The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-10-18
Salaries of Negro Minstrels.

todons, was 1880 Colonel Jacks
present Mastodons do not include some
of the high-salared men of three years
ago; therefore the expenditure in this
direction is considerably diminished,
and if his artists draw 81 900 n week
from the treasury they are doing we'll.
For such IN organization as Thatcher,
Primrose & Vests company, 800 q
week may be set down as the amount
paid in salaries Rice & Hooley have a
salary list of about 300. Song and
dance men get from So to S25 n week,
clog-dancers who do nothing else from
Sl2 to $50 per week, musicians from
$12 to S35, and vocalists from Sl5 to
S2j, these amounts being, Of course, ex-
elusive of their hotel and travelling cX-
penses, which are paid by the manage
ment A performer who can play a
musical instrument and does so in the
band gets S. week extra. The prin-
cipal people are still almost as well paid
rs the stars Of twenty years ago were.
From one of the members of Haverly's
Mastodons when here last Spring, n
Globe Democrat reporter obtained GER
tain figures, which are here given with
Others gathered from other sources:
Joe Emmett, TO whom a week of work
is now worth several thousand dollars,
was formerly very glad to get $40 or
$50 when he backened his face, and he
got even less at the old Broadway Bow
cry in this city When he went with
| Dan Bryant's minstrels his salary was
what the boys call away up"
Gus Williams, who played one week
with the Mastodons in Chicago four
years ago. was paid Sl75.
Hayerly paid Billy Emerson $3.50 a
week for ten years, and this comedian
can still get the same salary at any time
he desires to take it, He is now in Cal
ifOrnia with a troupe Of his own.
Billy Rice, the fat moke, who en-
livencd the bone end Of the Mastodons
for several seasons, was paid 800 a
week. He and Richard Hooley are now
running company that is playing in
the smaller towns.
Primrose and West, for several years
in business for themselves, formerly re-
ceyed S1j week each.
j. w. McAndrews, the watermelon
man." got SO week from Hayerly.
He is now in London getting 1925 at
the Panlon Music Hall.
George Thatcher, the suffering com
ediap, whom George Wilson initiates,
received Sl20 week before he became
proprietor and manager,
Sam Deyere, the banioist, received
800 week when he was with the Mas
todons, but Hyde d. Behman are now
paying him $3.50.
Billy Carroll, playing the banjo with
the Tony Pastor combination this year,
is paid S75 week. He was formerly a
partner OF Diuy Harris, with whom he
did q quick change act from white to
black face.
Barry Maxwell. an excellent "old
man was paid S2j a week by Hayerly
year ago, and is not getting much
! more now.
Mili Barlow, in the same line with
Maxwell, was paid S75 a week before
he formed a copartnership with George
Wilson, who refused $500 a week TO
travel with tho MaStodons
+. NJ. Kayne, the well-known stage
manager and interlocutor, has a salary
of so a week.
Frank Cushman, who is TO take Billy
Emerson's place on the minstrel stage
when Billy retires, got $50 week last
season, is getting S75 now, and will
soon have 500.
Pete Mack, the comedian, gets $50
week
c. +. Shattuck, the basso, whose
song, Zone Hundred Fathoms Deep"
was such a success is paid $40 week
for his singing and the direction of all
the vocal music Of tho San Francisco
Minstrels
George w. Harley, The soprano
voiced gentleman, has $50 n week.
Paul Vernon, who impersonates fe-
males, formerly with the Mastodons,
gets $35 week
William Welch and John Rice, song.
and.dance men. were each paid $50 o
week by haHerly, out now get SO each
as directors Of amusement for the two
Calender troupes
Daniel T, Thompson, song ambulance,
gets $50 week. Thomas Sader. song
and-danco $50; James R. Walsh and
Billy King, .and.duuce, $40 each;
Robert Hooley song-and-dancc, S25;
and among the yocalsts, Chauncey o.
colt, S2j; O. H. Carter, $50; William
Willis $50 and Alfred Holland, $40,
The three German brothers song
and-dance and general utility, received
a Joint salary Of SO a week
Charles Queen, who leads the clog
dancers with Thatcher, Primrose and
West, and dances on a pedestal, is paid
S75 n week
George w. McAuley, pedestal clog
dancer gets S25 "A week
Alex. Iauiretta, the clown who ap-
peared with the Mastodons last season,
got 5000 week while in England and
during three months in this country.
He made a second contract running 10
the end Of the season at 500 q week.
The only Leon female mprrsonator
receives SlG0 and expenses Tor week s
work.
Harry Kennedy, the ycntriloquist,
who Is with the San Francisco Min
strcls, receives $50 week.
Manchester and Jennings, who are
now on the road with variety com.