The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27
PAY OF PREACHERS,
SOME PULPIT ORATORS ARE NIL
NIFICENTLY PAID FOR
THEIR SERVICES.
DR.. HIRscH IN FIRST RANK.

DR.. HIRScH IN FIRST RANK.
New Salary of Chicago Preacher
Equals That of Any Other United
States lergymnn-Compens on
In Other Professions.
In offering Dr. Emil G. Hirsch $4,000 a
year for fifteen years to remain as its
pastro, Sanai congregation of Chicago will
pay him as large a salary as Is received
| by any clergyman In the United States
1t Is the same that Is paid Bishop Potter
| or New York. who however, has a rec
! tory furnished heated and lighted free
of cost. and is provided with a private
| secretary. The late Rev. DR.. Hail. 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 100000 a year. with a manse.
Mr. Beecher received $4,000 without the
manse. Dr. Halls salary proper was Sl5,-
| 600, and $1,000 additional was contributed
| by Robert Bonner and two other wealthy
members of the congregation. His sue
cessor, Mr.. Connell, who comes from Re
| gents Park Presbyterian church of Lon
| don. Is offered $4,000 and a residence.
That Is the salary paid to DR.. Gregory.
dean of ST. Paurs cathedral, and Dr.
| Bradley dean Of Westminster abbey,
London. Dean Farrar receives $1,000
year. The hierarchy of the Church of
England enjoy enormous salaries, which
are necessary to maintain the large estab-
lishments required of them The arch
| D1ShOp OF Canterbury receives $50. 000 a
year, but he needs every cent of it to
met his social and ecclesiastical oblga-
| the primate of the Church of England.
The salary of the archbishop of York and
that of the archbfshopNof London is $780,
! 000 year. The archbishop of ireland re-
ceives $4,000 The other bishops of the
Church of England are paid from $4,000
to S25. eco year The average pay of
vicar In England is 900 outside the large
Cities In the cities the salary varies
| according to the wealth OF the parish,
from $500 to $4,000
The Episcopalians and Presbyterians
pay larger salaries than any other de-
nominations, but the pulpits ncs envied
in the United States are those OF the col
York city. There are. seven or eight
churches Of that denomination under the
management and supported from an en-
dowment that is exceedingly rich: It's
and amounts to several hundred thousand
dollars a year The pastors Of the col
| I6gldlS CNuTcn6S are pd1Q $IUUJU IOr lie,
and are allowed to retire from active pas
! toral work when they reach the age of 65
| years.
Trinity parish is the richest in the
world and has an income of about 100000
| from buildings and other investments. 1t
| supports five six churches, several
schools. hospitals and. other charitable
institutions and pays the manager of its
business a salary of $4,000 a year. The
rector of Trinity church receives S12, 500.
The same salary is paid by st Thomas
q n n In fnr oal
| by good authority that five clergynen in
New York city received that salary and
at least twelve received $4,000 a year.
The average pay of a clergyman in New
York city, excepting the pastors Of mis-
sion churches, is probably $1,000.
| The editorial profession is not so yell
! paid. There are probably sixteen editors
IN New York, not propr1etors of newspa-
! pers, who receive $4,000 a year or over
! The Journal and World have four each,
| the Herald two, the Times, Post and
Brooklyn Eagle one each. The highest
editorial salary paid in the United States
| is SIS, 600.
Editorial writer's Of recognized ability,
city editors, news editors and managing
| editors on the large daily papers are paid
from 5000 to $500 year.
| A few physicians in New York make
| very large<fees There are two or three
specialists whose incomes will exceed $780,
0vo , year. perhaps ten make se- 8 $2S coo an and
600. Ten thousand dollars a year Is con-
sidered large practice.
The salaries of our college professors
| do not compare with those of Europe, al
| though public school teachers In the
| United States are paid two or three times
as much. The teacher of an ordinary
| who makes S25 a month is doing very WELL
| but several chairs at Oxford, Cambridge
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen uni
| versities are worth from $4,000 to $l2, 900
! q year. The same difference is found in
the government service. High officials are
paid two or three times as much in Eu-
clerks enjoy not more than one
third or one-fourth the compensation
that is received for corresponding serv-
| ices in the United States. The university
professors in Europe often enjoy heredit-
ary grants and dues from Students which
are not customary in the United States.
ical faculty Is probably the most Valuable
! of any professorship in the world, being
worth about $4,000 a year One of the
is worth S15 900, but there the popularity
of professor has a great deal to do with
! his compensation In the United States
! the college faculties receive from 81 800 to
| S4,O year.
We hear a great deal about the enor-
nous fees charged by city lawyers, and
| reputation Of receiving the largest single
fee ever paid to an attorney for single
service, which was $780, 600 cash for advis-
Ing and assisting Decker, Howell & Co.,
g. firm of brokers, during the panic
caused by the collapse of the Willard
Northern Pacific syndicate. about twelve
years ago. His clients not only cheerful
! ly paid this amount but after their af-
! fairs were settled presented him with a
| handsome silver service properly in
scribed as a testimonial of their conf
| dence and gratitude. Mr.. Cromwell re-
cetved q similar amount, and some say
even more, for his services as counsel for
| the receivers of the Northern Pacific and
| Wisconsin Central railroads; 100000 was
| paid to the attorneys who advised the re-
organization committee of the Union Pa
| cific railroad, but their services continued
| for several months, and five or six firms
were engaged.
Jose Ignatio Rodriguez, a Washington
! lawyer, received a fee OF 100000 for set
against Spain. Grover Cleveland was
given check for $4,000 by E. C. Bene-
| dict for his advice in the organiZa ton of
the gas trust. Walter S. Logan, of New
! York, received S100, 600 cash for his ser
vices In recent will case in Connecticut
William M Evarts, Mr.. Choate AleXan-
der & Green, Judge Hoadley, Francis
| Lynde Stetson and other New York law
yers who do a corporation business, have
| been making a great deal of money re-
Gently by assisting in the organization of
average S25,0 ,000, but this money Is not only
! divided among several persons. but is
used to pay small armies Of clerks, stem
ographers and assistants
A big law firm like Hoadley, Lauter-
/ bach & Johnson, will have twenty-five or
thirty, and some of them even more per-
| sons on their pay rolls. Tracy, Board
man & Platt, who are counsel for con-
tractors and other political clients. make