Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Pay of Ministers and Actors. [ARTICLE]

Pay of Ministers and Actors.

Remarks are often made implying that the ministers are overpaid, or, at least, that such men as Mr. Beecher and Dr. Storrs are extravagantly paid. The following figures, given by the New York Tribune, are worthy of being borne in mind: Beecher gets $20,0(10; Edwin Booth, SIOO,OOO a year; Dr. Hall, of Fifth Avenue, and Dr. Dix, of Trinity, get $15,000, while E. A. Sotliem earns over $150,000 as “Lord Dundreary,” and John E. Owens plays thirty weeks annually for $90,000. Talmage preaches for $12,000, and Joe Jefferson plays forty weeks at “Rip Van Winkle”and earns $120,000. The solidary and gifted Dr. Storrs has SIO,OOO, and Maggie Mitchell earns $30,000 to $50,000. Dr. Cuyler works hard and faithfully . for SB,OOO a year, while Dion Boucicault finished a season as the “Shaeugraun,” etc., at $3,000 a week, and his managers scolded him in the public prints because he would not play longer at the same price. Dr. Potter, of Grace Church, has SIO,OOO and a parsonage; the eloquent Dr. Tiffany has $10,000; the once vigorous, now venerable, Dr. Chapin gets $10,000; while Fanny Davenport earns SI,OOO every week she plays.