Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES S Pilots Elevators Now Now I Former Captain Prefers Se Sea to Ups S and Downs' Downs He traveled horizontal for 24 vertical for 22 years and then years and he isn't a parachute jumper cither That's Herman veteran elevator starter at the W Walker Bank and Trust company building Peper Peper- korn corn sailed the seven seas before assuming assuming as suming his present position when the bank building was vas constructed Ive soared high in airplanes and journeyed up and down on the elevator eleva eleva- tor or for years but give me the life on the he seas is the way he puts it was vas born on the Rhine in n Germany April 20 1875 and came cameo cameto cameto to o America as a youth of 14 years He was soon lured by the dancing waves and became a sea captain when only 26 years old Riding a sailing salling freighter he ic visited nearly every important port porton on the globe which he has encircled six be times In the course of his sea travels Pep Pcp has witnessed all aU kinds of mutinies and nd has encountered the thebold thebold bold jold pirates of ot the However he declares his biggest thrill came when he was shipwrecked 45 miles off oU the Delaware coast There were 14 of us on that little sailing ailing ve vessel el he related We Wc didn't expect ever to see sec land again acain during that perilous nh night ht when a hurricane started our little craft crait toward the depths points out that he came cameto cameto cameto to Salt Lake 22 years ago when his hisson hisson hisson son Adolph was transferred here on business Since that time he has piloted pi pi- pi elevators in lieu of the ships of the sea He resides at A street I and believes his position offers one onea a better belter opportunity to study human i S 'S 9 r r'S STr S r-r r TL Tr Herman lierman r i nature than any other occupation A f fellow gets gets' a chance to size up all sorts of ot personalities as people board the elevators he remarked |