Show U I nit t vata By SAM JR 49 to REMINISCENCE OF ED El WALKER Sam Jr oo of ot the Portland Journal Portland Oregon a long life friend of the late Ed Kelly Walker writes the following brief review of his early day associations with Kelly Dear Dad and Lee News of the passing of Ed Walker saddened sl me ma In the days of boyhood and early youth fouth Ed and I were very close Mends and companions Ho lie was a friend In Jn every sense of the word Being some three or four years older which means quite a difference when ono one Is young Ed was rather my guardian as well as my friend When I 1 got Into some small trouble or another as I frequently did I could always depend upon Ed to help I me out of It and when I ran away from home on a Couple of occasions though not for very long It was to toEd's toEd's toEd's Eds Ed's Interesting room and work-shop work of his hla own home not far tat distant that X I went to bunk with him for tor the night And I guess Dad didn't worry very much because he had a pretty good goad Idea of where I would go I It was Ed who used to put my mr bicycle together again after atter I had taken It apart apart and spilled ball bearings beatings all through the frame and was at a loss 1068 lossi i as to what to do next He lie helped us ua I gather the first wild flowers for Memorial ial day dllY made cannons and fireworks on the Fourth of July chopped and andI I dragged down the tree for tor Christmas j I could always be depended upon to help out In whatever task was at hand Ed was a member of St St. Lukes Luke's Episcopal Episcopal Episco Episco- pal church In the days of the late Rev Bert Foster j j- As Asa a young fellow tellow Ed as mentioned In The Record was very athletically In inclined InI ln- ln I dined and soon after he went to work for Dad he became Interested In the system of physical culture Just Oust I then coming Into vogue Ed saved I enough money to send for Instructions and apparatus In Including biceps builders builders build build- ers and wrist developers and follow ed the course conscientiously It worked for him too lie He developed a really fine muscular physique had hl a I grip like a steel vise I believe one reason he wasso was wasso wasso so anxious to build up his body was be be- cause he feared he might m-Ight have t lOt b. b I met Ed Murphy on the street the theother theother theother other day and mentioning Ed Walk Walkers Walker's rs r's passing he told me that during his re recent recent recent re- re cent visit in Park City he and his brother Milt had seen Ed in front of the Salt Lake House and that they ther had bad enjoyed a II mutually happy visit for tor a afew afew afew few minutes They recalled afterward how Ed used to go In n for athletics how he used to show his muscle to the amazement of the younger kids In those days Ed neither drank nor smoked I 1 dont don't know that ho he ever did Vivid is my mr recollection of Ed on the day of Park City's fire big on that Sunday Sun Suns day morning in Tune Juno 1898 1898 going going on 50 60 years ago Guess maybe Ed was deviling deviling devil ing at the office at the time Anyway we got together at The The Record office as the fire roared down Main street carried some of the bound rn files s and other stuff across the street treet to Aschheim's Asch- Asch helms helm's proof fire building where our belongings later burned of course bourse and then ran back up the hill to our home when news came that the fire was burnIng burning burning burn burn- ing on both sides of Park avenue Eds Ed's homo home was Just out of the fires fire's path At home with Dad and the others we packed out some personal belongings books pictures and other small stuff tuff stuff most moat of which we didn't take far farenough farenough farenough enough away to escape the flames flames and and were struggling to get the piano through the kitchen door when things got so I hot we had to beat It A few tew moments later the home and a cabin our gang gangi i had built in the back yard were In InI I flames But I did have time to take a snap-shot snap of the flag on the pole In front of the cabin Just as the fire snatched it away We had a print of the picture for many years rears ears The old negative may may still be around home I Well after the office and home had hadj I j both gone and the family had been given temporary refuge In the homes of relatives and friends there didn't seem to be much left for Ed and I to do but butto butto butto I to wander around watch the progress of the fire and share In the excitement I of which there was plenty Every so often otten wed we'd line Une up at an emergency I refreshment center for a cup of the cof cot i fee tee that the housewives of the community community ity were serving to the fire And it came about that Ed and 1 cashed in rather substantially for tor us i on one angle of the disaster As soon as asI I things had cooled down In two or three I days Dad told us that we might have havethe i the melted type metal largely antimony I I If we cared to salvage It from th the ashes ashel I Continued on Page lage vur Looking Backward Continued 1 from Page One of at The Record office that we vie might be beable beable beable able to sell it to the mines or mills mill for tor babbit metal So 80 we sifted the metal I from the ruins melted it down and skimmed off the dross cast it into molds probably mothers mother's deep pie pans haul haul ed ed eel Jt t t up the canyon and sold it somewhere some some- where maybe maybe to Jim at the Anchor Anchor Anchor An An- chor mill at mill-at at market prices I dont don't remember what we got for it but it seemed quite a sum to youngsters in those days I have a faint recollection too too that brother Lee who was about I five years old at that time got a cut cutin a in the profits profits probably probably for superintending tending the job Ed and I had a short abort visit the last time I was home a few tew years ears ago We Wet t talked of early times of course and planned some day to ramble again along old paths as M we used to do eo so often Ed loved Nature Nature to to lift his Ja e eyes unto the hills He gloried in the vista of the mighty I mountains rolling away into far horizons horizons hori hort- zons he thrilled with the majesty oYthe I rising sun with the promise of eternal peace and rest as It sank behind the hills hUll i at eventide eventide and and we know that when the Master Architect of the universe beckoned beckoned beckoned beck beck- him into the great unknown he I was not afraid I I Portland Oregon Oreo |