The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-09
roo MANY LAW yERs.
brooklyn Practitioners VINO Appear
in Court ON an Average OF once
Year.

RXear.
From the Brooklyn Time'.
"rhat lawyer hasn't been in this
court for nearly year past" said
Clerk Charles Farrell, of the city court
few days ago, as he pointed out u
thin, consumptive.looking young
man standing before the bar aud ar
guing motion for alimoay and eoun-
ell fees In divorce case. "And he
may not be here again In another
year." Clerk Farrell added. ale is
only ali illustration of the line that
'one-half of the world doesn't know
how the other halflives.'"
"Where does he practiceF asked the
reporter.
ain Brooklyn"
"Are there many more like himH'
II should say so. The practice of
the law is n great lottery"
allow many lawyers are there who
do business in Brooklyn" quericd
the reporter.
Mr. Farrell went into an adjacent
room and, bringing ina lawyers di-
rector. ., counted the names.
There are just $50.
"Out OF ali of these" continued Mr..
Farrell, "not over fifty do good pay
ing business. a class of lawyers we
don't often hear of in court are men
who do what is known Us real estate
business. Again, there are those hir-
ed by corporations, with good sala-
ries, easy places and comfortable pri-
vate practice. There is firm on
Court street, composed of three broth
ers and all of them are wealthy, their
money having come from real estate,
allow about pleaders!"
"The pleaders at the bar ork hard.
a great many people who goto law
beat around Tor cheap man and gen.
orally get young one. He pockets
his retainer right away, getting all he
can. When the case comes 10 trial he
can't try it himself. lie gets II pretty
good counsel to assist him and the
client has TO pay tor him"
"Who work the hardcst!'
"The council gets the cream of the
work, aud the attorney does all tn,
preparing of the case for trial. One
of the leading counsel IN the suit o1
De Wolf& Swan against Henry Day
got $4,000 Tor one months services;'
"What do these young lawyer;
EARN"
"a good many of them around th,
City Hall make OH an average abouI
$40 week. The general term, every
three months, turns out forty or fifty
young lawyers, some of them total,
unfit to practice. Very often goot
many of them abandon the law alto
gethcr aud go out into the business
world. Many of them leave Brooklyn
and 20 to New York"
"Is not the law business of Brook
Ign increasing in proportion as tn
city growsF ......
dyes. The June judgements in tn
= city court number fifty Or sixty NOR
, than for the corresponding time las
year But the business is mOnopol
zcd by the few, may say by less tina
twenty-five firms"
"What remedy have the young me
got!n
, "Why, emigration
+, "What do you meanI'
a LET them follow Horace Greedy
, advice and go west Let them SOU,
Q down and grow up with the countr
$ A young man of my acqnaintan,
:. went out to Lawrence Kansas. II
first case he got was very importan
one against the state. lie is now d.
Z ing n splendid business and is CO.
l. stantly sending to me to nd on la
o books. But when Il young man do
i 90 out west let him take wife wi
him to keep him steady" and MIR. Fla
!, rell took up his pen and began aga
Il to take notes of the court procee
Il ings