Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
Salaries
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President of the Riggs National Bank
of Washington, each receiver $50, 900.
Most of the payments, which in
clude not only salaries but also such
other compensation as bonuses and
commissions, were made in 1887.
Since some firms operate on fiscal
instead of a calendar year basis,
some salaries were reported for 1896
and 1897.
The sums do not represent the net
return to the individual, because they
are subject to Federal income taxes
and, in many cases, State income
taxes, and because in some other
cases the recipients have to pay
business expenses out of their COM
pensation.
The third person on the list was
William Randolph Hearst. the pub
Usher, who received 100000 in 1886
and again in 1887 as president and
director of Hearst Consolidated
Publications, Inc, LoeW's Inc. gave
the fourth largest sum, $489 ,6O2, to
Nicholas M. Schenck, its president.
The amusement field supplied two
of the three other salaries In the
100000 class. Greta Carlo was
paid S472,49 by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer. Maj. Edward Bowes of the
radio and the gong received $427,-
BIT as executive director of Edmar
Enterprises, Inc. Right behind these
two Games Thomas j. Watson, pres
ident of International Business Ma
chine Corp. of New York, with
$4l9,398.
1886 With Du Pont Reported.
Metro GoldWyn-Mayer paid 24O
persons $4,000 or more, while 1876
employees and officers of E. I. du Pont
de Nemours Co. of Wilmington, Del,
and 167 of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. of New York were IN
the $4,000 class.
AS for the women, the highest paid
star of the Metropolitan Opera AS
ISOLATION was Kristen Flagstad, who
received $4,000. She got another
$4,000 from Paramount pictures.
Katharine Cornell of the stage was
worth $58,7l7 to c. & M. c. PRODUCE
lions, while Lynn Fontanne and her
husband, Alfred Lunt, pocketed $685.
674 and SOL, 674. respectively, from
the New York Theater Guild.
The desire of women to become or
remain beautiful of face and figure
resulted in a $4,000 salary for Lii
liam S. Dodge of New York as presi-
dent of Harriet Hubbard Aver, Inc,
and $70,075 for Blanche R. Green
of Hamden, Conn, president OF the
Spencer Corset Co.
George w. Hill, president of the
American Tobacco Co., was paid
s380,967
S394,586 for Grace.
The biggest salary in the steel
business was the s394,586 which the
Bethlehem Steel Co. paid E. G
Grace, president. Myron C. Taylor
chairman of United States Steel, re-
ceived s167 ,662.
The automobile industry supplied
$247,210 to William S. Knudsen
president of General Motors; SAG
056 to Edsel B. Ford, president OF
the Ford Motor Co., and $189,136 to
Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the
Chrysler Corp. G. w. Mason Of De-
troit, president Of the Nash-Kelvi-
nator Corp, was paid s233.957.
Believe it or not, Robert L. Ripley
cartoonist, received s149,777 from
King Features Syndicate.
A pair of former heavyweight box
ing champs still were in the money
in 1887. James j. Braddock was on
the list for 1898 and Jack Demp-
sey, now a restaurateur, for $751;
246.
The country's highest-paid banker
was Winthrop w. Aldrich. who got
$175,000 as chairman of the Chase
National Bank of New York.
The $3S.00O Lou Gehrig got from
the New York Yankees appeared to
be the biggest salary for a baseball
player.
Besides those already mentioned,
eight persons received single SAL
aries of 100000 or more in 1887, 81
persons from 100000 to $500 900
and 81 persons from sl50,00O to
100000. The listing shows that
the motion picture industry con-
tributed most of these large in
comes. Some persons received more
than one large salary, from differ
ent sources.
Marylanders Above $4,000.
Maryland has IL persons in the