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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 PAGF ONE TO TWELVE PART TWO SOCIETY PAGE ONE TO TWELVE vol. xmiNO. m. 1 OMAITA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, M14. SINGLE , COPY FIVE CBNTS. Hoit Orbahans Heavenward Two Thousand Miles a Day 4 for nearly a quarter of acerr6ury mil '3M Is v I Hi ft mm m J V mi mm' Devafor Enl WOW Build I s lb' .S -1 l. iSf Iff, fam Corridor eUrticm T&ci'ftc Btff E "Uplifters ot Omaha" are .lifting Omaba"8kywaYJat tho' rate pt ' oyer 2,000 miliea-a.:daSr, -No, these "up lifters" arenot social, aervlce board nor yot th Ministerial vnlon. Tney y aro not engaged in. lining me bouib or Omahn. They are lifting human avoirdupois. They lift tenp of housandB of riien and women to the tops ot the-BkyBcrapera. , . , The "Uplifters" are tho 226. or. more elevator. conductors and starters of tho city. . There are. 162 passenger elevators in the city., They run so smoothly and glide so : silently th,at few people realize .the enorno.ust' work they per-, form dally and yearly in the city. ' . Tho passenger elevators of Omaha cqrry pas Kengers no less than 60,000 milesper m.onth. That is only a little over twice ar6undthe world. But then they are not traveling horizontally, so tbey would never get around the world even. though they should travel fo'reveK Very well then. Upward Js 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-uteadj- of dividing It among' 162 iars, and tho car riage would glide to the sun in. 125 years, and stop for a summer at each of Mercury and Venus.. With a less ambitious " load of tourists, the carriage Would travel to the moon three time3 each year and stop every thirty 'feet of tho way tc lot pass6nger8 on and off.- - ' . It would' sweep around the world . qyery ' two weeks and stop sir times to every city ' block ot, the way. ' . , .' . The steel -cable used in passenger elevatow alone in tho city, approximates. 180,000 feeti. "Ex tended 'In a, straight line it would 'reach from Omaha- to Fremont. ' ' ' No, there .is not so much guesswork about these figures. For tho largo skyscrapers, such a the Woodmen of the World building, for example,' have meters attached to the elevator .mechanism ' nn the eighteenth floor" tbatkeepa accurate ac count of tho distance traveleSby each ot the ! six elevajors In the bulldiarapfot only does thfir express.the distance in tai3XtaU expresses It In- miles. TO oi oniy aoes u but frpm'week to week. to year Your can ste thumb gjer the glass' dfigtfonreter, and. read at any time tho total number of miles a- given ele vator inftho Woodmen offihe World' building, has travoled from the day (he building was finished J. K Silver 3Cond oldest man. 1 1 Ml 1 ji ,--i ' , am Corridor tty Witt Banh tildfr 4 Cburtfy Court House Charles J FiliGefald; TroaA Local E C 'ower pi a ni lot (zlev&to r Passenger" "El&vxtbra n fiee tfuddtncj to the 'moment you rub. the 'dust from the glass 'wjth' y.cjur ' thumb. . ' How. many people dally ride the elevators to each take on between 0,000 and 10,000 passengers in the course ot an averago day. These are often duplicates, if one takes Into consideration tho rdifrom day to day, itHfto month, and year Ftfeat room, rub your Nation. The savage in the Jungles moved out to wider arid greener fields when he wanted a place, to pltch 'hla tent, or a shado tree under which .to manufacture his .arrow heads. But modern manu facture and Industry depends upon railroads to 'carry Uu goods from place to. place where they can be "sold. Railroads center in the cities. ' So the -cities must build and keep, as close to tho their work- in the sk;y is a, nioro difficult problem. ' great floor traffic. A man may go up four floors, center, or theso arteries ot trarric as pospiuie. jt ' Tab'u'fatlbris are', made by1, building managers "in b(op a 'half hour, stop into an elevator andjgo up .;i;this that has mad? it necessary for the clyil eorne of the large buildings on averago' daya " fiome more. Later' ho 'steps in ' ftnd -conies down t i?ed -men, to spread their cities upward as well as . tipirtlcnilv. Even this Is Indefinite. For.-one a few floors and again stops, and so on If he laterally.- And, it is tljls skyward spreading ot person may ride an. elevator up ahd 'down' in the ' 'is counted evory time ho enters on elevator , car- cities. that, hasmado the skyward traffic noces- riage, and every ot.hor man tnat aoes tno sama sary. m the city Is -counted, u is saie to, say marine Tt hmi nnHonrn in h an elevator conductor. Theiman who, thinking about the dol lars ho'. Is going to make, is always forgetting at which floor ho wishes to stop. He does not tell This up-and-down traffic came only with civil--, the-" conductor until the 'car has run past somo same building, many times in the sameday. It is estimated, .however, that as many passengers an there ,'aro people in Omaha are dally lifted high into the alf by these elevators and again brought down safely to earth, where they live. The elevators in two of Omaha's big buildings ld2' elevators haul, perhaps more than the entire population 'of Omaha in the up-andlown- traffic in the course of a day. halt dozen feet. Then he calls out in a loud V!C6: ; . "rilne wloa nine'." . Thon -the conductor, tknowlng all tho sweai words in tho American vocabulary, but swallow ing' them down, stOps the car, and 'reverses it gently until horeajThes. 'the ninth floor. When the thoughUeis. passenger, with his mind on the dollars, gets off, the conductor somotinies slania the, door a little .harder than ho ordinarily does, just to give vent to a little ot his wrath. Surely no one should lose bis temper at a. little thing like that. For it occurs only about fifteen times per trip in a sixteen-story building. Surely no one sbpuld get angry at a little thing liko. that, especially when the conductor make) only a little over 300 trlpB a day. 'Three hun dred times some eight absent minds Is only 2,400 (Continued on Page Eleven) .