The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-08
NEWS HND COMMENT


appears from the parliamentary est- |
mates for this year. as quoted by the |
London correspondent of the Washington |
Star, that the house of lords costs the !
country over G1OS,OOO. This includes the |
salaries of the lords of appeal (G2i,0CO. |
The lord chancellor receives G4WO as |
speaker of lords, besides $4,000 as presi- |
dent of the supreme court His sergeant
alarms gets Gl500. The chairman of !
committees enjoys a salary of $500, ana |
his department costs Gi,400 In all The |
chief clerk receives G2,OC0, while mis- dep |
uty gets G1,50O. Other clerks in tbs
house get from G10O to G1,?0O year. The
gentleman usher of the black rod,
highly ornamental officer, who backs out
Of the presence of the lords and ap-
proaches commons with great cunde-
SCcnSiOn TO summon the members of the
lower house to the Silded chamber from
time TO time, has the comfortable emolu-
ment Of El,00O besides being i'll receipt
of a military pay, amounting to G99t per
annum, as colonel commandant of royal
artillery. This official a few years ago
received $1,000 and a residence, besides
military pension. The yeomSn usher of
the black rod who probably does most OF
the work, to judge by the title of his Of
flee, receives $500 and also 5000 as sec
retary to the lord great chamberlain.
The lord great che mberlains department
that this office, which is in the house of
lords, requires a resident superintendent,
nineteen uOOrkecperS and messengers,
one principal horSemaid, with G7S per
year, and eleven ordinary housemaids
and four pOrters The faithful com
mons" costs as q gross total Gl56,OS5, the
speaker receiving $4,000 and the late
speaker a pension of $4,000. Additional
expenses of the speakers department
amount to nearly El0,OJO. This pays for
n chaplain mt 500 a secretary who goes
the parson hundred better, q train bear
cr at G25S counsel TO speaker at El,SOO,
referee on private bills at &l,O00, librarian
at &1,2OO and various clerks and messe1-
gers, in all nineteen persons. The SPEAK
er has a residence in the house and his
train-bearer $50 allowance for a house
outside. The deputy speaker and chair
man of committees receives G2,500, the
clerk of the commons &2,000 with an Of
iicial residence; assistant clerk, Gl,500 and
residence. The clerks department totals
G2j 122 and includes fifty persons in all.
The sergeant t-at-arms has a salary of
Il 200, and he and his deputy have oiti-
Cial residences. Altogether his depart
ment costs G10,2ji and provides for fifty
eight persons, without counting a supple
mentary amount for servants and mes
sengers of 5000 a year. So 1t Will be
seen that parliament after all is an ex-
payer over million and half dollars
a year.
John d. Rockefeller is said to he the
richest man in the world and common
report places his fortune at $3.50, 900 900. Ac-
cordins to an article in the Philadelphia
Times, Rockefeller's interest in the
Standard Oil company is represented by
fully $ljOO0O,O00, $2j,OO0,OOJ represents iron
interests kindred TO the Standard Oil
company, while $5,0OO0OO represents his
interest in natural gas industries and in
the lead trust, all growing out of the
Standard Oil companys business Thc
. rest of his wealth is invested in real es-
tate, in railways, in transportation lines,
bank and miscellaneous securities, but
these represent hardly $Gj,00OOOO. The
| Vastness of his interests may be better
! apDrC Cia ted when ii is realized that he has
CuntroHed in the past great railway syS-
. tens as perfectly as if they were toys
| in his nursery, that he has owned every
! oil car in the United States and 0,1OO
! miles of oil tubing, that he has two hun
| drcd steamers owned outright by him
| ana over 10000 delivery wagons, that he
| employs over $1,000 men and controls the
! income of at least as many more Truly
he is the most influential man in the
| United States today. His income may be
| better understood when it is stated that
it not only exceeds S14,OOOOOO IA year in
| legitimate lines, but often scales as high
| az $SOoO,UOO a day by specu7ation lie
rises every morning 100000 richer than
when he retired. lie draws, in other
words more than S25 minute.
Captain Price. of the New York police
force, served once in the United States
regular army on a detail in Alaska. The
/ sun quotes him as telling this remin-
!
dent Of my first Easter in Sitka. The
| bishop of the Russian cathedral in Sitka
| requested General Davis to send a
| couple of men and firing piece to the
cathedral on Easter morning TO fire a
salute in honor of Christs resurrection.
| was one Of three privates sent to the
cathedral with n twenty-four-pound how
| it2or We were to fire a salute at a
given time. We creased the howltzer well
and put i'm a full charge. We were sta
toned just outside the cathedral When
| we got word we let her so. The con-
| cussion was so great that all the windOws
on the side Of the cathedral nearest us
were broken. Many rushed from the
church and there was great excitement
among the worshippers. During the up
roar that followed enc of the church dig
nitaries ran out and yelled at us:
stop! Stop Christ has risen"
| In consequence Of the adoption of a
new system of cataioguing the library
| of the University of Pennsylvania employ
ment will be given FOR twelve months "a
thirty persons at a cost exceeding Sl0,'
O00 which gives some idea of the size OF
the library. Every book of the 130,0)l
has to be handled three different car'ls
| must be made out for each book, and tht
, number Of the book has to be checked
and each volume has to be labeled The
cost Of cataloguing each volume, not
counting the cost OF printing is estimated
at 10 cents. At this rate the cost of thC
, work undertaken will exceed $4,000 4
two people worked daily throughout the
year il would take them over thirteel
years to complete the cataloguing, Tn,
system now being introduced is knowr
as the Dewey system, which, however
has no naval significance.
According to a cable dispatch In tn,
, New York Sun typelCss newspaper haI
Just been produced at Brussels, Belgium
The cOmpos'tors of the wide. sold pape
Pcu Bleu had struck. The news, accu
pying sixteen pFges Of Illustrations, wa
set on a typewriter Then the single type
, written sheets and the pictures wer,
pasted on sheets Of cardboard larger thar
the size Of the newspaper Then tn,
whole was reduced by Photography TO IN,
actual size, A print was made from tn
/ negative on sersiti.ed sheet of zine