The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-08
Experts Fabulous Salaries

year AS a judge he gets another $780,
900, making his combined earnings as
great as those 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 largest
yearly payment that England makes to
any one outside of the royal family. He
gets 500, 900 year.
To reach the really high official salaries
one has to go back to the so-called bank
given the highest official in the richest
western countries compares poorly with
the salaries of these Eastern statesmen.
me Turkish minister OF finance gets
~ QO6 a year, the minister of foreign
affairs $4,000, and the grand vizier $780,
O00. Even he is not the best paid, as
the official who is in charge of the ad-
mlrallty and who manages a few old
proken-doWn battleships gets the salary of
$4,000 year. His perquisites swell this
amount TO such an extent that the pres.
ent incumbent of the office has amassed
neat little fortune of about $4,000 600.
compare with these salaries the $50 900
which is paid the president of this conn
try and the $120, 900 which the president
OF france receives. The small officials
OF turkey get more than Mr.. Roosevelt
France - VI
There is man who received an offer of
the large salary of $4,000 a year. and
lTlcted ~ e1 as It may seem, refused it.
VINO is managing director of the Ham,
burg American line of. steamers. The Of
Ter was made to him by heads of the
anglo american shipping combine. if he
ton.
dozen years ago the public had never
heard of Mr.. Clinton Dawlzins Then he
became Mr.. Goschen's private secretary.
and In 1885 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
World-that of j. S. Morgan & Co. He
now draws $250.G00 year in their serv-
ice His is said to be the biggest salary
| paid by any bank. There are not more
than three bank managers in England
VINO get the fifth of Mr.. Dawkins' sal
airy.
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 $150.000 a
year, and the third fixes its president S
remuneration at 100000. There is one
actuary working for an assurance COM
pany with headquarters in London who
gets $S5, 900 a year.
Railway companies are not stingy J.
Pierpont Morgan paid Mr.. Samuel Spen-
Ger $4,000 a year to give expert opinions
on the railway properties he was buying
up, and M ingalls, works also for MesSrs.
Morgan and Vanderbilt for the comforta-
! BILE remuneration of $4,000 a year
AS managing director of the Consoli-
dated Gold Fields of South Africa limited,
! Mr.. Rhodes used to get about $3.50 900 a
| year, and Mr.. Rudds salary also as di-
rector of the same company, was $780,
900.
The sugar combine pays it's officials
we'll A notable instance is the $50 00o a
year which their chemist, J. o. Bonner,
gets But Mr.. Bonner has to work ha I'd
for his money. Sugar from every part OF
the world. cane and beet. comes before
him. and he has to exercise expert opin-
| ion on it.
The great experts in all of the principal
commercial lines are we'll paid Fifteen
! thousand dollars year is the salary of
the chief tea faster and bender of one
great British tea firm. This gentleman
has also the expenses of a three months
for tea tasting is most trying to the
nerves and health.