Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03

harvest time of his professional career; but
that he cut off his practice to devote HIM
self to the public. His investments had
however. been good and his fortune was
great enough. although it did not quite
equal the million dollars with which he is
credited. to enable him to live comfortably
on his income.
The Law for Young Men.
/ once asked Senator Fairbanks whether
he thought the law had helped him in his
| political career. He replied that it had,
and spoke at length about the law as a
necessary part of every young mans edu-
cation. Said he:
MANY people look upon the law as a
mysterious science as something to be APP
| preached with fear and trembling. The
| truth Is the law is merely the rule of COM
mon applied to the right wrong in
| human conduct. Every man should know
| something of it, and if he is a business
| man he should know a great deal. l do not
| mean that he should be his own lawyer,
| for you know the old saying about the man
| who is his own lawyer having a fool Tor
| his client. What l do mean is that every
| one should have knowledge of the gen
| eral principles of the law so that he would
| almost intuitively know what the law
| ought to be. l think the law develops a
| man in an all-around way better than
| almost any other profession. Mckinley
| was a better President for having been a
| lawyer and Harrison filled his place in the
White House all the more faithfully
| through the training of his law practice"
At that time I asked the senator whether
| the poor young man of today had as much
| chance at the bar as in the past. He ro-
| piled:
HE has if he is the right man. Our law
| practice has to certain extent been
| divided up into specialties, but the oppor-
| tunities for success great, If not
greater, than they have ever BEEN
| 1 understand that Senator Fairbanks has
| tod Il holt f no 1pxr, i,~t@ h.
| training of his sons. Two of them have
| already read law, and a third is now reud-
| ing it. One of the boys who has studied
law is engaged in other business.
Senator Fairbanks at Home.
| Senator Fairbanks lives at Washington In
| a big house on the corner of Massachusetts
| avenue and 18th street His home there
| was built by Senator Van Wyck of Ne
| braska and was occupied for time after
| Van Wyck left Washington, by Chief JUS
| tice Fuller. after which it came into the
| hands of Fairbanks. The senator's home
| here is a large two-StOry and attic cottage
situated on North Meridian street, just
across the way from the residence of Gov.
| Durbin and within a short distance of the
| old home of enjamin Harrison. The house
| is surrounded by magnificent trees, which
| evidently stood here when indianapolis was
village cut out of the woods, 1t has a
| velvety lawn about 1t, and, as the senator
| and myself sat upon the porch, could
| see the red squirrels running from tree to
| tree and hear the birds singing. The whole
| street in fact, is one succession of lawns.
| 1t looks like a great park shaded with for
! est trees and spotted with beautiful houses.
| The senator owns several large lots above
| his house and, therefore. has about as
| much room as though he lived In the coun-
| try.
| The interior of the house is well built, but
| simply furnished. 1t feels homelike and
| looks as though people lived there The
| library interested me most. 1t is not large,
but it is hung with pictures and walled
| with books, and both books and pictures
| breathe forth Fairbanks. The pictures are
| photographs of his friends and the books
| are those he likes best and studies most.
| AS you enter you see the Napoleonic fea-
| lures of President Mckinley and the sturdy,
| strenuous face of President Roosevelt look
| ing down upon you. AT the right of Roose-
welt is Abraham Lincoln, taken without the
| beard and further over the smooth-shaven
kind face of Marcus A. Hanna. Below
| Hanna on the mantelpiece stands an auto
graph portrait of John Hay, while further
| over are similar photos of Tom Plat and
Cornelius Bliss. There are photographs
| here OF the Capitol at Washington. of the
Senate chamber and of the national con-
ventions and other great bodies of which
| Fairbanks has been a part. Everything in
| the room is connected with the senator and
| his life as statesman.
Fairbanks in 1904.
But let me add the soul of the picture