The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1901, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL, iE lawyor and his fee is the tople All this new ation was caused settling of the Fatr like everybody metimes they win »f conversation now wyers prond dlet in the State \wyer ot $50,000 from the ¢ Califortia™ he straightened out a The company to prove that th them etween ® the lawyer; the and burd Th orrows aw- ything b peac one clte: tention ts nec- de to h = eir yet awyers frequer practical nches of the law has spe- fast passing the specialist is law have reputa- ecial attainments in u hear tell of a law- a great Un e of the word th who is eader. der colus is under. o argues well or who but pleading means tue at a lawyer can ction t the preparation of his £ fully and fairly into ain and estab- it is to cop- mal ther words, struct his case upon law so that his op- 5 come him Some are good ity lawyers; that nical term, lawyers wit side of the court, more explicit, in the language of he one who deals with that no complete, and e tec the eg e lawyer f coses where there law. medy at are zener- nd in the good at cx- 1 better s witnesses, at his cause to present ener, convinet is the ert jualities as the jury atvisions ced, but of er on, whether due to jeal- e lawyer is usually dis- the merchant; just factory reason has ever been re are many wealthy law- e mercantile world attempts averag wyer as being a poor Lusi the business man annot extricate mit his busi- man whom, b t when and practice of law, he Is considered by his brother If ever any lawyers as a very great man. of the bars in America pos- atvidual capabilities biect pre-eminently whose were fon sed an upon this » complete in every d such a man existed at the head of the Californian bar. The greatest all-round lawyer that lifornia’s history boasted of was the 1a Hall McAllister, a man of glant que and wh mentality was com. able with the tremendous ural » and positive, vet kindly, pers t he possessed. McAllister was @ d in of office lawyer as > was in delivering an argument before as good the capacity bunal in a as b and equally e W n defending a mur- He considered the leader of this bar when he died, and it would be dificult to suggest a name that would be quite able to take his place. “Mr. McAllister once said that he con- sidered lawyers the highest and best type of manhood; that they lived by their mental exertions and efforts; that in 1 when written was . davs of nractice. supuwations were considered bad form the word of a lawyer was alwavs suffi- cient; that the greatest temptation for the lawyer to do wrong was usually tend- nd if the average suggestions in hot ered him by his client, lawyer accepted his clients’ he would find himself constantly water. the shrewdness and rs, the late John B. Felton said that they were the most con- fiding of men and the most gullible. To see a lawyer n court arguing a matter or examining witnesses is accepted by the n as all the labor the attor- has to perform in a case. The lay- n kn nothing of the great prepara- re the trial is had and nt of work in preparing anscripts and all tha im- o which the lawyer is com- The tria) peak tene average per: ney m sary t tion nece the great motions and ant work to devote his attention pelle is only an in “There are Francisco at rly 20 in Sar all ) lawyers time, ne the but present who graduated as lawyers do not eligible just to any profess! 2 ake the course in law a profession “It is here as else ‘survival of tes oo ns and businesses, ¥ find men who are not quite able to reach the mark. Tt might be said that out of s vs here that = the very suc cessful ones hough there are any number who make a ver: living. The struggling ¥ entitled to the world's sympathy, espe- he has no financtal backing. H's obligations are many. He must dr keep in good soclety, do mec —all just the same as his older brother in th v does—and all this costs m Unless he has a clientele he 1= finan assed.” But there are any amount of lawyers who are not *“financially emba judging from the ro amo TRogaY Children WhO Rre in the ic s only fust begin- le Prince Nowe HE reary of ng. The i machine of ab- ding to prese i be a sailor, g Britannia ication consi f Teck. The opposed to stufing ith too much knowledge.” His Tecoliection is keen of how unpleasant it was to be a “walking Aletionary” 2t 2 A is going the rounds of young Sntiace precociousness. At a ju- ventle p n the presence of the Duke of Cornwall, he was given two pieces of wood, for w be solemnly thanked his plavmates with ol hioned expressions, whereupon the Duke of Cornwall ex- lttle wretch! He speaks * which 1s not far Wrong, of Cornwall is notoriously 4 unfitted for public spealfing. agster. who is known to his roy- ng David.” is said to n for the sea. Ha : popular with the officers crutser Crescent while in command of her, and remark. y adept in learning nau- a4 pbrases. To the horror of but the keen enjoyment of his ndfather, he occasionally in- unadulterated saflor jar- atmed was pure, In rating up the princesses of Europe, nks of the host of daughters of Hamid. father of the faithful Sul- tan of Turkey? who thinks of Abdul Hamid him- n the light of doting parent, particu- of girls, the least profitable invest- its in & Mussulman country Yet he has two daughters who are the lght of his eves. Zekkie and Fatima are ir names, and while