The leader., 1897-07-21
Pay OF AN EMPEROR.
william o. Germany Draws MS Pa,
I'm Advance.

NoTsichtI bite, ana 1 was COM
PEELED TO give the right OF way to a Curl
Gus team. guarded by military escort
of cuirassiers in cleaning steel armor.
which had just left the vaults OF the
Reichsbank, making q bee-line for the
kaiser's palace. says a foreign cor
respondent. One of the police cap
tains on duty, an old acquaintance, sat
isfied my curiosity by explaining that
this is the emperor's salary for the next
quarter. Some hours later, seated COM
fortably with the aforesaid loquncious
captain by a sort of gallon measure of
"Munchener bier" 1 gathered the fol-
lowing highly interesting informntion:
Emperor william receives his salary
quarterly in advance. The money is
thrice counted by different function
aries of 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 gendarmes. After the
load has been placed in the vehicle the
ministers of finance and the empire and
Of the kingdom place the seal of their
company the minister of the royal
household in his carriage TO the palace,
the mail wagon, with its escort of
gendarmes, following Immediately be-
hind. Not until the money is actually
deposited in the vaults of Emperor Will
liam's Berlin palace does the minister
Of the household sign the receipts,
which are made out in the name OF
wilhelm Rex" and "Wilhelm Impera-
tor" respectively, one-half of the sum
being derived from the treasury of the
kingdom of Prussia and the other from
the treasury of the German empire.
Two days afterward the court func-
tionarics receive their pay, but although
the emperor receives his salary in adj
vance, not one of the employees is sim
ilarly favored, so that the emperor is
always practically three months behind
in the pay list of the household. The
only exception which the emperor
makes is in favor of his consort, whose
personal allowance of 10000 per an
mum is paid to her quarterly in ad-
vance.
At no great court in Europe are the
salaries SO low as ut that of Berlin, the
so-called great dignitaries having TO sat
isfy themselves with a pittance of G 400
n year, while the minister himself re-
ceiyes but 600. This is not surpris-
ing when the enormous number of per-
sons " no figure OH the pay roll is taken
into consideration. For instance, there
are no less than 500 housemaids and
500 liveried footmen. Every servant,
high or low, is entitled to a pension
after working in the royal household
for 90 years.
Over and beyond the civil list received
by the emperor from the treasury of
the empire and that of the kingdom, he
draws from the war department full
salaries for the different military com.
mands he assumes. AS commander-in-
chief of the army he is continually ap-
pointing himself colonel-in-chief of this
or that regiment, which has thereupon
the right TO style itself the "leib' or
body regiment of his majesty. When.
ever one reads in the gazette that he
has thus honored a regiment in the
army, one may take it for granted that
il entails an addition to his income in
the shape of a colonel's pay and allow
ances. lnasmuch as at the present time
he holds the colonelcy of some so diff.
ferent regiments, it will readily be seen
that this constitutes no inconsiderable
addition to his income, all the more al
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
various members of his family. But
this is not heavy drain on his purse
His brother, Prince Henry, and his
brother-in-law, Prince Frederick Leo
Pold, have each inherited immense pri-
waite fortunes and are practically indie.
pendent of any allowance, while the
only other princes of his house. Prince
Alexander, and the eccentric yet talent.
ed Prince George, all three elderly men,
are exceedingly wealthy. Indeed they
figure among the richest princes of the
blood in Europe.-Washington Post.