been put in operation in any other theater and which would seem to afford every facility for the elaborate setting and changing of scenes without necessitating long ' waits ' on the part of the audience. Our illustration affords a view of two theatrical stages one above another to be moved up and down as an elevator car is operated in a high building and so that either one of them can easily and quickly be at any time brought to the proper level for acting thereon in front of the auditorium. The shaft through which this huge elevator moves up and down reaches 4 feet from the roof to the bottom
been put in operation in any other theater and which would seem to afford every facility for the elaborate setting and changing of scenes without necessitating long ' waits ' on the part of the audience. Our illustration affords a view of two theatrical stages one above another to be moved up and down as an elevator car is operated in a high building and so that either one of them can easily and quickly be at any time brought to the proper level for acting thereon in front of the auditorium. The shaft through which this huge elevator moves up and down reaches 4 feet from the roof to the bottom of the cellar below and the stages so moved are built up in a compact two-floored structure of timber strapped with iron knitted together by truss beams above and below and sub stantially bound by tie and tension rods. The whole makes a structure fifty-five feet high twenty-two feet wide and thirty-one feet deep weighing as stated by the manage ment forty-eight tons and having a vertical movement of 25 feet 2 inches at each change. This immense contrivance is suspended at each corner by two steel cables each of which would be capable of sus taining far more than the whole load and these cables pass upward over sheaves or pulleys set at different angles thence downward to a saddle to which all are connected. Connected to this saddle is a hoisting cable attached to a hoisting drum by the rotation of which the stages are raised and lowered. Practically only forty seconds are required to raise or lower a stage into position and four men at the winch are as much as is ever required. This movement is thus easily effected without sound jar or vibration from the nice balancing of the stage and its weight with counter weights which are suspended from the saddle to which the cables supporting the weight of the stages are attached. In combination with each of these movable stages are borders and border lights arranged to throw light down upon the stage and so connected with flexible gas
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