The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-06
SOME BIG SALARIES.

SOME BIG SALARIES.
Enormous Sums Paid, But Meri,
Always Counts.
Salaries paid to public officials in
the richest countries often compare
poorly with those which public func-
tionaries receive in the realms nearest
bankruptcy. The Turkish minister
of finance has SO, 900 year. Even
he, however, is less well paid than
the official who is in charge Of the
admiralty. His salary is $50, 900 a
year, and the pickings are so plenti-
ful that the present holder is said to
have piled up the neat little fortune
of sl2, 100000.
Without doubt, however, the best
paid statesman on earth is the grand
yizier of Morocco. Ben Famed, the
recently deceased holder Of the viz
ierate, left a sum equal to nearly $780,
O00, 900. 1t was stored in gold bull
lion in the cellars of his palace at
Marakesh.
Compared with riches such as those
of these eastern statesmen, the $780,
900 which the President Of the United
States receives is a poor sum, even
though it is backed by free residence
in the White House, and 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 unapproach-
able by salaried workers in private
life. Today there are a. number Of
the latter-whose emoluments absolute
ly dwarf even such a salary as that Of
the President of the United States.
There is a man who received an
offer of the large salary of $4,000
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 Mr.. Co.
schen's private secretary, AID 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 100000
year in their service. His is said
to be the biggest salary pad by any
bank. There are not more t1an 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
control their investments. The two
largest in the world each allow their
presidents $3.50, 1000 year.
The richest corporation in the
world is said to be the Sta adarc Oil
Trust. John D. Rockefeller is it's
president. But the sl5, ,000,C coo which
forms his yearly income from the oil
holdings is not salarly, butt interest.
His vice president, however, Alexan-
der Mcdonald, a Scot with & marvel
Gus head for finances, receives a reg
ular salary Of 100000 a yea, and has
his fare paid to Russia or Burmah
whenever he wishes to inspect the oil
fields Of rival companies.
Railway companies are not stlngy.
J. Pierpont Morgan paid Samuel
Spencer $50, 600 year to give expert
options on the railway properties
he was buying up.
AS managing director Of the Con-
solidated Gold6elds OF South Africa,
Limited, Mr.. Rhodes used to get about
1925 900 year.
The suguar trust pays its officials
well. A notable instance is the $780,
900 year which their chemist, J. 0.
Donner, 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 be
has to exercise expert opinion on it.
The great experts in all Of the
principal commercial lines are well
paid. Fifteen thousand dollars a
year is the salary of the chief tea-tas-
ter and blender of one great British
tea firm. This gentleman has all the
expenses Of a three months holiday
paid yearly. he needs it badly, for
tasting is most tryin:, to the
nerves and helth.
Twenty thousand dollars year is
the remuneration Of labt rer, A. j.
Day, who is employed as roller at
the Pittsburg mills Of the Steel Trust.
He is the best man at bis special
work-the rolling Of steel :ails-and
is paid accordingly.
Great singers like Patti Lave made
the astonishing record Of $4,000 a
night. This she did at New Orleans.
But neither she nor any other prima
donna ever kept up that sort Of thing
at a steady income.
The amounts to be made by lee
turing rival the salaries Of prima
donnas. Ian Maclaren once made $780,
900 in six weeks. Sir II. NJ. Stanley
did even better.
Opposed the War.
In defense of himself and his sub
ordinates, Admiral Cervera has made
public the correspondence with the
Spanish government relative to the
naval features of tt Spanish-Ameri-
can war, in which re pointed out be-
foro tho hopinni, of the war the