Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-15
WORKING ON SALARIES.
SOME FANCY WAGES PAID 20 WELL
KNOWN NEW Workers..

i NNOWN NEW IVUkEEo.
Lawyers. Presidents Of &Ig Corporations
and Horse Jockeys with PrIncely In
comss-A Fat Salary Better Than Be-
Ing In Business for Yourself.
Many New Workers have mover done
anything but work on salary. says the
Washington Silver-Knight. yet they
live In Fifth avenue; they maintain
magnificent country homes; they go
sailing about In steam yachts; keep
fine horses and a box at the opera;
the diamonds of their wives dazzle the
sun in brillancy; they eat $40 lunches
In the middle of the day and smoke
cigars that cost $1.25 each; they invest
neat pile each year in gilt-edged
Wall street securities, and each OF them
could buy and sell hundred ordinary
men who are In business for them
owners truckle to these salaried men
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-
ton of the sugar trust. Mr.. Parsons
Is a lawyer, but instood of looking up
miscellaneous clients he gives all OF
Ills time to the sugar trust for GER
ain salary, said to be $4,000 year.
When the sugar trust was in the pro-
cess Of formation Mr.. Parsons did the
work Of merging the different refiner-
les into the one big concern, and for
this he received the fee of $250,O00.
This, by the way, Is credited with be-
ing the largest sum ever paid to
lawyer for single piece of legal work.
II Mr.. Parsons had refused to enter
the service of the sugar trusts it is
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-
lawyer, but it is 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 op-
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 a
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 identi-
fed with different insurance companies
and five years ago he secured his pres
ent $4,000 a year job.
DR.. John Hall, of course, cannot be
regarded as a money maker, but new
ertheless he earns considerable in the
year. AS the minister of the richest
salary of 100000 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
81 900. Then there are christenings
galore, and these add considerable to
the ministerial income. This total in
come has been estimated to be between
10000 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 clerk, and
gradually rose step by step to part
nership. Mr.. Choate's earnings are
probably greater than any other mans
in the country 1t is said that he re-
ceives $3.50, 900 year, which is as great
as the income of the five-time million
aire. Yet he was willing to relinquish
this to go to Washington as United
States Senator at salary of about one
fiftieth of that sum.
Fred. Taral, the jockey, like all other
jockeys, will, when he becomes too
heavy to ride, become the owner of a
racing stable and follow the turf on his
own hook. This is the ambition of
most jockeys. yet it will be something
short of miracle it Taral makes one
half of the money he does now. His
earnings in good years have amounted
to as much as $4,000. But few race
horse owners can show a balance as
large as that on the right side of the
books at the end of the year.
There are perhaps two thousand men
in the city who receive salaries of $685.
900 year and over, and it would take
more than the unsupported word of
successful millionaire to induce any of
them to give up their jobs and embark
in business for themselves.