The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-05-15
WORKING ON SALARIES.
SOME FANCY WAGES PAID TO WELL
KNOWN NEW WORKERS.

LAWYERS Presidents OF Big Corporation
and Horse Jockeys with Prlneely IN
9 eomes-A Fat Salary Better Than BE
, ing in Business for Yourself
Many New Workers have never don
lnythlng but work on n salary, says IN
Washington Silyer-Knlght, yet the
i've in Fifth avenue; they maintain
b magnificent country homes; they q
sailing about in steam yachts Keel
line horses and box at the opera
he diamonds of their wives dazzle th'
sun in brillancy; they eat $40 lunches
n the middle Of the day and smoke
cigars that cost 81. % each; they inyes
neat pile each year in gilt-edgeC
Wall street securities, and each OF then
,ould buy and sell hundred ordinary
men who are in business for them
ielves. What is more, these business
owners trucSle to these salaried mer
financially, socially, and commercially
Yet the millionaire says: go into
business for yourself"
Recently considerable attention was
given by the public to John e. Parsons
by reason of the legislative investiga'
lion of the sugar trust. Mr.. Parsons
IS lawyer, but instood Of looking VI
miscellaneous clients he gives all Of
his time to the sugar trust for a GER
tain salary, said to be $4,000 year
When the sugar trust was in the pro-
cess of formation MIR. Parsons did the
work of merging the different rehner-
les into the one big concern, and for
this he received the fee of S25O,0OO.
This, by the way, is credited with be-
ing the largest sum ever paid to a
lawyer for a single piece of legal work.
If Mr.. Parsons had refused to enter
the service of the sugar trusts it is a
question whether his earnings would
be as much as the salary he draws.
Another shining example Of the
beauty of the salary system is that ever
notable gentleman, Chauncey Mitchell
Depew. AS pretty nearly every one
knows, Mr.. Depew is credited with re-
ceiving twice as much as the citizens
of the United States pay their Presi-
dent. Mr.. Depew is professionally a
lawyer, but it is a question whether he
could make 100000 year defending
people and claims in court. He labor
ed at litigation for a time, but he
never made one tenth of the sum he
earns for working for the Vanderbilts.
Moreover, his association with that au-
gust family has offered him many OPP
portunities for making money in num-
erous directions.
Then there is John A. Mccall, presi-
dent of one Of the large life insurance
companies. He has never embarked in
a single business enterprise on his own
account, but he is earning $4,000
year now Thirty years ago he began
his tussle with the world as clerk in
the asserting house for state currency
at Albany, n. Y. He received $50
month and esteemed himself exception
ally lucky Then he filled various
other clerkships and finally became
superintendent of the State Insurance
Department. Later he became identl-
fed with different insurance companies
and five years ago he secured his pres
ent $4,000 year job.
DR.. John Hall, of course, cannot be
regarded as money-maker, but new
ertheless he earns considerable in the
year. AS the minister of the richest
congregation in New York he receives
a salary of 100000 a year, but this does
not represent all of his earnings.
Whenever he ties the nuptial knot for
any of his parishioners he receives a
handsome fee, varying from $50 to
81 600. Then there are christenings
galore, and these add considerable to
the ministerial income. This total in
come has been estimated to be between
s40,O 900 and $4,000 a year.
Joseph H. Choate cannot be strictly
called "a salaried man, yet he entered
the law firm of which he is now the
leading active member, as a clerk, and
rose step by step to a part
nership. Mr.. Choate's earnings are
probably greater than any other mans
In the country 1t is said that he re-
3eiVes $3.50, 600 a year, which is as great
IS the income of the fiYe-time million
lire. Yet he was willing to relinquish
this to go to Washington as United
States Senator at a salary of about one
iftieth Of that sum.
Fred. Taral, the jockey, like all other
Jockeys, will, when he becomes too |
heavy to ride, become the owner of a
'acing stable and follow the turf on his
1wn hook. This is the ambition of
most jockeys, yet it will be something
hort Of miracle it Taral makes one
lalf Of the money he does now. His
arnings In good years have amounted I
o as much as $4,000. But few race
lorse owners can show a balance as
arge as that on the right side of the
looks at the end of the year.
There are perhaps two thousand men
n the city who receive salaries of $25,-
90 year and over, and it would take
1ore than the unsupported word of a
uccessful millionaire to induce any of
hem to give up their jobs and embark
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