The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16
FORTUNES FROM BIG FEES.
Lawyer Got $1,000, 900 for One Case,
$4,000 for an Operation.
(Chieago Chronicle

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! dustries are able to make in a lifetime.
1t is a well-tO-do citizen in this coun-
| try whose total earnings through life
reach $50, coo. What of the man who.
in payment for a single service. taking
only a few weeks or days, may collect
as much as twenty prosperous men
earn in long lives of toll?
That the day of the million-dollar fee
has come is shown by one bona fiCie and
another partially authenticated in
/ stance recently disclosed. That James
| 3. Dill of New York received a cool
million for settling a Steel corporation
Edispute has been asserted as a fact;
that William Nelson Cromwell made
s1,000,00O. or possibly $1,000 600, by ne
gotiating the sale of the Panama canal
/ is a sub rosa assertion.
One Of the most difficult achieve
ments of the century was the selling of
| the Panama canal to the United States,
| and well-infOrmed persons agree that
/ IL William Nelson Cromwell did get
S1,000,000 or s2.e00000 for it he earned
it,.
He even risked his life to make his
negotiations successful. One day while
| the treaty was under discussion in
| Washington il BOXED very much as If
the whole project would fall through.
But one man could save 1t.
| Where was Cromwell? Friends of the
canal found upon inquiring at his hotel
that he was IN bed very i'll, with tenn
| peraturc Of 100. Yet, upon learning of
the situation. he arose. drove to Secre-
tary Hays Office. stayed with him an
hour. then returned to the hotel and
lay battling with typhoid fever for six
weeks.
But the canal was bought
Before a senate committee Mr.. Crom-
we'll admitted having received 5000, 600
and said he expected more. How much I?
! Only the gossip of Wall street attempts
to answer. and this places the total
amount at almost s2,000,000 The canal
cost $40, 000, 600
This isn't Mr.. Cromwells first big
fee. For reorganizing the firm of Deck
er, Howell & Co. in 1891, he received
from the court $1,000 He is said to
have got a 100000 fee on another oc-
casion.
One of the deepest muddles in Amer
lean industrial history was the series
of disputes between Andrew Carnegie
and Henry c. Frick over the transfer
of the properties merged i'm the United
states Steel corporate There are
those who say that James B. Dill-he
has since become judge on the New
Jersey bench at a comparatively small
saIary-was the only man in the cOun-
try who could have untangled the mess:
that the job was worth the 81 600 he
received.
The group of attorneys who secured
payment by the government of the long
deferred claims of the Cherokee Indians
some time ago. amounting to SIS, .0OO
were allowed lis per cent of the whole,
or nearly $3.50, 900. OF this fee, it is
said, a great part went to one man or
firm.
A fee of $4,000 is said to have been
paid to a New York lawyer, William
D. Guthrie, for breaking the will of the
late Henry B. Plant. owner of system
of steamships, railways and hotels. OF
the $24, 100000 estate the widows share
was IS 000, 600. and as this was tied up
in trust she engaged counsel to secure
it's release, giving him 10 per cent of her
share.
Another large attorneys fee recently
granted in a court decision at Seattle.
Wash. was that of United States Sem
ator S. H. Piles. who will get s45O,OOO
in the famous John Sullivan will case.
The estate is valued at 5000. 900 and two
of the heirs gave deeds of conveyance
to their counsel for half the amount.
Modest in all things, the city of Mil
waukee, Wis, would, of course, be ex-
pected to furnish examples Of modest
legal fees. Witness these charges in
the Schandein will case, recently
closed: Frisbee & Redfeld. attorneys
for Mrs. Charles S. Heyl, S107, 000
Quarles, Spencer & QUarles. for the pro-
ponents. $4,000; Winkler, Flanders
BottuEl & Fawcett, for the contestants,
$1,000; A. w. Hard, guardian for the
Frank children, $4,000, and George P.
Miller, guardian for Erick Heyl,
$3.50
For a single argument before the
United States supreme court Joseph H.
Choate, former ambassador to Great
Britain, once received 100000. The eff
feet of the argument was the declaring
unconstitutional of the income tax
1t was been stated repeatedly that
Attorney D. NJ. Delmas was assured of
a 100000 fee for his work in defending
Harry K Thaw
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It is not alone the law that offers
opportunities for making tremendous
sums quickly. Medicine is a profession
quite as rich in possibilities. 4 Phila-
delphia physician, the late DR.. William
Pepper. it is understood, charged Rob-
ert Simpson $500 for an examination
lasting about minute, and DIR. s. Weir
Mitchell is said to have been given a
fee of $4,000 by one patient.
When America learned that DR.
Adolph Lorenz of Vienna received
900 for setting the hip of little Lolita
Armour of Chicago, and later pay for
further attention swelling his total fees
to $4,000. there was amazement, and
yet this would not create surprise In
Europe, especially i'm court circles.
When the present King Edward of
England. then Prince of Wales. was Sc
TiOusly ill years ago DR.. William Jenner
pulled him through and for his four
weeks attendance was paid $50 600. The
physician who attended the father of
Emperor William of Germany in his
last illness-Dr. s Morrell Mackenzie
presented a bill for 100000, which was
paid without a murmur.
Professor Zacherine of Moscow got
$4,000 for two days attendance on the
father of the present car.
DIR. Thomas Dimsdale for vaccinating
the Empress Catherine l at st. Peters
burg got $4,000 and a pension of $500
for life.
A bill for $4,000 was sent by DR..
Walter C. Browning of Philadelphia to
the estate of Senator c. L. Magee at
Pittsburg 1t was brought out in evil
dence that Senator Magee had once de-
clared his intention of giving DIR.
Browning a fee Of 81 .00O,0o0 and had
added: II intend to beat Peter Wide
ner's record. Widener, you know, paid