Ten years ago China possessed only two or three hundred mnes of railway line in North China, Now she has 3539 miles constructed and in operation, 1285 miles under construction, and 4174 miles projected and sanctioned. Who invented the lift, or the "elevator," as they prefer to call it in the United States of America? In the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New lork, there is a memorial tablet, affirming that there was "erected in 1859 the first passenger elevator ever built. As King Edward, then Prince of "VV ales, was entertained at that hotel in 1860, hiß Majesty must have been one of the first Britons to- use an elevator, if that claim is correct. But it is challenged in "Notes and Queries." Chaftes Greville saw an elevator, at Genoa in 1830, and antiquaries have discovered traces of ana at the Coliseum in Rom*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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