Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES He Remembers When l Veteran Waiter Recalls Salt Lake of Days Before Statehood c P. P S S. S Petersen Peterson recording secretary of Culinary Alliance local No can remember when i iThe The old Walker house which oc ocCUpied occupied pied the site of the Keith Emporium building was Salt Lakes Lake's leading hotel hotel ho ho- tel the Wasatch block now the Kenyon Ken Ken I yon hotel was the largest building and all criminal cases were tried there mule cars were stylish you could get a first class class' meal for lor 25 cents and old Commercial street was the first one paved in the city He h has been in Salt Lake 52 years coming from Denmark with his brother broth broth- er et James Petersen in July 1881 He was born there August 24 1864 Joined First Union A waiter by trade Mr Petersen Peterson belonged belonged belonged be be- longed to the first cooks' cooks and waiters waiters' union organized in Salt Lake It was affiliated with the Western Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of Labor which went out of ex existence existence ex- ex in the He recalled that later these two trades organized with the Hotel and Restaurant nt International Alliance Amance in 1902 out but of which grew the Culinary Alliance local comprised of cooks waiters waitresses and nod miscellaneous ous help When I first came Lake 1 I worked for Major G. G S. S Erb who operated operated oper oper- the old Walker house howe Mr Petersen Petersen Peter Peter- sea sen sen said Sometimes I worked at r yi S S VS' VS 9 t tv l w I 5 f S 4 i 5 S 7 1 i 1 P. P 8 L Pe Petersen the old Continental hotel which was wason wason wasl on First South and West Temple streets The major operated this one too I 1 was WM a waiter In the Alta Alia club dub shortly after it was organized more than 50 years ago The club then was located d where the Ness building stands Later it was wu moved to the Dooly building Mr Petersen also plied his trade in Salt Lakes Lake's old Vienna cafe and worked for George Mueller now owner of the Royal Baking company when Mr M operated the old Royal cafe He once operated a restaurant res res- res on East First South street That was back in 1878 When I 1 first arrived in Salt LakeI Lake I I headed here because my parents were converts to the L. L D. D S. S church Ely Ely Murray was governor of the territory of Utah he recalled and Murray was appointed by the president president dent of the United States Shortly after I 1 arrived here I 1 attended attended at at- tended the trial of Fred Welcome who was wa found guilty of murdering Sheriff Sherif Turners Turner's son of Provo After four trials Welcome was finally exe exe- He and an accomplice stole tole young Turners Turner's team killed him and buried burled his body in Echo canyon so the story gOe goes Mr Peterson has been recording secretary o of local since 1931 He also served a term in 1929 His brother James who came to Utah with him is now in San Francisco |