Show Gone Out of Existence In this issue of Tire HERALD appears an announcement which will awaken memories of the long past in the minds of the old residents of Salt Lake City and of Utah generally It is that the firm of Walker Brothes has been dis solved In 1859 the copartnership was formed the four brothers who have since achieved fame throughout the commercial world engaging in the mer cantile business The middleaged of 10 day men recall the picture ot Walker Brothers store as seen by them when boys The store was an adobe structure standing back from the street on the ground now occupied by the Kahn establishment thej resent rock store having been erected by the Brothers in the sixties In those days the hcuse was one of the largest in the city and lit was a busy place also Prosperity attended the firm from the first its business kept o tgrowing the premises and enlargements and improements followed fast until a removal was ab liar solutely block necessary at the when corner the of now Second feat douth and East Tempt Streets was purchased and building thereon begun Financially the beginning of the fIrm was small indeed but in the matters of business honesty enterprise determin ation intelligence and application the Walker Brother were rich twenty seven years ago when the firm name appeared Their remarkable career which has been attended by success at every step and which counts as one of its achievements the amassing an im manse fortune is due to the qualifica tions and qualities mentioned above The going out of existence of the familiar Walker Brothers is like the removal of some wellknown landmark The Walker Brothers Company of which mention was made in THE HERALD a few days ago is the successor of the old concern |