Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-12

Senator Fairs Domestic Trouble APP.
preaching a Happy End.

THE GREAT WEALTH WHICH THE DIVORCE DIS
Is SAID TO HAVE lad $500, 600 FEE.
From the New York Sum-
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3O-A social event
that has often been predicted seems at last
late wife, from whom he was divorced last
spring. have effected reconciliation and the
long-scparated couple will be reunited in mar
rage soon. The property interests at stake
have been so large and the intercessions of the
children have been SO potential that the parents
have found it impossible to resist the influences
which seemed to draw them together.
Mr. Fair was the practical man of the bonanza
f1rm. lie, like Mackey was a miner. He was a
mine foreman, and, understanding his business
thoroughly. he became invaluable to his assOc-
ates He knew every detail of the business,
could tell what was the matter with machine.
and was good judge OF ORE of rock. and of
the hundred things which enter into the calcu-
latlOnS Of miner. He was quiet and business
like.
Mrs. Fair is large ine-loekng woman of the
Irish type, with dark hair and eyes. In the early
days OF the silver mining excitement. when Fair
was poor, she was his mainstay. She econo-
mlZcd in q hundred ways, and encouraged him
to persist In his efforts many times when he was
dlsheartened and inclined to abandon his enter
prlseS. She was good wife, as all admit and
Mr.. Fair himself never made complaint against
her except that her devotion to the Roman Cath
Olic church was too great. Four children were
born to them. two boys and two girls. the eldest
being James q. Fair, r, now 81 years old, and the
Youngest, Virginia, aged 9. Mr.. and Mrs. Fair
lived contentedly together until a year ago last
winter, whelthey separated, and dozen different
stories were put in circulation concerning the
cause. After the separation Mrs. Fair took UP
her residence in the elegant home belonging to
the family on Mob Hill in this city. The Senator
with his eldest son, took foreign tour, and on
their return secured quarters at hotel here.
In the mean time. the prospect which a
divorce suit in family of such enormous
wealth opened up had caused several attorneys
and others to take hand in the matter, and
this influence was not calculated to allay the ill
feeling. Mrs. Fair filed bill for divorce at Vir-
ginia City on the 7th of last Nav alleging inf
deity on the part OF the husband and implica-
ting several women in this city, The allega-
lions caused something of a sensation. and it
was expected that long trial would be the
result. Lawyers, detectives, and go-betweens
Imagined that they had rich picking within
their grasp. and Mr.. Fair found himself annoyed
beyond measure by their solicitations
Feeling that Mrs. Fair had been improperly
Influenced by some of her counsellors the Sem
ator determined to make no contest of the suit
In card to the public he denied the allega-
tons made in his wifes bill, and day later, on
the 9th of May, he issued the following:
am the man, and am willing to bear all the
odium which the public, in ignorance of the real
facts, may choose to cast on me; but my regret Is
for my wife, whose name has been Improperly as
ISOLATED and incorporated In dispatches trans