Oops, I was misunderstanding something. I thought Savage put Arthur under contract as a consultant once they removed him from the general manager position. My bad.. his contract was as an executive (general manager) for 3 years including 1903-1905 at $4,000 per year. That's in the newspaper article, and the lawsuit by Arthur was to get Savage to pay the last 2 months of his salary.

So he started out making $30/wk in 1897, 1903-1905 he was making $77/wk. Not too bad.

Hard to read those old scans of newspaper articles.



GeneB, as to the church - I note that the church gave notice to both Arthur and to Savage Arms. I wonder if it wasn't part of Arthur's 3 yr contract in 1903 that Savage Arms would also pay his housing and that whole thing got confused in 1905 with him leaving the state and Savage saying they'd fired him in January/etc? Just a guess, but I can't think of any other reason for the church to serve the company. Regardless, Arthur ended up paying for it since it looks like it was taken out of his money from the lawsuit.

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