Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-01
Salaries Of Negro Minstrels.

Louis Globe democrat. The amounts
paid weekly to the famous Forty
Count EN- known as Haverly's Mas
todons, was II $50. Colonel Jack $
present Mastodons do not include some
of the high-salaried men of three years
ago; therefore the expenditure in this
direction is considerably diminished,
and if his artists draw $1,000 q week
from the treasury :hey are doing well.
For such an organization rs Thatcher,
Primrose q Vests company, 500 a
week may be set down as the amount
paid in salaries Rice d Hooley have n
salary list of about SI00. Song and
dance men get from - TO $50 a week,
clOo-dancers who do nothing else from
Tl2 TO $50 per week, musicians from
So 10 SO. and yocalists from 80 to
S2j. these amounts being, OF course, ex-
elusive of their hotel and travelling ex-
pen-es, which are paid by the manage
ment. A performer who can play a
musical instrument and does so in the
band gets - a 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 Hayerly's
Mastodons when here last Spring, u
G0bc- Democrat reporter obtained GER
tain figures, which are here given with
others gathered from other sources:
Joe Emmett, to whom week Of work
is now worth several thousand dollars,
was formerly very glad to get $40 or
$50 when he blackened his face. and he
got even less at the old Broadway Bow
cry in this city. When he went with
Dan Bryant's minstrcls his salary was
what the boys call away up"
Gus Williams, who played one week
with the Mast0dous in Chicago -four
years ago, was paid $40.
Haverly 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 al
ifornia with a troupe Of his own.
Billy Rice, the fat mokc, who en-
liycned the bone eul OF the Mastodons
for several seasons, was paid 500 n
week. He and Richard Iiooley are now
running company that is playing in
the smaller towns.
Primrose and West, for several years
in business for themselves formerly re-
ceived $40 - week each.
j. w. McAndrews, the "watermelon
man." got SO "a week from Hayerly
He is now in London getting 1928 at
the Panlion Music Hall.
George Thatcher, the suffering com
edan, whom George Wilson initiates.
received $40 week before he became
proprietor and manager.
t,,fg
500 week when he was with the Mas
todons, but Hyde g Behman are now
paving him Sl50
Billy Carroll, playing the banjo with
the Toty Pastor combination this year.
is paid SO week He was formerly u
partner Of Billy Harris, with whom he
did a quick-change act from white to
black face.
Barry Maxwell, an excellent cold
man, was paid SO a week by Hayerly
q year ago, and is not getting much
more now.
Mit Barlow, in the same line with
Maxwell, was paid S75 a week before
he formed eopartnership with George
Wilson, who refused $500 week to
travel with the Mastodons
Il. NJ. Kayne, the well-known stage
manager and iuterlocutor, has salary
of $50 week
Frank Cushman, who is TO take Billy
Emcrson's place on the minstrel stage
when Billy rctires, rot 500 a week last
scuson, is getting SO now, and will
soon have $500
Pete Mack, the comedian gets $50 a
week
c. F. Shattuck, the basso. whose
song. cone Hundred Fathom, Deep,
was such success, is paid $40 week
for his singing and the direction of all
the vocal music of the San Francisco
Mnstrels
George w. Harley ,he soprano
voiced gentleman. has $50 Il week.
Paul Vernon, who imperSouates fe-
males, formerly with the Maslodons,
gets $50 a week
William Welch and John Rice, song
ambulance men, were each paid $50 a
week by llaycrly, but now get Sl5 each
as directors of amusement for the two
CaUcody troupes
Daniel +. Thompson, soug-aud-dauce,
get> $50 week; Thomas Sadler, song
aud-dauee SD; James Il. Walsh and
Billy King, >oug-and-daEyc, $50 each;
Robert looley, soug-aud-dance. SO;
and among the yocaliSts, Chauncey Oh
cott SO, o. H. Garter, 500 William
Willis $50, and Alfred Holland. $50
The three German brothers. song
ambulance ana general utility, received
8 io.ut salary of 81 u week.