Show I 1 what physician and Law I auyor earn i says a west bide physician I 1 probably tile the most lucrative medical practice in chicago is worth about 25 a year that is the best the most successful physician in chicago can do doctors do not earn as much as Id lawyers I 1 mean the successful ones I 1 suppose there are a dozen or more lawyers in town who make more than a year and a score or so enjoy an income of from to a year you can count on tho the fingers of your two hands the number of doctors making a year one of them is a colored man whose practice is largely among white people yet the average earnings of the physicians of the city probably exceed the average earnings of the lawyers the average in both professions is startlingly low probably not to exceed 1000 there are hundreds of good openings for physicians in the growing country of the west vest but young men persist in clinging to the city where many of them eke out an existence on an income of 3 or a year waiting wailing for something better to turn up chicago II 11 herald era I 1 d |