The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-06
BIG INCOMES.
Professional Men Who Make From
$4,000 10 100000 a Year

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The lawsuit OF a Philadelphia ply
stefan. who seeks to recover a fabu-
lous sum for medical attention to the
late Senator Magee, Of Pittsburg, has |
attracted attention in this city, says |
the Philadelphia Inquirer, and causes
considerable speculation regarding the
income Of professional men generally
An inquiry into the subject develops
surprising results and proves thai
Philadelphians are in the front rank OF
money earners. There are many pro
fessional men in the Quaker city
whose incomes amount to more than
100000 a year and more than a
score who make a larger amount OF
money in twelve months than Is paid
to the President of the United States
during the same period for governing
a nation with a population OF more
than 10000 900 Of people-not to men
ton the many more millions in our
new possessions.
Corporations, as a matter Of course,
pay immense salaries. It has not al
ways been possible to obtain the exact
figures, but those given approximate
the amount paid.
Alexander Johnson Cassatt presi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania Railroad re-
ceives $4,000 year for his services
as the chief executive Of that great
corporation. incidentally it is said that
he receives smaller salaries from many
of the branch railroads which are part
and parcel of the great system over
which he has charge.
Presidents of the big distinctly Phil
adelphia insurance companies get all
the way from $4,000 to $40 900 a year.
The presidents of the various trust
companies receive not less than SlO,'
GOO a year and in some few cases q
much larger amount than that.
| The prominent lawyers of the city
are big money makers. John G. John
son, for instance, who is regarded as
} one of the best corporation lawyers
q in the United States, has not for many
, years made less than 800, 600 per yeal
q from his law practice. He is kept Sc
busy that he scarcely has time to ca
f a MONDAY luncheon, and those Wh'
o know him best frequently find hin
a trying to satisfy his appetite with
Il hurried luncheon Of pie and milk
. Samuel Dickson, Thomas Hart AM
George Tucker Bispham are lawyer
/ who have an extensive practice amon
! the corporations. Some of these meT
:, and others as well, are retained b
corporations, receiving as high as $50
y 600 a year and being paid for thel
- services besides Many Of the grea
~ corporations regard it as matter
- prudence and economy to secure IN
g services of big lawyers by paying thel
III handsome retaining fees by the yea
gu In this way it is not possible for I'll
~ other side of the case to obtain u
" services of these lawyers.
Ell Physicians, as well as lawyers ar
H. other professional men, .f6iegtim
m make enormous sums of 6oy-ey,, -ro
I'd. their practice. In Philadelphia a dc
he tors fees run all the way FROM not
Ia ing a year to $15O,OOO for the same
en- Rod of time. The charges of the be
nd physicians are always guided by t
,re size of the pocketbooks of their I
nd tients. Some individual fees are Il
mendous.
las It has been said, but never admit
liza nor denied, that P. A. B. Widener on
lot paid his attending physician $1,000
- When DR.. D. Hayes Agnew, an Ell
We nent surgeon, was summoned to
,ur tend President Garfield, after the CHI
but executive had been laid low by
our bullet Of the assassin, he gave
3el. thought to the question of money,
ma, summoned all his skill in a supre
Ter. effort to save the life Of the stricR
md ruler When the bills came up to
settled his fee amounted to the mod
;ay. sum of $4,000.
inc Among the surgeons and physici;
and of Philadelphia who enjoy an espec
ing " lucrative practice may be mention
nil Drs. La Place, DaCosta, Deaver,
oad Lenney, Hare and Tyson. Some
'tbe these men, it can be confidently
nth serted. receive more in fees in
The course of a year than President Rot
ON, welt will receive as salary for TIVE
,ian months work in the White HOUSE
rds
Canay.
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