The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-01-08

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SOME BIG j sALaals
Enormous sums Paid, HINT Merit
Always. Counts:
Salaries paid to public gsfilcials In
the richest countries often compare
poorly With those which publ lfunc-
tionaries receive In the realms nearest
bankruptcy. The Turkish minister
of finance has $40, 1000 q YEAR. Even
he, however, is less well rSSa.d than
the otlicial who iB Ia charG,e OF the
admiralty. His salary is $s5, 900 a
year, and the dpickings are dso plenti-
fult that the present holder is said tt,
: have piled up the neat little fortune
|Q. $4,000, 900. si5 z 4.
& Without doubt, however, athe best
paid statesman on earth is tue grand
Fiasie:. FFiiasie OF Morocco. Ben Ha,mea the
recently deceased holder OF the viz.
ierate, left sum equal to netirly $780, 8
600, 200. 1t was stored in; gold bull
lion in the cellars OF his palace at
Marakesh. ~ sy:l S5g3
Compared with richeHsu suell 1as those
of these eastern statesmen, the $780,
900 Whichthe President of the United
States receives is poor Sum, even
though 1t is backed by free }residence
in the White House, and a handsome
allowance for entertaining foreigners
of distinction.
A very few years ago the great In
comes of state officials were looked
upon with envy as quite unppproach-
able by salaried workers In private
life. Today there are a number OF
the latter whose ,emolumentS absolute
ly dwarf even such salary as that of
the President of the United States.
There is a man who received an
offer Of the large salary Of 100000
a year, and, incredible as it may seem,
refused it. This is Herr BALM, the
gifted German, who is managing
director of the Hamburg American
line of steamers.
A dozen years ago the public had
never heard of Clinton Dawkins Of
London. Then he became MIR. Co
schens private secretary, and in 1895
secretary of finance in Egypt. There,
and later on in India, he made great
name as financial expert. His fame
attracted the notice Of J. P. Morgan
& Company. He now draws 5000. 900
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 England who get
one fifth Of Mr.. Dawkins' salary.
The great life insurance companies
pay very high figures to the men who
con tT0i their investment Us. The Two
largest in the world each allow their
presidents $3.50. 900 a year.
The richest corporation in the
world is said to be the Standard OIL
Trust. John D. Rockefeller is it's
president. But the $4,000, 600 which
forms his yearly income from the oil
holdings IL not salarly, but interest.
His vice president, however, Alexan-
der Mcdonald, a Scot with a marvel
Gus head for finances, receives a reg.
ularsalary OF S200,000 r,|and has
his fare paid to Russia or Burmah
whenever ne wishes to inspect the oil
fields Of rival companies.
Railway companies are not Stingy
j. Pierpont Morgan paid Samuel
Spencer $4,000 year to give expert
opinions on the railway properties
he was buying UP.
AS managing director oe the Con-
solidated Goldfields OF s." hIAfrica.
Limited, Mr.. Rhodes used about
1926, 900 year.
The suguar trust pays it's officials
we'll. a notable instance is the $780,
600 a year which their chemist, j. o.
Bonner, gets. But Mr.. Donner has
to work hard for his money. Sugar
from every part of the world, cane
and beet. comes before him. and he
has to exercise expert opinion on it.
,.The great experts in ALI Of the
principal commercial lines are we'll
paid. Fifteen Thousand dollars a
year is the salary of the chief itea-tas-
ter and bleDder of one great British
tea firm. This gentleman. has all the
expenses Of three months holiday
paid yearly. lie needs it badly, for
tea-tasting is most trying to the
nerves and helth.
Twenty thousand dollars year is
the remuneration of laborer, a. j.
Day, who is employed as roller" at
the Pittsburg mills Of the Steel Trust.
He is the best man at his special
work-the rolling of steel rails-and
is paid accordingly. Fs
Great singers like Patti have made
the astonishing record If $4,000
night. This she did at New Orleans.
But neither She nor any other prima
donna ever kept up that sort of thing
at steady income.
The amounts to be made by lee
turing rival the salaries of prima
donnas. Ian Maclaren once made S50,-
600 In six weeks. Sir II. NJ. Stanley
did even better.
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