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Show HER $75,000 FEE. For Winning a Case a New York Woman Received That Amount. (Philadelphia North American.) For winning a single case. Fannie Carpenter, Car-penter, a New Yoork woman lawyer, has just received a fee half again as large as the vearly salarv of the president ot the United States. Seventv-five thousand dollars was tne sum. and it is the largest fee ever paid to a woman attorney. Indeed, the greatest great-est corpora lion lawyers seldom realize such a reward from one case. . The fact that a case of such magnitude was trusted to a woman, and that sne succeeded in winning it. proves with what certain step the female disciples ot Blackstone are tHkini their place before the bar of justice. Mrs. Carpenter is a middlc-ased. sensible, sensi-ble, hard-headed, shrewd business woman. Her hair is gray and a serious illness a few vears ago compelled her to have it cut very short. She is five feet tall, and clfn-ht 1,-. nrnnnpflrtll So hard did she work in preparation for and during the trial of her ntK rase that she lost a great deal of weight, and is ti-day ti-day in consequence much thinner and mire fragile than she usually is. Mrs. Carpenter is a native of New- Ens-land, Ens-land, and was brought up in the tenets of a strict New England religion. When she was about It? years old her parents went to California to live, and she took a course at. Mills college, at AI-meda. AI-meda. "That was the greatest thing in my life." said Mrs. Carpenter the other day In her spacious apartments at the Waldorf-Astoria. "The training that I got there, the discipline which was maintained main-tained and the lecturers who taught there gave me an experience and knowledge which I firmly believe I could never have acquired elsewhere in the same length of tin,e- i .-i "After my college course was completed my family moved to Hawaii and I went with them. It was there I met Mr. Carpenter. Car-penter. He was practicing law. but shortly short-ly after our marriage we came to New-York New-York to live. "That was twelve years ago. I belong to and am a firm believer in women s clubs, and those of which I was a member, mem-ber, together with some charities in which I was interested, were my principal time destroyers the first few years that we lived here. "In however, T made up my mind that it was a good thing for a woman to study a profession, and 1 therefore determined deter-mined to take a course in law. I chose law principally, I think, because it was Mr. Carpenter's profession. "I entered the law school of New York university and was admitted to the bar in 18P7. and have been practicing more or le.ss assiduously ever since. There is one point over which I have been tremendously an-noved an-noved time and time again. "There are but eighteen women in New York who are members of the bar. but there are possibly 100 or even 1.10 who, because be-cause they have taken a course of law-lectures law-lectures at some college or other, feel that they have a right to call themselves lawyers. law-yers. " "The cifchtecn-women in New York who nave reauv neen anran.iHu ium"- mi n.i formed a club, of which I have the honor to he president." "To what do you consider you owe your great success, principally, Mrs. Carpenter?" Carpen-ter?" "To nothing so much as hard work. It is the only method by whtcn one can achieve success in anything. My practice has all come to me voluntarily, for I have never sought a single case." |