If Not, Why Not?

"Why not put in an elevator ?" That's the question. A gentleman wbo was dLscussing the matter of offices for the county officials, and incidentally "cussing" the supervisors for two of the ex-prosecuting attorneys $200 each for past office remi, asked that question wliile in tlie court house yesterday. Well, wliy not ? The aufchorities in other eities and counties niake all Uie rooms in their public buildings avalla ble in this way. Tliere is 'enough room in the court house to accominodate all tlie county officials with splen-did offices, and have several gootl omes left if they were only available. Tlie third floor of tlie court house has a nuinber of rooms that are jast as good as the ones below if tliere was any way of gettüig tO' them except by climbing many stairs. ïlu-se could be fitted up and the prosecuting attorney and the county cooiinissioner of schools, and tlie eounty poor commissioners, and the county drain coinmissioner, and 11 other county officials ha ving public aftairs to attend to, and public documenta to preserve, could tlien be given a place where they and tlieir documente could be found. It is but a question of time wlieai this will have to be done. . "Where would you put an elevatoT:"?" lliere is a fine place for that, connecting with all the rooms oí all the floors in a convenient way. Use the tower fipace in the center of the building. The elevator could be placed in onO comier of that and not obBtruct the passage way on the fiirsi floor - it interferes with it aowhere else - eno'Ugh to do a partiële of harm And the elevaton1 could run to tire fourth floor if necessary, and make some excellent rooms on tliat ilbor available. It is not at all improb able that the co-unty could rent enough rooms up theire by this meaes to pay the extra expense o; running an cl e vator. Then the judge could have rooms suitable to nis station. People coming here from otlier places notice that defect in our court house, and make questioning remarles about it. 'Hiere never was any provisión in thU great court liouse for the most important official in the county. In fact the judge is the man who has control of the building and all its alfairs. It is in liis power to order anything done or any iini)ni'ment made if it be his pleasure to do .-o. He is the ciiiei executire of the county so to ispéale, and yet no provisión Aas made to provide hïm with office rooans of any kind until a former prosecuting attorney consented to igive up his two little coops and turn them over to the judge. The fo'resiglit of the builders of the court house hould havO been greater. lint this is a way out of tlie difficulty, and one that would be wonderiully pleasing to tlie public. There are a great many people having business with tlie various county officials who fiaid the flight of stone steps leadiiig to the first floor Tery difiicult to climb. Tliis is especially true of many who have 'business with the probate office, and could they step into tlie basement and be taken thereto in an elevator, it would be a fehiiag they wotild most heartily approciate. Tliis improvement will be made iomc day, but Jiow soon, is n question difficult of answering.