The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
FORTUNES IN FAT FEES.
Cases Where the Lawyer Has Got
 Million, the Doctor Almost as Much.

| Cases Where the Lawyer Has Got a Million, the Doctor Almost as Much. Chicago Chronicle.
 l A million dollars for fee! As much | pay for brief transaction as the own
 CTS of some of Americas largest in dustries are able to make in a life | time!
 country whose total earnings through
 life reach s50.O00. What of the man
 who. in payment for single service.
 taking only few weeks or days. may
 collect as much as twenty prosperous
 men earn in long lifes of toll? That the day of the million dollar
 fee has come is shown by one bona fide
 instance recently disclosed. That
 James B. Dill of New York received a
 cool million for settling a Steel Corpor- | ation dispute has been has been as-
 serted as a fact: that William Nelson
 Cromwell made $1,000,000, or possibly l s2.0o0, 00o by negotiating the sale of
 the Panama Canal Is a sub rosa as-
 sertion.
 One of the most difficult achieve | ments of the century was the selling of l the Panama Canal to United States. and
 well-informed persons agree that even
 if William Nelson Cromwell did not get s1,000,000 or $2,o00,000 for 1t. he | earned 1t.
 He even risked his life to make his
 negotiations successful. One day while l the treaty was under discussion in
 Washington it looked very much as if
 the whole project would fall through
 But one man could save it. | Where was Cromwell? Friends of the
 canal found upon inquiring at his hotel l that he was in bed very ill with a tenn | perture of 103. Yet, upon learning | hA drAH kA Secretary Mays office, stayed with l 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 MT. Crom-
 well admitted having received $2oO0OO and said he expected more. How much?
 Only the gossip of Wal street al
 tempts to answer. and this places the
 total amount at almost $2,000,0OO. The
 canal cost $40.000,00o
 This isn't MT. CromwelTs first big
 fee. For reorganizing the firm of
 Quicker, Howell & Co.. He Is said to
 have got a $1O0,O00 fee on another oc- l cason.
 | American industrial history was the
 series of disputes between Andrew 1 Carnegie and Henry c. Prick over the | transfer of the properties merged in the l Tinted states Steel Corporation. There | are those who say that James B. Dill l he has since become a Judge on the | New Jersey bench at a comparatively
 small salary was the only man in the
 country who could have untangled the
 mess; that the job was worth the | $1 900, 900 he received.
 | The groups of attorneys who secur-
 ed payment by the Government of the 1 long deferred claims of the Cherokee l Indians some time ago, amounting to
 $15, 5,OOO,O00, were allowed IS per cent. | of the whole, or nearly S750.000. Of
 this fee, it is said, a great part went to one man or firm.
 A fee of sS00.00 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 or | the 24,000, 900 estate the widows share
 was $S, 900, 900, and, as this was tied up in trust she engaged counsel 10 secure its release, giving him 10 per cent of
 her share.
 Another large attorneys fee recent lv granted in a court decision at Seat tie. Washington, was that of United States Senator s. H. Piles, who will get S45O.OOO in the famous John Sul- livan will case. The estate is valued at s9OO, 900, and two of the heirs gave deeds of conveyance to their counse | 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