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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1914)
The Omaha Sunday Bee PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGT ONE TO TWELVE PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO TWELVE VOL. XLLII NO. 3 Hoit Orphans Heavenward Two nor yot xnesini8ienwaiuu. mej- r. iHiHi,it HoBf . . " r r n i 11 rr " 1 r r nrniim 1 rir nww i mmn wmi 1 aro not engaged in. littiijg the souls They are lifting human avoirdupois. of Omaha. They lift tens of Jhousands of' men and women to the tops Qf4heBkyscrapers. . , . , . The "Uplifters" are the 225. or more elevator .' conductors and starters of the city, . There are 162 passenger elevators In the city. They run so smoothly .and fglfde?so , silently th,at few people realize .the enormous, work they per-, form dally . and yearly in tho city. ' The passenger elevators of Omaha carry pas sengers no loss than 60,000 miles j?er month. That Is only a little over twice around the world. But then they are not traveling horizontally, bo they -would never get around the world even, though they should travel forever! 'Very well then,, Upwardls their, course. In a perpendicular .direction 'do these silent carriages speed passengers' a distance of" 720,000 miles in a year. -. . 4 ' Put all this motion into one straight line Jn steady of dividing 'it among" 162 cars, and tho car riage would glide to tho sun in. 1,25 years, and stop for a summer at oach of Merctfry and Venus.. With a less ambitious " load of' tourists, the carriage' would travel to the moon three tlme3 each year and stop every thirty "feet of the 'Way tc 'let passengers on and of t It- would' sweep around the world . qvery ' two weeks and stop sir times to every city ' block of, the way. ; . The steel cable used in .passenger ' elevator alone in the city, approximates. 180,000' feeU. "Ex tended 'in a. straight line it wbuljl breach from Omaha to Fremont. ' ' ' ' No, there, is not so much guesswork about these figures. For the largo skyscrapers, such as the Woodmen of the World building, for Maniple,- have meters attached to the elevator mechanism on tho eighteenth floor that keeps accurate . ac- count of tho distance traveled, by each ot the ! six elevators In the building. Not only does this' express, the distance In feet, but it expresses It in miles. Not only does it record from day to day, but from week to week, month to month and-year to year. You- can- step Into that room, rub your thumti' over the glass Of the mister, and. read any time the total number ot miles a- gl vaty in: the Woodmen of the Wprtd-iJfM' travoled from the day the bull OMAHA, to the moment you rub, the 'dust tiova the glass 'with-y'.dur' thumb. How many people dal(y ride the elevators . i . 1 . .L 1 . f A l d at - t -kJ Vneir worn- in mo bh. is a. muru ujiiicuiiuwjiie .Tabulations are. made by bulldingm the eomo of the large bulldinji-?Tt,ay it i periodically. ' -Even JTL " as person . may ors" and i LL 2 f h'Kh same wher!0 , ,,ea,n brought 1 . M SUNDAY MORNING, MABCH 1, &Z iO.opassenBers each takojv-ne 'Vj.oay. Tso are oftcn in tbtrafic. co, deration th 'naif ho,,. . ttH "V four floods. nt oibd infn - r ahd.go;up tt floor- W in is count. '' uuu a andcoiries ddwn. .ujn Btops, "age, Z"l en tor "1 J "id 60pa If ho and 'ft y oun ted I?"0' th8t 0 0 r car- same Xf'UonTt ZZt tthe'Vntlre 'e course n,. ,n th up-andSown- trnffln that tho 'course ot,a d up-and-down- traffic " up-and-down 4 fafic camo'only" with' clvli- 1914. Thousand The savage in the Jungles moved mii in wider-arid grooner fields when ho' wanted a place, to pflch bis tent, or a shado tree under which to Kiacufecluro. his .arrow heads. But modern manu facture and industry - depend upon railroads to carry its;goddB irom-place to. place wherd' they can he sold. na,llroads centpr in the cities. ' So tho cltlpa must build aqd keep as close to the center of theso arteries of traffic as possible. Jt Is this that has. made it- necessary for tho civil Ired men, to. spread their, cities upward as well an laterally.- And.it. is this skyward spreading of cities that, has -made. the skyward traffic neces sary. It takes -no little patience to be an elevator conductor, The.roan who.itliinking about the dol lars ho'. Is going to make, is always forgetting at .which floor. h0 wishes to stop. He does "not tell tho conductor until ' the "car has run past eomo' SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Miles a Day half dozen vplco: "Nine whoa-nine".' ' " Then :the conductor, knowing all ho sweat words in tha American vocabulary, but. swallow ing 'them down, stfcps the car, and reverses it gently until hereac'h'es. the ninth floor. When the thoughts, passenger, with his mind on tho dollars, gets off, the conductor sometimes slama tho, door a little -harder than ho ordinarily does, just to givo vent to a little of his wrath. Surely no one should lose "his temper at a llttlo thing like that. For It occurs only about fifteen times per trip in a sixteen-story building. 8urely no. one shpuld get angry at a little thin llko. that, especially when the conductor make only a little over 300 trips a day. Three hun dred -times some eight absent minds Is only 2,400 (Continued on Page Eleven) 1
