The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21

Of framework of monster building which is to
house one of the greatest department stores in the
,u These ar, the oTders-fThirty days to top the
'sWill You do iti', asked the superintendent.
'We-hope to- was all he said, but his manner
of johannesburg returned after The hot to find
that their city boasted the completed framework of
new skyscraper They rather doubted their eyes at
first. 4 building much smaller and erected Just pre-
tion. An American firm built larger structure in
But six months is too long today-in America
Over in the heart OF the antique shops of Fourth
avenue, at Twenty.cighth street mon-dollar struc
of story week. October / the site rock
Goored excavation covering nearly the area of block
brick, building which twenty years ago would have
attracted thousands of sghtseers VIII have each of
its twelve stories steam heated electric lighted and
all ready for occupancy
stauds-and grows before Your very eycsF 1t is
STRUCTURE put up at express speed
From distance the conglomerate clatter of the
various building operations resolves itself into the
steady of blast furnace Near at hand all
Drays and heavy trucks rumble and crowd in con-
tinuous procession all around the baselipe of the
structure. AS pulls out another takes its
PIE i dop tnI de- JcrrirEs o
cTr ons tabea no In each
Of the two narrow streets n mounted policeman IS
some order out of the seeming chaos.
Derrcks creakng, cables wbipsnapping; str
yes and hoarse, insisent orders rise above the
dcafcning s'raa-taptap" OF The pneumatic riveting
hammers, Overhead white hot rvets hurting
ovc5powering confusion! So it seems to layman
In reality the whole operation is masterpiece OF
ordcr-oreg backed by speed! Don forget tho speed
He's Young Man.
''Organization does it, said the superintendent
but he knows building and his eyes brains body
* Now, lie went on in his rapid nervous way
''There arc nearly thousand men on the Job this
minute. They represent good many t:adGs-,ron
carpenters, pastcrers, rcproofcrs stone settlers
crete mixers, general laborers Each trade has its
sc po tho S'" pSsRr Ss the are RESPONSIBLE to
the loremen and the toremen to 9S ms EysE{ problem
nc9qcky too Sometimes & we use m meEapho3ss
tho most difficult problem. hard enough on slow
Job but Il good deal worse when the work is gcared
rcnt trade puts in the last lick your next trade
should be standing ready for its work
other way. Whenever it's possible we start two diff
ferent operations at once,
making an outside brick wall literally grow as YOU
building mp, while the limestone was being laid
on the second story Two days ago there was open
crew work between the two gangs
I'm other words . began ''while YOU were wait
No, no! he interrupted : Cut out the word wait
ing, There's no waiting on the job, That s Just the
point. We don 7 wait; we double up and dovGtaiL
Inside the little office a mou was scratching ms
head over q blue print The superintendent gave
said. ~ Just told him hat we q begin plastcring to-
morrow with hundred and thirty men, Hes
lyon can Il blame him. 1t is only three weeks ago
today that the last foundation was finished. In three
he has in which 70 plaster this building >
oh he simply said, 'That g going some. Vow he's
fieuring how he can do it, And he will. Tomorrow
They are the darcdevils of the construction world,
these iron men. Before the OF slyscrapers they
were brdgcmcn building their trcses at dizzy heights
ny,r rushing rivers: but this field their work
has lost nothing Of its ever present danger
From the time the iron structure leaves the ground
tbci- footpahs are iron beams their elevators
the ends derrick chains, their whole environment
mazc of swinging iron and white-hot rivcts 4 mis-
stcp means dcatb-at any time almost; dull eye
means manned hand or Iimb
COWBOYS Of the sky they called, and they
have many points in common with their dashing dar.
inc brethren Of tho plains, They love rnce and n
risk for thing
As big derrick was lowered 10 the street and lifted
,,,ou y four horse truc, I two mcu load ny tho
cablc hooks with coils of rope and cable and thcn 20