The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-30
CLERICAL SALARIES.
The Liberal Remuneration Re- ceived by No1eI .Divines.
Handsome Incomes from Dispensing til' Gospel of Jesus Christ Among the Citizens of New
 York City.

Howard Crosby Teceived'55, coo year, and the congregation will give 9 far larger sum to anyone that can fill Iii , place: but, alasI such men are not t. be had for money. He had handsome inheritance which enabled him to grati fy his unusual benevolcnce, says a New York correspondent of the Troy Times. Parkhurst and Booth (also PresbYte- rians) each receive the same amount, which seems large, but these men have so many ways for money that they do not get rich very fast. They have g long summer vacation, which costs a great deal, and then it is so easy to spend money. They can readily point to other Presbyterian clergymen who are still more favored iLa point Of salary. Paxton is paid S10,000, while John Hall has $12,00o year and 9 house worth $4, 900 in addition. Taylor, of the Broadway tabernacle, receives s16,OOO, but pays his own rent. His congregation however, carries S50,000 life insurance for his family, which is very handsome addition, and he may certainly be considered ''well-to-do in the world"
 Rector Rainsford of St. Georges re- ceives Ss, ,OO0 and house, which is such handsome pay that Father Ignatius ex- pected liberal fee for preaching in St. Georges pulpit. Rainsford, however, rendered him only $50, which he re- turned as being too small for the occa- sion, and in this manner RGinsford came out $50 ahead. Rector Satterlcc of Calvary is not so well paid, for. though he has house, the salary is only $6, 600. We reach bigger figures at St. Bartholomew's, where Rector Green is paid S8, ,00O and house. His congregation includes the Vanderbilts, whose father (William) was buried from that church, on which occasion admission was by ticket. Rector Brown of St. Thomas also receives S, 8,OO0 and house, with the satisfac- tion of having the most fashionable congregation in the city. Rector Hunt ington of Grace is paid $6,O00, but the rectory is the most spacious in the city except Bishop Corrigan's palace. Grace church was at one time the cen ter of fashion, but 1t is now compelled to live on the memory of the past.
 Morgan Dix, the rector of Trinity church, has a large staff of assistants. His salary is $12,O00 and an allowance for house rent equal to S4,O00 a year. The assistants who serve Trinity chapel and St. Paul's receive $7,500, which is large pay for small work Trinity estate is tke greatest in America and is really worth 51O0, eco, ,0C0 but it's income may not be so large as that valuation naturally represents. At the lowest estimate, however, it is from 8, eco, 600 to S, ,010,0 GOO. The cashier or ''comp- troller" is Stephen V. R. Cruger, who receives S10,000 year for signing checks, the real work being done by his clerks. He is rich by inheritance, while his wife is noted as clever au- thor, her pen name being Julien Cor don.
 The efforts of the Protestant Episco- pal church in this city are now directed to the construction of grand cathedral. Trinity, however, can do the whole work alone out of the advance in real estate during the next decade, To prove this refer to the recent sale of a plat Containing less than an acre) to the government for the appraisers warehouse. Tie locality is in what once was Greenwich village, once con sidercd Trinity's poorest property, but it brought S400, ,002, being an estimated advance Of double in ten years, and all of Trinity's property is advancing at the same rate. To return to salaries, Bishop Potter receives 5000 and his house rent, which is s, coo additional. The Potters are a rich family, and How ard Potter, brother of the bishop, is up among the millions, all made in the banking house of Brown Bros, of which he is now senior partner. Their wealth, however, has Tlways been identified with good purposes.
 Heber Newton and Robert Collyer are among the $6, GOO men, but the lat ter makes handsome addition by featuring. He does not, however, hold the same distinction here that he did in Chicago, nor does Kittredge, which shows how easily New York dwarfs Chicago men. Eaton, who succeeded Chapin in the Church of the Divine Paternity (Universalist), is also S6,00O man. The rich reformed Dutch church pays each of its pastors SS,OOO, with a retiring pension of more than half pay. The latest pensioncr is Ormiston, whose voice and health have utterly failed, and yet his intellect is in normal cCndi- tion, rendering his retirement very painful. The most independent or rather unrestricted preacher is Charles F. Deems. Commodore Vanderbilt be- queathed him S20,O in money and the life use of large church. Deems has no board of trustees and all he needs is a sexton, a choir and some one to at tend to pew-lctting and collecting rents. He is indeed the most autocratic preacher of the present age; but this privilege will die with him, for the church will then revert to the Wander bilt estate. It is the only church in the world whose existence rests on one persons life.
 4 Dangerous Proceeding.