Show d + C i e a air k Y I f vii li 1 i r I ti 13 I l 1Y42Z5QYC 1Yl12Zl J 11 f H 111 I4 4 i EW YORK Fifty millions I ° hy of dollars enough to buy It i I Newport and all of lib itl t th 1 villas at their assessed j I fh valuations a conservative I conserv-ative estimate of tho moneyHhat goes every year into the poelceutof New York lawyers It is If i H ImaedfBn tho opinion of a noted at > t j wy who Is pessimistic rather than t 1 glvenjto exaggeration On one side tvoerj tees of 760000 and 1000000 + amed1ln single cases Among the t < gt eat Lawyers 100000 fees arc not un 111 usual kJ Ttielfees of the great attorneys Ink In-k the past seem pitifully small Rufus liChoate even when recognized as one t il ofJhee greatest of American lawyers U I tooKjcases for 50 again and again It twas only toward tho close of his career iJft I thHTjhe thought that sum too small jAaTOtffiBuir a successful practitioner fit tfWtiday accepted cases for much 6i t lessJJganlol Webster In tho height of hIs legal career In Boston In tho days E0rtof juiejbartinouth college case earned t20000a t year Before his life ended DC ow o accepted contributions of money frorifhls friends The same was true Q qf Ilnry Clay Lincolns Small Fees I Atfl lilSe Lincoln both of these famous ktBien sacrificed much to public life Ones = One-s ot Llncolns largest fees while a law t ytsrSlrft Illinois was a land warrant 3BlforhIs i services in the Black Hawk warJjJHe tool a tract of land In Iowa S opposite Omaha His fellowlawyers S tooklhhn to task for accepting small foes or none at all saying it demora imllr I ilz dtho profession Old Abe as he aid tfen called defended two boys on murder charges and would take noth JTh1i fair it When ho came to New JIYorklln I 1860 to deliver his famous ad W fdresatat the Cooper institute an old ff t len asked him how he fared in the rT 4 iworld crab r R b very well Lincoln is said to kmj baVegreplied I have a cottage at to Springfield and about 8000 in money Ifjfthiey make me vicepresident with I i Sewardas some say they will I shall 1 beTabie to increase it to 20000 and C ° ° Stllfia8 < much as any man ought tom to-m tcmwant iWP jf Af r ie hatVLlnColns fortunes were about in led cthl8 condition when he went to the stet CPlittAhouse as president E C llron fut n Now York lawyers talk of at tOrn swho have earned big fees they usuallymeatlon William Nelson Crom W ellfamong the first He Is a physl m ciaffo ftWall street the new typo of g lawyer bred by the growth of great corporations the most skillful rear ganlzerfof wrecked business enter krl 2n the legal profession But landiamongfjlaymen he Is better known as vaticth jim n who earned 1000000 when t6 dho l ought the Panama canal houaw vyi Mr Cromwell a small secretive and his d 1 Brayjejpnervous man has been com hoBiP ared l to a mole for the way he burt bur-t ws Into Intricate business prob Bleu jHe combines a legal judgment w blbrllllant financial skill tRUI nOd flJllSLFortune in Single Case Inc d i iS pSjttn with such a unique genius nWmlgntbo t expected to make exceptionS n InUy Large fees His first big case for S las ncc brought 200000 This was lroadln tirember 1890 The brokerage ItIfljrDmcit Decker Howell Co was isi forcedto suspend with liabilities of Y jjJO0000 D Mr Cromwell was made afl8lg e He managed the affairs oft of-t 1 jxracern so skillfully that he do cjaredja dividend of 100 per cent He was paid 722216 for this work The many great cases that have fllnc i added to Mr Cromwells fame wejre overshadowed by his fee for the Panama canal deal Busy as ho wash was-h Jrlr Cromwell found time to look t I iStoJtho higher politics of Central and 4 aSoutb Amerlca How ho got track of ra the situation in Panama Is a mystery Whoa he became general counsel for the new Panama Canal Company in 1896jtKe Isthmian route hardly had a friend In this country He quietly started the campaign to have the United States buy the property won over tho French bondholders gained supporters for the scheme in this country and finally offered the United Sfateajtho option of the canal for 5401000000 What came afterthe failure lOf the HayHerran treaty the Panama revolution said to have been planned i in New York and tho hastenIng I hasten-Ing of the negotiationsIs familiar History But as a monument to the geniuaof Mr Cromwell was a fee the Ills o y which can hardly be paral ge haled tn tho history of the legal profes slow It was not a fee properly speaking speak-ing Jbut a commission The largest cStlnwJe of It is 1000000 In reality 3e jMrJCfQinweirs profits have been estl tM as nearer 2000000 Guthries Big Victory Xny remarkable in Its way was jthlt > 5Jwilllnm D Guthrlo received In tliei Plant will contest He was of cbunwl for Mrs Margaret J Plant the widow of Henry Bradley Plant t VIII t |