The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-06
BIG SALARIES.
Men Who Receive Extraordinary
Remuneration for Services.
From an EXCHANGE

Vizier of Morocco. In a country with
a high standard of ethics and lofty
plane of morals this salary might find
palmer name of graft" but in
Eastern eyes it is the lawful stipenl
of the office.
In comparison with this Officials
revenue the President of the United
States and the President of Frame
are paid like messenger boys. Even
j. Pierpont Morgan does not rate much
higher than ribbon counter clerl-
when his income is placed aongside
that of the Grand Vizier.
This official handles all the revenua
of the country. In the handling he
diVerts such portion as he thinks Will
repay him for his expenditure of time
and energy. He is without doubt tine
best-paid statesman in existence
The salary is so big that no one
knows the exact amount which the
Grand Vizier places to his account
every year. 1t may be indicated nv
the fact that in a few years the say
ings of the late Grand Vizier Ben
Hamed amounted to $4,000. OG0-not
made in speculation or business ven
lures, but saved out of his salary.
And vet they say that a man on sal
airy can't get rich.
Ben Hamed kept his savings in gold
bullion stacked away in the cellais
of his palace at Marakesh.
Two other high salaries paid for
daily services seem, on paper to be
ridiculously out of proportion to the
work, but a correct understanding
shows that they are we'll earned. Talk
to the mail carrier on your route ana
ask him what he would think of re-
ceiving 1856, 600 a year for his work. II
, probably would laugh at you. Yet this
is the actual figure paid to the man
who carries the mail between Egle and
Valdery in Alaska. The distance is
Ala miles. and the postman makes two
Journeys a month, carrying 800 pounds
of mail at a time. He uses an inn
mense number of dogs, and good sledge
dogs are costly, to say nothing of their
rcod.
"ost equally absurd does it sound
that the remuneration of a la
boz er is $z1,C00 a year. That is the
sum paid to A. j. Day, employed a
a roller at the Pittsburg mills of the
United States Steel Corporation. He
was formerly one of Mr.. Carnegie's
men. He is said to be the best man at
his worw of rolling steel rails, and Is
paid accordingly.
PATHS salary for her approaching
American tour is worthy to be classed
among the high salaries of the world
She will receive $1,000 concert for
sixty concerts, in addition to her eX-
| penses. Her record was $4,000 for a
single concert, paid once in New Or
leans. But neither she nor any othe"
prima donna ever kept up that sort of
thing as a steady income.
Possibly the best paid woman in the
world is Nine. Heglon of the Paris
Opera. She is paid $4,000 year. AM
the second star, Nine Breval, gets
$4,000. The amounts made by lee
turers frequently rival those made by
! great singers. Ian Maclaren once
made $4,000 in six weeks. Henry NJ
Stanley did even better, and was palq
at the rate of $4,000 a night.
! AS Speaker of the House of Lords
the Lord Chancellor of England gets
! $4,000 a year. AS judge ne gets
! another $4,000, making his combined
! earnings as great as that of the Pres
! ident Of the United States. A SIM
! liar amount is paid yearly to the
| Bishop of London and to the ArchDlsh-
Oh of York, while the Archbishop OF
| Canterbury receives the largest yearly
payment that England makes to any
| one outside of the royal family. lie
! gets S65, COO a year.
! To reach the really high official sal
aries one has to go back to the SO
| called bankrupt countries OF the Eas',
| The money given the hlghest oilieldi
in the richest Western countries com
pares poorly with the salaries OF these
Eastern statesmen. The turkish
Minister of Finance gets $4,000 a year
| the Minister of Foreign Affairs $oO'ooo'
and the Grand Vizier $4,000. EVeI,
he is not the best paid, as the orncldi
who is in charge of the admiralty anu
| who manages a few old broKen-uo o Il
battlships gets the salary OF SoV'VVu
year His perqusites swell this amour
| 10 such an extent that the incumoenI
of the office has amassed neat Ht'le
fortune of about $15,0OO00 .-o
COMPARE with these salaries the S9V,-
600 which is paid the President OF lI.lS
country and the 100000 when Ine
! President of France receives. lne
small officials of Turkey get MOI
than Mr.. Roosevelt and nearly as
much as the President of France.
There is a man who receives 40 G"
offer of the large salary of $20O'VVV
year, and, incredible as 1t may seei'|
refused it. This is Herr Balm l "a
/ gifted German, who is managing ~
rector of the Hamburg American Lite
of steamers. The offer was maue "
him by the heads of the Anglo-AnleIl-
can Shipping Trust, if he would oe
| come director of that corporatloH;
A dozen years ago the pubic nau
! never heard of Mr.. Clinton DaWhH.9,
I Then he became Mr.. Goshen's pr 81 d,
secretary, and in 1895 Secretary OF
nance in Egypt. There, and ialer
in India, he made a great name az
financial expert. His fame attraclsu
the notice of the heads of one OF tn0
biggest private banks in the worlu
/ that of ]. S. Morgan & Co. He no"
! draws S250,000 a year in their serN
/ His is said to be the biggest saiaI
paid by any bank. There are ~
more than three bank managers
England who get one-fifth OF MI
! Dawkins' salary.
The great life insurance companle
pay high figures to the men VINO cU..
troll their investments. The two lal
est in the world each allow their pre-
idents $4,000 a year. and the thll
/ fixes it's presidents Remuneration
$780, 00 There is one actuary WoI
ing for an insurance company VIZ
! Headquarters in Lonlon who gets 900
900 a year.
Railway companies are not stlhgs
]. Pierpont Morgan paid Mr.. Salhu
! Spencer $4,000 a year to give eNPT
opinions on the railway properties
was buying up, and M. ingalls, Woi
also for Messrs. Morgan and Vahue
| bilt for the comfortable remunerar40
of $4,000 a year.
AS managing director of the 80
solidated Goldfelds of South All
Limited. Mr.. Rhodes used to get apo.
$3.50 900 a year, and Mr.. Rudd's sala.
also as director of the same conlpai'
! WAS So5O 600