Zekkie is a rosy, m: Public Eye- | little blonde, looking more like English than n Ottoman catima transgresses every law of as prescribed in Turkey, where pound of flesh is an added charm. all and thin, of rather delicate and o1y roly-po! Princess every She appearance 5 | These girls married two brothers, the | s of Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna. e third one, Naile, might linger unmar- ried in a free country, for it is whispered | angels have sweeter dispositions | e. But the Sultan selects his | jaw before ascertaining their in- ations, or, to be quite accurate, with- concern for them, which shows that for an unattractive woman there are some ntages in living in an absolute auto- especially if she has the discre- adv cracy. | tion to pick out the supreme autocrat for J her father. | Alche, the fourth daughter of whnm! much is known, is 13, which in Turkey | means that she is a woman, and is ex-r tremely beautiful. Then there are a le- gion of others, of whom Abdul Hamid himself, perhaps, cannot always recell the nam Their lives are spent in secluded splendor. In the case of one of them the conservative Sultan made a radical de- parture. Sad to relate, the Sultan’s favorite, of | all, his exquisite little Hailie, a dauzhtc‘r% | of his first wife, was burned to death through playing with matches. Cruel and callous as he is bellevedsto be, it is sald that Abdul Hamid has néver been able to forget this loss or to speak of the child without emotion —————— e The Southern breakfast of fried chicken and waffles is not to be indulged in fre- quently by this generation under penalty of indigestion, but for once in a summer it is deliclous. Waffles are considered dif- ficult to prepare, yet really they are as simple as possible. The recipe which never falls to give perfect results calls for one pint of milk, two eggs, two teaspoon- fuls of baking powder and butter the size of an egg. with flour to a thin batter. These waffles, with mapie syrup, may be unwholesome, but they are good enough to tempt any one to gastronomic sin.— Harper's Bazar. they nave cnargea cuents for their ser- vices, and the colonel is one of them. He received $50,000 from the Sharon estate, $50,000 from the Jessup estate, the same amount from the Blythe estate and about $30,000 from the Piper estate. Most of these cases were a bitter struggle from beginning to end, yet he realized a cool $180,000. That seems to the uninitiated well worth the time and labor expended. Thomas H. Williams, the father of Thomas H. Willlams, the horseman, was a lucky as well as a clever man. In 1858 he served as Attorney General of California. During that time he made enough money in one deal to last him a lifetime and to pass on to his son. For his services he charges a cllent $1500, At that time his client didn’t have the ready cash and so offered Willlams 100 feet in the Central mine valued at not more than $1200. Willilams took it and later when the Comstock boom was on the Central poured. out gold fast and furi- ously. As luck would have it his 100 feet was in the heart of the belt and his share amounted to about $2,000,000. From $1200 to $2,000,000! The Comstock, which, by the way, has turped out over $500,000,000, has = made many a lawyer dance with glee. William T. Baggzett was pald $200,000 for the Hale vs. Norcross case. Curtis J. Hillyer received monthly from $1500 to 32000 for a long time, and it was his duty. to keep the numerous fusses quieted down and to see that peace reigned. Judge W. 8. Mesick was another man who liberally helped himself from the same pan, He realized $30,000 from what was known as the “Bonanza Cases," Then when he lost all that, he got $§0,00 from the Kinney case, He was the .fortunate man who was called upon to get the divoree for Mrs, Falr against her husband, James G. Falr, and when he placed her freedom In her hands she handed him back, by way of courtesy, a check for $100,000. It is sald that In a year from the time of Mrs, Fair's generosity not one cent of the 3100,- 000 remained. The clever Judge was oot unlike other men, he had a failing for “wine, women and song” and the least of his troubles was his money or what happened to it. Hall McAllister made a good inning fif- teen years ago. When the trouble about irrigation began in the southern part of the State it caused considerable excite- ment. Mr. Jones wanted water run through Iis land, and if he didn’t get it he saw ruin staring him in the face. Now it so happened that Mr. Smith, his neighbor, didn’t see through the same glasses that Jones did, and just to be doing refused to give him right of way. Jones saw two things—ruin or Hall Me- Allister, Somehow the latter seemed easier and more inviting. Accordingly he set out for San Francisco as fast as the Southern Pacific could take him, and found the attorney who made peopla that black was white and vice versa. But troubles never come singly. They come In whole bunches and Jones feit that he had more than his share, He couldn't even interest the man he had traveled a few hundred miles to see, No, he was too busy. Had too many clients right in San Franols Could make more money by staying at home. Couldn’t think of such a proposition for an instant, The result was that Jones went home alone. All that he could see anywhere all along the line was parched land and faflure was spelled in capital letters on