| Show olleaUnkaribunt -il--- -- y!I i' tr- 7) IltAti) RFS 41LAN '' '''''' 1'2' ' - - LANDERSLBITtrAALLIIISTO I I - 14 i )' -- e 71 i J i - I i e' e7 3t:'rn 0101 I 1 I 1 et IP''' lEttIO 1 7i :r--- - ' ' - " —I d11111111111111110AIDAYISEPTEMBER7eSallEll -- - N c'::: 0 fi: - Even jobs that look wonderful can have a — their little headaches 1 Y 7'"1- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE tli ' Ia as - v1 -- : ': 16 :- - Is:' : 4flm 3 4 "- ' J' 'i1oe' ' - '4za1t J ' A- A ' It - ' ' - L4 - - 0 -- ? - iT -- -- - i0 i '''' ei 4 ' OW ': it - - ' "'' 1 - 4 : k "--- - — 'I ' titirn't - 041 Alp Al - ofr - 4wr '1 - work at 9 am and sometimes won't go home until the game is over Hassett begins by watering down the pitcher's mound and the infield dirt while Jason Burgess drives a rid ) - v — Etk - e -N4 (-- " - 4 N4 - ) c ' 4 ir ' - ' (f I 11 ) ' 1 74 A - i 0 t ' ' - - 0 11J WWII The Salt Lake Tribune The mowing smoothing chalking and the rest takes the crew about four hours After lunch they haul out the cages for the Buzz's batting practice then they make final preparations for that night's game If there is time they will mow the berms tzhind the outfield fence and tend to the lawn at the nearby fire station (The crew members are employees of the city's Public Services Department) "I never knew there was so much work on the ball diamond" says Burt 20 "There were times when I hated it when I thought I couldn't hang" The crew members are inspired by pride of workmanship and some friendly competitiveness Burgess 22 tells of one day when he was late to work "so they put Cory on the mower I didn't like him doing it He does a good job but it wasn't me doing itcan The schedule be erratic since there are no days off when the Buzz are at home (a homestand in Smith 19 dreams of playing college ball when he returns in two years from his LDS mission to Recife Brazil As Burgess heads for the outfield Hassett starts raking the infield dirt using two different rakes A final pass is made dragging two rope doormats for a fine finish In the outfield Burgess runs the mower in parallel lines up one row and down the next When he reaches the foul line on one side he starts the process over 90 degrees from his first pass to create the plaid pattern unique to baseball parks Cory Burt starts finettming Hasthe base sett's work paths and marking the chalk lines leave" on a typical day during a Buzz homestand Hassett and his crew start Fee- - ir 1k catcher during games p 1 : - " around the mound Max Smith rakes the dirt in the bullpen area smoothing out the dents where pitchers warmed up and catchers squatted the night before Smith knows the bullpen well In addition to tending it he works as a warm-u- - - fl jug mower in concentric circles h 8- - ) Craig Tending the field The outfield grass at Franklin Quest Field reflects the patsunlight in a perfect tern The infield dirt has a smooth untrodden look You think these things happen by themselves? "A lot of people think we got it made out here" says Tom Hassett the veteran member of the Salt Lake City ballpark's grroundskeeping crew "A lot of people think we come in at 5 o'clock lay in our lines and then 4 10 4 Hartmann-M- This summer Jesper Mouritzen shown here on the San Juan takes people down Colorado River El t3fVrA'IPM"q 4:: - — : i a1 s N‘ 1 -- -- ) — 7 tt-- t or - TeNA 44 4 g- a l-- !4 At Al"' - t -- 1'-'"Vrot-r ' t- Z14 411r4t 'Ess'471448- - opr 4 -- : :-:- rims Z - tr -tf---- 44 - - - 1 1"' e' - 't -r ' ' - t- 7 01tritirtiq' r: er n - a 'Nik y ''! '''' "4i- -- it i c ri I— 4 The air conditioning drones The machine isn't doing much to dispel the summer heat but turning it off would only make it worse The office walls painted in the tone so often same industrial-grafound in mental institutions seem to be closing in Just another day at the office Ugh As Labor Day nears the daydream begins — the dream of a different job A job unfettered from the phone and the computer terminal A job out in the fresh air or traveling and rubbing elbows with interesting and important people But the daydream is too good to last "There's a reason they call it " a opines Sure enough a job that looks like heaven (from the outside anyway) has its own pitfalls and petty annoyances for those who perform it But the people performing these "dream jobs" — groundskeeper for the Buzz marketing director for the Utah Film Commission and river runner — agree on this: The jobs may not be for everyone but the work suits them fine 4 ' 1 4 - IT I - By Sean P Means cross-hatc- GET - -- Ay 1 - —011 CAN i ' YOU IF 7 4 - Franklin Field crew chief Tom Hassell has 3 Column Job - 4it 4A' 11 ''- r i i i Ittl - - - N - Vrt C'' '' c t t nt 14 44 ' - A f A tti 4 t - 4 Net- t A 1- '11 i4c 1) - w -- 1 - s -- - 0 -- I ' - — I 1 k 1 - i D- - t ft i -' - e""' f ' 0 : ' i t Al 12-ga- F-- Salt Lake TrIbiza 4 -' Hartmann The Salt Lake Tribune Saundra Saperstein gathers the media during the Sundance Film Festival for the opening news conference held by Robert Redford background hand-rakin- g See e "sit-dow- 1 I A NATION OF TARTAR THE WAR HORSE With 10 years of duty sears from 3 wounds faithful beast sen-e- d Tartar's first taste of action came when Stewart took him on a buffalo hunt to supply meat for the battery mess Herds were plentiful in the 1850s and the sergeant was anxious to test his marksmanship — and courage