Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — PRINCELY INCOMES. [ARTICLE]

PRINCELY INCOMES.

A Few of the Chicago Lawyers Who Find Affluence in Their Profession. Prom the Chicago Herald. Eminent office lawyers, as a rule are quickly taken up by rich corporations, and their services are retained at salaries nearly twice as high and sometimes more than that of Cabinet Ministers. John N. Jewett, the present typical >ffice lawyer of this city revived an annual salary of 525,000 as attorney of the 11l noia Central railroad. He •esigned tuat position bemuse his private practice is nore remunerative than even that princely salary. The josition was offered to Judge McAlister, who declined it, his honorable but ar less|lucrative office on the Aoench of th- appellate court. Te recommended B. F. Ayer, who is now the legal adviser of the road at a salary of 15, ) 0 per annum. Corydon Beckwith snperindtends the legal affairs of the Chicago and Alton road for about the ame salary. Burton F. Cook, solicitor for the Chicago and Northwestern road, receives an annual salary of SIO,OOO. W. . Goudy takes care of the legal affairs of the North hioago ity railway at a handsome sum annually. Wirt Oexter is said to receive a salary of $2 \0"0 from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy L’oad. George Paysons is the legal adviser of the railway association at the rate of sls, **oo per annum. There are a number of attorneys who represent railroads in courts without occupying permanent :x>sitions as solicitors for these iorporation«. Henry Crawford, who is counted one of the best railroad lawyers in the country, is said to have darned as nigh as $75,0"0 in a year. George W. Kretzinger’s annual* income is estimated at $25,00'. A. S. Trude, who Is also prominent in important criminal cases, is said to reach ■he same amount. The largest income of lawyers is ascribed to D. E. K. Tenney, who is Tedited with having averaged 312,0"0 a month, or nearly H 5», )'O, during the year, before lie retired from He could well afford it. The retainers of leading lawyers in important criminal ■cases range all the way from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO. Emery A. iStorrs’ fee in the gamblers’ cases of 1883 was SS,(XX). He received $4,00" from Flemming and Loring In the McKeague case, Van Arman Is said to have received $4,500 and C. M. Hardy Jibe criminal practice of Wm. S. Forrest is estimated to be worth from 8,000 to $lO,0 l; 0 a year, and G us Van Buren u knbeked out” about the same income while he rwas “well on his feet.” Lesser lights, like F A.Michell and John King, who are as busy as bees around the criminal court building in smaller •cases, earn comfortable incomes of from $2,50" to $5,000 per year. Mills and Ingham, the former state’s attorney and has first assistant, will naturally be retained in important criminal case, but they are not part icularlmeager for that class of practice, being well qualified to take rank with the first in the profession in more lucrative business. The same may be said of Henry Wendell Thompson, also formerly of the states attorney’s office. A class of lawyers who earn large incomes is that principally devoted to patent solicitation. The patent lawyer ■las a specialty, indeed, which somewhat removes him from Ms professional brethren. He must not only be well versed in all the points of common law, and the intricacies of chancery, but he must be a mechanical genius 'o some extent, or at least have a comprehension of mechanical and scientific appliance far beyond that of ordinary mortals. The priority of many a valuable invention Baa often been jtablished by tent lawyers records failed, wrer’s income gly large. L. aitcd w th an that exceeds wv V, mu* uint Of West &

Bond can not be much less, because they pay| for office rent alone the snug little sum of $3,500 per year. Banning & Banning are also very sue' cessful patent lawyers. Sitting Bull’s real name is Tatunkahyotaoka.