Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — LAME BOY WILL HAVE HIS OWN ELEVATOR IN SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

LAME BOY WILL HAVE HIS OWN ELEVATOR IN SCHOOL

Father Installs Lift So That Child Can Enter Grade on the Second Floor. Spokane, Wash. —Donald Buchanan, whose legs practically are paralyzed as the result of infantile paralysis five years ago, is about to re-enter school. He lias been a pupil at the Bancroft .School four years and members of 11 i s lam ily have wheeled him to school and nome again. Recently. with the aid of crutches and braces, he has been able to walk home, slowly and laboriously each afternoon. Despite his handicap, the little chap has been able to make his grades and has been promoted to the fifth grade. Then hjs trouble began. All grades above the fourth are on the second floor at tiie Bancroft School and Donald is unable to climb stairs and is too heavy to be carried convenientiyb”His father, James T. Burcham, offered to install a small elevator in the building at his Own expense, and the School Board consented. The elevator will not Jbe public. It will be 30x36-inches, with a carrying power of 50 pounds. Mrs. Burcham and E, Clyde Miller, principal of the school, will have the only keys.