The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-01-23
"Gene" Rust Joined to the
Winners.

Winners.
"reminiscences of the E. NJ. c. S., Bucksport.
by Virgil &. Eaton in the Bangor Daily News !
There passed from life during the last
days of the last year at his home in Kan
sas City, Missouri, all that busy life had
saved from the engaging smile ami frank
energy of Eugene Rust, who was born in
the fine city of Belfast, Maine, 81 years
ago-born as the son of Maine editor
and newspaper proprietor, and died as
the superintendent of the great Kansas
City Stockyards the 'Cudahy Stock
yards" as they were called, to distin-
| guish them from the Armour Swift
Stockyards of Chicago.
/ When Gene" Rust first sprung into
social life, when he was student at
the East Maine Conference Seminary in
Bucksport, he was freshly graduated
from his fathers Republican 'organ"
gressive Age of Belfast. His boyish
great editor, like Horace Greeley and
James Gordon Bennett the elder. His
talk was chiefly about copy" and
'sticks" and lem rules" Those were
the days when good Billy" Boomer was
undreamed of in Eastern Maine, when
fine old Bill Nye had just emigrated from
Shirley, Maine, for the west--taking the
Nye father along by the hand
Down there on top of Oak Hill in
Bucksport, overlooking the tomb-walled
cemetery, "Gene' Rust started the first
"School for journalism Maine had ever
known. Among the students who at
tended the Rust school, and who followed
the profession for some years in after
life, were Henry A. Wing Of Mattawam-
keag, Samuel Butnam Thayer of Ply
mouth, a grandson of and heir to the late
Hon. Samuel Butnam, who had repre-
sented Maine in Congress; Seth Sawyer
of Bangor, who was employed later on
the Northern Border, under the late DR..
Tefft of Brewer; Rev. George A. Craw-
ford Of Camden, as we'll as others, who
soon dropped out of the business for the
purpose of exchanging reportorial fame
for clean and hard dollars. There was
! also competent advisory board for this
Rust School of journalism, consisting of
Professor Willabe Haskell-now of Yale
University - Warren and Emery, two
printers of Bucksport, both Of whom are
now living, though entirely "out" of the
publishing business, while such men as
Hon. Parker Spofford and Dr. John J.
/
and again to give advice.
The romantic feature about the stu
dent life of Gene" Rust at Bucksport,
was that he at once fell in love with
handsome and wide awake Miss Nellie
Case of kenduskeag, the daughter of
naval officer of the federal service. This
was one of the love-matches at Bucks
port Seminary which 'held," for the
Kenduskeag belle welded her newspaper
man and moved west with him to share
his triumphs
Meanwhile serious troubles were COM
ing to William M. Rust and his Progress
sive Age of Belfast
Some claim that the elder Rust grew
weary of putting the cause of the Re.
publican party for year after year, and
never receiving any fat Office whatever.
Anyhow, when Scion Chase led hem
steers off in greenback chase, Rust
and his weekly newspaper followed; and
the final overthrow of the elder Rust and
his paper arrived when Wilder W. Perry
of Camden, William M. Rust of Belfast
and Thompson H. Murch of Rockland
came up for the Democratic. Greenback
nomination to Congress in the old Repub-
lican district, which had been represent
ed for years by Eugene Hale of Els
worth.
In this most heated convention, Murch,
the stone -cutter-a native of Hampden-
won easily, and was sent to Congress
with the late doctor" George W. Laid
of Bangor-for two terms in succession.
The result was a death blow to Editor
William M. Rust, who abandoned by the
Greenbacks and ignored by the Demo-
crats-sold out his paper. and soon after
passed from earth-to fairer and hap
pier Home, it is hoped.
Those after thew days were famous
old times for the Bucksport Seminary.
Among the students who attended from
Belfast-in addition to good "Gene" Rust
were Billy Morrison, now of Minnesota,
Fred Pitcher, captain of the local base
bali team, "Jim' and "Pussy'' Harri-
man, sons Of Belfast lawyer, while
from Searsport came the maritime Mich
OILS and Nickels, the Curtises, the Col
cords, the Pendletons, McGilverys, the
Bucks and Noyeses. There, too, were
Fred 7. Griffin, Edward Lord, Percy War
rem, James Barry, Seth Sawyer and
others from Bangor. Fine and wide
awake ''MeP' Bartlett, Arthur Chaplin,
Arthur Ryder, Henry Washburn and
Harry Chapman were there from Orring-
ton. Safe and-sure Edgar M. Cousins
from Southwest Harbor, the lamented
John M. Brown of Orono-the man who
made the best prayer ever offered in
Maine; l. H. w. Wharf of Bangor, late
ly deceased, James Donigan from Orono,
Andrew Peter Wiswell from Ellsworth,
fine old Holmes Buck of Bucksville, South
Carolina-the list widened and lengthen-
ed and deepened Cut, until it includes
nearly all of Maine and good part of
New England,
And finest and most optimistic among
them all was Eugene Rust, who was born
in Belfast, Maine.
Most certainly Heaven is becoming
abundantly ''fat" with the good men and
women from Maine of late.