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THK PROVINCE, MViliiPMluy, July 5, 1072 I The rain washes its face Friends look after its hands and give it soothing oil OUR CLOCK if? mw find they're ft Story: AILEEN CAMPBELL Pictures: DAVE PATERSON The rain washes Its face. Its hand tuy tcniod by John Goodwin and friends. Gerry Parpuette anoints it with soothing oil a couple of times every month. And no matter how many skyscrapers they build around it, the flock with four faces on top of the Vancouver Block at 7'M Granville will always hold the highest point of ground in downtown Vancouver. Because that's where the planners sited the 15-storey building for Dominic Burns, brother of Canadian meat-packing king Pat Burns, back in 391 1.

Dominic lived and died in the penthouse apartment there in what has now become offices 1501-02. Present occupier is the National Film Board. The flagpoles on the Hth If 4 A ii- it 1911 the clock was built. Old Dominic Burns liked to build them solid floor promenade with its concrete pillars have just been given a new coat of paint. Kitiht flui! those of Canada, B.C.

and the consulates with offices in the block fan out in the breeze high, over Granville Street. CV 1 I ij A r'. Gerry Poqucrte, anoinrs the clock with oil CASTO CAPS mm PBPsi. not going to tear down f.i J-t 04 1 rj 2 I S.I 4 mm 1972 fifty When do you wash the face of the clock? "Never it gels Washed enough by the ram." Paqiicltc said the main mechanism for the clock built by Standard Llcclric Tune Company of Boston, Mass. measures two inches by two Mil lies.

In 1012 when the building opened, the clock was reputed to be the third largest in the world, second only to Big Hen in London and another in Cincinnati. Repairs? Use an 18" pipe wrench, long screw driver, hammer and a can of oil 4 Oj 0i 0i wm and you could win these lucky winners. 1 1 tin l.Ji-""f 4 in tJ I) I W- r. rfrf b-J- 1 fi 4 "1 i years on It was illuminated with watt lights for years. Then in 1030, it was all outlined neon.

Inside illumination ceased when the oil companies began to put their revolving signs on top of the cluck about 25 years ago, he said. An early picture (prior to shows cluster lights on on the Mlh floor balcony below. "Years ago when I was working on the job we were lold not to clomp around too much because it (the penthouse) was some bod ys home," recalled John Goodwin, now service manager for Neon Products whose electricians get up to the face of the clock about six limes a year. "The dock mechanism is just short of magnificent," he said. "The hig hand is about 15 Icel and the smaller 12 feci with the digits 18 inches long.

(Inly breakdown Is because of weather. A stiff wind will blow water into the electrode holes, burning the electrodes off. The neon goes out, "We can use the lede for work on the west or south face but for the north and east, It's straight down to the street. It feels every Inch of its 250 feel, when you're in a bosun's chair. "About 25 years ago there was a I'nion 76 sign on top of the clock, then Shell, and now the revolving Gulf, "That penthouse is the best view In town.

always thought the police department could have had an Interesting olliie up there. You could control a fair piece of Irallic from dial vantage point," $125,000 to call chess bluff Uy BERNARD WHINRAVB New York Time LONDON The man who put up $125,000 to call what he believes Is a Bobby Fischer bluff is on his way to becoming a legend in British financial circles. In the space of tiylit years, Jim Slater, 43, has turned a mere $5,000 in savings into an investment banking complex valued at more than $550 million. His personal fortune is estimated at more than million. Explaining his surprise move to puve the way fur Fischer'i world championship chess match against title-holder Boris Spassky, the London investment banker said; "Fischer said money the problem.

Well, here it ii. my message to Fischer Is come on out, chicken." Jim Slater An associate of Hater's explained it this way "He waited io long for tie match to take place and vas so disappointed when Kscher didn't hhow up. When he heard it was because of money, well, he wanted to pit Fischer behind the eight tall Another associate said: "He's absorlfil by chess, he loves it. It's intellectual exercise with him. He very much wantd the match to take place oecause he felt it would give chess a certain status In Ihi world of competitive sports" Slater payed his first game of chess It the age of 11.

The game faiclnatcd him. As a youngstet, he played against j. A. Hitler, who became British hoy' champion and later (Jew against former British champion Sir George Thomai. Slater' aim, experts here insist, is to become the world) greatest International finamicr in the next ten years.