every fence and dangled fiom every tree. Two or three days later found McAlli ter's office oeccupled by one Mr. Jones from Southern California. He had brought his bed and blankets and intenc d to stay until he was accompanted home by one :all McAllister. Again and again he was told to hie him hence. He never budged. At last it dawned upon Mr. McAllister that the only way to get rid vl his ardent admirer was to go with him. He parleyed. Asked about the case. About the pay. To the lat question he received an indefinite reply Wait until the cuse was won. In five minutes from that time Hall Mc- Allister and Mr. Jones were doing the doublé quickstep for the train. Vietory number one for Jones. Not long after that the same attorney journeyed slowiy up from Bakersfield, where he had been teaching the fellows how to water land. Incidentally, and merely to show how forcible and thorough his training was, he carfied $90,000 back with him. MecAl- lister met his match in Jones, for the in- nings showed two for Jones and one fur his attorney. However, McAllister didn’t have to wor- ry about his daily bread, for his money came easily. He made many large fees. He got $150,000 from the Colton case, and after his death, estate was pald $L 000 from the Blythe estate. John B. Felton was another lawyer who made lots of money in his day. He was noted especially for compromises. About thirty years ago he made $500,000 out of what was known as “The City Slip” They were widely discussed at t'ia time, so he got his share of fame as well as money. It seems to run in the Wilson family to make money hand over fist. The first ‘Wilson, Samuel M., made about as many big fees as any legal adviser in his time, and his sons, Wilson & Wilson, were fol- lowing in his footsteps when they d manded $240,000 from the Fair estate. That estate has made just a few law- yers swell up with pride, particularly ths younger oneg George E. Crothers says: “TIt is as hard to get a fee as it is to pull a tooth.” e furthermore says it would be presump- tuous for such a young man to make any remarks about the profession. “Come to me in twelve or fourteen years when I have had more experience, more sens and more money.” Yet this modest fe low and R. B. Mitchell draw down $100,600 from the estate. That isn't so bad for a beginner. Willlam M cases. . Plerson and Garret W. Mec- Enerney will both get $100,000 aplece from that same estate if all goes well. But “{here is many a slip twixt the cup and the lp” you know, and they may have to join the clients” rapks and “wait and hope and hope and wait. The largest fees in this case will be pald to Lloyd & Wood, $480,000; John Garber, Bishop & Wheeler, $480,000, and Knight & Heggerty, $360,000. The total sum asked in this single instance amounts to $2,260,- 0co. Caiifornia thinks it is a good thing to keep money in circulation. It m: things busy and prosperous, don’t you know. Garber, Bishop & Boalt have played In luck for years. For thelr part of the Blythe litigation they asked §150,000, and what 13 more to the point, got it, too. That estate has been unfortunate im peying out large sums to lawyers. T. L Bergin was pald §135,000 and W, H. H. Hart $300,000. That in itselt would keep the wolf from the door a lttle while. W. W. Foote dabbled a little in the same suit, just enough to put in a dill for $50,000. It is easy to do a little globe trote ting when estates pay so well. But, after all, the $300,000 or more that Mrs, Moore has pald to her attorneys meant a few millions for herself. It was all or nothe Ing with her, so a paltry million dida’t cut much fighre in the case. Just to keep things rolling In the right direction Mr. Foote put in a bill for $5,000 for services rendered to the Merrill estate. For ages and ages some men have been more fortunate than others, and certainly Edward F. Preston was born under & lucky star. He has made heaps of money. Perhaps one of the biggest fees came to him through Mrs. Donahue. When her brother, Willlam S. O'Brien, died he left her a million or so. She immediately ap- plied to Preston to bring suit for a di- vorce against. her husband. Her wealth meant freedom, and she, gave the man who' secured it for her $200,000. But, as & quaint fellow remarked, ‘“Her money didn’t cost her "anything—in fact, she nearly dropped dead when she got it, and why shouldn’t she give her;lawyers a big fee?” Why shouldn’t she? o General Barnes has his stanch admir- ers and a well filled pocketbook to boot. He walked off with $150,000, his share of the Sharon estate, and Stewart & Herrin followed in his footsteps . with another $150,000. But all lawyers, and eminently success- tul at don’t make their for- tunes in a pile that way. For instance, E. S. Pillsbury is providink for the fu- ture, but is doing it a little slower. He Is considered one of the best corpora- tion lawyers on the Pacific Coast and his name pays a big interest. He is allowed 86000 a year from Wells-Fargo Company and as much or more from the telephons That shows a yearly income of $12,000 from and he has his hands full Certainly no one could accuse him of losing money. There are lawyers who are making money whether thgy work or not. In their case it isn't “No work, no pay,” but often pay and little if any work. William F. Herrin of the Southern Pa- cific gets $25,000 a year to prove that acci- dents are due to carelessness on the