Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-10
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS POORLY
PAID COMPARED TO INCOMES
IN OTHER LINES.
ROOT GAVE UP BIG INCOME.
James B. Dill Receives 100000 for
Settling Differences Between Car
negla and FTick.
PHYSICIANS CHARGE BIG FEES.

the readjustment of the social organiza-
tons. for which the Twentieth century is
getting ready, the present time will go
down in history as the age of the worlds
greatest salaries, says the New York
| Tribune.
| The men OF iatellect and e6dcation,
those who are superior in developed ca
pacity, in industry and morality, those
who are most import. ut to society, work
for pay which the 4. ssters of .uodern
finance would consider .1su1n tent for
the expenses of running t.eir automo-
biles. The pay of college prof. ssors aver
| age about $1,000 a year. Civil service
| commissioners of the United States, do
! ing work of great responsibility, draw
$500 year. The biologist of the gov
eminent. with an international reputa-
| ton, receives $2700. The experts who
codify the federal penal laws are paid
only $1,000
Root Loses Big Income
| The pay of United States cabinet of
| icers is only $4,000 year, and it is in
| teresting to note that to accept such a
! position the present secretary of state,
Mr.. Root, gave up law practice esti-
mated as worth 100000 yearly. On the
other hand, Paul Morton resigned as
secretary of the navy in order to accept
a 100000 salary in New York, and John
| Findley Wallace gave up his position
as chief engineer of the Panama canal
because of a similarly tempting offer
from a commercial corporation.
! 1t probably is safe statement that
1 the average yearly income of lawyers in
! New York city does not exceed $1,000
year. Yet the income of not few
runs as high as 100000, and in some
cases more.
Attorney Dilps Big Fee.
One of the largest single fees ever
paid to a lawyer was the $1,000,000
which James B. Dill Of New York re
ceived for settling the dispute which
arose between Andrew Carnegie and
Henry G. Frick over the transfer of the
properties merged in the United States
Steel corporation.
| A fee only $500, 900 less than Mr.. Dills
was paid to another New York lawyer,
| William d. Guthrie, who received $780,
! 600 for breaking the will of Henry b.
Plant, owner of the Plant system of
steamships railways and hotels.
Joseph H. Choate, before his appoint
ment as Ambassador to Great Britain,
received 100000 for single argument
before the United States supreme court,
| the effect of which was that the income
fax law was declared unconstitutional
AS ambassador at London Mr.. Choate's
salary was $17,50O.
Physician Received 10000.
! The fee of $4,000 and travelling ex-
penses which were paid to DIR. Adolph
/ Lorenz of Vienna, to treat Lolita Ar
mour for congenital hip dislocation, were
much less than have frequently been paid
! abroad by royalty for various ailments.
King Edward, when Prince of Wales,
once paid a physician $4,000 for four
weeks services.
The fee of $1,000 which a New York
dentist charged Prince Louis of Batten-
berg when the latter visited this coun-
try with his feet a year ago was much
commented upon. For a dentists fee the
sum was undoubtedly large, but as COM
pared with some physicians fees it looks
/ insignificant
In New York city there probably are
! four or five physicians whose practice,
mostly with the wealthy, represents an
annual income of 100000 or more. Five
or six others earn from $4,000 to $780,
! 600, and about 200 make from $4,000 TO
$4,000. The average doctor gets from 81
| to 81 for a visit out of his office, and
charges from 81 to 81 for writing a pre-
scription in his office.
Salaries of Rail Heads.
| The high-water mark for presidents of
railroad companies is about $4,000 at the
present time, although l.. +. Loree re-
ceived 100000 as president of the Rock
/ Island system. In cases of some OF these
officials, however, the salary as president
does not represent the total of their pay.
| Samuel Spencer, for example, who is j.
| p Morgan's representative, receives not
| only $4,000 a year as president of the
! Southern railroad, but has other emolu-
ments from offices held in smaller lines
which Mr.. Morgan controls.
! The salaries of presidents of banks,
| even those in the largest cities, are, as
rule, very much less than the salaries
of railroad presidents. James Stillman,
/ president of the National City Bank of
/ New York, is paid only $4,000 a year.
| In small towns the president of bank
receives not more than from $1,000 TO
! $4,000.
The representatives of some of the
/ large wholesale houses of New York
earn ON commission as much as $4,000
( a year. and their duties are merely TO
keep customers in friendly relations with
their frms-in other words, to be nice
Havemeyer Gets $4,000.
The salary Of Henry o. Havemeyer,
the head of the Americas Sugar Refining
company, is $4,000 year, and, of
course. his total income is much more
than that, William K. Corey, the presi-
dent of the United States Steel corpora
| ton, receives salary of 100000 u year,
/ and the chairman of the company's board
1 OF directors is pau AAAS dAhVuAt. II Eeu-
eric H. Eaton. the president of the Amer
lean Car and Foundry company, gets
| $4,000 a year.
The pay rolls of the United States
! Steel corporation contain the nGmes of
about 10000 employees, drawing an ag
gregate Of S125, 100000 year in sal
aries and wages. OF the 10000 en-
ployes onfy twelve receive salaries larger
than 100000 a year, and tfty-two get
more than $4,000.
The pay roll of the United States gov
eminent carried a total last year of
about S25O000,000, the civil service sal
aries amounting to S1T4,000,0Q0.
The $4,000 of the President is the
highest salary which the United States
pays.
working for the nation is Admiral Dew
ey. who receives $13. 500 year, whether
nj sea or ashore, which amounts, paren-
tbetically. is $500 more than the secre-
tarv of the navy, who is technically his
superior officer, Gen. Chaffee. army