BIGGEST SALARY IN THE WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 130, 23 May 1908, Page 3

BIGGEST SALARY IN THE WORLD

The actual salary to lie paid lo Mr. A. Chester Bently. who has been appointed eiiginecr-in-chicl of the (iuggeiilieini Kxploration Company, has not yet been made public. It in ail open secret, however, that his predecessor, ill', .lohn Ila v Hammond, of .Jameson raid fame, received, for a time at all events, £IOO,00!) a vcar.

This is, ot course, magnificent remuneration. especially when viewed from the standpoint of the thirty-shilling-a-wcek clerk. But it is not a record. I'mMr. Charles M. Schwab, while acting as president of the great billion-dollar American Steel Trust, drew .€200,000 a year, or, say, £001) per diem for each working dav. Compared with such colossal earnings does not immense. Yet most of us. doubllc-s would try our best not lo be dii-satislled with it.

Not, however, that if is by any means a lerlainty we should succeed, startling lhough such a statement may sound. Xobodv i> ever fully satisfied with his earnings fur long together. Kubelik, for instance. has left it on record thai, while he was being paid for his fiddling at the rale of half-a-guinea a note, he v.'a,, alwavs thinking lo himself that jt ought lo 'lie a guinea. I'aderewski. too, allliouiih he earned at the zenith of his career'a* ii pianist as much as .C!l l.">s a minute, thought lie was being hardly ilcall by. and said so. 11l die r-ame way Sarah Bernhardt once "-truck" against what she eliar-acien-cil n- the "pallry payment" ot

,CStl an hour. Kvcii Hie 111'. Schwab mentioned above thought so little of his i'liOO a dav "job" that he absented himself without leave—and lost it.