Show FIX TRUMPET ON N TOP OF THE TEMPLE I w h h STEEPLEJACKS WORK AT A DIZZY HEIGHT I I Arthur Smith Intrepid Climber Places Bugle in Mouth of Statue CROWD WATCHES IN AWE HE SAYS IT WAS MOST TICK TICKLISH TICKLISH TICKLISH LISH JOB HE EVER HAD Hundreds of persons ns who stood on tho the street treet corners between 1 and 2 3 yesterday afternoon with craned nocks nooks and eyes oye watching two steeplejacks climb to tho the uppermost pinnacle of ot the Mormon Temple to adjust the trumpet to the lips lIpe of ot the statue Moroni breathed bro a n sigh of or relief when whan he hazardous Job 1 was wall finished and they saw 8 W tho the men man slowly descend from their lofty lorty porch The trumpet was as Jerked j loose from the of or the statue when a n nitro nitroglycerine nitroglycerine glycerine explosion occurred at the Hotel Utah Just across the street t five weeks ago and it was to adjust and put it back In tn Its I original position that Arthur Smith an export expert and in Sn intrepid trepid climber was engaged on by Charles Charle W Nibley presiding pre bishop to undertake the dangerous task White While it required several days work to raise extension ladders from the roof root of ot the Temple to the tho bago of or the statue tatu a distance of 01 13 feet along airing the comparatively narrow and per perpendicular perpendicular steeple it took just Juat half halt an hour for Smith to make the trumpet feet cast in the outstretched hand of Mo Moroni Moroni to roni and readjust it to the lips of the statue Tinkers Thirty Minutes While crowds stood tense on the streets and watched the daring young man standing on tho the rounds of or what appeared to be a n frail rail ladder feet from the Ute ground with one am around the thin metal of or which the statue Moroni is I made while with his free Creo band he tinkered for tor about thirty minutes they shuddered as they con contemplated contemplated the result of ot a fall tan Just JustI beneath him on the ladder stood I Peter Manyon anUn his assistant and on the roof root were two to helpers J W Byrd and H H IL Jenkins J who looked after Arter the guy ropes rope rop which held the upper section of oC ladder In place The ladders were lashed hed to tho granite of or th the tower In almost perpendicular per perpendicular position po When Smith and Kenyon reached the pinnacle they looked like Mke little mUe boys standing out against the blue noonday sky ekY It required but a comparatively comparative l short time for Smith to adjust the trumpet by b bending It In the tho mouth of 0 Moroni so that It will be held firm against high winds wind To reach the roof root the steeplejacks steeplejack Were admitted to the Temple They Th y peered passed from the west entrance to the the elevator which carried them from the main floor to the eighth From there they reached the roof root bym by bym bym m an of oC a spiral stairway The Th workmen men were escorted in and out I of at the Temple by b John Lawrence en engineer engineer I and aDd his h assistant MilItant Evan Arthur Is n a Veteran Arthur Smith the steeplejack who performed the Ole hazardous Job has fol lowed ed the business bv lne for tor ten years H n Ile has hall climbed cUbed many maR steeples steeple and flame fla rIa poles pol on lofty lott buildings building but he says the job yesterday was wu the most moat mo t tick tik he ever undertook He lie df JAr however how Yer that he had no abnormal sensation when he reached the has bur of or the statue where he h first had t make mke his hla ladder tedder feat fast t by bJ lashing wIt win ropes rope rop Before DeCore undertaking the Job saM sal l 1 Smith 1 I secured al a the information possible Ie about the of or th statue 8 upon which I must depend 1 fur for fora fura a handhold I had I no fear Cear wh when n I teemed learned that through the center rf nf the statue there Is an Inch and a half steel rod from the base hue to the h hal al It was upon this rod that I While I was V at no time Ume afraid b cause CUIte I was WU sure of or my footing tooting an annot not net getting Betting geW dizzy I will admit that t wan w the e most moot dangerous piece of 0 work rk I ever over have undertaken Of or course we were well paid for tor our services The figure of ot Moroni is I twelve fr tN four tour inches In height and Is III con constructed of or sixteenth of 01 an Inch Inh r f copper plate covered with g i i lest leaf Jut Just before the edifice wi j dedicated in lit 1 I the statue w placed pfd on the Temple As A a r uit of oC many man of 01 the If light ht bulbs bulb at the top of oC several eral of or th tho towers tower have haYe been broken and a td d the services me of oC the steeplejacks again gRIn may be needed to replace thorn them th m 1 K try 4 zi Pd p W 4 4 t tic tico o v k w w 4 q 1 rii 4 k I Fj W a aI p I r J a a at ai t i it x r y e r s f V rt r J j jM ja v k M t a Ys T ai r re rl rm e l m a 7 3 5 f 7 a 4 I iI k c ce IL ILi e i w i lf Photo by J E Bush Dush with wl h C l R n Savage Co CoMAN CoMAN CoMAN MAN EMBRACING THE NECK OF MORONI Steeplejacks Adjusting Trumpet Upon Statue on the Mormon Temple |