Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-20 | Page 52 | Survives Four Generations Engineer Lives Many Years

Survives Four Generations tf & & s a Engineer Lives Many Years FOUH generations of the family of Robert S. Bult, pioneer locomotive engineer of the Utah Central railway. Robert S. Bult, sitting at right; Thomas J. Bolt, his son, rear, standing; Thomas S. Bult, his grandson, siU ting at left; T. Kyle Eult, his great-.sraiidson, center, standing. y- ' i w ' 1 - U A 1 . - -1 ture club and several friends. In a peanut contest first prize was awarded to Mrs. A. Crane. Twenty guests were present. Louise Winters, El and Freda Ras-muHsen, Ras-muHsen, Ruth Jorgensen, Iris Kasmus-sen, Kasmus-sen, Elva Seelj', Margaret Peel and Dorothy Dor-othy .Simpson were guests at a delightful delight-ful lawn p;trty Saturday afternoon in honor of Alice Seely's ninth birthday anniversary. Prizes were awarded to Freda Rasmussen and Ruth Jorgensen. Miss Adeline Brand's Sunday school class was entertained by El Rasmussen Tuesday afternoon at a social. Light refreshments were served. Miss Grace Mae Sample left Saturday morning for a visit with relatives in Ionu. Kan. Miss Sample, who has been at the head of the Wasatch academy music mu-sic department the past two years, will leave in September to teach in Alexandria, Alexan-dria, Egypt. In honor of her niece, Miss Lila Lee of Rexburg, Idaho, who is visiting here, Mrs. Earlc Seely entertained at a lunch-eon lunch-eon Thursday afternoon. Covers were placed for eight. Mrs. J. D. Simpson, Mrs. Hannah Bar-nett, Bar-nett, Mrs. Sherman Allred of Salt Lake, Miss Arcilee Barnett and Miss Eva Simpson Simp-son were entertained at luncheon Thursday Thurs-day afternoon by Mrs. E. H. Ericksen and Miss Kato Encksen. Miss Goldie Neilsen entertained Friday evening with a kensington and luncheon for Miss Lila Lee, "Miss Eva Simpson, Miss Fannie Monson, Miss Arcilee Barnett, Bar-nett, Miss Kate Ericksen, Miss Margaret Wall and Miss Gladys Ericksen. The La Chere Soiree club was entertained enter-tained Thursdav evening by Miss Margaret Mar-garet Wall. The table, holding covers for eight, was gay with tall vases of red and white flowers and red and white shaded candles, the same color scheme being carried out in the favors and confections. con-fections. Miss Ltla Lee was a special guest of the club. Pilot of , First Railway Train to Enter Salt Lake Visits City. ROBERT S. BULT, pioneer locomotive locomo-tive engineer who ran the first train into Salt Lake at the time of the golden spike celebration January 10, 1S70, has lived to see ths fourth generation of his family. Like Mr. Bult, tho second and third generations genera-tions of the family have followed the railway rail-way business, while the fourth generation, represented by T. Kyle Bult, Mr. Bult's oldest great-grandson, is yet too young to intimate a choice, of careers. Robert S. Bult was born in Somersetshire, Somerset-shire, England. March 19, 1S42. He came to America with his parents in ISoO. He served his apprenticeship in the Richard Hudson machine shop in old Goriclc street, New York, later working in the Neptune Iron Works in the same city. The Neptune Nep-tune Iron Works built and installed the engine in Frisson's "monitor" of civil war fame. Mr. Bult assisted in installing the machinery in the ironclad before she ueft for the battle with the Merrimac at Fortress Monroe. After leaving the Neptune Iron Works, Mr. Lult was employed as locomotive engineer en-gineer on the Iong Island railway. He was 19 years of age at that time. The next year he brought his family to Ogden and engaged in farming at Slaterville and Harrisvllio until 1S69. Brigham Young secured his services in 1S6E) to run the engine for construction work on the Utoh Central from Ogden to Salt Lake. This engine was an old Hinckley engine, and was known as Utah Central No. J. Mr. Bult ran the first train into Salt Lake at the celebration of the driving of the golden spike. His train carried many of. the railroad's officials, offi-cials, including Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon. Mr. Bult continued to run trains on the Utah Central, the Utah Southern and Oregon Short Line for twenty-one years. He ran the first trains into Provo, Nephi and Juab. After leaving the railroad service Mr. Bult went to Idaho. He lives at St. Anthony An-thony at present. Thomas J. Bult, the oldest son, is now locomotive engineer on the Salt Lake PvOUle, and has been in the service of the Union Pacific for thirty-nine years. At one time he fired for his father on a train running between Salt Lake and Ogden. Thomas S. Bult, the oldest grandson, is in the office of the chief engineer of the Oregon Short Line.