Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-03-28

mace ready TO bury ner last Friuay LII
Rock Creek cemetery, but was stopped by
the coroner.
A dispatch from he police in Boston
announced that her mother, Mrs. Huida
Kent, is now living in Brooklyn, at
Rochester and New York avenues. The
her what disposition she wishes made of
her daughters body. Miss Kent had an
insurance policy of 800, which will be
ample to pay all the expenses of her inter-
ment.
A statement to the department of COM
merce and labor by Consul General
Mason at Paris indicates that the French
sardine industry is seriously on the wane,
which is likely to accrue to the benefit of
the sardine industry on the coast of Maine.
The supply of French sardines is al
ready so small, the consul-general writes,
that the sardines have to be fed with
extra supplies of their natural food. The
fishermen have recourse to the roe, or
eggs of Goldfish and mackerel, which
heretofore have come from Norway.
INrW bniS supply VI looo Aol bihS
French sardines is running short, and
there is brisk demand for supply from
America. The usual price paid in France
is from $12 to $50 barrel, pdt this year
the price has advanced to $50 barrel.
The necessity of careful packing so that
the barrels will be full and alright is en-
phasized by Consul General Mason.
The feature of the Maine election next
September, of most interest in Washing
ton, is the choice of a legislature that
elects for another term Senator William P.
Frye. The junior Maine senator, who is
the junior senator because he came into
the Senate for the first time twenty-five
years ago, just ten days later than Senator
Eugene Hale the two being now the old
est men in point of service in the Senate
from New England-has long been looked
upon as one of the most useful men in
Congress. Everybody, Of course, takes it
for granted that he will be reelected, and
that he will not have to turn hand to
bring his own reelection about.
Senator Frye will be seventy-five years
old by the time the next election in Maine
is held. He is easily one of the grand old
men, as he is one of the most active men
in the Senate. He was fighting battles in
the public service for ten years before he
entered the Senate, having served five full
terms as a member of the House. There
is now no man in the Senate who has had
more varied or thorough experience with
legislation than he. With his long SER
vice in the House, he knows that body
quite as well as he knows the Senate, all
OF which makes for his capacity for good
legislation.
No Maine man who has been sent to
Congress in the last twenty-five years, has
and to Maine interests than Mr.. Frye,
but he has also had lot to do with the
big national questions. In the last ten
years his most important services have
been on the commerce committee, OF
which he has long been chairman, and on
the foreign relations committee, of which
he is the second republican, and of which
he could have been chairman had he been
willing to relinquish his other chairman
ship.
For the commercial and maratime in
terests of the entire country he has been
especially active. That was the reason
for his sticking to the Craftsmanship of
the commerce committee.
Furthermore Mr.. Frye has the distinc-
tion of being the most competent presiding
officer the Senate ever had. 1t never fell
to the lot of any senator to be presiding
officer as long as he was, for he served out
the terms of two -presidents-Ho
and Roosevelt. He welded the gavel
with more precision than any vice-presi-
dent could, because he had long been
familiar with the Senate rules and meth
DDS of procedure.
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