The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-26
Chicago HAS TWENTY
in THE $4,000 CLASS

CHICAGO, I'LL Special.-Twenty
men in Chicago receive salaries OF
$4,000 or more a year.
James J. Hilrs remark, published
in the Examiner last Wednesday. that
Darius Miller, as president of the Bur
lington Railroad. is paid salary of
$4,000 year, was purely incidental.
but II was an eye-Opener 1t lifted
a curtain and disclosed the rich re-
wards which big business heaps on the
men whom II chooses to direct its
vast enterprises.
Further inquiry yesterday revealed
that 100000 salaries in Chicago are
not at ali singular. nor are they the
maximum. Some individual emolu-
ments here reach $4,000 a year.
In railrOadinE. manufacturing. Job
ninS and retail merchandising the
$4,000 salary has become a regular
institution. Mr.. Hill, the empire
, builder OF the Northwest. who has en-
proved many high salaried men in
many diverse positions. explained:
we pay Darius Miller 100000 a
year and he is worth every dollar of
H. railroad men are born, not made.
Ihey cannot even be trained if they
are not To the manner born"
From inside sources yesterday a list
on OhlcaSoans who are to the manner
porn. sufficiently SO at least TO re-
cciNe $4,000 or more per annum. was
compiled. The roll includes the fol-
lowing:
Albert J. Earring. president of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul and
CmcaSo, Milwaukee and Puget Sound.
+. l.. Ripley, president of the At
ch.son, topeka ana Santa Fee.
Darius Miller. president of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy.
Charles II. Markham president of
the illinois Central.
II. I. Nudge, president Of the Rock
Island line.
=. l. Winchell. president OF tho
Frisco lines.
John c. Shedd. president of Mar
shall Field X co.
Samuel insult, president of Com
monwealth Edison Company, Public
Service Corporation of Northern mi
nois and other public utility comDanies
and chairman of the board Of the four
elevated railroad companies of Chi
cagO.
julius Rosenwald president of
Sears Roebuck x Co.
Cyrus Nj. Mccormick, president OF
the International Harvester Company.
). ogden Armour, president of
Armour * Co.
George NJ. Reynolds, president of
the continental and Commercial Ma
tional Bank and allied banks.
w. n. Gardner, president of the
chicago and Northwestern.
John 5. Runnells, president of the
Pullman Company.
George w. Montgomery. manager
of The Fair.
Charles E. Davis. president Of Roth
schild X Co.
George b. Brandies. manager of the
Boston Store.
II. NJ. Byllesby. president Of II. NJ.
Byllesby 4 Co, the Standard Gas and
Electric Company and numerous pub
lie utility companies throughout the
country.
Louis II. Swift. president of Swift
& Co.
Add to these the names of men who
receive from $4,000 to $4,000 and
the list would be prolonged into a di-
rectory of ChicagOs chieftains of bus
mess. 1t would include the vice presi-
dents, the heads of departments and
engineering and legal experts.
IhOugh George NJ. Reynolds has since
tlhental and Commercial National
Bank, the Continental and Commercial
t trust ana Sayings Bank and the Hi
perhlan ranking Association, he still
| receives only the one salary of $50, 600
winch he was paid by the old Cont
mental National The bank fixed his
| salary at that sum in 1909, at a time
| Mhen II was feared the Institution
would lose his services through his ac-
of the Treasury.
Certain of the general agents of the
not included in the above list are re-
putd TO receive yearly incomes in ex-
cess OF $4,000. Charles ID. Norton.
now vice president of the First Ma
tional Bank of New York and formerly
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury re-
celVed gross income of $4,000 from
| salary and commissions as general
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life
insurance Company in Chicago. From
inns was deducted his Office expenses.
john G. Shedd, in general charge Of
the wholesale and retail establishment
or Marshall Field x Co, and its Vari-
Gus manufacturing interests, is believed
IN trade circles to receive an emolu-
ment OF $4,000 q year a least
President Earring, Of the St Paul
one OF the highest salaried railroad
men IN the country, is paid more than
President Miller, of the Burlington.
rose to his 100000 pay check from a
position as stenographer in a freight
mousse He made his progress through
the trafhc department.
Mr.. Miller is the hardest working
employe OF the company, and that's
why he earns every dollar of his
salary" said an official OF the company
He gets down to the office at s O'clock
IN the morning and he works until
O'Clock at night He goes at top speed
all the time. Take Saturday afternoon
OHY Never knew him to do IT,"