The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
COLLECTS LARGEST
 SALARY I1S THE WORLD.
Morocco's Vizier the Best Paid of
 Any Man Working for Wages.

Any Man Working for Wages. Chicago Tribune
 The biggest "oficial salary paid any | one on earth, so far as records show. Is that collected by the grand vizier of Mo- rocco. In a country with a high stand ard of ethics and a lofty plane of morals this salary might find a plainer name of
 graft" but in Eastern eyes 1t Is the lawful stipend of the office. In comparison with this officials reye- 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 A ribbon counter clerk when his income ia 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 repav him for his expenditure of time and energy. He is without doubt the best paid states man in existence.
 Saves $5,0OO, 900 from Salary.
 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 Ben Hamed amounted to 5000 OO1-not made in speculation or business ventures. but saved out of his salary. And yet they say that man on salary can't get rich.
 Ben Hamed kept his savings in gold bullion stacked away in the cellars of his palace at Marakesh
 Two other high salaries paid for daily services seem. on paper to be ridiculous ly out of proportion to the work, but a correct understanding shows that they are well earned. Talk to the mail car rier on your route and ask him what he would think of receiving $35, 900 a 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 dis tance Is A miles, and the postman makes two journeys a month, carrying 3c0 pounds of mail at a time. He uses an immense number of dogs, and good sledge dogs are costly to say nothing of their food.
 Steel Roller Gets $2i, 900. Almost equally absurd does 1t sound to say that the remuneration of laborer Is $21 900 year. That is the sum paid to A. J. Day, employed as a roller at the Pitts burg mills of the United States Steel cor poration. 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.
 Pattis salary for her approaching
 
 among the high salaries of the world She will receive $1,000 a concert for sixty | concerts, in addition to her expenses. Her record was 5000 for single concert paid once in New Orleans. But neither she nor any other prima donna ever kept up that sort of thing steady income. Possibly the best paid woman in the world is Mime. Heglon of the Paris opera She Is paid S2O,O0O year, and the second star, Mime. Breval, gets $1S,OOO. The amounts made by lectures frequently ri- val those made by great singers Ian Maclaren once made s50,0OO In six weeks. Henry M. Stanley did even better, and was paid at the rate of $i2,OOO a night. Archbishop Receives &65, ,OOO. As speaker of the House of Lords the I lord chancellor of England gets $2O, 900 a year. As a judge he gets another $30,- | 900, making his combined earnings as 1 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 $65,000 year
 To reach the really high official sala- | ries one has to go back to the so-caIled
 bankrupt countries of the East. The
 money given the highest official in the richest western countries compares poor ly with the salaries of these Eastern statesmen The Turkish minister of fi- nance gets s40,0OO l year. the minister of | foreign affairs s50O00 and the grand viz. fer $6O000. 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 battleships gets the salary or $O,0OO year. His perQuistes swell this amount to such an extent that the present incumbent of the office has amas- sed neat little fortune of about $I5,- | OO0, ,OO0
 Compare with these salaries the $5O.- l 100 which is paid the President of this country and $12O.OO0 which the President of France receives. The small officials | or Turkey get more than MT Roosevelt and nearly as much as the President of | France.
 Refuses $2oo, 900 ! Year. l There is a man who received an offer of the large salary of s2OO,OOO year, and, | incredible as 1t may seem. refused it. This Is Herr Ballin. the gifted German | who is managing director of the Ham burg American line of steamers The of fer was made to him by heads of the Ansl"-American shit ping trust. if he would become director of that ccrpora- | ton.
 dozen years ago the public had never heard of MT. Clinton Dawkins Then he became MT. Goschins 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 world-that of J. S. Morgan & Co., | He now draws $250,OOO a year in their service His is said to be the biggest salary paid by any bank There are not more than three bank managers in Eng | land who get One-fifth of Mir Dawkins' l salary.
 The great life insurance companies pay nigh figures to the men who control their | investments. The two largest Tn the | world each allow their presidents $15O. .000 a year, and the third fixes it's presidents s | remuneration at S1OO,0OO. There is one actuary working for an assurance com | pany with headquarters in London who l gets $35O00 a year.
 Railway Salaries Are Large. Railway companies are not stingy. J. Pierpont Morgan paid MT Samuel Spen- cer $5O,OOO year to give expert opinions on the railway properties he was buying up. and NJ. Ingalls, works also for Mes5rs Morgan and Vanderbilt for the comfort able remuneration of S5r0O a year. As managing director of the Consoli- | dated Goldfelds of South Africa, limited MT. Rhodes used to get about $35o. .OOO a year. and Mir. Rudd's salary. also a., di rector of the same company, was S25O,- C00
 The sugar trust pays its officials well, notable instance is the $50,0OO q year l thntr. nl,A n