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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 8

Tho elevator at one of,.Sydney's leading, iotels' a few Clays' ago 'suddenly decided .to' irotcst'against tlio apparent overwork that t was being subjected t0.,; It clvoso a.timo hat would bring its injustice.under.the noicq of many, viz., tho luncheon hour. When t got beWcen two . floors ..it stopped, and' de-' pito all tho. encouragement and wiles" of he oporator it' obstinately refused to budgo. "o mako matters: worse,. tho attendant; esilained that ho was hot 'tho regular hand in hargo, as ho.wa's only relieving, that ho did tot. know very much about elevators,, and, it -an afterthought, lie lidded that it .was oyond his control.' Having given this waning, ho, advised-the miile occupants, who ro-' glved to leave the Icago by,, tho, landing, •hich happened' to. b'o' near, not' to persist i this course. They did,-however;-and imlodiately they had lightened the burdon tho ft shot- up, and then . stopped . abruptly, ftor'which ,it began'to bob .up. and down ill n aimless, sort of way, which did not tend a allay the foars of the nervous-ones. Howvcr,! when it got . near ono' floor,' a, nervous ii.lv resolved to take.her life in'her. hands i\ii leave hoi': priSori. This she did success.illy! and the same performance started over jrftin. As the lift sli&fc up,, and as it had tho [■rvoiis nno's sistdr. in it, she was very , much orried ill consequence,. However; matters ero righted in tlifc end; and' everybody' Imd inch, although a littlo latr ... , , " '. . •