The Portland daily press., 1899-04-22
HIGHLY PAID SERVICES.
Large Salaries Of a Popular
Clergyman.

We'll AZ Times--Teschcrs Arc Paid
Better Here Than I'm Europe.
In Offering DIR. Emil g. Hirsch si5, 900
Q year for fifteen years to remain as its
pastor. Sinai congregation Of Chicago
will pay him las large a salary as Is re-
ceived by any Clergyman In the United
States. 1t is the same that is paid Bishop
Potter of New York, who, however. has
a rectory furnished, heated and lighted
free of cost, and Is provided with a private
secretary, writes Vim. L. Curtis In the
Chicago Record. The late hev. DIR. Hall
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church
of New York, during the last years of his
life. received the largest salary ever paid
to clergyman in the United States.
which was $50, 900 q year, with manse.
Mr.. Beecher received s20. 900, without the
manse. DIR. Halls SALARY proper was
81 8, 900, and s., 600 additional was con-
tributed by Robert Bonner and two other
wealthy mem bers of the congregation.
His successor, Mr.. Connell, who comes
from Regents Park Presbyterian church
of London, is offered $10,0 900 and resi-
dence. That is the salary paid to DIR.
Gregory, deau of st. Paul's cathedral,
and DIR. Bradley, dean Of Westminster
abbey, London. Dean Farrar receives
1900 year. The hierarchy Of the
church of England enjoy enormous salar-
les which are necessary to maintain the
large establishments required of them.
The archbishop of Canterbury received
$50, 900 a year, but he needs every cent OF
tito meet his social and ecclesiastical
obligations at Lambeth palace, the home
of the primate of the church Of England.
The salary of the archbishop Of York
and that of the archbishop of London Is
$50, 600 year. The archbishop of Ireland
receives s12, 500. The other bishops of the
Church of England are paid from $4,000
to $4,000 year. The average pay Of a
vicar in England is q, 500 outside the
large cities. In the cities the salary
varies according to the wealth of the par
ish, from 81. 500 to $4,000.
The episcopalians and presby terians pay
larger salaries than any other denomins-
tions, but the pulpits most envied in the
United States are those Of the collegiate
reformed Dutch church Of New York city.
| There are seven or eight churches. of that
denomination under the same manage
ment ami supported from an endowment
that is exceedingly rich. Its income Is
next to that of Trinity church, and
amounts to several hundred thousan
dollars year. The pastors of the col
legiate churches are paid $4,000 for life
and are allowed to retire from active pas
toraI work when they reach the age OF q
years.
| Trinity parish is the richest In the
world, and has an income of about f3Oo,
COO from buildings and otherl inyestments.
1t supports five or six churches, several
schools, hospitals and other charitable
| institutions and pays the manager OF It's
business salary of $4,000 year. The
rector of Trinity church receives sl2, 500.
The same salary is paid kby st. Thomas
and st. Bartholomew. l was informed
by good authority that five .clergymen In
New York city received that salary and at
least twelve received $4,000 a year. The
average pay of u Clergyman in New York
city. excepting the pastors of mission
| churches, is probably $4,000
| The editorial profession is not so well
paid. There are probably sixteen editor;
in New York. not proprietors OF news
papers. who receive $40. 600 year or over.
| The journal and World have four each,
the Herald two, the Times, Post ano
Brooklyn Eagle one each. The highest
| ,....., ..,..v oaidstn tho IIpitod Statas
in $780, 600.
Editorial writers of recognized ability
city editors, news editors and managing
editors on the large daily papers are paie
from IS, 600 to 1850 year.
A few physicians in New York make
very large fees. There are two or thre,
specialists whose incomes will excest
$50, 900 a year, perhaps ten make t25. 0O'
and perhaps twenty make from 900 tc
$50, 900. Ten thousand dollars year Il
con sidered large practice.
The salaries Of our college professors d.
not compare with those OF Europe, al
though public school teachers in tn,
United States are paid two or three time
as much. The teacher OF an ordinary
school in England, France or Germany
who makes $25 month is doing very
we'll, but several chairs at Oxford, Cam
bridge, Edinburgh Glasgow and ASer
deem universities are worth from 5000
to 81 900 year. The same difference Il
found in the government service High
officials are paid two or three times al
much in Europe as in this country, .bu
ordinary clerks enjoy not more than one
third or ne-fourth the compensation tina
is received for corresponding services il
the United States. The university pro
fessors in Europe often enjoy hereditar,
grants and dues from students, which
are not customary in the United States
The chair of anatomy in Edinburgl
medical faculty is probably the most val
liable of any professorship in the world
being worth about $25. 600 year. One o
the professorships in the University o
Berlin is worth $4,000. but there the
popularity OF a professor has great dea
70 do with hia comnpn SatiOn In tn,