The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17
SOME MODERN MILLIONAIRE CORPORATION La rs
James 3. Dill, Most Repre-
sentative Of His Glass,
Though Cromwell, era
vath, Guthrie and 9th.
ers Have 5BeenMore
in the Worlds
Eye Of Late.
BY Dexter Marshall.

Long more prominently IN the eye OF
the world than any other man OF his
class. James B. Dill. known as the
Father Of the Trusts. and now a sitting
& judge OF the New Jersey Court OF Errors
y and Appeals. has been heard much less
OF in the year since he went upon the
bench than many OF his fellows. 8
In that time, William Nelson Cromwell,
& Paul brennan Cravath. William Damon
Guthrie, Samuel Untermyer, Charles S.
Hughes, and one or two other lawyers
engaged upon matters OF supreme public
interest have much oftener been head
liners in the daily news performance than
he. Yet Judge Dill is undoubtedly a
more representative type of the modern
millionaire corporation lawyer than any
other man. ~ :
Judge Dill is 81, short, round, Jolly,
more blond than brunette. inclined to be
bald. though there is still some thatch
left upon the top of his head, and more
approachabe than most big men in his
& profession He is the son OF a Con-
gregational minister. and his early climb
Ing was tough job. He became the
Father OF the Trusts because there
i wasn't anything else for him to do This
1t how It was:
Father of the Trusts"
Having managed to struggle through
i Yale and the New York University Law
School, and having logged along for a
time MS teacher and newspaper reporter,
he finally established himself In little
X law office away up under the roof OF the
Equitable Life Insurance Companyss
building on Broadway. @75'l n
n He tried real estate, criminal patent
admiralty and collection practice in turn
and mixed. But all these branches or
ASthe law were overcrowded
This was IN lS7o-he was admitted in
1s7S-when firms and not corporations
carried on the bulk OF the worlds bus
fdness In looking for some way to get
a big practice. without wasting years
corporations.
It was good pamphlet. full OF sound
sense and lucid exposition OF corpo-,
ration law, even II Its writer was only
about twenty-five, 1t also was so per-
FuaslVe document that business men
4 who read It We're convinced by the hun
dred that the corporate way OF doing
business was much preferable to the part
4 nershtp. Had the little books circulation
y been limited to sales among the lawyers.
however, It might have failed OF Its real
i purpose, but Its author saw to 1t that
u fell into the hands OF an astonishingly
!. large number OF business men.
Ihe result WAS sort OF epidemic Of
& interpretations. hundreds OF firms chang
Ing over. And while. OF course. Dill did
not get the job OF drawing up the corpo-
ration papers for MI the new corpora
tons, he did get his full share OF that
business. 81
There Is no information at hand show
ing how many charters he has drawn up
and put through In tho twenty-seven
years he has been practiclng, but a list
pf the more noteworthy OF the Dill cor
4 porations. published when he went on the
4 bench, showed that he had organized
j thirty-three big ones, with n total capi-
talization OF $7a3 ,050. 0o0 No other orr
ganization lawyer has n record 10 COM
pare with this. Dill As practically the
nuthortof the liberal New Jersey corpo-s
ration laws. He tried to get New York
to adopt sndh laws. urging that they
would encourage the cation OF an enor-
nous number Of corporations In the State
and that the income from their taxation
would materially lessen general State
taxa ton. In New Jersey the corpora lons'