The Republican journal., 1911-02-16
SENATOR WINFIELD S. PENDLETON.
Augusta Cor. Portland Argus.

Augusta Cor. Portland Argus
When in 1907 Gov. Cobb cast about for
a man to represent the State of Maine in
the Atlantic deeper waterways conven-
ton he picked Capt. Winfield S. Pendle-
ton of 1slesboro.
He might have simply said zone of the
Pendleton's' and he would have made no
mistake, for there is hardly Pendleton
along the Atlantic coast that is not sea
captain or the son of sea captain. The
Pendleton family owns more sailing YES
sells than any other on the Atlantic coast.
Pendleton' S are the most prominent ship
brokers in New York and those who are
not in New York are in the old coast
town of 1slesboro. In fact, most of the
Pendleton family designate themselves
as 'of New York and Islesboro."
Zone of the Pendletons" is member
of the Maine Senate, sent from Waldo
county. He is Democrat and succeed
ed member Of another great Maine sea-
faring family, Capt. B. F. Colcord of
Searsport. Senator W. S. Pendleton is
the only old salt in the Senate this term.
He knows the book of the sea, for he has
been studying it since when lad of IA
he went to sea as cook for a hungry
crew.
He didn stay in the galley long, how
ever, for he was second mate at 16,
first mate at IS. and at 10 trod the deck
Of his own craft as skipper. He sailed
as master for Is years, and was in COM
mand of some Of the finest craft that
ever flew the American flag in the old
and palmy days of the merchant marine.
He was lucky, as they say. All of the
Pendletons have been. There seems to
be luck in the name. Of course they
have had mishaps, but the great ma
J0rlty have lived to retire and let other
men brave the risks of the deep while
they furnish the vessels and take the
financial risks. Capt. Pendleton after
Islesboro, the beautiful coast town on
the great island which splits Penobscot
bay.
He keeps store there in which he
sells about everything, especially ship
chandlery. He owns in many vessels,
keeps an eye on the immense Pendleton
fleet of coasters, from one to half a dozen
Of which are usually anchored off his
place and acts as leading citizen of the
town. He has served on the board of
selectmen for % consecutive years. He
was sent to the legislature back in 1880,
and again in 1905, both times as repre-e
sentative, and this time to the Senate.
The president of the Senate in picking
his committee men who will later act as
board of arbitration in the fight on the
herring laws, selected Capt Pendleton,
for he was sure of getting man who
knew the ways of the coast jewellers.
Capt. Pendleton is neither a "weir-
man" nor "seiner,'' but he knows a
thing or two about the fishing along the
coast of the gulf of Maine. The fish r.
men may be able to confuse the men,
bers fro I Aroostook and Oxford county
with talk of 'smothering," 'torching,"
''britt, - and such, but Capt. Pendleton
has traded with fishermen for years, and
they must tell him their stories straight.
He is one of the strongest men on the
committee of sea and shore fisheries and
is expected to figure much in the commit
tee reports on one of the most important
matters which will come before the leg
islature-the regulation and conservation
of the herring or sardine fisheries.