part of the party Injured. Charles L. Acker- man gets $15000 from the Market-street Railway Company for exactly the same thing. As a rule, both of them have something on hand, for somebody is eter- nally and forever breaking his head. Judge Bindley is another high salarfed attorney. He keeps a watchful eye on the Bunker Hill and Sullivan and the Alaska Mining companles’ Interests. For that he is pald a yearly sum that mounts up into the thousands. There are some lawyers who don’t ask fancy prices when they might. Henry E. Highton came here in 1349, ard has dur- ing that time been mixed up with all the original railroad magnates—Crocker, Stan- ford, Hopkins and Huntington—soms- times for and sometimes against, but his largest fee never went over $20,000. Yet this man has a reputation for trying more cases than any other man in this State. From the Cole vs. Bacon suit he got $16,000 and from the Mussell Slough and San Pablo ranch cases somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000. Lawyers’ fees sound not only large but exorbitant to most people, but In these advanced da s every man for him- self, and in law, as in everything else, it is as Mr. Kowalsky put it, ‘The survival of the fittest.” ones that, he er company. two client: to overflowing. R. THEODORE A. COOK, Oxfora Blue, writes of Rowing World of London™ in ar article in C ell's Magazine He say: The root of the w the old July. business. to my mind, is this train the younger men. It is no good, because a few exceptional examples may be quot- ed, to say that any strong and health) man of two or three-and-twenty can pick up rowing on a sliding seat without any preliminary trouble. As a matter of fa almost as much attention to detail, certainly quite as much practical expe- | rience, is needed by the novice with the oar as with the fencing foil. Rowing is not a matter of mere slugging. Br | strength will not move a light boat | through the water, even when she is | broader in the beam and six feet shorter than the old models used to be. This has | rarely been so clearly proved as when W. A. L. Fletcher of Oxford took up the task of teaching Cambridge men the finer points of rowing. Persistently, vigorous- ly, patiently, he drilled his crew until the had mastered all the small but essential details of rowing in good style, suca as the proper use of inside and outside hand, | the arching of the inside wrist, the swing back of the outside wrist to an un- cramped finish, the stead- balancing swing, the arm-reach, the proper clip of the beginning at full stretch, the instan- taneous spring and heave of the body- weight direct from the heels with a free swing back, the elastic reiease of hands and body on the recovery. have scarcely enumerated haif the points which go to make a perfect style, and I need hardly say that a first-rate oar does nearly all of them unconsciously. “Now, what does that involve? It means that a series of artificial motions have to be so ingrained in the fiber of a man that at last he performs them instinctively and without an effort to remember them. It means also that the tyro who has never held an oar before must be taught one after another, slowly and persistently, and scarcely allowed to proceed to a new motion before the last is so thoroughly and Not 2 Matter of Brawn. understood as to have become automatic. All this o t be aught him in a ecraft safe enough to banish from his mind any ibility of her not keeping steady tever he may do. As he nees in work he will not only be unconsciously learning waterma ip in the abstraet, but he will be acquiring a style which will make the actual details of good oars- manship In light boat come with the greatest ease. He will have begun in a heavy tub on fixed seat: finally raced in a lighter (but on fixed seats. clin er-built) boat, still That teaches him the use . of swing and stretchgr. Then he will get to sliding seats in a tub, and so to sliding seats in a clinker-bullt four or eight. He is very near the end now, and the great- est possible care should be taken to erad- icate faults before it is too late: for the last step ¥ into a keelless cedar boat with canvas fore and aft, in which every error” is promptly paid for by personal discomfort, and by loss of general happi- ness that is shared by every member of the crew. Unless these several stages are carefully taken I believe no one can turn out a good oar. Can every captain in the best metropolitan clubs tell me that hig recrults go through them properly? We have a hot crew coming over from the University of Pennsylvania for this year's Henley, and other foreign entries may be expected. These clubs are all as keen as mustard on proving themselves as good as any English combination, and they will do so, if not this year, then very shortly, unless we wake up to the fact that we are resting on our reputation and that other countries are taking far more trouble than we are to master the ele- ments of good rowing. The question whether Great Britain's old supremacy is to be lost in yet another sport ean be answered by the captains of our English clubs, and by them alone.” — Though dean of the Paris faculty of Protestant theology. the late Auguste Sa- batier constantly wielded his pen in Le Temps in defense of freedom of thought. He lived 62 years. His best works are on the sources of the life of Christ and a philosophy of religion. ny