[Ads-l] ascending room

[George Thompson]

I.e., elevator.  Not in the OED.

Reached Philadelphia at noon, and proceeded to Continental Hotel, in
Chesnut-street,
which is the same as Broadway, in New York.  On taking beds, seated
ourselves in an ascending room, around which were crimson-cushioned sofas.  On
reaching the sixth story, a door was opened, and we walked out to a passage
about 15 feet wide, carpeted and along to 265 room, fitted up with marble
washstands, chest of drawers, wardrobe, gas, &c.  Went down to supper by
five flights of marble stairs.

TRIP IN THE GREAT EASTERN.
>From the Log of an Australian.]
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), October 15, 1862

This is from a new database released by the National Library of Australia,
giving digitized articles from Australian newspapers and other sources.
Trove
https://trove.nla.gov.au/

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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