, 1890-06-12
A ROMANCE OF LAW.
A Young Man Wins a Suit
Involving $l,5oo,ooo.
INSIDE OF THE FISKE WILL CASE
Cleveland Told Bacon to Stick to
the Law-He Fored over Tones
and Raised Legal Point
New York World.l

| AZ "A
study of man than of hooks. has
hsnn s.m,ljar 6anre In the metro.
noii,,n rosor, nf man obo,,t town for
severaI yoara nast UI, name was
u1barlev y bis frlands said. "Char.
Low nacon - and no was snid 10 be n
brlyht vouny lawyer from Elmira
who know n great doal about polI-
tica and was he mo means ionorant
of good cheer Ho had law Office
down town. and when steele Mack.
ave. Maurice Bnrrvmore. George n.
Dayldson .John Snellino 1Eddv,,
So,nborn Jobn chamberlain Can
tain Billy Connor and other choice
snIrits me, together i'm tho shank of
the evening. tbere was "Charleyu
bacon In the midst of them.
They no LONGER call him uChar-
ley,u
He drinks notbiug but viohy
now
mn, ha ia n,oro no,,,or than oyar
Wbv2 simnlv for fbs reason that
lho Ias oria,no,od and oandno,.J 40
n0 n"S - g.., ,s,"".oa t'nu eo,'uuv'U .,e W
suceess'ui cshciusioi III 'he su'
preine court OF the United states
one of the most remarkable law
suits of the century, the Fiske-C or
nell controversy over tho will of the
I bo,ut,,,,I tan,ia Ntof,r,,,, L1i.Lo h,,
] ,ho ras,,,t =, 1T, ~. 49,,
@ iSs,i' vi ""iuh hiat moIu"y
coIheii iOses more than Sl,oooOOO.
This decision, In which all the
Jis''Ves eohcu'reu, upse's preceuents
rasui; in tho ora,,oaS,,na o,,to ~ 49,
- a,'J h,.,.,,'' ~ ."s " 80
oor,~ra,t., Ii, - ~ .,n 'yus g
-. H., Us, VII, VII i"'sio s.e uiy
go, ,.',a. y . .V.'esY ,'s1 ',ossH an
s.na,.a,sa y T" 'e"H'u a,''' 80
Ip.os'. yo, " IT, 80 ni.s'y
lsa,,.aa =, nu "s o.' a. 'o' . so'.ei'
ho,"ost' o,,o -, ,o5o ' =" VI . VIC im sos. .Y1,
ond To- v s,a.',u ~ s'l W. ic,anom Cnsno,,
a.t,,a"I.. It. su" .o'n ov'ueI'
49,. ~ " ~ '"0 "'' y
So, a.. o. c,
came roverno, os ,ho Gr.u T,.,,ir" ,a,a %
a pale. suldlous but not nalticnlariv
happy looking Young man went to
Albany TO see him. His name was
Charles D; Bacon, and he lived at
En,iiih, WIiere ne was great iriend
a T iau,var rradn',aH v o1 o. 80, nm, ,heli
nasors ha 80 ua." ~, @ i,o,il J0liege
nod In ,ba ,nr se, yo"s p"eo
@ ua. IN 'ho yeur pr Wo thnt hhn
airiJu airdisd,, snieu nd,,n no @ ley .orneli oeei
' "' ''''' '''iu '""So''
WENT TO GOVERNOR CLEVELAND.
The beardless lawver-heisb beord .
lesa vet-mov hove hocon,o d,soonr-
.V9' n''Ns oooo'iie u'scour-
Hv' "'uo"s" t"e'o "ouio seenl
w h"Ne "ecn hothlhg III MS career
then to produce such n result. At
all events, he went TO Governor
Cleveland md asked for an Office
Now ali mon Of nestrs di.IiLo 40
COO a., .,I. -. h,.,et 70
~ -. o. 80 o"ns man "i,'eh ny 'ne
s"""S VI oincc-hoIuihg' III ~ true
the ONCE young Bacon desired was
only the secretaryship of the state
railroad commission, which was not
profitable peounIorily Uo aver
nar-uadod btn,solr ,I,,,t ho ,,,o,,,,,,l IA
hao,,,sa 4, ,,",'i1 'i' no ""''e" ~
~ "o"" give MN ihc OPP
por'"hitles Oh improving his know
edse OF the practice uf his proies-
sion. But that lie wanted IL there is
no doubt. And. had he rot IL. Oar.
nell university would to-dnv he het.
ter OH by million and n 6nIf doi.
lurs.
"Go back tn Elnira and craotico
law. my boy.U aid Govcrnor rover
C,evelnnd 10 younp Bacon ,,yon
are too smart To be snoIlcd hv ,f,ico-
holliug. tnke INV ndyica IA w.
backv'
There was nothing else for the dis
! appointed oilico-seeker To do nut I'm
home and 20 10 work. If tberc
were not many clients tbere wore
at least "the books
Young Bacon had coma IN EI,,ira
from his earlier home. Snringfoid
| Mass. He had gone thro,igh "a rno,,l
| lar collegiate course mt CornelI mi
Versity, aud while "A student there
lived in the same house with pro,
fessor Willard Flsks hin,soir
youny-soulcd and artistic and
yressive man. Thero wos no,hin',
In Ithaca as a rule to draw eitbas
Fisl<e or Bacon from their hooks
aud they sat together manv Inna
evening pourlnv nvsr' ~nids iJs
tones and forgotten folIos, In tims
Professor Flske and student penan
became intimate friends ~ boi,,oom
man and man, From Proc"ssor
Eiake during that period be aco',Irod
no doubt those habits of rcse"rch
and thought which aftor,yard H
strangely enough, resulted i'm III ~,
storing Professor FIske To an ,norn,-
ou- fortune. " e'' III
Bacon graduated and Ioft Ithooo
for t.lmira. He and Fiskc fell cor'