The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
RECORD FEES AND SALARIES.
BIGGEST PLUMS OF AL GO TO
THE LAWYERS.

A New Workers Million Dollar Fee
5000, 600 for a single Plea OF Joseph
u. ChOate-Fees or Doctors Smaller,
Though Notable In some Cases
Men OF HIg salaries.
One Of the largest single fees ever paid
70 a lawyer was the 81 200, 900 which James
b. Dill Of New York received for settling
the disputes which arose between Andrew
Carnegie and Henry C. Frick over the
transfer Of the properties merged in the
United States Steel Corporation. Mr.. Dill,
however, az observed by the Van Norden
Mdgdsine, has now given up his st~upendous
corporation fees for the small annual salary
of a Judge.
A fee only 800, 900 less than Mr.. Dilrs
was paid to another New York lawyer,
William d. Guthrie, who received $500 900
for breaking the will of Henry b. Plant,
owner Of the Plant system of steamships,
railways and hotels. The Plant estate
was valued at $24 ,OOO, 900, the widows share
of which was s., 900, 900, and this having been
tied up in trust she engaged the lawyer to
bring suit for its release. His fee repre-
scented 10 per cent. of her share.
Joseph H.. Choate, before his appoint
ment as Ambassador to Great Britain,
received $500, 900 for a single argument
before the United States Supreme Court,
the effect OF which was that the income
tax law vas declared unconstitutional.
As Ambassador at London Mr.. Choate's
salary was SIS COO.
Among other large fees of lawyers may
he mentioned 500, 900 received by John +.
Parsons OF New York for drawing a single
decd, 10000 charged by d. B. HAll for
making a single argument in the Molineux
case, 500, 900 formerly received yearly by
Chauncey NJ. Depew from the New York
Central Railroad Company and $50, 900 as
a retainer from the Equitable Life; more
than 500 900 a year until recently earned
by W. BOurke Cochran from consult alton
practice and the many thousands OF dollars
paid to Samuel Untermyer as counsel
in the ~shipyard litigation and in recent
insurance cases.
The fee of $50 900 and travelling expenses
which was paid TO DIR. Adolph Lorenz
Of Vienna 20 treat Lolita Armour for con-
genital hip dislocation was much less
than has frequently been paid abroad
by royalty. King Edward when Prince OF
Wales once paid a physician $4,000 for
-four weeks services.
The fee of $1,000, which a New York
dentist charged Prince Louis Of Batten-
berg when the latter visited this country
will his fleet a year ago, was much COM
mented o For a dentist fee the sum
was undoubtedly large. but AZ compared
with some physicians fees it looks insig-
nificant.
Probably the record for large fees of this
class - held by DR.. Walter &. Browning
OF Philade lphia, who sent to tho executors
OF the estate Of Senator G. J.. Magee a bill
for $3.50 900. Explaining his charge MIR.
Browning said that his ordinary charge
for consultation in his Office is $50 an hour.
and outside the Office $50 an hour. These
rates, he said, Senator Magec had vO!un-
tarily agreed to double.
Baltimore, the sea- of Johns Hopkins
University, noted for its output OF ply
~sicians, has contributed largely to the list
OF big fees for doctors. Prof. Howard
A. Kelly OF Johns Hopkins Hospital re-
oeived $2l 900 for twenty-Ona day treat
mont Of the wife Of aNmine owner.
Prof. A.. McLane Tiffany OF the same
city was paid $4,000 for performing an
operation on a New York patient, and Prof.
J.. w. Chambers received IS 600 for operating
on a deputy warden who had been stabbed
BY a~prisoner. A Chicago physician, DR.. O.