Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-12-02


road corporations are nearly all well
paid. Chauncey NJ. Depew's SALARY as
president of the New York Central
can not fall below 100000 year.
George B. Roberts, president of the
Pennsylvania, receives salary OF S5O,-
600, and President A A. Mcleod is
paid the same by the Reading COM
pany. Albert Fink, when he was com
missioner of the Trunk Line association.
was paid $4,000 a year.
The average yearly income of New
Yorh's thousands of doctors is not
over $1,000, and if, at the end of his
first ten years of practice a sawbones
finds himself in receipt Of an annual
income of $1,000, he is one of the lucky
ones. The physicians who earn the
largest incomes are the specialists
DR.. L. Gaillard Thomas the specialist
in women's troubles, probably makes
America. His annual income is not
less than 100000, and DR.. Salisbury
makes nearly as much. DR.. William
A. Hammond, during his last year in
New York, is credited with having
made $150,0OO. There are perhaps 100
doctors in New York who have an
annual income Of $4,000 and over,
and possibly u score who earn over
$4,000 every year. Included in this
score. besides those already named, are
Dr. A. L. LOOMS, a specialist on throat
and lung troubles; DR. j. T. Metcalf,
DR.. A. jacob, DR.. Herman Knapp, DR..
w. L. Polk and DR.. Mary Putnam
,Iacobi The last named, a daughter of
Putnam, the publisher. is in a monetary
way the most successful woman doctor
living.
What does the professional artist
earn? This is a question to which no
definite and explicit answer can be
given. The leders earn large incop'"s.
the beginners are thankful for what
they can get, and between the two
there is large middle class whose skill
assures them a comfortable living. E.
A. Abbey has for several years been
paid an annual salary of $4,000 by
the Harpers, but Abbey is in a class
by himself. The best known illustra-
tors of books and periodicals are Rem
ington. Graham, DeGrinm. Reinhardt
Church, Kemble, Taylor, Rogers, Glib
son and de ThulStrup. These men earn
all the way from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year and their incomes, like those Of
lawyers, vary greatly from year to
year. The illustrator who makes $4,000
Il year is considered lucky by his fell
lows. The painter whose reputation is
established generally makes money rap
idly. especially portrait painters. Hub
ert Eerkomer spent Il winter in New
York u few years ago, and earned be-
tween 100000 and $25O,O00 while here.
The leading American portrait painters
are Sargent, Alexander, Dewing, John
sou, Huntington, Chase and Porter
Sargent is reputed to earn about $780,
900 a year and Chase's income must be
nearly if not quite as large. Porter
asks and receives $1,000 for a portrait,
and Sargent is often paid 500 for the
right to copy one of his paintings in a
magazine But it should be remember
ed that these men are the mobiles and
princes of their profession.
Several of our leading authors are
credited with fabulous incomes which.
to their infinite regret, they do not re-
ceive. Mark Twain is rich. but he has
made the greater part of his fortune us
Il publisher and not as an author.
Fanny HOdgson Burnett and William
Dean Howells earn perhaps $4,000 a
year. and they are the largest money
makers of their profession. Bert Harte
earns between $4,000 and $4,000 a
year. Among the other American auth
ors who earn more than $1,000 a year
are Frank r. Stockton. Marion Craw-
ford, Edgar Saltus, Captain Charles
King Henry James, Sara Olne Jewett
and Julian Hawthorne
The rank and file are quite content
if they Can make $1,000 Il year. The
best paid American author is a man
who is practically unknown to the liter
airy world. His name is J. W. Buel,
and he is a maker OF what are known
us Subscription booEs''-that is, books
which are sold on the subscription plan.
OF the fourteen books he has written
there have been circulated in the ag-
gregate two and a half million copies
His royalties in 1889 exceeded 10000.
There is no calling which offers
quicker returns to bright young man
than Journalism, but it's greater prizes
are few and far between, and the news
paper worker at the end Of ten or
twenty years generally finds himself |
about where he started from. There
are to-day in New York 1000 news
paper workers who average $25 week, !
but there are less than two score who !
earn more than 500 in the same period |
John A. Cockerll, while managing edi-
year, and George w. Turner received
$4,000 as manager Of the same paper.
William G. Reick is paid the annual
salary of $4,000 by the Herald, Az
George III. Hepworth, Mr.. BENEFITS
chief editorial writer, receives $4,000
a year. "Bill'' Nye earns probably $780,
300 year, but a portion Of this comes
to him from his lecture tours. Blakely
Hall, Julian Ralph. John P. Bocock
md other well-known special writer's
earn from $1OO to $3.50 a week Mayo
". Hazeltine is paid $3.50 week for
his brilliant book reviews In the Sun
md 5000 weekly as managing editor 8
If the New York Ledger, which, with i
lis contributions to the magazines, ,
;wells his annual income to over 500 ,
400. The editors Of the leading maya ,
ines are fairly well paid. r. ". Gil |