The evening world., 1892-02-13
YOUNG FAIRS DEATH.
The Ex-Senator's Son Said TO Have
Died of the Keeley Cure.
He Had Taken the BichIoride Of
Gold Treatment.
New York Physicians Lack Faith In
Keeley's Methods.

The star patient OF DR.. Keeley's Institute
for the cure Of drunkenness by the bi-chlo-
ride OF gold treatment is dead.
He is James q. Fair, the eldest son Of ex-
Senator Fair, OF California He was pros
trated suddenly yesterday at his apartments
in the Lick House In San Francisco.
Both Jimmy Fair and his younger brother
Charles L. Fair, were among the first patients
to try the the Keeley cure after 1t had become
known.
About ten months ago the following de-
spatch was sent out all over the country as a
boom for the keeley cure and was widely
published:
SAN Francisco, April 13, 1S91.-A remarkable
cure has been effected in the of James q. Fair
jr. by the kesey b- chloride of gold treatment. He
has perfectly recovered from the habit to which he
was addicted and has returned to his home.
Another despatch, which was received this
morning, may be contrasted with the fore
going, II reads as follows:
SAN Francisco, Feb. l3.-The death Of young
Fair is attrbnted by his doctors directly to the b.
chloride OF gold treatment. The circumstances all
point to this conc usion the doctors say.
Although young Fair declared that he had
been cured It was noticed by his friends that
AlltT NJ uau tue tTeutIueuI Ac
showed extreme listlessness and lack OF
spirit.
lie was stricken down suddenly in his room
after he had been spending the evening read
ing lie iel TO the floor with sharp cry Of
pain, became Immediately unconscious, and
although physicians were summoned at once
he died within o few minutes.
ILe doctors say that strychn.nc, which is
believed to enter largely into the so-called
bi-chi"ride OF gold solution, directly affected
the heart OF the patient. and produced the
disease which husteaed his death.
II is reported In san Francisco that several
other similar cases have occurred there
among ex-keeiey patients, and the death OF
young Fair has shaken confidence In the elIi-
cacy OF the bi-chloride OF gold treatment.
The apparently successful results which
iirst attended the case or young Fair led
many other people on the Pacific coast to Try
the cure. and q number OF these have Legun
toshow symptoms OF dangerous affections OF
the Ii ar.
Senator Fair Is the only one OF the family
now in san Francisco. HIS other son, Charles,
Is H. Europe, and his two daughters are IN
New York. one o1 the latter Is the vile OF
herman Oelrchs, whose gorgeous wedding at
The palace OF the bonanza King last June was
the sensation OF the day. II ecl!psed In splen-
dor anything ever known ON the Pacific coast
or anything In the whole country for that
matter.
Senator Fair himself Is the wealthiest man
III san Francisco. HIS real estate In Califor-
MIA alone Is valued ut 100000, 900, and he
has besides large interests in silver mines In
Nevada and elsewhere.
Young Jimmie Fair and his brother each
received 100000 by the Will OF their mother
but they were only allowed the Interest on
this sum. They were to get the principal
when they arrived at the age OF thirty -four
Jimmie Fair was just thirty years old wher
he dAed.
lie MAS very popular, It Is said, with thu
"CoyS" around town, and began drinking a
an early age. BY the time he had reached nis
majority he had become n hopeless victim o
the habit. H. Tried several methods TO cur,
himself before lie went 10 the KGeley Insti
tnte. One ot these was TO have his "pGlatt
hypnotized," a process which is supposed I,
make the TASTE ~ whlskcy disagreeable {,
the patient.
PREVIOUS VICTIMS hF THE CURE.
little more than a week ago Walter B
Earle died AT ionEers Violently Insane. II,
had been an inmate OF the Keeley institute
q, White Plains during January and had beer
discharged rs cured. \ lew days after he lei
the Institute he began TO show symptoms o
insanity and ravrd continually about tn,
k,e.ey cure.
lie had violent spa9ms. and finally IT. wa,
necessary to place him under restraint. II.
was sent to the rcughkeepsie Insane Asylum
where he died.
II Is said that many OF the patients at til,
institute. after receiving u few Injections o
the bi-chlorlde, become so absent-minded ant
listless that they scarcely notice anylhin;
that goes on about them.
Tn. first Shock ,lat was given 70 publ,
faith In the Kcelcy cure was the death q
"Fclix oldbOy," the writer, who told In
magazine art Gle after his discharge from lii,
ins'itutc how completely he had been cured
il less than month after the notice na,
been published he had died In the Grllriuu
trenens wGrd OF u New York hospital.
1t is wen established fact in medica
science, according to an eminent New IcrI
authority, that II al alcoholic patient Is file,
u? with certain drugs and kept uIaer thei
influence for IA sufficient tine lie VIII have Ia,
desire 10. alcoholic stiInulaat.. One Of lhes,
drugs Is strychnine.
In the case OF Erie the insane victim II Il
SAID that li' relatives intend to bring al
Sciioa against the keeley lasIitute peopl,
Tor damages.
The opir!on> OF several wlll-Suown physi
cihL> were oOtGinr' by EyENISG WogIp re
poricrs to-day oa the pue tlon as To whethe
Injections Of b!-cAlorid, CT gold aere likely [,
oe ~ eudcd bN iaIal results.
Dr. valentine Mott .uId ~ have no laiti
~ "1I u ia" Heeley cure. but that there i
any hinE harialM about IL / am not preparet
10 saS' DO not know what the co.nponen
parts oi 'he AH'A u'ei in tl,c tr, a,nicn, are.
~ cannot En-! that The treatment was II