The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-08
WOLCOTTC WIFE
WILL LEAVE HIN
Colorado Senator Agrees to a
Separation.
NO SCANDAL IN THE AFFAIR
They Have Both Been Apart Recently,
With Incompatability of Tenn
per Given as the
Cause.
NO SCANDAL IN THE AFFAIR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Announcement was made yesterday thai
Senator Edward o. Wolcott of Colorado
and his wife had agreed to separate and
that legal proceedings would be taken to
make the separation formal and complete.
Charles c. Beaman of Evarts, Choate u
Beaman was named as Mrs. Wolcott's at
torney. Mr.. Beaman went to Boston yes
terday.
Incompatibility of temper is the cause
assigned for the parting of the senator and
his wife There has been no hint of scam
dal, and the arrangements that have been
made for living apart were the result oil
mutual understanding. The Wolcotts have
many friends in this city, and Mrs. VOL
colts brother, James IL. Metcalfe of Life,
lives here.
Her younger brother, DR.. Metcalf-with-
out the "e"-is with Mrs. Wo.cott in the
Wolcott home in Connecticut avenue,
Washington. 1t is said that the senator
has been making his home at the Arlington
hotel in Washington during the last week,
Hi second arm
Senator Wolcott, who is serving his sec
body when he took his seat in the senate
in 1889. He was reelected in 1895, and his
present term will expire in 1901. He is 81
years old, and was graduated from the
Harvard Law school after spending two
years at Yale.
He is one of the most eloquent men in
congress. He nominated James g. Blaine
for president in the Minneapolis convention
of 1892. In 1897 he went abroad as Presi-
dent McKinleys special representative to
investigate the monetary situation, and
later in the same year the president APP
pointed him, Charles J. Paine of Massa-
chusetts and ex-Vice President Adlai E.
Stevenson of Illinois commission to visit
European countries to bring about the re-
monetization of silver by international
agreement.
Always Fond of Sport
Senator Wolcott laid the foundation of
his fortune as a corporation attorney IN
Denver, where he has magnificent sub
urban home. He always has been fond or
a good time" and his fondness for the
races, the prize ring and the clubs has
made many newspaper stories.
The year before his election to the sem
ate he won $21 600 at a single sitting at faro
in Long Branch His political opponents
tried to use this story to defeat his re-
election in 1895, and various colors were
given to the episode One version was that
he had lost $4,000. When Wolcott was
asked about this by some of the Colorado
legislators he laughed and said that he
had won more than that at the races the
previous day.
Tales Didn't Hurt Him
The stories only added to his popularity
in Colorado He made no secret of the fact
that he had bet 81 900 to $500 on Sullivan
before the Sulliyan-COrbett fight
Mrs. Wolcott is the daughter of Mrs. e.
NJ. Metcalf who is prominent in Buffalo.
Senator Wolcott is her second husband
Her first husband was Congressman Ly-
man X Bass Of Buffalo, who was law
partner of Grover Cleveland and Wilson l..
Bissell His health becoming impaired, he
went to Colorado to live and became the
general counsel of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway and the Mexican Central
railway.
Mr. Bass died In this city in 1889, and his
widow was married to Senator Wolcott in
the following year in st. Paurs cathedral,
Buffalo, by Bishop Coke. Mrs. Wolcott Is
wealthy, having inherited fortune from
her father, who was a rich leather mer-
chant, and another one from her first hus
band She has son, Metcalf Bass, who Is
a graduate of Yale and who obtained
commission In the volunteers on the out
break of the war with Spain.