Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-23
PRIZE SALARY GOES
FOR KILLING BULLS.


The premier of Spain receives a
salary of $4,000 year, Spains crack
bullfighters. the famous matddor Ma
haquito makes twenty-five times that
money in twelve-month, says Pear
sons Weekly. Machaquito is perhaps
the only matador alive who is by birth
"A gentleman. He is also the most
gallant and one of the brayest men in
Europe. He was marriel the other
day, To signalize the occasion he
gave $4,000 to the poor Of Cartagena
| and founded two asylums for the aged
| poor.
The wedding presents. many of
| which bore cards from Spain's oldest
and noblest families. filled three large
| ruoms.
There is no one else in the whole
world, who without capital, makes
nearly $4,000 week by purely man
ual exertlon. The highest salary paid
10 anyone in Europe is probably $751;
900 a year, which is the nominal in
come of the archbishop OF Canterbury
OF course, very little of this can by
any possibility reach the archbishop's
private purse. His expenses are enor-
nous.
The largest salaries from a bust
ness point of view are paid in Ameri-
ca. They say that II. II. Rogers draws
| hundred thousand dollars year
for his services to the Amalgamated
Copper company. II. o. Havemeyer is
| reputed to receive similar sum for
looking after the American Sugar Re
fning company, and C. A. Coffin GER
tainly gets $4,000 for being president
of the General Electric company.
One of the biggest life insurance
companies in New York used to pay
it's president $15O,00O a year, but we
understand that this too gigantic sal
ary has recently been locked There
are also three American railway presi-
dents who draw $4,000 a year. One
| of them is James j. Hill of the Great
Northern, the gentleman who, in oppo-
sition to Mr.. Hartman, has recently
! been helping to turn the American
| stock market upside down and inside
out.
| In the diplomatic world there are a
few plums. Our lord chancellor, with
his $4,000 a year, has the pick of the
basket, but our ambassador to France
runs him close. He is paid $4,000
yearly and receives certain allow
/, ances into the bargain.
| writer who tickles the popular
taste makes an income exceeding even
that of lord chancellor. 1t is com
monty reputed that Mr.. Hall Gaines
receipts are well over 100000 year.
| Probably those of Miss Coreli touch a
similar figure. Successful playwrights
have reaped enormous returns. No
one exactly knows what Mr.. Gilbert
has made out of the Savoy series and
their many rivals, but certainly his
income must have run into five fig
ures.
Lecturing pays even better than
writing. II. NJ. Stanley once made
$4,000 in ten weeks during an Amer
| lean tour, and Ian Maclaren" $50 600
in six weeks. But these are, of course.
not rates which could be kept up for
year, let alone lifetime.
One is apt to fancy that great sing.
ers make more money than any other
public performers. Certainly Patti had
a thousand apiece for a series of sixty
concerts so lately as 1903, Melba
charges $l,250 for singing a couple of
songs at an evening party, and Clara
Butt does nothing under $500. Yet,
considering the risks of voice. the
huge expenses of a prima donna and
the fact that opera seasons are not
continuous, the clear profits are not
so big as imagined.
There are music hall artists who
have run great singers very close.
In 1904 Miss Vesta Tilley was offered
S2,5OO week TO perform in Chicago.
and year later that dainty little lady
MISS Cissy Lotus signed n contract
to appear twice day at each of Proc
tors Two theaters. For this her sal |
airy was to be $4,000 a week. or. at
a rate OF considerably over sl5O,OOO a
year,
FTegoli, we believe, holds the money |
making record for the music hall |
stage. Taking portion OF the re- |
ceipts. he netted in Paris for sixty, |
seven performances $4,000. The |
first OF these performances was on
January 20, 1900, and the last on MAY
z. Al this rate he was coming money
at the rate of about 100000 a year.
performance certainly unparalleled
by any living artist, In spite of the
enormous salaries that American man.
ayers have offered to British turns"
lately.
we mentioned the huge salaries
paid to bank presidents and other bus.
mess men. Emoiuments not quite so
large but yet running into four fig
ures, are earned by women also nova
days.
Mrs. Mccarthy. who manages the