The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

310 BIOGRAPHY OF HON. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS
Newton H., connected with the Springfield Foundry Company,
and Luther M., a capitalist and real estate dealer in Mansfield,
111. It is noticeable that all the men of the Fairbanks stock
are well-to-do.
UNPRETENTIOUS HOME LIFE
It is a quiet life and modest one which the Fairbanks
family leads in Indianapolis. Their two-story frame dwelling
is an unpretentious structure, though pretty and comfortable,
and as to the Senator's office in one of the ancient buildings
here, it is not only unpretentious, but shabby. Besides a few
careless scratches on the glass with some blunt steel
instrument, the only sign upon the door is a simple and
crudely painted "C. W. Fairbanks" in black letters about
three inches high.
DINGY OFFICES
There are two rooms with uncarpeted floors, and the
hallway approaching them leads to an elevator unmodern and
slow-moving. It is not one of the places where you would
look for the office of a United States Senator, and is not one-
tenth as imposing nor one-fiftieth as comfortable as Mrs.
Fairbanks' suite in the Washington Loan and Trust building
in the Capital City, where she has more assistants than her
husband needs in his law business, and where she handles the
weighty affairs of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
When the Senator came to Indianapolis in 1874, the late
Judge Walter Q. Gresham was on the Supreme Court bench.
He was a sincere and useful friend of Senator Fairbanks,
and in his position on the bench was able to throw a great
deal of profitable business in the young man's way.