The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07

iesaI fees. Witness these charges in tne schandein will case. recently clos e0- Frfsbee & Redfield, attorneys for Mrs Clara S. Heyl, $107.0o0; Quarles, spencer Quarles. for the proponents, xioo.000. Winkler, Flanders. Bottum & Eawcett, for the contestants. $5o,000; 4 W. Hard. guardian for the Frank children, $20.000. and George P. Miller. guardian for Brick Heyl. s15,00o. For sigle argument before the united States Supreme Court, Joseph II. Choate. former Ambassador to Great Britain, once received s200,o0o. The effect of the argument was the declar- ing unconstitutional of the income tax.
 It has been stated repeatedly that Attorney D. M. Delmas was assured Of q $1oo.ooo fee for his work in defend ing Harry K. Thaw.
 It Is not only the law that offers opportunities for making tremendous sums quickly. Medicine is profession quite as rich in possibilities. A Philadelphia physician. the late Dr. William Pepper. 1t Is understood. charg- ed Robert Simpson $1.5o0 for an exam pr. s. Weir Mitchell Is said to have been given a fee of s15,ooo by one patient. When America learned that Dr. Adolph Lorenz of vienna received $30.- 900 for setting the hip of little Lolita Armour of Chicago and later pay for further attention swelling his total fees to $7s.00o. there was amazement. and yet this would not create surprise in Europe, especially in Court circles.
 When the present king Edward of England, then Prince of Wales, was seriously i'll years ago. Dr. William Jenner pulled him through, and for his four weeks attendance was paid $5o,00o. The physician who attended the father of Emperor William of Germany in his last illness-Dr. s. Morrell Acknowledgements bill for $100. 900, which was paid without mur- mur.
 Prof Zacherine of Moscow got $7b,- 900 for two days attendance on the father of the present Czar.
 Dr. Thomas Dimsdale for vaccina- ting the Empress Catherine l. at St Petersburg got s50.ooo, and pension of s2,500 for life.
 A bill for $190,o00 was sent by Dr. Walter c. Browning of Philadelphia to the estate of Senator c. L. Magee. at Pittsburg. It was brought out in evid- ence that Senator Magee had once de- clared his intention of giving pr. Browning a fee of s1.000,000 and had added: T intend to beat Peter Widen CT record. Wfdener you hHoW, pdiu HIS doctor s800, 0,000."
 review of high voluntary fees seems to show that child whose father has been saved by a physician is especially liberal. Gratitude of the Chicago father to the Vienna "bloodless" surgeon was ec1ipsed by that of MT. Flagler of New York. who gave pr. Shelton securities worth sS7.000 for curing his daughter. The late Shah of Persia paid pr. Gale zowski of Paris $25.00o for curing his son of an afflictipn of the eye.
 After the death of Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince, his physician. Dr. Frank Billings, filed in the Probate Court claim for $25, 1000, bill for seven days service.
 For 100 days attendance upon the late William L. Rainey. millionaire cork manufacturer in Philadelphia, Dr. Sam uel T. Barnes made out a bill amount ing to $33.000. This charge of $3so a day cannot be noted as among the mod cts claims of practitioners
 That payment of large fees are not effected was shown by the recent de- cision of French Court in the case of George Croker of California against pr. Doyen MT. Crocker sought to re- cover a $20,000 fee which he paid in 1904 for having his wife treated for cancer-treatment which he asserted was unsuccessful The court held that the Paris physician ha done his bes to fulfill the contract and that he was entitled to the $20,000 fee.