Show COMMISSIONER FRANK SARGENT IS DEAD DEADHead DEADHead DEADHead Head of Bureau of Immigration Passes Away at Washington Washing Washing- ton Paralysis Wrt O on Sept 4 Frank rank Frank Pierce Sargent Sargen commissioner Sen general ral of or the bureau of tr f Immigration department of ot jo and lul ni ono of or tho the best known immigration experts e In the tile world tIlli at hir hume at 8 S o'clock tills this morning mo a aa as the tho result o of a stroKe strohe 0 or f is wh ch ch f followed a fall soy sov- ral weeks ifo go 0 In side BIllie of or the stroke of paralysis which Mr Ir uJ nt suffered after finer his all faU downstairs while Journeying near W. W Va Ya in July he had hadeen been een recovering it was believed and his close friends were taken entirely entirely en- en h by surprise when the they learned of f C his death this morning Mr l Sargent was as born horn 5 51 54 years ago agot i int nt at t East Orange Vt VL Vcr Very curly In Info I life fo ho ito was a zt locomotive fireman and andor for Cor or 17 years fars ho Ito was head of oC the tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen a po post t of or which there ore arc few greater In i the world of unionism m. m He lie did not believe bellevo In strikes and made nade It his business IDess to ta see soo that none were needed lIe Ho commanded tho roped respect ro re- c ped of ot the men whom ho Ito represented d dand and nd the men who owned the railroads l Presented rc Strikes Ills His work In preventing strikes and IliS hll remarkable way of handling nu nun n brought rought him to the attention of Pre Pre-M- dent ent McKinley and anil in 1898 ho was appointed a 0 member of or the thu industrial commission but refused tho In 1900 he ho was ivan offered tho ho position of f chief of ot tho the bureau of or engraving and nd printing but once moro more declined to o leave the service of or his brother brothel fire fire- men In 1902 however President nt noo Roosevelt loosevelt offered the which he hc hel held eld when he ho dl died d that of oC commissioner commis- commis general of ot tho the bureau of ot Immigration gration and ho decided to take it since that time he has all allIs 11 his Is attention to the bettering of at con- con surrounding the entrance of milligrams immigrants Into Inta the tho United States A widow and one daughter survive him ilm No o funeral arrangements have hav been made II |