against the celebrated American bison "Riding up close to a young bull I shot him in front of the shoulder As soon as I saw he was badly hit I tried to drive him toward the battery But he came for me and Tartar and that settled it "I gave him four more shots and down he went" The battery had fine steaks for dinner After that Stewart remarked not a day went by that Tartar and he didn't bag a buffalo or two for the regiment But by October Tartar came down with "malignant distemper" near Green River in what is now Wyoming Since the expedition expected trouble from Brigham Young who was being replaced as governor of Utah by another presidential appointee Alfred Cumming of Georgia Capt John W Phelps 4th Artillery commander ordered that Tartar be abandoned left to fend for himself while the expedition moved on Winter was extraordinarily brutal on the Wyoming plains that year Temperatures plunged to minus 45 degrees in November and Stewart recollected the expedition in one terrifying night lost 600 animals horses mules and oxen to cold and starvation When spring finally struggled to the surface Brig Gen Albert Sidney Johnston comunanding the expedition was short of horses and offered a $30 bounty for each stray carrying a government brand that was returned to camp Indians brought in the first horses one of which Stewart recognized as Tartar "They said they found him last fall near Green River and had used him all winter to haul tent poles" the sergeant told the Army well By Harold Schindler THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE This is the tale of a war horse named Tar- tar Tartar was purchased by the US Army at Fort Leavenworth Kansas Territory in July 1857 to serve id Battery B 4th Artillery He was 4 years old Being part of the frontier Army was not an easy lot for man or beast in the mid1800s and it was especially grueling as an artillery horse esthetically the Dragoons the Cavalry even the Mounted Rifes would have been better equine duty It certainly would have seemed more dashing In any of those branches a horse would be assigned as a mount not a draught animal But the artillery! The options were slim and none A horse likely would be chosen to pull a field piece and limber (its ammunition carriage) or a caisson and that was exhausting business in the mountains even for a horse Then of course there was the matter of being conditioned to the roar of cannon fire (Which did not include having its ears stuffed with cotton) All this is moot however since horses had no say in the matter It happened that Tartar was picked by 1st Sgt James Stewart to be his mount: "There " was something about the animal was So when the 4th Artillery assigned to that Utah the with July of Expedition duty '57 it meant a journey from Fort Leavenworth to Great Salt Lake City of some 1200 miles over South Pass of the Continental Divide aide-de-cam- t A '47" - i- elf ' REMEMBERERS 0:''" - By Patricia Edmonds - tn0 (5zz) USA TODAY The anniversary: a fond embrace of history or a narcissistic wallow in our pasts? A calendar full of cash cows for the memento trade or a way for Americans to meet if briefly on some spot of common ground? Ours is a nation wild about commemoration 50th anniverSleeping off June's toasts to the sary barely got you to July's 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and August's double bill: the 25th anniversary of Woodstock and the 20tli anniversary of President Nixon's resignation milestones 1994 offers Beyond those scores of lesser jubilees: 35 years of Barbie 100 years of Hershey bars 500 years since Columbus discovered Jamaica Leonardo da Vinci (475 years dead) jockeys for calendar space with Donald Duck (60 years on media-lighte- ztia d film) 1114011- s For Americans dates "has become a kind of obsession" says chronicler Jane Stern Who better to dissect obsessions than Sigmund Freud —were we not now marking the 55th anniversary of his death? Each generation feels distinct anniversarial pangs FDR's death is to Grandma what JEK's death is to baby boomers and neither of them deeply moves Junior Still some commemorations cross age lines In 1993 25 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr many mourned again of the Encyclopedia of Pop CulStern ture has no quarrel with true milestones But she fears America — in this 50th year of Smokey Bear this 75th year of iceberg lettuce — has become a land of commemorating fools "This has mushroomed" she says "to the point that I just want to scream 'I DON'T CARE what anniversary it is! Of ANYTHING" Stern gets "25 media calls a week about the anniversary of something: Moon Pies (76 this year) or Spam CI See F2 Column 1 red-letteri- pop-cultu- Porter who paid the reward Phelps returned Tartar to duty remarking the horse had fared better with the Indians than other animals had with the battery In the summer of 1860 the field cannon were left at and west of Provo and the men of Camp Floyd Battery B formed into a Provisional Cavalry Company serving double duty as mounted infantry in keeping the mail routes open and free from hostile raids between Salt Lake City and Carson City Tartar's average work included 40 to 50 miles a day Then early in 1861 in response to the Civil War the battery marched from Camp Floyd to Kansas then went by rail to Wash-SeMaj Fitz-Joh- n e F-- 2 p ' I r01'91 Column 1 :v4 11 44:41111 re - 41 |
