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Croton Aqueduct, in New York city. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, largest park in the world. Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world. Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, the largest cave in the world. Niagara Falls, with a sheet of water three-quarters of a mile wide and a fall of 175 feet. New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Washington Monument, Washington, D. C., 555 feet high. Yosemite Valley, California, 57 miles from Coulterville, which is from eight to ten miles long, and about one mile wide. It has very steep slopes, about 3,500 feet high, a perpendicular precipice. 3,089 feet high, a rock, almost perpendicular, 3,270 feet high, and waterfalls from 700 to 1,000 feet high. "Flatiron" Building, New York.
SALARIES PAID BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT President, $50,000; Vice-President, $8,000; Cabinet officers, $8,000 each. United States Senators, $5,000 and mileage. Members of the House of Representatives, $5,000, with mileage. Chief Justice, $10,500, Associate Justices, $10,000. Circuit Court Justices, $6,000. District Court Justices, $5,000. Superintendent Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $4,500; Public Printer, $4,500; Superintendent of Census, $6,000; Superintendent of Naval Observatory, $5,000; Superintendent of Signal Service, $4,000; Director of Geological Surveys, $6,000; Director of the Mint $4,500; Commissioner of the General Land Office, $4 000; Commissioner of Pensions, $5,000; Commissioner of Labor, $5,000; Commissioner of Indian Affair, $4,000; Commissioner of Education, $3,000; Commander of Marine Corps, $3,500; Superintendent of Coast and Geodetic Survey,. $6,000. United States Treasurer, $6,000; Register of the Treasury, $4,000; Comptroller, $4,000. Four Assistant Postmaster-Generals, each $4,000; Chief Clerk, $2,500. Postmasters are divided into four classes and receive the following salaries: First class, $3,000 to $4,000 (except in New York city, where the salary is $8,000) ; second class, $2,000 to $3,000; third class, $1,000 to $2,000; fourth class, less than $1,000. Those in the first three classes are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; those of fourth class are appointed by the Postmaster-General. Ambassadors to France, Great Britain, Germany, Mexico and Russia, $17,500. Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Austro-Hungary, Brazil, China, Italy, Japan and Spain, $12,000; to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chili, Columbia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, the Netherlands, Turkey and Venezuela, $10,000; to Denmark, Hayti, Paraguay and Uraguay, Portugal, Sweden and Norway and Switzerland, $7,500; to Bolivia and Ecuador. $5.000; and to Greece, $6,500. Ministers Resident to Corea and Siam at $7,500, and to Persia, $5,000. Consuls General, four at $6,000 each; three at $5,000 each; six at $4,000 each, and eight at $2,000 to $3,500 each. Consuls, 72 at $1,000 to $3,500 each; General, $13,500; Lieutenant General, $11,000; Major General. $7, 500; Brigadier General, $5,500; Colonel, $3,500; Lieutenant Colonel, $.3,000; Major, $2,500; Captain, mounted $2,000; Captain, not mounted, $1,800; Regimental Adjutant, $1,800; Regimental Quartermaster, $1,800; First Lieutenant, mounted, $1,600; First Lieutenant, not mounted, $1,500; Second Lieutenant, mounted, $1,500; Second Lieutenant, not mounted, $1,400; Chaplain, $1,500. Admiral, $13,500; Vice-Admiral, $9,000; Rear-Admirals, $6,000; Commodores, $5,000; Captains, $4,500; Commanders, $3,500; Lieutenant-Commanders, $2,800; Lieutenants, $2,400 Masters, $1,800; Ensigns, $1,200; Midshipmen, $1,000; Cadet Midshipmen, $500; Mates, $900; Medical and Pay Directors, Medical and Pay Inspectors, and Chief Engineers, $4,400; Fleet Surgeons, Fleet Paymasters and Fleet Engineers, $4,400; Commander of Marine Corps, $3,500; Surgeons and Paymasters, $2,800; Chaplains, $2,500. THE GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY |
