The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-08

sLahd Vi2ler Of Morocco. In a country
win high standard Of ethics and a
LoLly plane Of morals this salary MIGHT
HHo palmer name OF graft" but fn
eastern eyes it is the lawful stipend Of
the office. "a
In comparison with this officials rev
ehue, the president Of the United States
ana the president of France are paid
, IKE messenger boys Even j. Piernout
Morgan does not rate much FisbeT - ~
a. RIBBON counter clerk when his income
vizier q anu
This Official handles all the revenue
OF the country. In the handling he a.
FeIts such portion as he thinks win re-
pay MN Tor his expenditure of time and
~ lie is without doubt the best
PAID statesman in existence.
The salary is so big that no one knows
the exact amount which the pra,5
tlAler places to his account every wear
AZ may De indicated by the fact that
IN few years the savings of the Iate
GIdnd ElZler Ben Hamed amounted t0
S0'VUO'UUU-not made in speculation ar
business ventures, but saved out of his
salary Anq yet they say that man
on salary can't get rich.
Ben Hamed kept his savings in GOLD
bullion staked away in the cellars ~
MS palace at Marakesh.
Two oLher high salaries paid for daily
seTNlc seem, on paper, to be ridden
Iously out Of proportion to the work
out a correct understanding shows maj
lney are well earned. Talk to the mail
carrier on your route and ask him what
ne "Culu Ihlnk OF receiving $4,000
year Tor his work. He probably Would
laugh at you. Yet this is the actual fia--
ure PAID TO the man who carries the
man between Eagle and Valderv in
aIaska. The distance is 414 miles. and
the postman makes two JOURNEYS a
month, carrying 300 pounds of mail at
d llIne' de uses an immense number
or dogs, and good sledge dogs are cost
~ 70 say nothing Of their food.
Almost equally absurd does # sound
~ say mat the remuneration Of a labor
er IS SzLUJO a year. That is the sun,
PAID 20 A: J. Day, employed as a roller
az the P1ttsburg mills Of the United
states steel corporation. He was for
merry one Of Mr.. Carnegie's mon He
Is said TO be the best man at his v-oTl-
or rolling steel rails and is paid ac-
PATHS salary for her approaching
american tour is worthy 10 be cIasssd
among the high salaries of the vrorI6
She VIII receive 1900 concert for sfr-
" concerts, in addition to her ev-
pehses. Her record was $4,000 for q
single concert, paid once in New or
Ietils- BUT neither she nor any other
pIiInd donna ever kept up that sort Of
thing as a steady income.
POSSIBLY the best paid woman in the
HoIId IS Nine. Heglon Of the Paris
opera She is paid $20.O q wear. and
me second star, Nine. Breval. gets SIS i
UOV. The amounts made bv Iecfurare
frequently rival those made bv praat
SINGERS. Ian Maclaren once made $50 GOO
IN six weeks. Henry NJ. Stanley ala
even better, and was paid at the rate
OF $4,000 a night.
AS speaker Of the house of lords the
I ora chancellor Of England gets $4,000
q year. AS a judge he gets another $40 -
OUO' making his combined earnings as
great as those Of the president of the
= III eu states. A similar amount is maid
J carry 20 the bishop of London and TO
the archbishop of New York. while the
archbishop Of Canterbury receives tha
largest yearly payment that ENGLAND
.iLel4Ss 20 any one outside of the royal |
FAMILY. He gets $4,000 a year.
To reach the really high official sal I
aries one has 70 go back to the so-caIlad (
DauAru pt countries of the east The (
-i money given the highest official in the 4
I4cheSt western countries cou1Dares !
poorly with the salaries Of these eastern /
statesmen. The Turkish minister az 4
.i.IaACe gets 44O,OOO year, the minister
7! torelgn affairs S5O000 and the grand /
. L1ler $oU,UOO. Even he is not the best /
ydiu, as the Official who is in charge of 4
lhe admiralty and who manage. a few
0IQ, Droken-down battleships gets the
odIdIy or SSO,OOO a year. His peruuisftes
sven THIS amount to such an extent /
mat the present incumbent Of the Office
mas amassed a neat little fortune of \
about S15.000.OO0.
compare with these salaries the $50
wv which Is paid the president of this
- - u1try and the $4,000 which the pres
uehl OF france receives. The small /
1Ihclals OF Turkey get more than Mr.
roosevelt and nearly as much as the
president Of France.
Ihere Is a man who received an offer
)I the large salary Of $500 600 a wear
and, incredible as It may seem. refused
T. This is Herr BALM. the gifted Ger
nan, who is managing director Of the
= am urg-American line of steamers.
ne oILer was made to him by the heads
IF the Anglo-American shi1pinp trI1st
ne would become director of that cor
)OratiOn.
A dozen years ago the public had
lever heard of Clinton Dawkins. Then /
Re became Mr.. Goschen's private secre-
siry' and In 1895 secretary of finance in
1gypl- There, and later on in India. he
moe great name as a financial ex-
'ert His fame attracted notice of the
leads OF one Of the biggest private
lahks IN the world-that of j. S. Nor
'an a. co. He now draws $3.50. 900 a year
u thelr service. His is said to be the
'IsSesJ salary paid by any bank. There
re not more than three bank managers
y Lnsidnd VINO get One-dfth Of Mr..
Jaw6ins' salary.
The great fire insurance commands
'ey hlgh figures to the men who con-
tol their Investments. The two largest
p the world each allow their presidents
l50O0O year and the third fixes its
RESIDENTS remuneration at 500 OOo
mere is one actuary working for an
ssurance company with headquarters /
q London who gets S35.G00 a year.
GALWAY COMPANIES ARE NOT
STINGY.
j. PierpOnt Morgan paid Samuel
spencer $4,000 year to give expert
pinlons on the railway properties he
as buying up and NJ. Ingalls, works
$50 for Messrs. Morgan and Wander
~ Lor the comfortable remuneration
Z $4,000 a year
AS managing director OF the Consoli-
ated Golddeids OF South Africa. linn
ed, Mr Rhodes used 10 get aL-slt
$4,000 year and Mr.. Rudd's salary.
lso as director Of the same company
'as $250,000.
The sugar trust pays its officials we'll
notable instance is the $50 GOO year
nch their chemist. u o. Bonner. gets.
uL Mr.. Bonner he's % work hard for
is money Sugar from every part Of