Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-05
Anticipated Fees of OhieiatinE ClergyInen
aud acknowledging In High Life
Harvest for Church Onicials
Fees Paid 10y Hebrcws-Spu-
rIous Checks Sometimes
Received 49, DISPENSE
tion Fees.

fNew York TRUTH
Outside OF the regular actual church
services, ciergymen have 10 perform
many duIits connected with the
church, snch. for instance, rs fgneral
services, baptisms aud, above all, we'd
ding ceremonies, which are supposed
to he the happiest aud merriest OF all
The clergymen, however do not al
Ways take II in this light. Their fees
are not frequently paid as soon as the
bans OF marriage have been completed
aud IN very many instances whore
they are paid are considered unsatis-
I factory 10y the officiating clergymen.
| Some of the cler- ymen attached TO
heightened churches, however, make
1 large amount in The shape Of we'd.
/ ding fees, and when the marriage is Of
/ one situated in the easy position OF
/ Vanderbilt or AstOr, il Is considered
/ quite harvest for them as they do
not often get such IA windfall, rs they
term it.. fhey, like the sections, con
slider this one OF the m1stinportant
items Df their Ty n
M marriage fec I%/in most ig4
StaTces, noN fixed1nH bntit is left/u
I tM liberHiy of ne /payties, their/po,
LNtion lp'litc bsxIgLae1gdiding far -
A Pii9MI SENy.SENfSiYI STERyIEWED
rnf wril1ifpseryic we'd n prominent
soxfon of|G well-known fashionable
llftown Episcopalian Church on this
Interesting marriage fee question,
which may furnish good food for those
who are about to enter the blissful
state OF matrimony. Priests belong
ing To the Roman Catholic Church are
not allowed to receive fees for we'd
dings. bat they receive money, how
ever, h way OF beneiiting the church
aud when personal services are re,
/ CURED OF Cardinal McCiosky or Arch
bishop Carlgan The amount presented
4 Is generally liberal outside of thu cx-
I penses attending the oIganist's or sex
/ tons fees. on such occasions as those
4 the SUM of $500 is net considered a
/ very stiif price, aud by some quite A
boast Is made about the sum paid Tho
I clergymen for performing the nuptials.
! The ordinary fees paid In the Protes-
! tant and Presbyterian Churches aver.
age so to $50, and in some instances
20 rs high rs Sl00 with well-to.do peo-
pie But then in the poorer parishes
on the West and East sides, the
amount dwndles down to 50 10 81 and
even s.. With the average middle.
class Catholics the fee paid Is general.
~ $40 70 so Ordinary mechanics
pay IS Tor tie ceremony performed.
II frequently happens, however, when
II Is known that the parties are i'm
poor circumstance that the clergy
man does not accept any fee what
ever,
nat Is the usual system of paving
the .ee among the heightened class9'
wen, IL often happens that the
sexton has check given him made
payable TO the clergyman, so that in
ISalily no cash transaction takes place
between thtm.n
Spurious CHECKS.
"ot course, you have never heard of
any chteh heing returned dishan-
WEI, i should smile If | have not
why, khow oi l,lenty of such eases.
anu w parties who were supposed 10
DC Wen connected and dressed as if I'm
good circumstances. When the check
IL presented II happens that the bride
groom mas drawn nearly all of his
money mona the bank or that il il 10. |
turned with the endorsement, No ac-
euuai. THIS system OF paying Is often
Carried on IN what are called runaway
or secret marriages; hut what can the
parson do The knot has been tied /
ahd ne cannot undo il, though the
check should prove worthless.
One clergyman states that I'm the
course OF ten years authorization ne
mas been called upon TO marry from
llneiy TO one hundred couples. In
numerous Instances the parties never
PAVE nm or the church cent, even