Show SALT ALt LAKE SKETCHES SKETCHES' e r Recalls First Job 1 Ebert t Aveson Utah's O Oldest Typographer pher pher her Learned Trade in In England have ti tied d a w- w boy you your ur ban da Y cant can't f I spoken 1 by The t e English English- 1 t hom ISm he he ivas app apprenticed in an i year 70 the active career ft Aveson Utah s oldest 1 York England I Mr Aveson h has in k i i he be haSn't fh the past two doa spry spry job says Ofu v i T r tor l-tor mans man's on any kind bl he rel for tor r chosen chosen n ne A- A of e s. s the of 1 lice X e a reho lo to a bell beU Q rife die signed the indenture n t urea p og him for seven ven years ears Mr gladly agreed to work for Wings sixpence a week That a mUi sum His ung during those seven sevene It e receiving th the grand toWI to to- llO-i llO a week at the conclusion B Extra Es A on OTI b himself neU gOd a sport his ei pra nv him an extra shilling n II for ifa graduation 1 were serious things t dui Mr ced d hi his employer was dead f r at nt th he knot knothe be he tied upon to conic cone to Amer- Amer committed the unforgivable t f running away from his job embody but Scotland Yard on his trail I Ile tee S to say ay they found me bt me back back in in deep dis- dis be he said laid id My dreams dream of Amery Amer- Amer y had to wait those seven c c at t printing In Utah W was done Old td S Salt Lake Tel Telegraph graph in met its owner T T. B. B H. H Stena Stend Sten Sten- d a New York on a day when vere orre er dropping dead like flies i terrific heat It was July 13 tubers f ft I host dropped dropped- de dead d too but buti he Mr i ithe the heat beat laugh laughed se e rt offered me a a. a job at 12 a for tor a number of it r the Telegraph on which was waar his his j i. i A to the Deseret or 40 0 year filar he was composing It It was during this thi Ef 7 r r A wr i I M x Y f Robert Boben Aveson Anson I I I period that the machines forerunners of ot the modern linotypes made their first appearance He learned to operate operate operate op op- erate them but rather unwillingly he admitted Alth Although ugh work was s simpli simpli- led fled by the machines the ibe printers didn't welcome the accompanying cut from 75 cents for lor 1000 ems to 12 cents Enters Job Printing When he left the News Mr Aveson became associated with job printing companies for whom he worked until two years ago Now he be devotes his time to L. L D D. D S S. temple work The two months it took him to reach Salt SaIt Lake City from the the frontier in Nebraska in 1866 ar are vividly recalled when he sees secs planes lahe winging overhead over over- head lead and motors motor racing along modern highways Traveling was as hard slow torturous us work in those day days Ive figured out it took me almost 1500 hou hours s to travel the same distance on foot and by ox cart that my son in skips over in 1 less Its than 22 21 h hours urs tod today he be said laid And as for tor weather and Mr Aveson Ave son eons memory memory- In all the 72 2 years yean TV rn Uv lived d in Utah we weve we've ve never had a winter like Jike this un one he said Once back in 1878 1876 it was wu pretty mild remember I-remember most moat distinctly Back in lust fust like that |