The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17
Francis 7. Stetson, John g.
johnson, Choate, Horn
blower, and Judge Di
lon, Less Heard Of, q
But Quite as High 5''
in the Regard Of
Their Fellow
LAWYERS.

seeing OF all ]. P. Morgan's transactions
With view to preventing him from be-
sing SO involved In legal difficulties thai
he can personally be attached. 5S iss
This job alone Is an exactingS one. bnts
~ IS reall a. side Issue, for he Is general
counsel for the United States Steel Cor
sporation and several other vast business
tons. being perhaps more fully.
Identified IN a legal way with great en-;
sterprises and more Of them than aaysofs
MS MS Scontempora RES He was "a factor In
ne format ton OF the Northern Securities,
the charter OF which was drawn ~ N.
p Guthrie. but, it3is said. advised against
Z 1t and ga ID the charter wouldn't 4 hold
water, which It didn't. 5sa5 S.
Mr. Stetson is not fond OF sports. n hut
he belongs to many clubs and societies.
{ IS as active as his famous client. q j. pr.
Morgan, in the affairs OF the Episcopal
sGhurch, and served on the commit tee gofR
that religious body on divorce in & san
Francisco a few years ago
f&John G. Johnson, who has refused Ca bi.s
net place and Supreme Court judgeships
npre than once, Is one Of the richest and
SnaeSt powerful men In his rofessionS to-
yS,..,He has never had a photogran hs
5tnkehf he reads nothing but law. ia.
}doesno 90 into socety-though he mar mar.
RED xlto. an old Philadelphia family offs
or MIS- antecedents. He started poor.
worked terrfically when young, and fisa
keeping IT up now that he is we'll past
Sixty. Ills only amusement is buying
and studying pictures, and his private
art collection Is one OF the finest In the
country. {sls 81
he Is admired almost to the point Of
reverence by President Cassatt, OF the
RPennsylvania; by ]. P, Morgan and many
tIr,, lsr,..
him whatever he asks, and send special
trains for him when they want his pres /
3ence IN New York; utsonce he refused
to go when sent for because he had g.
case to conduct for a client too poor to-
pay any fee at all. Once. also, when Of i
Tered $4,000 for work already done for
q comparatively small corporation, lleS
returned the check indignantly. One FOR
double the amount was suggested, but
he wouldn't have 1t. II Nj s#
You can't afford more than ST, o0o,s.s
he said. Let 1t so at that" and they
did. s4j isi K ISf
Choate-H ornbl ower-D billion.
It wouldn't do to leave joseph 4 IR b
Choate, William B. Hornblower or ] udga 4
John +. Dillon out Of the list when Laws N
tyers who get great fees are considered s
Elihu Root should come In, too, but tias8
is now n Cabinet minister. sta
f choate's life has Undoubtedly bsena
broader than that OF any OF the Others.
He has always been Interested In tha q
larger phases OF politics. He has mingled
more IN society. He has always done
"a good deal Of public speaking,
But Choate Is OF an earlier generation
.--he was seventy-four years old on his I
last birthday--a generation practically All
of whose lawyer members were Interested
In politics. Yet his abbassadorship to n
Great Britain has been his only public
office, despite the frequent men .ion ID
his name as q candidate for GoyerlarS
OF his State and senator at Washington.s
Mr., Choate has received some big fees
himself in his day. and is likely to res
celve more, for he Is! stlll IN the lists, &
and his son, Joseph X. cheate il, may
succeed him as asssreat lawyer,
\ William b. 'Hornhlower, though, only
tg icoaiinued ena .EAa,cth Paxa ls