The times., 1899-01-08
MODELS Foa LAWYERS.

Ffom the New YOrk GseHus POst)

Negligence .ySes.
Gfom the New Yora Eseuiug Post)
Once upon a time aDl.lty often display
ID i,sef Dy r!sIEg fTo.n tbe shosmaker's
o the Judges bench. Instances where Of
ice boy land Office boys handled brooms
Ind made fires in thoSs Gaysl rose" to
-enior partners in Law asais were frequent
enough 10 be aImos5 commonplace. The
INES nave changed. and today there is in
ais city seit-rsiialt young man who
mas risen" from n law Office o a Broad
say carpenter shop liz whistles all day
10 his work, for the sGcp is his own and
he works under his own name instead of
jrGdging away. as formerly. drawing sim
pie routine papers. chasing up witnesses.
and getting from them declarations which
were to be mclded by lis Iuekier super
icTs into afl,dayits-tn brief. doing all va
rieties Of the anonymous drudgsry for
which his superiers get all the outside
hcnor. He might have given his nights to
his code, and gone t. an evening law
school. Some time. after ten years, per
haps. in the same law office. some fri ndly
observer might have remark ed upon the
pity that 50 bright young lawyer should
have apparently Sc little ambition and so
little of practical ability for advancing
himself
OF the young man in question. that OBJ
servation will not be made In place of
wasting years trying TO reverse the law
OF supply and demand. he has recognized
the principle that success li-s IN speciaii-
zation. and gone into field where the
demand was wide and the supply limited
The firm with which ne grew I'D from his
teens to manhood as Office boy and clerk
was and is distinguished for its skill in
defending actions brought to recover
damages for hurts alleged to be caused
by the carelessness Of some one or some
ones servants. Since the business OF
carrying passengers has been augmentea
by the addition of the cable and trolley
overhead and underfoot, and the public
highways are filled by rapidly-moying
cars, to the danger of pedestrians and
Eehicies, many have come to regard the
falling OF street ear or running into
one with the JOY that in ancient times
greeted the death of a rich uncle. Pro
lection. therefore, from this modern
species of fortune-hunting has become a
business OF itself. summoning to its aid
many arts and callings. Nor are passen-
ger carriers the only patrons Of this bust
ness OF protection. which is a deyelop-
ment Of recent years. Owners OF plants
Tor the manufacture of products of all
KINDS. from gas TO pianos. are targets for
inevitable damage suits in the events Of
trouble with the power, or belts, or pul-
leys. or in case of some ones inconsfder-
ate contact with the buzz saw. or cog
wheel II is no new fact that business OF
accident insurance has become well de-
hned and that the insurance extends to
guaranteeing immunity from liability 10
money damages. as well as to recoup-
inent Of property directly lost by acct
dent.
The method of providing immunity is by
I cohtestlng every claim, inch BY inch. save
those that can be settled cheaply. and
. hshtinS claims has been reduced TO a
/ science which summons to its aid every
arr. As the object lesson is at the founda-
ton Of modern pedagogy. so the eve 1s
! wen as the ear of the modern Juror must
be appealed to in the process OF bringing
, MN 10 a verdict Formerly a man or n
/ diagram prepared by a city surveyor or
/ a draughtSman. showing the place of the
| accident and indicating distances and di-
IlehSlonS. was the limit Of art in prepar-
ing FOR trial. The leading authority in
thls country that can be cited in support
oi the use OF photographs to aid a Jury
1 IN gFasping the situation and enable them
20 listen to evidence iuteliigentlv is hare
~ dozen years old. The object lesson
method OF trying cases has grown in IA
vor rapidly. though. and one NAV often
see nowadays eloquent pleaders and astute
/ cross-eNaminers pushing toy trolley cars.
Ol'S+' s'i4A hOfEANHr Up anu lONQ little
wooden tracks running over a temporary
right OF way along the Jury rail or the
counsel table. mOoring knife-whittIed
| canal boats to miniature wharves hoist
ing and lowering little freight or passen-
! ger elevators. operating derricks. or turn
/ ing wheels of laundry -mangles. or of mod
! els OF other deadly machines That in
! litigation growing out OF a boiler explo-
sion jury gave one victim a verdict.
| while another few months later found
| for the defendant on the same state of
/ facts. may be due TO difference be-
tween the two trials in the use OF models
and miniatures.
| Thus it is that the young man referred
, to has invested his capital in a carpenters
| bench and tool chest and a blow-pipe and
| soldering kit, rather than in haff a ton of
| reports. and that his two-r0om suite in
al office building on Broadway is a model
| makers den rather than q law Office He
| can be found there any day using his
! plane and jigsaw. fashioning odd-loolsing
| things with blow-pipe and tin-cuttins
| shears, or developing Photographic mega
| tives in his dark closet. He knows all the
| points regarding the availability OF a model
| to trial counsel. and will turn out to cr-
| der anything from a plaster east OF A
| broken femur to a sheet-tin model of an
| Illuminating gas tank He whistles at his
| work. for it is not against the rules of the
| Office. and he has risen" in life to do his
| own work under his own name