The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-04
YOUNG EDISON IN
PECK OF TROUBLE
Pretty Chorus Girl He Married
About Year Ago Is Said to
Have Deserted Him.
TIRED OF Welded BLISS.
She Says He Would Drink and
Throw Away His Money-He
Denies That They Are
Separated.
IsEpD BLic .TT.GAL.

| REPUBLIC .fT.C1Ah.
New York. Aug 3.-Thomas A. Edison
! Jr, married a chorus girl, Marie Tuohcy
in February Of last year, and Marie. hav
! ing done her turn" on the matrmonia
! stage. made d dramatic exit therefrom twt
| weeks ago.
The union lasted nearly a year and hal
| longer than young f.disons friends pre-
dicted at the wedding and fully that muci
| longer than Mrs. Edison wanted II to last
according to her views as expressed To
night IN the home Of her mother.
| The marriage created a fiutter among
| the chorus girls of New York. Young Mr.
! Edison seemed 10 be at the beginning of {;
| brilliant career, and was supposed To have
| fine income, while Miss Tuohey was per.
forming what is known to the stage as I
| thinking part and was not basking in the
! fierce calcium light that beats upon The
| flont row of the chorus.
Mrs. Edison Returned to New York.
| She and her husband set mp an establish
| ment OF their own, living iii the city during
| the winter ana taking up their residence on
J the shores of Lake George in the summer.
| TWO weeks ago. after long period of
! quiet. which the friends q! both thought
was being enjoyed by the young couple. Mrs
Edison suddenly reappearei in New York.
MI. Edison was not with her. but no COM
mont was made.
A few days ago Mr.. Edison appeared IN
New York in a very diSheveled condition
and Very soon, he being too full of his ex-
p-riefceS 10 Keep silence. il began 10 be
h:lj
separation. And then Mr.. Edison in a mo-
ment of stimulated confidence. related the
whole story.
Young Edison came into my room" said
one OF II eSe friends land said: She's left
me-
Left Him "a Comb and brush.
Il knew the whole story at once Then he
TOOK from one waistcoat pocket Il hair
oriiSh and from another 4 comb-a cheap
rubber affair. with nearly all the teeth gone
and said: by Jove! This is everything she
left me-
Tom told me that his wife had left him
several weeks before, and that she had
taken everything out OF the house leaving
MN so absolutly without clothes and money
that he could not get away from Lake
George. nor appear deeently while there.
After a while, he said. he borrowed
enough money to get to this city, and
started home. But he drank 4 little on The
N'iS ooNIi ne sSillr ana lOUIlI uinlSeiT WITH
just enough money to get to Yonkers. There
he left the train and walked into New York
He even said that he had been obliged to
spend one night in q saloon, sleeping, by
courtesy of the proprietor, In chair
Wffe's Affections AIienated.
To these friends he also mentioned the
name of Mr.. Fairfax as having alienated
the affections of his wife, and said that he
would sue for a divorce from his wife and
bring action against Fairfax for $4,000.
Friends Of Mr.. Edison say that they sup
piled him with money. and one Of them
offered him the use OF his fiat. which he
accepted. These friends say that a repre-
sentative OF the young man has been sent
to Thomas A. Edison. his father, for the
purpose Of readjusting cordial relations he
tween them
Thomas A. Edison. Jr., when seen to-day
hatly denied the entire story. He said with
stronger emphasis that his wife had not
left him for moment: that he and she
were living together al No. 81 West Sixty
fourth street. in her mothers apartments;
that he End -ust lef' her: that there was no
such man as Fairfax" and that his
welded life was going on as merry as d
bell.
Mrs. Edison tonight denied everything
that Mr. Ediscn had said, except as to
Fairfax"
Mrs. Edison's Story.
''Our married life has not oeen merry
one," she Eaii. u got enough of 1t very
soon. do not IECan that Mr.. Edison was
cruel: he vas not that but he spent all
his money on himself and he drank terribly
at times. l can't live with man who gets
Intoxicated ard J left him, thinking that
he would rccGI crate"
so you expect that some day yOu may go
back TO him?'
'N-no: can't say that yet; but 1t may
be. L want him to have a chance to re-
cuperate. and then We shall see what can |
be done next"
Then, speaking of her leaving Mr.. Edison !
at Lake George, she said: That is all |
wrong about my taking everything. Why. |
Mr.. Edison has more clothes than he can !
wear. He has hundreds of collars and ties. |
nearly dozen pairs of shoes, and u half |
dozen suits of clothes. He could have got !
his trunk at any time. And. az to taking |
away things. there wasn't anything to take. |
If Tommy had million minute he would |
spend it and not know It,"
Has Had Enough of MatrimOny.
Mrs Edison said she did not know any
one of the name of Fairfax and that she |
is not In love with any man.
My experience with one she added. lis |
all that 1 want"
She said that her brother was coming |
here from Chicago on Sunday to settle
things" She did not explain what this
meant but said he would arrange matters
and that she would not try to get divorce,
but ''just let things drift along
In explaining that her husband handn't |
treated her coolly. Mrs. Edison said that |
he had given to her more than twenty-five
shares of stock In n company in this city in
which he was interested. 1t IS said that
young Edison's father allowed him $50
week during his married life. and Mrs. Ed
ison said tonight that the elder Mr.. Edi-
son seemed quite fond of her.
There Is photograph of himself that
he sent me to-day" she said, pointing to a
troll 1.f Er tl,o,