The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

tics for the first time last year and
 made an excellent impression in the senate. He was the occasion of an in
 teresting outing during the session by
 Lieutenant-G0vernor Woodruff. It
 was on vote relating to the interests
 of the Consolidated road. The ques-
 ton was raised by Senator Donovan of
 NOrwalk that the senator from Far
 mington was not entitled to vote, as he
 was a director in the road. Lieuten-
 ant-Governor Woodruff without a mo-
 ment's hesitancy ruled out the point
 of order. Senator BalAey is the treas
 urer of the Hartford Electric Light
 company of which his father-in-law,
 Cornelius Durham, is the president.
 He, is a crack golf player and likes
 nothing better than day at the links.
 It is not aa all likely hat his present
 term in the senate will be the end of
 his political career. Without doubt he
 is booked for higher positions in state
 politics. :Ex-Representatiye 0zias H.
 Parker, of East Haddam, father of
 United States District Attorney Fran
 cis H. Parker, will be eighy-two years
 of age in November. He has had four
 years in the general assembly, the last
 one being in 1877. The colleague of
 MT. Parker from East Haddam that
 year was Judge Hiram Wiley, who
 WIS five years his senior. Judge Will
 ley at the age of eighty-seven is still
 engaged in legal practice, being con-
 nected with the Hartford law firm of
 ex- Congressman Lewis Sperry and ex-
 Governor Mclean: MT. Parker rarely
 leaves his home in East Haddam these
 days, but is still hale and hearty His
 son, United States District Attorney
 Parker has been prominent in Hart
 ford for long time and has served in the general assembly. A brief call on
 ex-Senator H.Wales Lines inMeriden
 last week found that astute politician
 up tohis ears in business, politieshaY-
 ing been thrown aside for the present.
 He is now engaged in the completion of the new works of the National Fold
 ing Box and Paper company in New
 Haven, whichhaye been erected at
 cost of $2o0,09O. The structure con- tains SOO,000 square feet of floor space. It is located at Cedar Hillstation. The
 works will be occupied by; the first of
 January. The two factories of the
 company now in use in New Haven
 will, be consolidated in the new works, makingthe establishment the largest one of it's kind in New England. Sen ator Lines company, which has carried ut large contracts throughout the country, is one of the solid building
 iY, hoiYacr fI1o tors lifeWork in the businessW He i began his career at the lowest round in the ladder coming up from the Naug- atuck valley as journeyman mason. His advances in civil and political life has been won by honest and faithful effort. Senator Lines is one of the foremost representatives of Free Ma sorry in the United States. holding the i thirty third degree in that fraternity i and the treasuryship of the national body of Knights Templar. For years he has been an acknowledged power in Connecticut politics. Insurance Com
 missioner Theron Upson is spending a
 couple of weeks at his country resi- dence in Monroe, Fairfield county He ] is one of the best known veterans of ! the civil war in the state, and possess es the highest esteem and friendship
 from the old soldiers. He has made an admirable successor in the insurance commissioners office of such men as O. R. Fyler, Murton Mansfield and Frederick A. Betts of New Haven and Edwin L. scofleld Of Stamford. Com l missioner scofeld resigned the office for the purpose of giving all of his time l to his law. to his law practice in New York and. Connecticut, and Governor
 Chamberlain appointed MT. Upson as his successor. MT. Upson, who was in the deadlock legislature of 1891, was
 first placed in the insurance depart
 rnent by Commissioner Fyler and has , been connected with it thirteen years. |