Show THE RUSH FOR consulates IT WAS recently printed in the NEWS that the government had consulates and that there were applicants for each what some readers will be unable to understand is that men should be so anxious to go so far in some cases to the antipodes live among strangers and barbarians and receive in many instances less salary than a professional man under ordinary circumstances can command at home the way of IV it is that the salary is a small part of the business the few feed being in every case the chief consideration these often run up teetotal the total income of a 1000 consulate to five times that amount or even more the best beat consulate is that of paris where the salary is a year but the fees amount to the enormous average of in the same aimel the government receives only a small percentage of the fees the consulate all told being worth to the occupant about the same in dollars and cents as is the presidency of the united states per annum there will now be no difficulty in understanding why there thae is such a rush for these theae except in abow a few instances apparently obscure and unprofitable positions the following table of consulates with the salaries and fees down to and including the 2000 class also conveys some desirable information douthe subject salary of consuls PM fees liverpool Ver pool 6 ON hong X kong ong Be baem rim is bradford eng 2500 2600 Tl Stall 2500 ahnberg 2500 2000 the consul at liverpool retains in th the neighborhood of out of the fees fea of the office making his total beacome income about the others are in proportion |