. [ARTICLE]

The Costly Elevator.

Elevator or vertioal travel for the average multistory factory, floor to floor, Is Beldom over IB feet, yet In traversing that distance, together with starting, stopping, and with the same loading and unloading time, we can traveliathegame4ime-ai^eq.ulval»ht distance of 100 feet horizontally. One factory manager, of an inquiring turn of mind, estimated In his particular plant that the oost Of elevator service, wages of operator, power, repairs and time consumed by men using the elevators, amounted to about 2. per cent of his payrolL—Engineering Msgs sine