New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-09
What Hoar Said of Him.

Senator Hoar, in his Autobiography,
speaks OF the Maine Senator as gentle.
charitable and kindly" characteristics
readily Acknowledged by his colleagues AS
president of the Senate. he betrayed az lit
tie show OF force as II he were presiding
over q company OF guests ar his own table.
Yet the order and dignity of the body
were always preserved After the funeral
of Senator Hanna in the Senate Chamber.
President Roosevelt remarked that his ad
rnirahIe bearing and choice words, "modu-
lated with a voice full Of tears" saved the
service by giving II a profoundly tender and
solemn character.
Senator Frye's courage was at least three
generations Old. In the French and Ind
ian War a young colonel Of the English
army captured and left in charge Of
an Indian. The colonel promptly killed his
.ailer and lived to be one Of Washingtons
major generals In the Revolution. For his
services he received a grant of Maine land.
near the New Hampshire border. There
the town OF Fryeburg was founded. and
there most OF the Fryes have ever since
then dwelt. The future Senator was a ma
tive Of Lewiston. son Of Colonel John VI.
Frye. He was born in 1881 and had he lived
until the second of the coming September
would have been eighty years old.
AS a boy William P. Frye gave little
promise Of becoming a profound student.
Al Bowdoin, which he entered at the age
Of fifteen. he made more impression on his
classmates than upon the faculty Cen
eral o. o. Howard said Of him:
The first time I saw Frye was in our
Idvy classroom at the beginning OF our
first term in Bowdoin College. I was not
quite sixteen and he was about the same
age He appeared 10 me self-reliant and
jolly. He hadn't yet come to his full size.
but he was very presentable youth. He
had a perfectly shaped head and a fine
forehead. His hair was darkish brown
with light shades, and his eyes were Just as
they are now, large and notceably blue
ewes that brighten immensely under excite
nlent. The remarkable thing about Frye
a. that time was his voice II had clear
srng and ommanded-at1enton.
2 His memory was seldom AT fault, and his
+, recitation was excellent when he had pre-
vlously studied"
a Few Of His Friends.
Among others OF his fellow students VINO
later distinguished themselves wers John
Egbert c. Srnyth. Melville w. Fuller and
Joshua L. Chamberlain. He had the nat
Ural gift Of winning mems esteem and love.
and, though MS frolcsome temperament
got him into trouble with the faculty and
once resulted ir his rustication, IL is not
. recorded that any OF them ever bore him
IN will At any rate. he was duly gradu-
sted with mis- class in 1880. and three years
later received from his alma mater the de-
gree OF A. NJ
Shortly after his graduation he met and
married Miss Caroline Spear. and at once
took up his career with "A new earnesiness.
He had begun the study Of law under
William Pitt. Fessenden, the grea: AMI
slavery Wing. Fessenden's fiery eloquence
kindled in the youth the first flame oil Sh
ambition 10 enter public life as an orator.
Making good use of the eloquence learned
Z from Fessenden. young Frye began soon
TO draw crowds TO the courthouse AT Lev"
iston. When he was thirty his nelghoois
sent him up TO the Legislature. Ihat "aS
an even half century ago, the year "heh
the Civil Wars first gun sounded III
Charleston Harbor And after giving "'ii'
second term in the Legislature MS io"hs-
folk made him Mayor, then sent MIN ga
again TO the State House. where H"se"e
Hale now sat with him-as later ne was "
be his colleague in the federal Senate ioi
thirty years. But they were not TO De Iohs
together in the state legislature ioi
same year Frye. when only thirty
came the Attorney General Oh