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Show Earl picture of downtown Salt Lake City shows first South and Main Street known as "clock corner." t I at the dock on the cor- ner, has been part of Salt Lake City conversation for nearly 100 years. The clock in reference is the pioneer clock on the southwest corner of First South and Main Street. The clock was brought to Utah about 1870 in an wagon. The east iron clock, made by Robert Wood & Co of Philadelphia, is 18 feet tall. The clock was placed directly on the corner by Mayor William Jennings early in the 1870s. The "old clock played a part in romance. Some young men wanted to play a joke on Arthur Pryor, a famous musician in Sousas Band, who had taken a fancy to charming Maude Russell. The young fellows sent a note to Arthur, "Meet me at the clock, and signed it Maude. All aglow with eagerness, Arthur showed up and waited two hours while the jokers watched and snickered. Miss Russell found out about the prank and amid the explanations that followed a romance began and Mr. Pryor and Miss Russell were married. The early clock works were driven by a water wheel, according to Joseph Bowd, retired employe of Zions bank. A tunnel was dug under the building and a stream of water diverted from city creek canyon to diive the water wheel which in turn ran the clock works, he said. Later the water power was replaced with a spring drive. I can remember winding the springs, four large ones that ran the clock for five days, Mr. Bowd said. "When the spring drive was abandoned for wet cell batteries it was my job to see that the clock didnt run down as the batteries got old, Mr. Bowd continued. About every six months I would call Charles Spahr at Western Union and he would come over and change the solution in the wet cells. He would come in at eight in the evening and work until after midnight. I had to stay right there because the cells were kept in the basement of the bank, down where the vault was, Mr. Bow'd explained. in By 1912 a master clock was installed the bank and the old clock was connected to the master works ft may have been at this time that the original works were replaced by International Business Machine gears. For many years IBM serviced the Continued on page U B 'if r ;i I !( t i ( i A A The clock had not been erected in 1868 when these Indians posed in front of Jenning's Emporium, the first ZCMI store. ll meet you n t S 1 h 0 |