With the work thus laid out and with Lincoln to supervise it and an experienced crew to perform it, things at the mountain went smoothly through the summer. With one notable exception—the tramway accident. The tramway cage was a wooden structure—“a sort of Chic Sale outhouse without a top,” one workman described it—capable of carrying five or six persons at a time. It was suspended from large pulleys running on a seven-eighths-inch cable stretched from the hoist house on Mount Doane to the A-frame on top of the Roosevelt head some thirteen hundred feet distant and four hundred feet higher. The
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