HIGHLY PAYING OCCUPATIONS.
Some Golden Plums--What Electrical Experts Get--The Confidential
Man--Rapid Rise of an Advertising Agent--Editors in
Clover--Railroad Presidents Come High--A $25,000 Engineer--The
Paying Berths in Medicine--Some Astonishing Lawyers’ Fees--What
Vanderbilt Paid a Steamboat Man.
There are some positions in which enormous salaries are paid. They are,
of course, places where great responsibilities are incurred. Strange as
it may seem, however, occupations where thousands of human lives are
imperiled are not compensated at so high a rate as those where great
finances are at stake. Here are a few of the golden plums: