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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 66, no. 1695: September 8, 1900: Supplement

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Supplement to the Record and Guide, September 8, 1900. TIS ELEVATOR COMPANY awarded the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the Paris Exposition for Electric Elevators and Escalator, and in recognition of the. great service rendered the world by the perfection of Hydraulic and Electric Elevators and Hoisting Machinery. The Pioneers in Electric Elevators. Over 15,000 H.P. used daily in operating Otis Electric Elevators in New York City alone. ......... VIEW OF WORKS AT YONKERS. WORD has recently been received from the Paris Exposition that the Otis Elevator Com¬ pany of New York has been awarded the Grand Prize and Gold Medal for Electric Eleva¬ tors and Escalator. This is interesting news, not only to architects, builders and owners, but to the general public as well. More passengers are carried by the Otis Elevators in New York City alone than by the Elevated railroad system, and when it is understood that in the entire career of the Otis Company, lasting now for nearly half a century, and extending all over Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the West Indies, besides the United States, not one passenger has been seriou.sly or fatally injured, the fundamental reason of the companj's success will be appar¬ ent. The history of this success is practically a history of the improve- rnents from time to time of the elevator, for the Otis model has ever served as a base for development. The latest improvements in this line—the electric elevator and the escalator—originated with the Otis Company, and the awards of the Grand Prize and Gold Medal of the Paris Exposi¬ tion are fitting recognitions of the company's unparalleled succrss in these new fields. In the last few years two-thirds of the Otis Company's vast output have been electric elevators. Their adaptability for service in apartment houses and private residences is becoming thoroughly under¬ stood. It is safe to say that already no fine residential establishment is considered complete that is not equipped with electric passenger elevator service.