The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-01-24
TALNAeE AND BEEcHER,
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE MONEY THEY MAKE
IN AND OUT OF THEIR PULPITs.

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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE MONEY THEY MAKE
| IN AND OUT OF THEIR PULPITs.
| From the N. Y. Sun.
Of all the well known clergymen, Tai
mage and Beecher have found their popu-
larity most profitable from a pecuniary
point of view. OF the two, Beecher has
made the most money. Money enough has
passed through his hands to have made the
fortunes of dozen men of closer grip. but
dollars tumble from his possession in sever
al ways. The prodigallty of the notorious
preacher has been used as an argument
against his moral soundness. With his
known income and the ordinary expenses of
minister living in good style, he Shouldn't
is averred, according to the ordinary rules
! of life, be worth at least half million; but
| the whole of his possessions do not, it is be-
| lieved, exceed $4,000. If the mortgages on
his property are considered. The hey-day
of Beecher's money making was before his
name was clouded with scandal. He had
$2O, 900 from his church, some thousands
from Robert Bonner, editor and proprietor
of the New York Ledger, heavy income
from his "Star papers," his "Norwood
and his published sermons; good fat fees
for signing his name to marriage certifi-
Gates, 5000 Or $500 any night that he chose
to run over to New Jersey, sally into New
England or the interior of New York State
to lecture. He had $5, 600 or &c. 600 as ed
tor of the Christian luton, and then he
got a handsome advance pay on his con-
tract for writing Life of Christ-a work
| which he never completed and left on the
hands of J. B. Ford & Co., whose financial
ruin it wrought. ..... .... -
The scandal greatly diminished Beech
er's income from outside sources. The
Union ceased to pay, and was saved from
total eclipse by the efforts and capital of
Beecher himself, Thomas G. Shearman,
Henry W. Sage, and Others. The sale Of
his book came to full stop. The scandal
cost him $4,000, 100000 of which
years salary included, his church paid.
Beecher's present salary is $4,000. He
has the expense of his costly house in
Peekskill on hand, and it is said that trades
men and architects preyed upon him right
and left in gratifying his desire to tex
press himself in house." and that when
the bills rolled up far beyond his calcula-
ton, he had to forego summers revel in
the White Mountains and 90 to lecturing
out west.
He came back ten or twelve thousand
dollars richer, and then announced his re-
tirement from the lecture field. This year
has probably afforded Beecher an income of
$4,000 His income for the next year de-
pends largely upon the sale of pews in JAN
uary. His salary will be $4,000 if the re-
ceipts at that time warrant it. Beecher has
mortgage of $4,000 on his house at 1874
Columbia Heights, which, although due, re-
mains unpaid. The United States Trust
Co. are the mortgages.
Talmsge has made his efforts pay we'll,
aud he knpws whore TO put his money se
that it will be handy on rainy day. He
has fine four-story house, capped with
tower, at South Oxford street and De Kalb
avenue, but it is in the name of Susie C.
Talmage, his wife. It was purchased on
September 80, 1875: of Mrs. Helen A.
Knowles, wife of Emerson Knowles, and
the price paid was $50, 200. The cost was
high, but Talmage wanted the house. He
left q mortgage Of $4,000 on it, which he
went to work with will to reduce, and
last March he cancelled it with $11 900 in
cash and new mortgage of $500, which
exists now, and becomes due in September,
1880. After Mr.. ralmage took an extend
ed lecture tour and came back with pockets
crammed with checks sufficient to reduce
his mortgage, he, too, announced his re-
tirement from the lecture field; but he oc-
casionally lodges out of Brooklyn to make
an extra $50 and says nothing about it.
Talmage is not now connected with any
religious paper, having found that the diff
ferent papers he tried needed more money
than their legitimate earnings to keep them
af1oat. His sermons, however, are printed
by newspapers from St. Johns to San Fran
cisco, and from Toronto to Cape Town. Mr..
B. R. Corwin said /: "Now I want to say
positively that Mr.. Talmage does not re-
gotiated The sale of official reports of his
sermons to the London Christian Ags for
81, 800 a year in gold, but the contract had
not been under way long before some other
20 noxoy,Iosy, 1nd Mr. Ta1-
mage refused to receive any more pay for
the newpaper publication of his sermons.
Of course when book of his sermons is
published he gets his royalty"
It 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
a revenue from two western publishing
houses which publish his sermons in book
form, and royalty ON the sales of his
Crumbs Swept Up" denominations of
Society,"" and "Sports That KILL" which
the Harpers publish. He has new book in
press from which large returns are expect
ed. None of his friends know his revenue
from his literary work. His present salary
is $1,000. An estimate of his entire income
for this yeari is between SIC, 600 and S12, COO
Next year, however, his salary will be $12,-
600, and his income will be probably about
$4,000. Talmage has good conception
Of values, and it is predicted that he viii
be rich man in ten years.
How PARIS Is WASHED AND SEARCHED.
French laundresses have an awkward
trick of putting on the fine linen of their
lady customers to deck themselves withal
on festive occasions and this they do espe-
cially at the yearly festival of washerwomen,
which takes placs on the Thursday of Mid |
Lent. On that day the laundresses of each
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