Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-27
MEDICAL MAJOR GODS
They RIVAL THEIR BROTHERS OF Le-
GAL FAME IN FANCY FEES.

some Enormous Incomes That Are I'm.
joyrd by the Elect In Their Respective
Professions In Now Nork-How. In Con.
trnst, the Common Herd Fares
An English jour Mist visiting this ooun.
try Few years ago said Of New York that
u was "a market where all desirable wares
are certain TO bringR fair reward for tho
Trouble and expense OF producing them.
WINE this Is as true today ms It was then.
there are critics who find fault with tho
scale Of prices and give pointto the old saw.
ing that It Is impossible to satisiy every.
body.
A reporter has investigated the subject
OF professional incomes received IN This
city and inthe course Of this investigation
has discovered that, II the figures cited by
President HARPER arc accurate his COLLEGE
professors are doing quite rs well as the
average lawyer doctor aud clergyman in
New York. He states that in OF oolege.
having from 90 to $50 students, the salaries
Of the most highly paid professors average
ABOUT 4 800, aud that in colleges having
Sl,glg
Inc average hueiness man who makes
1 per cent on his invested capital thinks thas
he Is getting u very fair rotnrn for t. rha
capital OF the professional man is his edu-
cation' 70 that President llarper's professor
receives an Income about equivalent tothat
derived from $4,000 invested al S Der cont
! Many doctors and lawyers have confessed
to the reporter that they would be glad to
feel sure OF realizing that profit as the re.
suit Of years labor
During the last 80 or 30 years the rate o,
compensation FOR thehcayicsScascs OF work
in the three learned professions has greatly
increased. Before the war tho LAWYER who
received fee OF S2,0o0, 5000 or tS, O0o was
regarded as IA specially lucky fellow. no.
day 1t Is a common thing for well known
members Of the bar to charge and obtain
such sums for particular service.
During the famous Erie litigation,
brought about by thetransactlons OF Fisk
and Gould, David Dudley Field, thereon
sci, is said to have received retainer Of
100000. AZ no time during the ptgiod
when that eminent iurisoonsult was az the
summit Of his famcnnd In the midst Of an
active practice did he derive less thnn 500.
900 per annum from his professional labors.
MIR. Evarts income WAS quite as large, and
Mr. Choate, his partner, IS today In receipi
OF one that cannot be much less. While
these cases are exceptional, there are 1t is
estimated, between 500 and 400 lawyers
here whose average annual earnings will
exceed $4,000
Against these, which may be classified as
cases OF lawyers OF exceptional talents aud
opportunities, are TO be placed the oases Of
the thousands of less fortunate ones, many
ofwhom barely manage 20 earn a support
for themselves and their families. The law
is a crowded profession, aud for the man
who enters u without briefs or friends an
Improbable one. According TO an estimate
given the reporter by a member In long
practice, the average income Of the New
York lawyer Is between 500 and 81 900.
The same conditions are 10 be observed In
the medical profession. There, too, men
Of the highest attachments and reputation
art earning yearly sums that half u century
ago would have been regarded as fortune
| A list submitted to the reporter OF physi'
clans whose incomes exceed 5000 con.
tanned, among others, such names as Dr.
! Loomis, DR., Flint, DR., Sayre, Dr. Satterlee
] DR.. stimson, Dr. Markoo, DR.. Peters, Dr.
3 MoBurncy, DR.. Hamilton, DE-, Delafleld and
l DR. Weir The list OF those whose incomes
are in the neighhorhood OF $1,000 embraces
the names OF nearly 200 practitioners.
Doctors like Loomls Flint and sayre hold
| the same relation TO the practice Of medi'
cine that lawyers like Choate, Eyarts, Car
ter and Field hold to the practice OF law
They are the major gods' Of their pro
| fession, and their remuneration Is grad
uatod according 10 the public appreciation
| OF their pre-eminent skill and talent A
| physician who has been associated with Dr.
/ LOOMS IN many important cases IL Of the
! opinion that his profession yields him a.
much as 600 ort50,O00 year Ia former
times. when doctor had more business
than he could attend 20, he turued some Of
/ IL over to an assistant. Although that ii
still done, the most popular Of the leading
physicians correct the excess by increasing
their charges or by adopting the role Of
consulting physieiahs,
A quarter Of a century back $3.50 was the
usual fee for a visit Now It is la some in
stances e., In other Si0and in still other go,
When a physician who has abandoned the
practice OF visiting bis patients and become
n consulting physician makes AN exception
under special circumstances, he charges for
a visit thus made as much rs he would for
consultation. Doctors Of the grade o.
sayre. Stimson, Flint, Loomis aud Mo
! IltnENs WIN NANAllA a. NNA'HAiAaAsti l'AiHNf
clans. receive as high as $50, SO and si00.
In the third or lowest grade OF the pro
.fession the incomes taper down from SOU
to few hundreds This Of course is the
most numerous grade and has the prinei-
Die OF the survival Of the. Httest as Illus
trnted by experiences that aIe often posi-
lively narrowing At the time when the
passion for painting placques was most IN
teIAely developed in this city, q cynio OBJ
served that, "Of PLAQUES and doctors there
Is no end" He alluded to the multitude
Of "sawbonts' yearly graduated IN spite Of
Tie faot that New York bus had for Year,
more doctors than It knows what TO do
with. By the profession the opinion i al
most unanimously entertained that cue
best correction Of the evil Is 70 raise NE
standard Of qualification. Reduce the
quantity ard improve the quality Of the
supply.-New York New.
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