Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-14
A Comparative View.
Music i'm the Church.

The following are the salaries paid at some of the chapels in Oxford and Cambridge unl versailles, in England, the only churches in the world where music is paid for in propor- tion to it's value. and in some of these places the organist receives three times the salary of the priest Following is table:
 Average salary of one priest-oxford. New college, $1, 916.50; Magdalen, $S0S.66 Cambridge-St. Johns, $500.
 Salary of two priests New col lege, $3, 633 Magdalen, for priests, $3, 234.- 66. Cambridge Johns, $1,O00.
 Care of the organ and number of stops and manuals Oxford, New college, $1, ,O94.- 52; Magdalen, $87S. AZ, 35 stops, manuals. manuals; St. Johns, $452.9 Trinity, $333, 59 stops. manuals.
 Sheet music and books-Oxford, New eel lege, $6O4. .32.
 Average salary of choir-oxford. New col lege, $443.7O; Magdalen, $429.23. Cam $258. 24.
 Number of singers and total of salary Oxford, New college, 26 singers, $E, ,536; Magda1en, g singers, $9, ,443. O4 Cambridge, Kings college, 22 singers, $11, ,123.74; St. Johns, $3,32o.S2; Trinity, 24 singers, &C., 197.94.
 Name of the organist-Oxford, J. Taylor; Christ church, Oxford cathedral, Dr. Corfe; Magdalen, Dr. Stainsr; Cambridge, Kings college, A. H. Mann St. Johns, Dr. Gar rett Trinity, c. V. Stanford.
 Organist's salary without extra fees-Ox- ford, New college, $2.0OO; Christ church. Oxford cathedral, $3,oOO; Magdalen, $2, 800 Cambridge, Kings college, $1,457.- 7S; St. Johns. $1, 75o; Trinity. $2,0OO. Total expenses of choral service Oxford, New college, $14, ,249; Magdalen, $12, ,45s. .o4; Cambridge, Kings college, $1s. .O56, g; St. Johns, $5,65o.s2; Trinity, $8,477,9 94.
 T0ss Sf 0EaPs 5 s dPe.s ehcb EoT cathedral, $26, 795.4O; Magdalen, $17. .444. 16; Cambridge, Kings college, $18,2S7.5O; St.
 Johns, $7, ,4O2. 70; Trinity, $13, ,929.26
 Total of all expenses-Oxford, New college, $254, AIS. .45; Christ church, Oxford cathe- dral, $503, ,665.1o; Magdalen, $3o9, ,46s. 95 i: St. Johns. $487, ,652. 92; Trinity, $61 1922 52, Number of college members--O Oxford, New college, 95; Christ church, Oxford cathe- dral, 145; Magdalen. 91 Cambridge, Kings college, 31; St. Johns, 3O2; Trinity, 446.
 The table given above is copied from a book entitled Reports of Oxford and Canl- bridge Universities, 1S67-1871," work compiled by order of the British parliament, { the members of which occasionally overhaul accounts and readjust salaries and expenses in | the universities and other institutions. For the purposes of 8 comparison the I higher cost of living in this country is taken \ into consideration, and the figures used in \ this article would be misleading but for an explanation. As dollar or it's representa- \ tive will go twice as far in England as in the United States, pound is assumed here to be equal to $1O instead of $5-about the actual exchange value. For instance, salary stat ed to be e10O is, for the purposes of this ar ticle, assumed to be equal to $1, ,oO0-not $500, as in ordinary calculations.
 \ Music evidently is considered an essentia E part of the chapel service, for at MegdaleI
 college chapel, Oxford, out of $17, ,444. 16
 the total of chapel expenses. SIP, ,458. .O4 il paid for the music and $SOS 66 to 8 priest
 the organist receives $2, 500, over three timet
 the amount paid to one priest, eight times
 the amount paid to two priests is paid fol the music.
 If the cathedral expenditures were regu
 lated on the same basis, what benefit to thu
 musical world it would be. Neither Is il
 more than simple justice, for without nott
 of music how long would the "Church o1
 England cathedral services" or that of tht
 Protestant Episcopal church of the United
 States continue to interest the public?"
 Of all cases of deliberate, systematic robbery
 of one class of individuals by another, tht
 deeds of the English clergy excel while \ their salaries have been increased up to twen \ ty fold, the poor cathedral organists and l singers have remained at or near the same figures they were three hundred years ago I Take for example Westminster abbey; the
 singers should receive now about e400 ($4 ; OOO) to get their share of the increase ir ! value of the money that was allotted to them l in the sixteenth century. Unfortunately fol them the priests have grabbed it all. Thei1 salaries are as follows: The dean $20 OOO one canon $16, ,660, the other five canols $10, GOO each, and the singers. have some more and some less than eI0e ($1, ,o60) each Ia very small increase over the prices oi three centuries ago.
 ! Sometime between 1866 and 1870 the DO.
 sition of organist of Manchester cathedral | was vacant. The salary paid is e1so ($1, 800. ; ! The London Musical Standard, 8 paper whose
 editors have written fearlessly and frequent | ly on this great injustice, using the terms,
 ''clerical thieves" and other pet names, made computation of the price an able \ musician obtained right in that city of Man
 chester. It said: "Charles Halle, the cele-
 brated conductor, if asked the price of his
 services. would reply. two guines for an ! evening, but MT. Halle is only conductor | and pianist; cathedral organist
 should be more than that he must I be a composer, a skiliful organist | and conductor. Suppose we add fifty per I cent. to these thirty guineas, and then null | tipIy by three hundred and sixty-five, and we ! have BOOTS guineas ($2oO, 750) per year. The organist of Westminster Abbey is J. F. Bridge, Mus. Doc Oxon. He is composer, organist and conductor, but his salary is not
 twenty thousand guineas; it is e250 ($2,- 5OO).
 Trinity church, New York city, in 1876 ex-
 pended $15, ,000 for music. This included E the extra expense of orchestra some four I times during that year. The organist and choirmaster, MT. Messitter, received $2. 500, 7 and the associate organist, Mir. Carter, { $2, 1000.
 The rector, Dr. Dix, however, received | 5000, and large salaries wera paid to his assistants; in the former case the $15.00O paid for music was divided among the two organists, choir of thirty to forty singers l and an orchestra of forty men four times a year; in the latter case one man captured the ] whole amount; slight difference between NLagdalen college chapel, Oxford, and Trini- ty church, New York. as far as pay Of organ ist and priest is concerned.
 Tired of the Servants. A young lad who gave his name as Henry Parker was brought to the police station last evening by citizen. The boy was well