The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-28
Politician, PrOmOtOT, Corporation Lawyer and Man of
 Affairs WAS ONCE THE REPUBLICAN, LEADER IN CONNECTICUT Merged the Trolley and Other Utilities and Sold Them to New Haven sys- tenn.
 
From a Poor Country Boy He Became the Dominant Political Factor of His Day In Connecticut.

7 OACIAOS
 Tho death of Allan Wallace Paige. in the 60th year of his age occurred yesterday in Chicago, following an op- eration for appendicitis at the famous streeter hospital. Mrs. Paige, their daughter and pr. W. H. Blodgett his family physician. were on their way to Chicago. when the death happen ed, news of MT. Pa1ge's illness, hav- ing been wired.
 MT. Paige was for many years one Of the best known Republican leaders in Connecticut. His political career tic
 As youth he made a personal can vass Of the members of the House, and so impressed them that he was elected to the assistant clerksl1ip. Later he served in both House and Senate, as clerk, and was speaker of the House during the famous 1891 dead lock session. when Morgan e. Bulke- ley was seated as governor and Luzon B. Morris. Democrat, claimed the elec- tion.
 Paige was man of fighting qual- ity, great determination and force, and was an ideal general for-the task which confronted his party during that period.
 Mr. Paige's greatest prestige, how ever, was gained less as a member of the General Assembly. than as an influential factor in shaping legisla- ton outside it's halls.
 He was in charge of one of the strongest, and politically and intel lectually powerful combines, that Con .nectfcut ever knew, and his especial ly important work was the esta ,olish ment of trolley transportation in Con- necticut.
 U7ar +dA ancte,,+ horSaoar uae <,,. perseded by the electric railway the improvement. was eagerly accepted in many states, but Jagged in Connecti- cut, in large part because of the op position of the dominant steam road interests. which then had, and had enjoyed for many years. strang1e hold on Connecticut legislation.
 Paige and the men who surrounded him were entirely triumphant in over- coming railroad opposition. They se- cured in rapid succession trolley char ters of the most sweeping character, road tracks throughout Connecticut were rapidly constructed.
 Paige became a director and chief counsel of the largest of these com panies, the Connecticut Railway 6 Lighting Go. and remained in that post doning it's policy of trolley opposition, absorbed the electric lines of Connec- ticut, and again established itself as supreme over Connecticut legislation.
 Paige had qualities that attached men strongly to him, and was one of the few members of the third house. who had strength in the elec- torate. He did not hesitate from time to time to submit himself to the peo- pie.
 His political career was finally ter by his defeat for a re-elec- tio1' to the Senate, which was accom- plished in 1906 by Archibald McNeii, senior in a campaign that is memor- able in local political annals.
 The relations of MT. Paige in his family life were ideal, and his career was never marred by any of the do- nestle scandals which are common among men of political pursuits.
 He developed in business pursuits an enterprise, acumen and energy full ly equal to the capacities he had shown in politics and legislation, aI- though in the later years his health was failing.
 Mr. Paige has not been his former vigorous self for several years. He sought restoration of his health at fa- nous resorts abroad and once took a course of treatment under Prof. Will liam Mu1doon at the 1atter's sanitar- He engineered the sale of the Connec- l .icut Railway & Lighting Co.'S proper ties in this state to the New Haven l road. The real owners Of the Con necticut Railway & Lighting Co.'S l holdings here was the United Gas Inn l Go, of Philadelphia, the 1 largest holder of enterprises of that | character in this country at that time. |
 MT. Paige as general counsel for the | company arranged all of the details whereby the trolley lines, gas and cleo -ric light and water power rights held oy that company in Connecticut be- came the property of the New Haven system. under the MeIlen regime.
 It is variously held that MT. Paige made a million dollars out of this transaction.
 As a corporation lawyer he easily stood at the head of his profession n these parts. He was closely iden- flied with the late A. M Young or in various business inter ssts mostly of a public service cor ,ore ton nature and during the Roose- 5elt panic scandal it is said that both MT. Paige and MT. Young suffered sreat financial losses.
 Probably no resident of Bridgeport ever knew life from as many anglest