The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26

The biggest official salary paid any one on earth, so far as records show, is that collected by the grand vizier of Mo rocco says an exchange. In a country with a high standard of ethics and lofty plane of morals this salary might find a planer name of graft" but in eastern eyes 1t is the lawful stipend of the office.
 In comparison with this officials reve- nue the President of the United States and the President of France are paid like messenger boys. Even J. Pierpont Nor gan does not rate much higher than rib- bon counter clerk when his income is placed alongside that of the grand vizier.
 This official handles all the revenue of the country. In the handling he diverts such portion as he thinks will repay him for his expenditure of time and energy. He Is without doubt the best paid states. man in existence.
 The salary is so big that no one knows the exact amount which the grand vizier places to his account every year. It may be indicated by the fact that in a few years the savings of the late Grand Vizier
  made in speculation or business ventures, but saved out of his salary. And yet they say that a man on salary can't get rich.
 Ben Hamed kept his savings in gold bullion stacked away in the cellars of his palace in Marakesh.
 Two Other High Salaries.
 Two other high salaries paid for daily services seem, on paper, to be ridicuously out of proportion to the work, but a cor rect understanding shows that they are well earned. Talk to the mail carrier on your route and ask him what he would think of receiving $35,000 year for his work. He probably would laugh at you. Yet this is the actual figure paid to the man who carries the mail between Eagle and Valdery, In Alaska. The distance is 4l4 miles, and the postman makes two journeys a month, carrying 300 pounds of mall at a time. He uses an immense number of dogs and good sledge dogs are costly, to say nothing of their food.
 Almost equally absurd does it sound to say that the remuneration of a laborer is $21, 900 a year. That Is the sum paid to A. J. Day. employed as a roller at the Plttsburg mills of the United States Steel corporation. He was formerly one of MT. Carnegie's men. He is said to be the best man at his work of rolling steel rails and is paid accordingly
 Paths salary for her approaching Am erican tour Is worthy to be classed among the high salaries of the world. She will receive S10O0 a concert for 60 concerts, fin addition to her expenses. Her record was $5OOO for a single concert, paid once in New Orleans. But neither she nor aany other prima donna ever kept up that sort of thing as a steady income.
 Possibly the best paid woman in the world is Mme Heglon, or the Paris Opera. She is paid $2O,oO0 a year, and the second star, Mme. Breval, gets s1S,0O0. The amounts made by lecturers frequent ly rival those made by great singers. Ian Henry M. Stanley did even better, and was paid at the rate of $12,O00 night
 Chancellor of EngIand's Pay.
 As Speaker of the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor of England gets $20000 a year. As a judge he gets another $SOOo0, making his combined earnings as great as that of the president of the United States. A similar amount is paid yearly to the Bishop of London and to the Archbishop of York while the Arch bishop of Canterbury receives the larg est yearly payment that England makes to anyone outside of the royal family. He gets $65,00O year.
 To reach the really high official salaries one has to go back to the so-called bank rupt countries of the east The money given the highest official in the richest western countries compares poorly with the salaries of these eastern statesmen. The Turkish minister of finance gets s40,- 900 a year, the minister of foreign affairs GOO, and the grand vizier s60000. Even he is not the best paid, as the official who is in charge of the admiralty and who manages a few old broken down battle- ships gets the salary of $S0 GOO year. His perquisites swell this amount to such an extent that the incumbent of the office has amassed a neat little fortune of about $15 900, GOO.
 Compare with these salaries the $50 GOO which is paid the President of this coun- try and the s120,O0O which the president of France receives The small officials of Turkey get more than MT. Roosevelt and nearly as much as the president of France.
 There Is a man who received an offer of the large salary of $200 900 year, and in- credible as 1t may seem, refused 1t. This Is Herr Balin, the gifted German, who is managing director of the Hamburg Amer ican line of steamers. The offer was made to him by the heads of the Anglo-Amer- ican Shipping trust, If he would become director of that corporation.
 We'll Paid Bankers.
 | A dozen years ago the public had never | heard of Mr. Clinton Dawkins. Then he l became MT. Goshen's private secretary, and in 1895 secretary of finance in Egypt. | There, and later on in India, he made a | great name as a financial expert His | fame attracted the notice of the heads of one of the biggest private banks in the | ,.11 hot 1f I Q CtA I l.. now draws $250,000 year ih their service. His is said to be the biggest salary paid by any bank. There are not more than 1 three bank managers in England who get one-fifth of MT. DawlSins salary. | The great life insurance companies pay high figures to the men who control their investments. The two largest in the world each allow their presidents S150000 a year. and the third fixes it's presidents re- nouneratiou at S1O0 0n0 There Is one actr-