The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-01-08
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SOME BIG s. sALARnH!s
Enormous sums Paid, Hsut Merit
Always Counts.
Salaries paid to public difllcials In
the richest countries often Acompare
poorly With those which public fnnc-
iytiOnaries receive In the realms nearest
bankrnptcy The Turkish minister
of finance has $4,000 a YEAR. Even
lie, however, is less well paid than;
1.-The onicial who is ia chara,e OF the
tadmiralty. His salary is y,85, 900 "a
! year, and the pickings are Sso plenti.
ful that the present holder tis said ttl
have piled up. the neat little fortune
!, Gf fssl2, 900, 900.
Without doubt, however 3the best
Epaid statesman on earth Is the grand
pizler OF Morocco. Ben HaImed, the
recently deceased holder OF the viz.
|ierate, left a sum equal to ne(irly $40, +.
/ 600, 900. It was stored in lgold bull.
lion in the cellars Of his Ralace at
Marakesh. ,5sy 81 q is s Y
Compared with riches6uch}as those
Iof5 these eastern statesmen, the $780,.
900 which the President of the u pited
i States receives lis q poor sum, even
though it is backed by free Residence
in the White House, and n handsome
allowance for entertaining foreigners
of distinction
Avery few years ago the greet in
comes of state officials were looked
upon with envy as quite unapploa,cct. a,ct:
able by salaried workers In private
life. Today there are a number Of
the latter whose em0luments absolute.
d ly dwarf even such a salary as that of
the President or the United States.
There Is a man who received an
i offer Of the large salary OF 5000, 900
a year, and, incredible as it may seem,
i refused 1T. This is Herr Ballin, the
gifted German, who is managing
director of the Hamburg American
line Of steamers.
4 a dozen years ago the public had
never heard Of Clinton Dawkins Of
j, London. Then he became MIR. Co
schen's private secretary, and in 1895
secretary of finance in Egypt. There,
and later on in India, he made great
name as a financial expert. His fame
attracted the notice of J. P. Morgan
& Company. He now draws 5000, 600
year in their service. His is said
TO be line biggest salary paid by any
bank. There are not more than three
bank managers in England who get
one-tifth 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 Sl50,00O year.
The richest corporation in the
world is said to be the Standard Oil
, Trust. John d. Rockefeller is it's
, president. But the l5;000000 which
, forms his yearly income from the oil
holdings liz not salarly, but interest.
His vice president, however, Alexan.
der Nc Dorald, q Scot with a marvel
Gus head for finances, receives a reg.
ularsalary Of 5000, 600 year, and has
his fare raid 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 500, 900 year to give expert
opinions ON the railway properties
he was Buying up.
AS managing director Of the Con-
solidated GoldiieldS Of s." hlAfrica,
Limited, Mr.. Rhodes used about
S225,000 year.
The suguar trust pays its officials
well. A notable instance is the $780,
600 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
i and beet, comes before him, and he
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 chieftea-t tas-
ter and blepder Of one great British
tea firm. This gentleman. has all the
expenses Of three months holiday
paid yearly. He needs it badly, for
tea-tastinR 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 MS special
work-the rolling of steel ralls-and
is paid accordingly. IS
Great singers like Patti have made
the astonishing record If $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 steady income.
The amounts to be made by lee
turing rival the salaries Of prima
donnas. Ian Maclaren once made $780,
600 In six weeks. Sir II. NJ. Stanley
did even better.
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