Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-14
TALM4GE md BEECHER.
Some Facts About the Money They
Make In and Out of Their Pulo itS.

OF all the well-known clergy men Talma re ana
Eeecher have found their popularity most profit
able, from a pecuniaTy point OF view. or the
two. Beecher has made the most money. Money
enough has passed through his hands to have
made the fortunes of dozen men Ofcloser grip.
but dollars tumble from his posse in several
ways. The prodigality OF the notorious preacher
has been used as an argument against his m0ral
soundness. With his known income and the or
binary expenses Of a minister living in good
style. he should, it is ayerred, according to the
ordinary rules OF life he worth al least half a
milOn but the whole of his possessions do not
It Is believed. exceed fifty thousand dollars
II the mortgages o1 his property are
considered. The hey-day OF Beecher's money
making was before his name vas cIOudad with
scandal. He had $4,000 from his church, some
thousands from Mr.. Robert Bonner, editor and
proprietor of the New York Ledger. heavy in
come from his ''Star papers, his :. Norwood
and his published sermons, good fat fees for
signing his name TO marriage certificate parch-
mentS, two or three hundred dollars any night
that he chose 10 run over to New Jersey, sally
into New England or the interior of New York
state to lecture. He had five or six thousand
dollars as editor of the Christian Union, aud
then he got handsome advance pay On his con-
tract for writing Life of CnriSt'-a work
which he never completed and left half finished
on the hands Of j. b. Ford d Co., whose finan-
cial ruin it wrought
The scandal greatly diminished Beecher's in
come from outside sources The Christian Union
ceased to pay, and was saved from total eclipse
by the efforts and capital of Beecher himself
ThOS. G. sherman, Henry W. Sage, and others
scandal cost him Sis 900, 100000 of which,
years salary inclusive, his church paid. Beech
erS present salary is $15,000. He has had the
expense of his costly house in PeekSkiu on hand
and II is said that tradeSmen and architects
preyed upon him right and left in gratifying his
desire ito express himself in a house" and that
when the bills rolled up far beyond his calcula-
ton, he had to fOrego a summers revel in the
White Mountains and GO to lecturing out st.
He came back ten or twelve thousand dollars
richer. and then announced his retirement from
al no nhlh m ford
ed Beecher an income OF $4,000. His income for
the next year depends largely upon the sale of
the peW5 In January. His salary viii be $780,
Ii the receipts at that time warrant II. Beecher
has a mortgage of $4,000 on his house at 1874
Columbia Heights which. although due. remains
unpaid The United States Trust company are
the mortgages.
Talmage has made his efforts pay Well and
he knows where to put his money so that it
will be handy on rainy day. He has a fine
ur-StOry house. canped with tower at South
oxford street and De kalb avenue, but it is in
the name OF Susie c. Talmage, his wife. 1t was
purchased on September 90 1875, of Mrs. Helen
a. Knowles, wife OF Emerson Knowles, and the
price paid was 100000. The cost was high, but
Talmage wanted the house. He left a mort
gage of Sl1.5oo on it, which he went 10 work
with Will 10 reduce. and in March last he can
celled it with 81 900 in cash, and new mort
gage of SG.5Oo, which exists now, and becomes
due in september, 1850. After Mr.. Talmage
took an extended lecture tour and came back
with pockets crammed with checks sufficient to
reduce his mortgage, he. too. announced his re-
tircment from the lecture field; bit he Occa-
SiOnally lodges out OF Brooklyn to make an eX-
ira $3.50. and says nothing about it.
Talmage is not now connected with any re-
lgfouS paper, having found that the different
papers he tried needed more money than their
legitimate earnings to keep them a1OaJ. His
from st. Johns to San Francisco. and from To-
rOnto to Cape Town. "DO you want TO hear a
list OF the papers?' said Major b. Il. Corwln, of
the Tabernacle. Then he ratified off the fol-
SIr1lS M fIg 1ln
London Christian Age, the Oldham England
Chronicle, the Montreal Gazetfe the Manchester
tEngland) Guardian. the Glasgow (SGotlanD
Herald, paper in Melbourne, Australia, the
Toronto Guardian, the st. Louis Telegraph AMI
Journal the Chicago Inter- Deem. the Iudianap-
oils journal. the Boston Herald, the Boston Post,
paper in Reading, one in San Francisco. the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and the New York Etpress
These papers print his sermons in fun. and the
most Of them from official reports. Then You
know that the New York papers print snatches
OF his sermons Now, want to say positively
that Mr. Talmage does not receive cent for
these sermons. | once negotiated the sale of
official reports of his sermons to the London
Christian Pe for 81 800 year in gold, bit the
contract had not been under way long before
some other papers began to complain, and Mr.
Talmage refused to receive any more pay for
the newspaper publication Of his sermons
OF course, when book Of his sermons is pub
liShed he gets his royalty
II is believed. however. that Talmage gets
from the different papers to which he supplies
manifold copies of his sermons sufficient to pay
his StenOgrapher. He has revenue from two
western publishing houses, which publish his
sales OF his Crumbs Swept Up" "Abomina-
tons OF society," and "SpOrtS that KILL" which
the Harpers publish. He has new book in TIL
press, from which large returns are expected
None of his friends know his revenue from his
literary work. His present salary is 81, 900. An
estimate of his entire income for this year
between $4,000 and $4,000. Next year, how
ever his salary will be $4,000 and his incoma
will be probably from $4,000 to $4,000. Tai
mage has good conception of values, and it l.
predicted that he will be a rich man in ten
yearS.-.N. Y. Sun.
Lake Dwellings,.