The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-01-09
OBITUARY,

| NeoISe IL. ChIlcCoI, IOI twenty-five years
superintendent of the fire and police tele.
graph alarm department of Oakland, Calf.
and resident of that city for nearly half q
century, died at his home there Dec. 9Th OF
| apoplexy, with which he was stricken the
day before. The San Francisco Call said
| of the deceased:
The announcement of the unexpected
death of the well-known pioneer was a
startling shock to hundreds of citizens who
had been the companions for many years of
Mr.. Carleton. His life was indelibly con-
nected with the growth of Oakland. He
established and developed the present ex-
cellent police and fire telephone system Of
the city, the service being recognized as one
OF the most thorough and complete in the
United States. For a quarter Of century
it had been his peculiar hobby and all Of
his efforts were centered in perfecting the
department. He also had supervision and
control over the electric lighting of the city,
and the excellent system he devised, with
the cooperation of John A. Britton of the
Oakland Gas Light and Heat Company, is
one OF the best monuments to his marked
fidelity to duty.
mated from political strife. Change of ad-
ministration or of policy in municipal az
fairs made no difference in the status of
Superintendent Carleton Economy and
ability formed his only platform, and the
public recognized his peculiar fitness for
the post he SO long and faithfully occupied.
Born fifty eight years ago at Belfast, Me-,
young Carleton came to California with his
parents in 1850. For few years they re-
sided on Rincon Hill in San Francisco.
Then the family removed 10 Oakland, where
George Carleton attended the first public
school in this city, o lie of the buildings for
which Oakland's wa!er front Was bartered
to Horace Carpenter. The Carletons To-
Gated during the early fifties in what is now
Golden Gate. They engaged in ranching
and large portion of their holdings is still
in the family. From ranch land the prop
A few days before his death Mr.. Carleton
remarked that it would cost his folks SAG, 200
for street work when they should open and
construct thoroughfares through the Carle-
ton tract, as it is known.
Young Carleton grew up amid the early
development on this side of the bay, pur-
suing no special business. For while he
was in Placer County mines, owning inter
ests at Forest Hill at the time of his death.
In 1869 he became member of the Oak
land Police Department OF massive stature
and with almost herculean strength, he was
OF striking appearance. For seven years
he served, resigning on November 9, 1876, to
accept the position as superintendent of fire
and police telegraph service. At once, with
mechanical genius, he designed
and constructed fire-alarm system, using
the old Morse telegraph key transmitter,
the police sending in alarms by the instru-
ment. There were then four wards in the
city and the alarm was sounded according
to the ward in which the fire had been To-
Gated.
From that simple beginning Surerintend-
ent Carleton worked out the system in use
to-day. His police telephone service is so
that every patrolman can be
brought into the pol ice headquarters with
in an hour, no matter where he may be
patrollihg.
He was most entertaining in his remin-
iscences of early days about San Francisco. !
In his boyhood he witnessed many of the
exciting episodes connected with the vigi-
lanteS' government Of San Francisco
equally well-informed was he upon the
events in Oakland's early growth.
One OF his delights was music. Pos
sessed of a magnificent bassc profundo
voice Mr.. Carleton for many years was a
familiar figure in concerts and private
demand by the grand opera impresarios
years ago, but he steadfastly refused to go
upon the operate stage. When the famous
Myron Whitney, reputed to be Americas
greatest basso. was in his prime, Mr. Carle-
ton was invited to go to Boston and join
the great male quartet of which Mr.. Whit |
ney was member, but he declined. For
years the deceased pioneer was a member
of the Masonic Temple Quartet of this city.
Fraternally he was affiliated with Live
Oak Lodge. No. 81, f. and A. NJ, which
will have charge of the funeral services
Mr. Carleton was charter member of the
State of Maine Association. There sur
wives him a wife, his aged mother, and
brother, Charles Carleton. The latter re-
sides in Golden Gate
Died in Portland, Me-, Nov. 81, aged
eighty-four, Martha j., widow of the late
Andrew J. Ross of Belfast, Me. Her faith
in Christ, early awakened and eventually
confessed by uniting with the Congrega-
tional church, re-enforced character
whose inherited traits were unusually
strong. That faith begot a sweet patience
through years of physical suffering, in her
constant and varied reading it insured to
the Bible the place of best loved companion;
it held her interest to all that pertained to
the highest welfare of our country, at the
same time broadening her sympathies to
all the claims of Gods kingdom, as evinced
by generous giving through all heri.vssaars
She retained to the very last ref. mo ! I hia
judgment and strict sense of jufst;ca With
a conscientious fidelity to every trmst
most faithful and devoted m4,+hor bar
will ever be precious Heritaoa itc to
to her children.-The CongregatG Gonal;st of
Dec. 81, 1901. '' VI
Mrs. Ross will be most ple5asant,y ra-
membered by host of friendsI in Relf.s ST
and vicinity, having been resident of this
city for period of about ten y;Lars and oil
who knew her can earnestly y indorse tho
words of the above notice. 1Tbo,ah Of .
very quiet and reticent nature ber inf,,onoo
was largely felt by many who can orata-
fully testify to her public spHritad henovo-
lence. She left seven chi1drefn Nrs Evil,
F. jackson of New York Ciaty Mrs Iono
~. rev y. NewtohVille' Mass, Mrs.
1a"i VI" - noei VI vernon Jenter, Conn.,,
Frank b. Ross, who has dsinoo d;od a.
Charleston, S. c., Rebecca Oh Ross Of port
land, Maine, Andrew NJ. Roal.s If So.rsror+
..".n0' "'iu ousan II. Ahoh las of Portland,
Maine. !.
MIR. Nelson Eames, for n, ,,o,,,o -
Emlt"n Stroot ~, ono MeiIyleAt h Ward, at 1852
the evonin% nf Ao%! 4 ID w.. street, died on
minnteS af7ou VI o;,.a NC" I I" Day at a few
first year of his age. He Mod a. haaI fa;ii,so
for fourteen months and t%n I'd nHI y
the close of a gradual deo1ma o,tIno d,,o ~ a.,
advanced years. He ws oG1AiH' ~ h;s iue ;1is W
attended constantly by ~ na Ain Sn, Illness 1's
alone with him at the las u Nv Sulii I WIZ was ,'a
hamlet naar PaIfns+ County, a farm
father, soldier of the | 2aftin 1lds ianu-
had been one of the earl ,:"ttle VI LtAilStoL