The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-05
MEN VINO GET BIG SALARIES.
Large Emoluments Earned by Hard and Easy
Work-Poor Jay Gould Gets No Salary,
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NEW YORK, Dec. An this capital Of big sal
aries 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 valets, who see themselves doing
ten times as much physical labor as their en-
ployers, and draw socialistic conclusions 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 indifferently
as ducks back takes water. If Jay Gould got
any salary at all I 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 bis 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 methodical az a ma
chine goes to bed at such an hour. gets up at
such an hour, and spends just so many hours at
his Office Naturally, every body 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. If he gets his
S. fer each attendance at meeting of the West
ern Union directory, it is because the money is
sent to him.
The man who earns large salary the most
easily is another easy going railroad man. Presi-
dent Chauncey M. Depew, of the New York
Central. He is varously credited with from
$25, 600 to SAC, 600 year. He may work far into
the night, and unquestionably has done SO again
and again. but he always appears to be at his
ease even when he Is explaining that he can't
do something he is asked to because he has four
other things to do at that time. Unlike Presi-
dent Cleveland, he pays no attention to details
His subordinates stew over them and come to
him for a word of final decision when they have
reached the end of their responsibilities.
The man who earns $40 900 the hardest of any
man know is a cele brated tea faster down town.
To-day You see him and he looks like any other
man, but if you meet him in a month hence he
will strike you as extraordinary. His hat will
then appear to be four sizes too small and to be
perched on his head like marking pot on a bar.
rel This said to be because he has been poisoned
by his business and the lower part of his face
and head have swelled out of all proportion to
his crown and his hat. He only washes his
tongue with the tea and then splits 1t out, but in
the course of doing this thousand times day
for several weeks the strong drug does its work
and then he has to lie off for few weeks and
shrink his head ready 70 begin again.
don't know how Fl. b. Hyde, OF the Equitable
Life, or Mr.. McCurdy, of the New York Life,
earn their 5000 year apiece They get lex
tras," think, that bring their salaries much
higher. But l always had the idea that the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher earned his 500, 600
with great deal of friction, and that the best
paid editor in town. Mr.. David M. Stone, of the
Journal of Commerce, took his SIS, 900 year
very complacently. Theodore Thomas probably
made $100, 900 last year and will duplicate il this
year. He gets $50. 900 for fifteen weeks as leader
of the American opera. But he is forever high
strung, excited and in trouble, and salaries come
hard with him. JULIAN RALPH.