A trlined accountant, Slater began; his career as a secretary with an engineering firm. He wis later named director of a truck manufacturing compiny that eventually he-came a subsidiary of Leyland Moto. the giant British auto-motlvr company, i Slak became deputy sales director and the associate of bird Stokes, now the corporation's chairman. In 14, with I'eler Walker, now minister for the environment, Slater formed Slater, Walker securities. The company now controls more than 2:0 firms around the world, and has a large stake In mutual fund campinies.

vi III' 'Architect Geoffrey Massey called the block "a great old building it and Birks provide a tremendous foil to Pa-cilic Centre npposlle they're not going to tear it down are they?" Tile answer is no. The building') sale either. not up for Play just like Catino Cap from Pepsi-Cola. A really great contest with big cash priies to be won, lot of fun and a lot of winners. Here are just some of the thousand) of Canadian) who've already played Casino Caps and won cash priiei $1, $5, $25 or $100.

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A thirteenth floor surfaced and submerged over the years. There was one in 10110 but it was gone by 1943. I'aqucllc says a five foot high loft for pipes is now designated the thirteenth level. Frank Farrell, nephew of Dominic Burns, said his uncle, a bachelor, died of a heart attack in 1501 in He was 74. "Hi- lilted jjood buildings," said Farrell.

"lie wouldn't put them up unless they were tops, lie built the packing house here in 1007 that took so much dynamite to get it down about a year ago." The Vancouver Block, completed in 1012, was erected as an investment. An early tenant, the late W. 1). Gillespie, a lawyer, moved in before the elevators were installed and walked up to his sixth floor office. "We've got automatic elevators now it was far better with the elevator girls," mused tenant James Malcolm who had to vacate his sixth floor hearing and optical office for the fifth when the provincial government leased all of six for court reporters.

"This was a prestige building when 1 came, in said Malcolm. "There was the Standard Bank building but this lar outclassed it. It's a place even now with its oak door frames, marble sllairvvavs ami hall panels. II was the finest building in town dead centre on the highest point of land." The penthouse under the clock has been home to everything from a businessmen's club (Vancouver Commercial) in 1015 to Widgeon Keys (waterfront development) in loiil). In addition to Mr.

Burns, (lie top floor over the years housed Vancouver Citizens' Club Hie Absolute (lOH(l); World Fellowship Church (1013); Mrs. llolrovd Paull, voice teacher; I). Stewart, music teacher; Argonaut Mining Co. and I. is Homines, men's furnishing.

Sculptor Miss E. B. Leiuue and painter J. W. G.

Macdonald shaied a studio in 1501 In 11)30. Other tenants have included an architect and a mortgage company. Doctors and lawyer and dentists have been steadies in the building since 1012. In 1050, the block was sold to a Tin onto firm by Dominie Burns' estate. Selling price: $900,000.

In 1059, It was purchased by Equitable Ileal F.s tale Investment Corporation Ltd. "on behalf of a group of investors." A spokesman declined to say what they paid for the building or what they chaige the federal government for its lease on the penthouse. Then-are 75 teiiauls in the building. Enquiries 224-3245 Above It all is the clock 22 feet in diameter in a 32-foot frame. Concrete ornamentation over the clock carries the legend l'JU.

"It's the most faithful timepiece in town," says Inng-timo Vantouver Block tenant Jamei Malcolm, (i8, "It was the big landmark when I cam to the block In l'Xiti and it's itill one, even though it's shut off here and there." The clock that once dominated the centre of town from land, sea and air, is now oh-seured from some angles by Me Toronto Dominion Tower, ft will be hemmed in more When Block 42's IBM Tower goes up. And still further if the 11-storey Bilks building is demolished, as proposed, for a skyscraper complex in the BOO block West Georgia. But two wide balconies one for the Mlh floor and one for the clock Itself, still afford the hest view in town to the building's chief engineer I'a-quelte and John Goodwin, service manager who has been will) Neon Products Ltd. since Hands and digits are outlined in neon. Paquetle said the clock's plate glass, pie shaped segments are three eighths of an inch thick.

They are painted white (now crackled and crinkled) as plain glass would distort, said the engineer. "It hasn't been painted for years." "This clock tower," he said indicating the space between the clock faces "is about 40 feet from floor to ceiling. This room (eight by eight inside (lie lower) houses the large shaft for regulating the lug hand. A reduction gear on the inside face of the clock regulates the small one." What about repairs? "I use an 18 nidi pipe wrench, long screw driver, ballpeen hammer and a can of oil," he said, grinning and referring to the big steel shall. ampler) cost between $2,000 lind $3,000, they )ay.

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