Excerpt from Belshazzar Court: Or Village Life in New York CityDuring the day our elevator is frequently out of order. The trouble, I believe, is with the brake, which every little while fails to catch, so that the car slides down a ¿oor or two and sticks. It is quite probable that if our elevator boys re mained long enough to become acquainted with the peculiar characteristics Of the machinery in Belshazzar Court such stoppages would come less Often. But no serious accidents have ever oc curred, to my knowledge, and personally, as I have said, I suffer little inconvenience, since it is no trouble at all to walk up two ¿ights of stairs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.