Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-07
BIG sALARIED MEN.
How Well Paid Officials Earn Their
Wages.


NEW YORK, Dec. Am this capital Of
big salaries the general impression is that
the men who receive the largest sums do
very little work in return. This view is
doubtless shared by their office boys and
Wallets, who see themselves doing ten
times as much physical labor as their
EMPLOYERS, and draw socialistIc conclu-
sons from the comparison. The truth is
that while all these well-paid officials get
their salaries mainly for the exercise OF
their judgment, some are natural hard
and wOrrIsome workers. and some treat
the worries of their places as ind iferently
as ducks back takes water. ii jay
Gould got any salary at all should say
that he earned it the most easily of any
man in town. He is the personifcation
OF easy going, and never loses his temper
or his head. He treats his head through
the medium of his stomach by
living very plainly; in fact, he
commits no excuses in any direction,
except money making. He has himself
under perfect control. He Is as methodi-
cal as machine, goes 10 bed at such an
hour, gets up at such an hour and spends
just so many hours at his office. Natu-
rally everybody who works with him or
for him likes him. But neither as Presi-
dent of the Manhattan Elevated nor of the
Gould system does he take any salary. Ii
he gets his So for each attendance at
meeting of the Western Union directory
II is because the money is sent to him.
The man who earns large salary the
most easily is another easy-g0ing railroad
man, President Chauncey NJ. Depew, OF
the New York Central. He is variously
credited with from $4,000 to $4,000
year. He may work lar into the night
aud unquestionably has done so again
and again, but he always appears TO be at
his ease, even when he is explaining that
he cant do something he Is asked to be-
cause be has four other things to do at
that time. Unlike President Cleveland,
he pays no attention to details. his SUD
ordinates stew over them and come TO h m
for a word OF final decision when they
have reached the end OF their RESPONSE
bilitles.
The man who earns $50, 900 the hardest
of any man | know Is celebrated tea
faster down town. To-day you see him
and he looks like any other man, but II
you meet him in a month hence he will
strike you as extraordinary. HIS hat
will then appear 10 be tour sizes too small
and TO be perched on his head like a
marking pot on a barrel. This IS said TO
be because he has been poisoned by his
business, and the lower part OF his face
ton to bis crown and his hat. He only
washes mis- tongue with the tea and then
splits it out, but in the course Of doing
this e thousand times day for several
weeks the strong drug does it's work and
then he has to lie off for few weeks and
shrink his head ready to begin again.
Idon't know how II. B. Hyde, OF the
Equitable Life, or Mr.. McCurdy, OF the
New York Life, earn their $50 600 year
apiece. They get "extras," think, That
bring their salaries mucn higher. But /
always had tue idea that the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher earned his 100000 with n
great deal OF friction, and that the best
paid editor in town, Mr.. David M. Stone,
OF the Journal Of Commerce, tooK his $l5,-
600 year very complacently. Theodore
homas probably made 100000 last year
and will duplicate 1t this year. He gets
$50 600 for fifteen weeks as leader Of the
American opera. But he Is forever nigh
strung, excited and in trouble, and sala-
ries come hard with him.
JULIAN RALPH.