Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 8 | Famous Chef Dies Penniless

Famous Chef Dies Penniless it Purse Was Raised to Aid Family Fam- Fam ily of the Inventor of Chicken a la Ia King Here Is ig the stor story of a stroke ot of genius which brought much fame tame but no fortune to Its creator Twenty years ago there was an obscure obscure ob obscure ob- ob chef chet tolling toiling In the steaming kitchen of the old Bellevue hotel In now the Strat ford lord In odd moments It Jt was his habit to tr try out new ness recipes delicacies of ot his hla own invention on the willing ever pal- pal s i nf or th tho un kitchen H helo helD n But the th u fame mn un H n u of his genius did not penetrate beyond hi his own small timan kitchen One du clay dav there entered the pre precincts of the exclusive Bellevue a n guest with witha a a. LUC reputation among the waiters walters in the hotel dining room He was a man to whom breakfast was wag wasi wasa a i rite and dinner In state art an occasion as solemn as a coronation And his appetite appetite appetite ap ap- ap- ap petite pampered with every form of culinary luxury was wearied d to satiety satie satio- t l ty with Indulgence If It you OU have anything fit to tto eat cat erse ervo It to rile mo he told the head bead waiter walter But ho he added dont give me an any of this Indicating with the sweep of ot his arm arm the tIre entire printed menu The waiter walter made his perfunctory bow and arid a apologetic shrug Give me use fifteen minutes he ho said He He- returned with the following smoking hot In a chafing d dJeh h h Small cubes cut from tho the white meat of ot chicken fresh mushrooms truffles red reel reeland and green Kreen peppers cooked In cream When hen the guest had eaten the last morsel he lie sl sighed horl He lie knew that he had hind done his part In iii assisting at nt tho the birth of a now gift from the tho godsho gods Who ho ho ma made e this he demanded Bill King tho the response He In works the kitchen The dish was Chicken a la ha King Thus was It born Gin n the twenty years that hat have followed that lIa tIny day Its fame has spread from sea spa to sea sea until it Is known cnown wherever men inen eat cat cooked food tood William I King who Invented the dl dish h died at his home In Philadelphia not Ion long ong ago He lie was 45 Iii ears curl old and had been since thu tho opening of the Hotel Adelphia th n months ago assistant captain of walt waiters rs In its dining rooms But for eighteen y years ars after ili tho in- in of at his Irresistible dish ho had harJ Jo J. J been In the service of the Bellevue and and Its successor tho tho Bellevue Advanced from the kitchen to the dinIng din- din dini i Ing lug room ho became bec during those years year's known to ever every person of consequence In society William Wllliam King died poor He left a a- a wife and ind four tour small children I Hotel men and those wealthy patrons of oC his hie who remember his excellencies are arc Joining in raising a purse purie to be bet i given to the family V