Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-30
Correspondence.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE PAY or ACTORS AND WRITERS
HORSES - COOPERATION - WORKING
MEMS CLTrE-THE BROOKLYN TROj EIE
-PCSIEFsS.

NEW YORK, Ori. y, 1874. {
THE PAY or THE PEOPLE WHO ANITTSE u. {
They who do the world the most GOOD
are not those who get the best pay for it.
The clergyman who gets 800 n year in the !
country has 90 bring to his profession
talent Uf the highest possible order, and - {
compelled ~ do an amount of labor that
would kill an ordinary dray-horsc, and the
same may be said Of the country editor,
the lawyer and the physician. But the
popular actors or singers-thcy have MI
the good things OF life unstinted. SOthcrn
for instance has played Lord DUndreary
5000 times, for which he has received an
average Of 500 for each performance,
making the snug sum Of &2,0O0.OOU for the
one piece. Joe Jefferson has played Rip
Van Winl.le 2,00G times, and has averaged .
over $500 for each performance. He has
made and has it yet over n million Of dol .
lars. Booth gets $500 4 night when he
playa for certainty, but he has received :
rs high rs g, 900 for single performances. .
But the Opera singers beat tn" actors in
cnticing money out Of the pockets of the
people. Nilsson does not open her mouth .
short OF s., 600 a night, and Lucca and the
other song-birds get but little less. They
live like Prncesses and throw away money
with both hands.
But The writers and artists do no. fare
f - tifla loo Il
rather large, but then it takes Parton weeks
TO write one. When poet gets fifty dol
lars for little poem, it looks like paying
great deal for Il small piece of work, but
remember that the poet labored weeks and
weeks constructing the poem, and publish
ing and finishing the lines after they were
constructed. The highest pay journalists
! get in New York is paid Whitelow Reid,
Of the T:jJ,pe, who gets 5000 per an
mum. Bromley, who is the clearest wit on
the New York press, does his delightful
F sarcasm on the Tribune for 50, 200 Il year.
But there are exceptional cases. From
. $50 to $50 week is considered good pay,
and the men who get it are counted as
lucky.
The authors of books make but very little
by their work. There is occasionally an
Uncle Toms Cabin, which made fortune
Tor the writer and two or three for the pnb-
fishers, and the Lamp-Lighter was Just
about rs successful. But these are two
: out of a million. One out oE one hundred
books published, ninety arc fat dead fail
ures. OF the remaining ten, probably one
may reach n sale Of 10000 copies. The
author gets for his copyright ten per cent
F of the retail price, which on Sl.50 book
would be fifteen cents. If il sells 10000
he GETS q .500.-But the chances are a. a
hundred to one against its having any such
, sale. \ book that sells g, 800 is considered
n fair success, which gives the author &375
= for his labor The most of them manage
= to rrn their WORK through 4 paper first,
, thus Getting double pay. Bret IIartc
, makes a good fair living by his pen, but aa
f vet has saved nothing. Messrs. Henri
! Brown, Col. W. Knox, and that class oi
] writers make more money because they
, work harder
! The women writers do Just about the
? same az their brethern- Shirley Dare, Mel
lie HutChison, Mra Rumble, "Olivia, " and
the Great army of correspondents ard ma
ca7ine writer's manage to make from -, ,00(
! to 60, GEO year, though there ISN'T one o
i them who ought not to have twice that
n How these laAie7 mu7t envy Nilsson Will
/ her 5" 900 . night
TteT nor +.
u Thl- !. 'hr e-asou to see fast horse ii
= thn park aud or The travelling roads in th'
vicinity. The cool, crisp weather make:
driving q delight, and / doubt If any city
n in the world can show 50 much in the way
0 Of speed Commodore Vanderbilt ig the
q heaviest patron Of rapid hOrse-hesh mex
a to Bonner, OF the L6iqer; bnt there ar
a plenty of men unknown to fame who keel
stock quite rs progressive rs either O
y them. There is one team to DC seen every
day on the road that can make its mile il
= I'D easily. The horses have been driver
- singly, one in 2:l9, and the other in 2:l8
l 1t was sold 10 California Speculation las
c week for $4,000
Z And by the way there is no business s,
j. profitable, that know Of, as the raising
training and matching Of carriage horses
ANY kind Of matched team that will dt
at AL for carriage, is worth 81 200 an,
- too,,,, coll or,vrbor, from, TINT r,,,rl -
5000. These teams, understand, mal,o
. no prc,cnsions to speed or any approach Il
to t. They are simply handsome, well
> matched, stylish horses, that have fairly
decent action and look well in plated har
nrsS. They must have some blood in then
" must be well broken and kind. but above
n all must look well TO look well ia horse.
;, IS the same IN New IOri. II il i in every
b thing rlse. Most eTtrythin& goes here by
+ looks The demand for horses Of this cas-
= ia always brisk, and the market is Away
e certain. The life of horse in this city is
s necessarily brief, even though they are n
carefully taken care of rs carriage horses
are The close stables and hard pavpment'
finish Them rapidly.
! COPPER 4TIOV-CIUE-
j. Some of the workingmrn of the city have
/ made move in Il direction which | coun
q good, and the result of which shall watcl
Y with interest. There is located ut H.
i West Twentieth street, 4 w0rkingmenN
4 club, modelled after those SO successfully
maintained in England Although Of re-
T. cent origin, il haG 4 membership Of ou'
y hundred, composed entirely Of working
J. men. The reading, came and conversa
ton rooms NE not only neatly but taste
. fully furnished, thus proyidin. a pleasant
homc-!ike place in which they may spenj
their evenings All the daily and weekly
papGra are on file, not to 7peai. offs library
Of fair proportions. II mu2t BE- borne il
= mind that ihig "a entirely a UuTl. l.inumcn'r