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Show HE WILL WLD UP THE CLOCK." Which Had Stopped Short, Not to Go Again, for the Want of S25. A large crowd of the curious stood congregated con-gregated about Jennings' corner on Main and First South streets all day on account of several carpenters erecting a scaffold there and the report about town that J. S. Jensen would "wind the clock" in the face of the City Council, government prosecution and a horde of marshals. As almost everybody knows, the tower clock at the Emporium corner was purchased some ten years ago by the Z. C. M. I. Co-op., but when that institution removed to their present quarters, Mr. Jennings retained the time-piece by reason of its being a part of the building, which had been damaged somewhat by the putting of the works in the store and under the corner wall. As long as Mr. Jennings occupied the Emporium Em-porium corner this public accommodation was always kept in perfect condition, which not only regulated a thousand clocks and watches about town, but kept street-cars, hacks, meals, and pretty much everything excepting old Sol, in "proper I running order. When the present incumbent leased the store in which the mechanical life of the time piece is stationed, the clock stopped and the hands refused to move. For a long time the indexes pointed to twenty minutes past 3 o'clock, which caused many mistakes and jokes at the expense of the thoughtless passer-by. Some three months ago a country runaway team came tearing down Main street andj in colliding with the iron pedestal upon which rests the crowning head, the internal works received a shock which jumped the paralyzed hands to a quarter past 4 o'clock, where they again rested for several weeks, during which time the cit.V fat.hprs rlplihAraorl witli a noti'tmn. ing public as to the advisability of expending ex-pending $25 a year in keeping such a public benefactor in good running order. The clock is one of the very best make, and cost in New York City about one thousand dollars, with an additional outlay of nearly as much more for transporting tran-sporting and putting it in its present position. The mechanism which works the indicators on the dial by means of under ground rods not less than 25 feet in length, is encased within the store. A 20-foot well is dug underneath the works for the enormous weight to drop into. Mr. Jensen, of Swaner & Co.'s, who has char- of the Ogden and Salt Lake Citv Hall clocks, has been engaged through some enterprising source to put the tower clcck in order for $25, and to keep it in shape for a like sum for the year. |
