St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-19
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

From Chauncey NJ. Depew's Judiciary
centennial speech: For forty years
after the supreme court began its work
the fees OF lawyers we're not so large as
they are now. In fact, the most emf
nent attorneys received no more than
S25 for drawing briefs and presenting
causes to jurieS. Those were the happy
days for the client. Nearly all lawyers
died poor. A rich lawyer was at that
time as much of novelty as a rich
literary man is now.
How different at the end of this CEN
fury! It's common thing nowadays
to hear of attorneys receiving $3.50, 900
for the reorganization of railroad or
for organizing trust, and the gueerest
part of it is that his clients look upon
him with respect commensurate with
his charges. Moreover, the community
applauds the attorneys moderation.
Clients are most illogical. They rea-
son from no known commercial basis.
In the early days of my career as a
lawyer l wrote an opinion for client
and timidiy asked SIS therefor. He
grumbled great deal before paying it.
Then he took the opinion to famous
New York advocate to find out whether
1t was all right. The advocate glanced
over it, wrote across the first page the
word correct and asked $500 for his
work. My client paid the sum gladly,
and is yet talking about the kindness of
the great advocate.
For the first legal paper I ever drew I
charged SI.50. A farmer was my client,
and he beat me down to 81. Twenty
years afterward l wrote paper pre-
cisely similar and received for it $500
with many thanks.
The withdrawal of Cornelius Wander
bilt from a swell bali in town, given on
Saturday night two or three weeks ago,
making his exit fifteen minutes before
Sunday morning came around. suggests
the statement, Says the New York
World, that Mr.. Vanderbilt has given
every evidence by his manner of life
that he considers worth and respectable
ity as lying at the very foundation of
the social success for which he is I'M
questionably striving. He goes to
engage in no social diversions on that
day. Following the English fashion, he
arranged some time ago that no freight
trains should be run over the New York
Central on Sunday, except such as were
carrying perishable freight, and, be-
lieve, great mary of the stations along
the line are transformed on the Sabbath
into religious meeting houses. That he
is keenly deSlrOuS for social recognition
and for social leadership is one of the
standard subjects for comment and Cos
sip in the clubs and drawing-rooms of
the town. Old society men and women
here declare that his yearnings in this
direction amount practically to mania.
49,
The movements of sugar stock. which
has been skyrocketing up in the same
style that it went down, appear to have
very little effect on the rest of the list,
although the trading in it is On very
heavy scale. The manipulation of it is
credited to Mr.. Keene. stock manipu-
lator of such fine skill that he has
never had his equal, unless it be the late
Mr.. Woerishoffer. Both men made the
same fatal mistake. They oyerworked
themselves. Mr.. Woerishoffer kept up
with unflagging viger till natuse could
hold out no longer and he died sud-
denly. Mr.. Keene broke down, and the
vigor of his mind slackening he lost his
money. Had these two men worked
only nine months of the year instead
of twelve, the one would probably
have never lost the prominent
place he held in the street and the other
would be alive to-day. If it be true that
Mr.. Keene has worked sugar stock in
the market, it would appear that he is
getting back much of his old energy. 1t
was characteristic of his style that the
occasion of the decision given by Judge
O'Brien, technically against the trust
and calculated to depress the quotations
for the stock. should have been seized
upon to effect a rapid rise in it, the adj
vance being about eleven points within
9our days after the decision was rem
dered. There was heavy short inter-
est IN the stock, and the sellers were
evidently counting on the action of the
court to give them the chance to cover
at profit. But the seasoned stock OPP
orator running the deal had seen Just
such things as that before, and gave the
shorts the Iiyeliest kind of dance.