New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-05


Commissioner of Immigration who died yesterday.
body VIII be cremated after brief funeral ser
vice at 8 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The Rev.
Charles Holmead assistant rector OF ST. Pauls
Church. will offlcate.
The death of Mr.. Sargent, of whom 1t was said
that no railroad manager ever refused TO see him
while he at the head of the brotherhood was
a shock to officials of the Department OF com
merce snd Labor. Secretary Straus at once eooA
steps for appropriate observance Of his bureau
chiefs death. F. H Larned. assistant commission
general will continue acting commissioner
general. until permanent appointment is mace.
While Mr.. Sargent had sustained three altdChs
of PARALYSIS he had suffered from Brights disease
and stomach trouble ard the former Is gwen aS
the immediate cause of death Inc IAN anu NJ
companying paraIytic stroke at Shepherdsto"n o0
Cured on a vacation visit to his family there-
He soon recovered sufficiently to return 10 inns
CITY, but had been almost steadily confined 10 me-
bed since. sinking spell two nights ago CAUSE
grave concern and consultation OF tlnee P4A'
sicians was held. Slowly what little strength was
1af+ canned away. and the end came at O'Clock
this morning At the bedside were his Wire, ms
oulv daughter Miss Mabel Sargent and sis'el'
Mrs D. l. Wagner, of Philadelphia
Frank Pierce Sargent born in East orange
Vt November IS, 1884 the son OF Charles t. anu
Mary C. H<inney) Sargent AS a boy he WORKED
on a farm and attended the village schooi anu
later worked for time in photograph eaLery'
Later he was employed in the Manchester Mills
for several years.
+ba .ge az tu,entv-four he Unlisted In the army
in Arizona for his health. and was assigned 10
Troop D. 9Th Cavalry. under Colonel carr ne sd"
active service against the Indians ana Wal an
ss sergeant was offered to him If he wouo fe-oiIs-
The army however, failed to offer sufncehiS
attractive career to him, and, on Receiving a.
honorable discharge two years later, he sought
work on the Santa Fe, Prescott Phenih ran
road and found 1t as an engine wiper III INC '
or Phrnix Six months afterward, ne was pro-
NOTED 10 fireman. and at once Joined the Brother-
hood of Locomotive Firemen- He took an ac''N7
interest in the affairs of the Organization ana was
elected as delegate 10 the meeting OF the Gfanu
Lodge at Denver in 1883 at the time lhal iA
W Arnold was grand master At this meeting MI
Sargent was elected vice-grand master AT t"o
next meeting of the Grand Lodge, held IN fhlla
de1nhia in 1885, there a clash between Gfahu
Master Arnold and Samuel Stevens, the ia'iO
organizer Eugene V. Debs, at lnat lino eia
secretary-treasurer, Joined MI Stevens IN oppo'ne
Mr. Arnold and in nominating Mr. Sargent lor mo
e7oe of GRAND master. Mr. Sargent was elected
and Immediately took up his duties at the mead
quarters of the order at Terre Haute' mo anu "
seventeen wears efficiently administered us ahals'
In his residence in Terre Haute and after 1855,
a, Peoria Ill TO which place the headqudl teio "
,be brotherhood was in that year removed MT.
Sargent enjoyed the confidence of the business anu
railroad men of those cities, winning lheii 'p'
for his practical methods and SOUND Judgment
y,J- VI
wv at large who recognized in him powerful
toros for the maintenance of law and ORDER. MI
coreen. WAS opposed TO strikes on Principe De
levins that the cause OF labor couio De oe''e a.
,anced by more peaceful means. he proVeu .'
o,;.f nv his acts on many occasions, notably "hen
y I-t-Lts 81 labor made their big fight against
.ha Now York Central Railroad, and In the s"l'Ih-
mems strike at Buffalo, in 1892 when large POI
OF the national guard OF the s.e'e was l,Nso
-, s,n--aes the resulting disorder On both occa-
20 all
-. =. st-iLe and also worked diligently to per
srade the striking organizations to settle tneir
grievances peaceably In 1894, at the 'iie u ~
ereat strike on the Western railroads orsani1ed
nv Debs as president of the American han VIC.
rotor Mr. Sargent's counsels were not ON!
.+ oil forms of violence, but against the strlAe
,.sa1@ end he went to Chicago TO urge n1ooei auo
and 70 prevent if possible. further extension u
+he labor troubles arising from the strlAe-
~, Sargent came into prominence more 'haii
oroa ny, his oaitspokeu declarations In ldNol vi INC
aoni+io of the rights of employers by the iaoor
unions In 1891 he expressed himself stfonsiS oli
this noint saying that When an
,.de Inv men with their employers 1t was mat
+e- NJ inheritance for the unions to observe their
part of the agreement strictly II tnes "o4 "
snI,st the sympathy and respect Of the public
In 1898 President Mckinley appointed MI. sar
gent a member of the United States Aiau
Commission The Grand Lodge OF the Srotherhooi
Of locomotive Ffremen in session at toronto, re
f,..d however IN accept the resignation OF their
Grand master raised his salary from SS'0oo TO
"a oo0 a wear and voted him six months vacation
An T,,rone with all his expenses paid. IN order 10
re+air his services Eor the organization In vie"
=, +b,s .xnression of confidence and affection MI
Sargent felt constrained to resign the appointment
&c Industrial Commissioner. but he refused TO avaii
himself of the opportunity to take rest Two
wears later he declined appointment also Of
fered him by President Mckinley. as chief OF me
bureau of engraving and printing
when however. President Roosevelt, In lNz, OF
,o-ea IN appont him Commissioner General OF I'M
,nigra+ion TO succeed IT. V. Powderly. whose re-
t,rement WAS requested. Mr. Sargent felt that the
.tr,e had come when he could accept without det-
,ant IN the interests OF the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Fireuen. He thereupon resigned from the
o+sca which he had held SO long and assumed the
7,ttes of his new post in Washington. His adj
min distraction of the bureau proved emfnently salts
factory and was marked by many improvements In
the methods followed
Mr. Sargent married while young man to
Miss George NJ. Mccullough of Saugus. Mass
He was a thirty second degree Mason. member
NJ the Mystic Shrine member of the Order OF
EIks a member Of the knights Of Pythias and of
the American Order of United Workmen He be-
longed to the Crevecnur Club. of Peoria, and OF
the Fifty Club, of Philadelphia.
BRIG. GEN. A. w. CORLIss.
Denver Sept. 4-Brigadier General Augustus.
w Cor.iss. u. S. A. fretiredl. died at his heme In