Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-12
EMPEROR WILLIAMS SALARY.
The Money Carried by Troop of
Mounted Gendarmcs.
From the Chicago Record.


From the Chicago Record.
Emperor William receives his salary
quarterly in advance. The money is thrice
counted by different functionaries at the
national treasury, and is afterward placed
in a number of strong boxes and carried
to the royal mail wagon. waiting at the
door between a troop of mounted gend-
armes. After the load has been placed in
the vehicle the ministers of finance Of the
empire and of the kingdom place the seals
of their respective offices upon the door and
accompany the minister of the royal house
hold in his carriage to the palace, the mail
wagon with its escort of gendarmes follow
ing immedia tely behind. Not until the
money is actually deposited in the vaults
of Emperor Williams Berlin palace does
the minister of the household sign the re-
ceiptS, which are made out in the name of
wilhelm Rex and William Imperator,"
respec lively, one-half of the sum being de-
rived from the treasury of the kingdom Of
Prussia and the other from the treasury of
the German empire.
Two days afterWard the court function
aries receive their pay, but although the
emperor receives his salary in advance. not
one of the employees is similarly favored,
that the emperor is practically always
three months behind in the pay list of his
household. The only exception which the
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whose personal allowance of $2JO,OOO per
annum is paid TO her quarterly and in adj
vance.
At no great court in Europe are the sal
aries so low as at that of Berlin, the So
called great diSnitaries having to satisfy
themselves with a pittance of $1,000 a year
while the minister himself receives but
5000. This is not surprising when the
enormous number of persons who figure on
the pay roll is taken into consideration.
For instance, there are no less than 800
housemaidS and 1,SOO liveried footmen
Every servant, high and low, is entitled to
pension after working in the royal house
hold for tN enty years.
Over and beyond the civil list received by
the emperor from the treasury of the en-
pire and that of the kingdom he draws
from the war department full salaries for
the different military commands he as
sunes. AS commander-in-chi ef of the army
he is continually appointing himself col
onel-in-chief of this or that regiment, which
has thereupon the right to style itself the
.'leib.' or body regiment of his majesty
Whenever one reads in the gazette that he
has thus honored a regiment in the army
one may take it for granted that it entails
an addition to his income in the shape of a
colonel'S pay and allowances. InaSmuch
as at the present moment he holds the col
oneicy of some fifty different regiments it
will readily be seen that this constitutes
no inconsderable addition to his income,
all the more as the colonelcies carry with
them forage allowances for about 200
.horses.
Out of this civil list the emperor is ex-
pected to pay the allowances of the va
rious members of his family. But this is
not a heavy drain on his purse. His broth
er. Prince Henry. and his brother-in-law
Prince Frederick Leopold. have each in
herited immense private fortunes and are
practically independent of any allowance,
while the only other princes of his house.
Prince Albert of Brunswick, the crazy
Prince Alexander and the eccentric yet
talented Prince George, all three elderly
men. are exceedingly wealthy. Indeed
they figure among the richest princes Of
the blood in Europe.