Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-06-15
ON our Regular Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 5, 1882.
The Commencement Season is in its
hight now, and in every section of
the country colleges are grinding out
degrees at rate calculated to fill
even the staunchest heart with alarm
Particularly is this the case with the
law schools. Over one Hundred Young
lmbs-of the law were graduated last
week, and the f st question that arises
is. what is to become of them? Surely
the proportion Of lawyers to clients is
already too large, and nine out of ten
practitioners at the bar earn scarcely
enough money to pay Office rent or
wear passably respectable clothes. 1t
IS aim 'st u pity to see men full
blooded lawyers from twenty to fifty
years Of age, working in law Offices
at prices frequently less than five dol
lars or seldom more than twelve dol
lars week. Of course when men are
driven to extremes, they will d. almost
anything to MAKE money, thus those
disenyagel lawyers foster litigation at
frghtful rate.
You slip in the street and fall, in.
flicting an injury which may be pain
full enough but is not very serious.
The occurrence if possessed of any
feature at all worth recording appears
in the newspapers. In less than ten
hours you will have the cards of at
least half dozen lawyers, all of whom
are anxious to begin suit for DANA
ges at once for from fifty to seventy.
five per cent. of the prospective win
ni"gs. Why, there would not be
one-tenth of the divorce suits, if it
were not for impecu .ious lawyers who
egg on foolish women who come to
them under the influence of ,nomen.
tary excitement, and thus take steps
which cannot be retraced in a life.
time.
1t is the same with the medical pro.
fession. or course a or at many
young physicians 60 out of the city,
60 West to grow up with the country
But for every practitioner that means
to earn his spurs in the West we get
one from there, who having earned a
little local reputation thinks that the
world would stop still were he to hest
tate longer about imparting his know
ledge to the larger circle whom it is pos.
sible to reach in the metropolis. One.
half of our practitioners would starve if
they did not find other occupations to
keep body and soul together until the
long.expected bell sounds, which sum.
mons them to patient.
The work of demolishing the old
Washington Market was to have been
begun yesterday, but somehow the
stall keepers managed to get another
respite until tho fall. This is GER
tainly sensible, for if the old recesses
under the flooring of the market
which by courtesy are called cellars,
were to be opened in the heat of sum-
MGR season they would be certain to
give vent to very respectable amount
of sickness. As it is they are regular !
hatcherics Of malaria.
Before the building is to be torn
down tie butchers are discussing
project Of having a grand rat hunt.
Washington Market has always been ,
famous for the number, size and o
ferocity Of its rats. During the day J
time they keep quiet enough, but the :
moment the stalls are closed and the
shades Of night begin to fall, they I
come out of their hiding places, and q
after feeding on the scraps of meat,
vegetables, etc., which naturally
abound, they make night hideous with d
'heir brawls and fights which ire
quently end in the death of several
combatants. !.
1t requires a brave man to go into NJ
Tho maj ket at night, for the rats are
|erocious and determined to stick up =
Tor their rights. The butchers pro- J
pose to get together large number
If terriers and have grand battle to
wind up the festivities of the occasion. =.
Mr.. Edwin Booth and his daughter
are on their way back to this
country. Miss Booth returns to rem A