PAGE, WILLIAM. 



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against 212,689 tons the preceding season. The 

 grain fleet of 1884-'85 consisted of 113 vessels, 

 having an aggregate tonnage of 113,373 tons. 

 In 1883-'84 the number was 90, tonnage 94,- 

 680. The wool shipments of the year were 11,- 

 120,333 pounds (6,806,711 to San Francisco, 

 and 4,313,621 eastward); of hops, 6,333,237 



pounds ; oats, 240,524 centals ; potatoes, 288,- 

 606 sacks; barley, 38,650 centals; flaxeeed, 26,- 

 142 sacks. The shipments of salmon from April 

 1 to July 31 were 217,705 cases. For the calen- 

 dar year 1885 the value of domestic exports, 

 by rail and water, was $8,373,399; foreign, 

 $5,907,271. 



PAGE, WILLIAM, an American artist, born in 

 Albany, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1811 ; died in Totten- 

 ville, S. I., Oct. 1, 1885. His father, Levi Page, 

 a man of small education, but great natural 

 intelligence and ability, was by turns farmer, 

 printer, store - 

 keeper, and navi- 

 gator on the Hud- 

 son. William's 

 education began 

 in Albany ; but 

 while he was still 

 young his parents 

 removed to New 

 York, where he 

 studied in the pub- 

 lic schools, and 

 in the then well- 

 known school of 

 Joseph Hoxie. 

 His art talent ex- 

 hibited itself al- 

 most from baby- 

 hood, and at elev- 

 en years of age he 

 i made an India-ink 

 portrait of Louis 

 XIV of France, 

 which won a prize 

 in the American 

 Institute Exhibi- 

 tion. But his fa- 

 ther considered 

 the career of an 

 artist as too pre- 

 carious to be en- 

 couraged, and 

 placed the boy 

 in the law-office 

 , of Frederick De 

 Peyster, then Sec- 

 retary of the 

 American Acad- 

 , emy of Fine Arts. 

 The lawyer soon 

 found that his pu- 

 pil spent more of 

 his time in mak- 

 ing sketches of 

 ' celebrated law^ 

 yers, whose faces 

 ; adorned his legal 



volumes, than in committing to memory their 



sage opinions. Mr. De Peyster took some 



of the sketches to Trumbull, painter of the 



J " Signers of the Declaration of Independence." 



"Can you make a lawyer of him?" asked 

 Trumbull. u Yes, he has brains enough for 

 anything." " Then tell him to stick to it. He 

 has great talent ; but an artist in this country 

 can not attain wealth or fame." Page remem- 



WILLIAM PAGE. 



bered the praise and forgot the warning. He 

 left the law-office at once, and became appren- 

 tice to a portrait-painter named Herring, who 

 kept the youth painting banners, screens, and 



