The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-08
HER SIS. 600 FEE.
For Winning Case New forA
Woman Received That Amount.
Philadelphia North Americana


For winning a single case. Fannie Car
penter, a New york woman lawyer. has
Just received fee half again as large as
the yearly salary of the president OIL inc
United States.
Seventv-five thousand dollars was the
sum, and it is the largest fee ever pau
to a woman attorney. Indeed, the eIsat-
est corpora ton lawyers seldom reallGe
such d reward from one case.
The fact that a case of such magrlltu I
was trusted to a woman, and that she
succeeded in winning it, proves with VIVA
certain step the female disciples OF
Blackstone are taking their place before
the bar of justice.
Mrs. Carpenter is a middle-aged, sensl-
BILE, hard-headed, shrewd business woman.
Her hair is gray and serious Illness a
few years ago compelled her TO have II
cut very short. She is five feet tall ana
slight in proportion.
So hard did she work in preparation for
and during the trial of her big case that
she lost a great deal of weight. and is to-
day in consequence much thinner ana
more fragile than she usually IS.
Mrs Carpenter is a native OF New Eng
land. and was brought up in the tenets OF
a strict New England religion.
When she was about 10 years old her
parents went to California 10 i've. and
she took course at Mills college, at Al
media.
'That was the greatest thing in my
life" said Mrs. Carpenter the other day
dorf-AstOria. The training that ! got
there, the discipline which was main
tanned and the lecturers who taught there
gave me an experience and knowledge
which | firmly believe ] could never have
acquired elsewhere in the same length OF
time.
AFTER my college course was completed
my family moved to Hawaii and | went
with them 1t was there ] met Mr.. Car
penter He was practicing law. but short
ly after our marriage we came to New
York to live.
THAT was twelve years ago. l belong
to and am a firm believer in women
clubs. and those of which | was mem
ber together with some charities IN Wnlch
| was Interested. were my principal time
destroyers the first few years that we
lived here.
that it was a good thing for a woman to
study a profession, and | therefore deter
mined to take d course in law. chose
law principally. | think, because 1t was
Mr. Carpenters profession.
~ entered the law school of New York
university and was admitted to the bar in
1897, and have been practicing more or less
assiduously ever since. There is one point
over which I have been tremendously an
noyed time and time again.
There are but eighteen women in New
York who are members of the bar, but
there are possibly 100 or even $50 who be-
cause they have taken course OF law
lectures at some college or other, feel that
they have a right to call themselves law
yers
THE eighteen women in New York who
have really been admitted to the bar have
formed club. of which / have the honor
to be president"
ITO what do you consider you owe your
great success, principally, Mrs. Carpen-
ter?"
ITO nothing so much as hard work. 1t
is the only method by which one can
achieve success in anything. My practice
has all come to me voluntarily, for l have
never sought single case.