| Show SENATOR FRYE DEAD I II I VETERAN VETERA MAI MAINE E STATESMAN LOSES IN LONG FIGHT WITH GRIM REAPER Began His Service In Senate as Successor Successor Suc Sue cessor of James G. G Blaine and at atOne atOne atOne One Time Acted as Vice Vice- President Lewiston Me MeThe The The state of Maine lost Its senior United States senator and an almost lif long life long faithful servant servant ser sere vant when William Pierce Frye died Tue Tuesday day at the the home of his daughter I Mrs Helen White here Forced by the condition of his health to resign his position as president pro tempore of the senate at the beginning beginning begin egin ning of ot tile the present special session of i cong congress ess although he reta retained ned his hiB I mem membership in the th senate Senator Frye soon afterward made his last journey to the city winch always had been his home For several weeks he had been ill last week his illness taking taking tak tak- ing a serious turn A ge general eral breakdown breakdown break break- down due to age and his extremely arduous career is ascribed by physicians physicians physic physic- ians lans as the cause of death Senator Frye was almost 81 years old old having been born in Lewiston Me September September- 2 1830 Senator Frye Fry was was one ne of the last I two of that remarkable coterie of Maine Main statesmen which began with Hannibal Hamlin with himself and Senator Hale who retired at the I close of ot the last session of congress and included James G. G Blaine William Pitt Fessenden Thomas B. B Reed and Nelson Dingley Both he and Hale 1 gim service in hi the senate senaie in 1881 and ands andl served side by side for thirty I l yr 1 rf y t r WILLIAM P. P FRYE years a much longer time than any other two men sat together in the sen sen- ate Frye began his service as the suc successor sue sue- cessor of Blaine Elaine and Hale as the successor successor suc sue cessor of Hamlin bir Frye was in congress forty years giving him hini the longest continuous continuous continuous contin contin- congressional record with the th two exceptions of Justin S. S Morrill of or Vermont and William B. B Allison ot of Iowa For fifteen years Mr l F Frye ye had been president pro tempore of ot the senate senate sen sen- ate and by virtue of the fact that he held this office when teh late Vice Vice- President Hobart died he assumed all the functions of vice president nt of or the United States during the latter part of f President McKinley s s' s tion By reason of the recent Democratic victory in Maine and the resultant election of a Democratic governor and legislature ture Senator Frye will bo be succeeded succeeded suc suc- by by bya a member of that party St. St PhIlip Louis Philip Nickerson a salesman cut ut his arteries in an attempt attempt at tempt to 10 end his life Ilfe because he said at a hospital where he is recovering his wife is too He has been been married only three months |
