Show Carl W. W Scott Subject Of Interesting Sketch Ky By To be an architect requires patience not only with ones one's self but often with ones one's clients It requires more The subject of ot this sketch Is possessed of that something more a. more a sense of ot hu hu- humor humor hu- hu humor mor to be bo envied Carl W. W Scott was born but born but wait a a. minute the minute the difficult proof of the event eventis is 11 something upon which to cogitate Early in life Ufe he accepted his parents parents' statement as to the time and place thereof The matter caused him Wm little concern until officious bureaucrats styling self themselves the govern govern- ment became annoying wanting proof that he was born at nt all and If so when where And the circumstances in conneCtion con con- connection conne ne therewith Fills Out Blanks They incessantly wanted blanks filled out Including detail as to color nationality nationality na na- etc Hence it became necessary for tor him to procure procuro a birth certificate I Ho He finally wrote to the capitol of ot the state in which he was born Assuming that an nn affidavit from an uncle In Los Angeles would suffice he sent this to the state Capitol wrapped In a dollar bill blU They kept the bill and returned the affidavit with a new blank for execution This his uncle filled ruled out and it was returned to the capitol capital of Carls Carl's native state Rules nullS Changed I But the rules had bad changed changed changed-by by this time three affidavits all on one blank were required Before Detore his bis uncle could affidavit any more he died not died not being too fully aware that he be should not have done so at such auch a time Carl made up his mind that he would not be frustrated even if 11 obtaining the certificate became a lifetime project project- which It nearly did After Atter four to i or five years of ot affidavit ing one summer bummer day he piled into the family car ar along with the family Bible and drove to the to-the the capitol of the state in which he lie had been led to believe he was born t T f Iv Visited s te Courthouse Courtl ouse i He d' d th the i ithe the county no newspaper and not In search of a record of his birth which birth which did not 1 exist exist but but ut for at least three persons of ot such Mintage that a a. statement that they Ute remembered his being born would sound I plausible They were either too young youns or too old to remember and his birth seemed or oT importance to the state I. I Rang Bang Door Boor Hells Bells ells So armed with a photograph of the the- in Which he was born from fram th the family album he started ringing door doorbells doorbells doorbells bells finally arriving at the very ve y house o of his nativity He recognized a stained glass door window remembered at the age of three The occupants of ot the house had resided r there thero ever since the Scotts had moved away a a halt half century before The couple remembered fr hIm a as the theo son He had two affidavits in inthe inthe inthe the bag So he ordered new blanks sent to Salt Lake L' City figuring he could find finda a third affidavit along the highway Not only did this not happen but he lost the theone theono theone one ono he had ha The Th husband went to the hospital never novel got around to signing The wife hunted up two old ladies ladles willing to tore recollect re his arrival on this earth In Kansas i Bo So So Carl W. W Scott was born in Minne- Minne I polls polis Kan Oct 17 1887 and can nil fill out government blanks pay Income taxes I and has all the rights and privileges ofa of ofa o a citizen of ot the United States It is 1 this struggle st st. to prove that he be was born to which Carl gives credit for forthe forthe forthe the fact that for some same four or five years ho he accomplished nothing useful His rather father was Walter Scott of ot I Copenhagen Denmark His mother was waS wad Smith native of or Indiana Motes l io jo Utah I The Tho Scott family moved to Park City I Utah in 1891 where Carls Carl's lather father was secretary of o several mining companies including the Anchor An or Quincy and Silver SUver King companies In 1902 1002 the family moved to Salt Lake City and Carl entered the University of ot Utah being graduated as a n mining engineer en engineer en- en engineer In 1907 1007 having learned his bis min min- mining minIng mining ing with Dale Pitt Jimmy Wade Roy Hatch and others who later made their mark in mining and ore treatment Scott is la given credit for tor the idea ideo leading lending to o the building of ot the U on the tho hill by his class in 1905 This has bos been copied by schools and colleges In Inthe inthe i ithe the west wherever there exists a mountain moun moun- i tain Claims Fraternity Record I At the th U. U of U. U ho he became the president ent of the local Beta Epsilon fraternity I when it petitioned Sigma Chi for mem mom membership he the he first national fraternity to that he became I come to the campus campus so eo the first national fraternity initiate in I Utah This he ho says is on a par with I being the first white child chUd some place I or other Following graduation Scott spent the summer Bummer and fall in Denmark at the they I homo ol 01 mentors to Salt Lake ke he lie Started as draughtsman for R. R R R. Kletting architect tin In 1910 and 1911 ho he worked for lor the Mining Machinery Supply Co On- and from 1913 19 through 1914 worked on the structural m design of the new Utah state start sta c b building for which was tho architect Becomes Architect In 1914 the firm of Scott and Welch architects was formed to continue until 1940 tram from which s date it has s been Carl W. W Scott Architect Many buDding bear the touch of ot his work Somo Some of these are arc the Salt Lake temple the tho Salt Lake Elks club South high school state training school at nt American Fork the town of Copper- Copper n for the Utah Copper Co and a hospital for lor Silt Lake county Some Somo important projects currently In of mf t design are the Salt lake Shriner hospital hospi l for crippled children Land and structure for the salt Bait City fire ire department I la In h Masons the Carl Car Scotts Scott's affiliations Include Mesons ld Mr ans the ne Shrine Sigma Chi alumni American Institute Institute- of or Architects Salt I Kiwanis dub l past president pr member of ot the board of appeal of city building code member of the Salt Lake zoning commission and the civilian pro pro- production production advisory committee for tor Utah Tries Inventions As Sideline a Carl Invents invents all all sorts of or thing thing even even ven patents some costing plenty generally his own money but occasionally that of an enthusiastic friend d. d For a hobby he shines rocks his favorites being the Utah gem gemstone gemstone gem gemstone stone petrified wood snowflake obsidian and agate He lIe polishes them until they reflect the sun with brilliance a greater i i than that of his prewar serge trousers He also does just to be beable beable able able to mount a few of ot the polished stones This he says is embarrassing r because if 1 a friend misses a spoon he Is IsI I I suspect Designates attS att'S Commander Carl W. W Scott S ott married Arlie Johnson in 1912 1912 his his first only and present wife She is 15 a gracious hostess and homo home commander Their home is com corn comprised of ot their daughter Dudley a a. son Walter and his wife Jayne Chapman Scott and three fine Of or great capacity Carl W. W Scott as we have seen is la a man of many parts Sundays Sunday's Tribune |