Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-24
PREACHERS AND CHOIRs.
How Much They are Paid I'm New
York City

How Much They are Paid I'm New
York City.
The Netc York Ecening Post has given
some interesting statistics in regard to the
salaries of ministers in New York and
Brooklyn. Il Sats:
Mr.. Beecher receives the largest Salary
paid to any pastor in the United States
$4,000. The Salaries of DR.. Potter, q
Grace Church, aid the Rev. Morgan Dix,
OF Trinity, come next to thai OF Mr..
Beecher, each receiving $4,000. DR.. Nor
gan, of st. Thomas Church, Fifth avenue
and Fifty-third street, receives $4,000, aud
DIR. Montgomery, 6f the Ohureh Of the "A.
carnation, DR.. Haight, of st. Paul's, and
DIR. Tying, of st. Georges, are paid $1,000,
and DR.. Tying, jr., Of the Holy Trinity, the
same. The salary of DIR. John Cotton
Smith, one of the ablest men in the Protes-
tant Episcopal Clutch, is s., 900. The pastor
OF st. BartholOmew's Church, DR.. Cooke,
receives 5000. The lowest salary paid in
the Episcopal Church is s., 900, and the en-
tite salary list amounts to about 100000.
DIR. John Hall, Of the Fifth7svenue Presby-
terrain Church, receives $1,000 IN gold.
he is one Of our most popular and effective
preachers. The Rev. DIR. Thompson, of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church (West
Thirty-fOurth strest); DIR. Hastings, of the
West Presbyterian Church (iyest Forty
second street), receive each 5000. Sew
eral other Presbyterian preachers, includ-
ing Dr. Paxton, DR.. NOrthrup, DR.. Bur-
chard, and DR.. Hitchcock, are paid 5000
each. DR.. Elder, pastor Of the Madison
avenue Baptist Church, receives $1,000, the
highest salary paid by this denomination.
DIS. Armitage, Kendrick and Kinnard, of
ths same denomination, ARE each paid s. 200,
and five Baptist pastors receive salaries as
low as $1,000. Salaries of ministers in
the Reformed Dutch Church range
higher. DIS. Chambers, Ormiston and
Dewitt receive respectively 5000; Drs.
Rogers and Thompson, $1,000, and Drs.
Hutton and Vaudeville. s. 900. Only three
pastors of this Church are paid as low as
$1,000. The salary Of the distinguished
DIR. Chaplin is only $1,000; DIS. Sweetzer
and Pullman of the same denomination
(Universalists) are paid 5000 each. Only
one Methodist Church-St. Paul's, corner
of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street
pays its pastor as much as 5000. Two
others pays 5000 each, and ten more pay
$1,000. One Lutheran Church (HOly
Trinity pays $4,000, and another Saint
James) pay $4,000. Some Lutheran pas
tors receive less than $1,000. The salary |
of DR.. Bellows, of All Souls Church, is |
5000. DR.. Deems, of the Church of the |
Strangers, receives 5000, and the Rev. |
Chancey Giles (Swedenborgian) receives |
$500. All pastors OF Roman Catholic |
Churches receive $500 a year, and assistant |
pastors 500.
New York Herald
As class Of men and women, church |
singers and musicians in New York are
fairly paid. Some claim even that they /
are paid too highly, and that too much at
tention is devoted by some 10 the mere
money they receive, and that TO a certain
extent the religious charactar of their ser
vices is entirely ignored. These views
were expressed to a representative Of the
Herald by prominent musician, himself
a church Organist and musical director. On
the other side, gentleman equally promi-
nent in church music expressed the opinion
that church music was in lower status
than it should be, simply because the sala-
ries paid were too small to command the
best talent. The figures are these: Church
or ganists receive salaries from $1,000 up
ward, one organist receiving as high as ST.
500. SOprani receive from $500 to $500
per annum-cases have been known in
which they have been paid as high as
1900. TenOrs receive about $1,000 per
annum; cOntralti from 500 year upward.
4 bass voice is well paid, some cases re
ceiving as high as s., 200 to 81 800 per an
mum. These figures seem ''fair7 when
il is considered, on the one hand, that a
high order of musical ability and culture is
required, and, on the other hand, that the
positions require but one days service dur
ing the week and not more than one nights
average rehearsal. Sometimes the organist
is intrusted with the entire appropriation"
for the music of the church, and makes all /
and pays salaries. Sometimes
the matter is in the hands of committee, |
and the OrganiSt himself ranks merely rs
one of the musicians. In one case in this
city an organist has undertaken to '.job |
out" the music of several churches, taking
the appropriations" of them all, and ont /
Of it securing musicians by the whole sale.
To this course the musicians themselves
generally object.