Show lONG LONO RAl RAILWAY J A Y I SERVICE ENDED After 44 Years King Steps from Locomotive for Last Time Making i his list run run arriving at 12 1 1250 60 O p p. p m rn m. Saturday Fred Kin l Ing finished 44 U y ars and tour and four fou r months of railroading ral As s his big Den Den- Denver Denver ver Rio filo Grande Western pas pas- passenger passenger passenger engine came to a full stop at the Union station he bid bIt good- good goodby byo byu by to his a stepped off I the locomotive and anti turned his I steps homeward conscious con of the fact that his long l ng and useful career er as an engineer was ws ended He I-fe will VIII be 70 years old on onIon Moo Mon day and In compliance with the requirements of of his road he goes on the pension list as the honored servant of a big cor cor- corporation RECEIVES nECEl S It Just as he hI was closing his years of duty he received the following follow In letter Dear Mr King Want you OU to know In leaving our services that I appreciate your our many years cars of loyalty and hard work and my best wishes are extended to you and your our family for foran an an abundance of happiness Signed S L. L Racey nace Supt Mr Ir King was born In Maine and saw saw his hi first service with the tho Maine Central In the baggage ha ae room rooth at Oakland Oakl nd Me Ie Then he became a a. brakeman went to fir- fir firIng firIng firing Ing and was promoted to engi engi- engineer neer In 1881 1851 he was Invited Ite to go to Bodle Bodie Calif there there to op operate o op erate crate one oue of the locomotives on a lL lumber road which supplied the mines with timber The deep snows of ot winter blocked traffic and after working there a year and nine months he went to Sa Sa- llda lida entering the services of or the tho thoD D D. n n. G G. In 1883 then a nar nar- narrow narrow narrow row gauge He Ho was 13 transferred to the west end In 1886 coming contin to Ogden as a freight engineer tn n that year ear By the time the road ro d was made standard gauge in 1888 1888 he had hul a passenger er run Into Og Og- Og- Og Ogden den Ilen and has made this his horn homR ever since having been marne In Ogden in 1892 18 a Recalling n his first engine on the narrow gauge Iau-e. he said lal it was wasa a ton 30 machine which pulled 15 to 20 o ton ten-ton cars lIe He corn com compares coni- coni pares that that- with the pound three cylinder locomotive l which on one of his runs he h pulled pule l 14 coaches coaches' up the 2 per percent p percent r cent grade s-rade from Thistle to lo Sum Sum- mit He Ste is proud of the fact that th t the he has had h d a clear record and has worked for some of the best beet railroad officials the west est has pro pro- produced 11 His ills brother George King Kings Is ii Isa iia a conductor on the D D. R R. G. G W V making his hi home in and anti has haft seen almost equal service Fred King is receiving the congratulations of his friends on Jils lIs seventieth birthday |