Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-19

| himself successful in his profession. Very | many on half that sum jump at the same conclusion.
 The great body of the clergymen of the
 United States receive salaries of.$1 ,0e0 or less
 year. There are many of course, in the larger cities who are paid $2, ,000, $S, ,00e, l $4 ,O00, and $5, 900, and in Philadelphia there | are several who are paid from 5000 to $10- 000-Dr. Harper, for instance. New York and Brooklyn are most generous with their preachers. Dr. John Hall is paid $20, 900 by his church; he receives 50, ,000 more as Chan cellor of the University of New York, and l probably makes from $2, 600 to $3, 600 year more from his writings.
 Dr. Talmage does quite as well; Dr. Will liam M. Taylor's salary is SIS, 900; Dr. Ly- man Abbott's $10. 900 and Drs. o. Fl. Park hurst and Morgan Dix from $2, 500 to $5,O00 more. Very wealthy congregations are by no means the most liberal with their pastors. There is the Rev. J. T. Willis of Aurora, N . Y., whose pews are filled with millionaires They only pay him $1 ,500 year, however. There are some 2,080 physicians in Phila- delphia, and at least one-haf of them earn an adequate living. Without influential" friends 1t is uphill work. But a foot hold once gained and @ fair practice acquired, say in from five to ten years it should yield from $3, 900 to 5000. The old 'family physic- ian," the portly "country doctor" is not dis satisfied with this reward after lifetime of unselfish labor.
 Here are the estimated annual incomes of
 some of the eminent members of the profes..
 sion in this city. We give the average of
 three estimates made each for the press
 without knowledge of the others by three
 well informed physicians: Dr. D. Hayes Agnew. $40, GOO to s45 ,0O0; Dr. William Pep- per, $40, coo. to $45,00O; Dr. Da Costa $35- 900 to $40, 900; Dr. s. Weir Mitchell, $30,000 to $40, 900; Dr. Goodell s25.OO to $30, ,0O0; Dr r Dr. Samuel Gross, $2O,0O0 to $25, 1000.
 It would be idle speculation to guess at the number of lawyers in this country who make $50, 900 or more year. But there are more than few of them. New York oity has score such, Philadelphia about dozen. This is the estimate of several members of the bar. The largest income of any law firm during the past year is said to have been that of Bullitt 6 Dixon, who divided $19e- 900 of profits, two-thirds going to John O. Built, the other to Samuel Dixon, John G. Johnson is said to have cleared $100,000 during 1888.
 But it seems to be the opinion of the pro- fession that the lawyer of fifteen years stand ing at the Bar who has an average income of $7, 500 is doing very we'll A test of this is the general eagerness to acquire judicial honors and pay. Of the 1, 800 Philadelphia lawyers, probably not more than 500 or 700 are self supporting, and of these it is fair to say CnaS DaIety 1oo makes nofe 1nan AAoIu $4,0O0 to $5, 900 year.
 It is not safe to trust the statements of ac- tors as to their incomes. Kyrle Bellew re- oeives S350 week for forty weeks, Charles Coghlan the same. Mary Anderson's profits this season will be unusually large, about $4, 800 week for forty weeks, or S192, ,000. Francis Wilson is paid $500 week; De Wolf Hopper and Digby Bell each about s250. Fred Leslie receives $500 week from the Gaiety company and was offered $500 week from Rudolph Aronson. Ellen Terry is paid 5000 and George Alexander $200 a week.
 These incomes are drawn by the brides of the profession. The rank and file regard them with bated breath.