Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-30

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Some of the Prominent New York
Lawyers.
There are about thirty-fve hundred
lawyers doing business in the New York
courts, who may be divided into three
classes, according to age and experience.
First there are the veterans, who have
gained all the honors and profits posi-
BILE in the profession, who are oppressed
with years, and have retired from active
practice. OF these, Charles O'Conner
and James w. Girard are types, the first
is now past his seventeen year, and is
the acknowledged Nestor of the New
York bar; of unimpeachable integrity,
and the highest ability. He is now sell
dom seen in court, and has retired on
his we'll earned laurels. Girard, whose
withdrawal from practice short time
since, was celebrated by a compliments
ry dinner given by the whole bar, be-
gan his professional career as early as
1922, yet he still retains his faculties
unimpaired.
David Dudley Field, though hardly
old enough to be called veteran, is one
of the ablest lawyers in New York, and
by far the largest practice. His receipts
as counsel for the Erie railroad compa-
ny alone, are understood to have exceed
ed 100000 in single year, and his
regular income is enormous.
William M. Evarts has national
reputation, and his appointment to be
attorney general of the United States
was well deserved compliment to his
legal abilities. His personal appearance
is most peculiar. He is very tall, and
seems as thin as rail-a mere backbone
with brain attached. His manner is
quiet and pleasant. He stands next to
O'Conner for legal requirements and in
tegrity, and when free from professional
cares, is uncommonly social. Z. w.
Stoughton is a selfmade man, and, ac-
cording to common reports, was brought
up to mechanical pursuit. He has
been very successful as a lawyer, and
makes speciality of patent cases. He
was the personal friend and counsel of
Capt. Ericsson, the inventor of the cal
oric engine, and builder of the first
monitor, and at later date he was en-
gagged in several important India rubber
suits. His income is said to be over
S16O, 900, and he spends it in the most
luxurious manner. He has an elegant
house on Fifth avenue where he gives
magnificent entertainments, to which
several times each year the judges and
leading members of the bar are invited.
The house is kept with great display, in
cluding liveried servants and other feat
ures, and reminds one OF European state.
The second class of lawyers contains
men like the late Grenville I. Jencks,
who fully carried out Websters maxim,
live we'll, work hard, and die poor
Among this class are Seward, Blatch-
ford d Griswold, Barrett, Brinsmaid q
Barrett, Beebe q Donahue, Martin &
Smith and Brown, Hall q Vanderpool.
These are men of capacity, and have a
large practice with incomes ranging as
high as S150,000 and over.
The third class of lawyers referring
solely to ages, consists of men like Joseph
II, Choate, John f. Parsons, w. E. Cur
tis, George Tcknor Curtis, A. r. Law
renee, j. Z. Burrill, Elbridge F. Gerry,
Luther B. Marsh, all of whom are repu-
table and capable, and are not mixedup
with the scandals which have disgraced
the bar in late years. They have in
comes of from ten to fifty thousand dol
lars. The real estate lawyers are never
seen in court, and confne themselves
wholly to office business, such as drawing
wills, searching titles conveyancing, etc.,
which is very profitable Mann & Par
sons, Wetmore d Bourie, Dewitt, Under
hill a. Ulshoeffer, are among the leading
firms in this line, and make from S15 900
upward per year. The men who control
the bulk of the paying business in our
courts are Brown, Hall & Vanderpool,
w. H. Rartlett, Joseph III. Colman and
Ira Shafier. the last three being especial
proteges of Judge Barnard; ID. p. In
gram, Jr., Gratz Nathan and Tom c..
Fields, who, though not'especially remark
able for legal attainments, are favorites
Of the ring and the corrupt judges, and
are, consequently, selected as counsel in
many suits before these judges. Their
incomes run from twenty-five to fifty
thousand dollars. Besides these lawyers
William M. Tweed, Jr., A. ]. Smith, Ru-
| fus +. Andrews and others, are constant
| ly appointed as referees and receivers of
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