Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-03-24
QUEEN VICTORIA's MILLIONS.
She Is Said to Be the Worlds Rlches4
Woman

! Queen Victoria would undoubtedly
| be the richest woman in the world
all her official revenues. She was
| born in poverty. Her father was COM
pelled to borrow money from an al
derman OF the city of London, whom
he was fortunate enough to meet In
Paris, in order to pay his expenses
| from that city to London few weeks
before her birth. and until his death
was a pensoner, not OF Parliament,
hut upon the bounty of the king.
Victoria herself occupied that NOR
trying relation until she became queen
of England, and when she was called
to the throne she did not have dol
lars worth of property in her own
right. says n correspondent in the Chi
cago Record. Nevertheless. her
wealth is now estimated by the hun
dreds of millions of dollars Like the
duke of Edinburg, she never spends q
cent OF her personal income, but al
lows 1t to accumulate and has 1t in
vested in the most remuneratlve kind
OF property.
She has twelve palaces. Two OF
! them Balmoral, in Scotland. and Os-
borne, on the Isle of Wight-are her
personal property, and she occupies
| them more than any of the official pal
aces. Buckingham palace in London
| is always kept ready for her use, and
she goes there to preside at official
functions, but has prejudice against
| the place and has not spent a night
urder its roof for many years She
! lives at Windsor most of the time dur
ing the sessions OF Parliament.
There are seven or eight other pail
aces maintained at public expense and
occupied by her sons, daughters and
other relatives and pensioners. At
| Hampton court, the largest and most
beautiful OF all the British palaces.
which was built by Cardinal Wolsey.
occupied by Henry VIII. and the
scene of the gayest events in the lives
of Charles |. and Charles H., there
are rs families living on the royal
bounty, mostly retired clergymen and
military veterans and the widows and
orphans of similar public servants.
/ The palaces at Kensington. Kew anG
/ Richmond are also filled with pension
ers, and it costs $4,000 a year to
maintain them.
! Her majesty has u train of railroad
+ cars which Is never used by anyone
else, and it costs the government sew
eral hundred dollars every time she
/ travels between Windsor and London.
a distance OF "a miles. There are four
royal yachts-the Victoria and AL
/ bert, 2,470 tons; the Osborne, 1850
tons, the Alberta. $40 tons, and the
Elfn 1873 tons-whioh she seldom uses.
but II cost $4,000 last year to main
tain them.
There are also % state carriages and
220 horses and ponies kept for the use
of her majesty and her household. with
a large number and great variety OF
read carriages and other vehicles.
The queen uses an ordinary basket
! phaeton, drawn by couple Of gentle
| ponies when she rides for air and ex-
ercise in the parks that surround her
castles at Windsor In Scotland and on
the Isle OF Wight. Sometimes she
uses a victoria. When she goes to
London she invariably drives in
plain landau, painted dark brown,
with red lines. In her stable are 10
matchless cream colored stations and
! 10 splendid blacks, which are reserved
for ceremonial occasions, and never
haul anybody less than a king or
queen.
Thus II will be seen that, although
q woman OF very economic habits, her
majesty Is a very expensive luxury for
her taxpayers, but no more so than
some OF the other rulers OF Europe.
| The president Of the United States re-
celyes less pay In comparison with
the Importance OF his Office than any
other man In the world. The presl-
dent Of France receives a salary OF
! 600 900 francs, which Is equivalent to
$l25,00 and q similar amount for ex-
penses OF his household. The emperor
/ OF Austria has an allowance of s3.875,-
| 0O0; the king of Sweden and Norway.
| 5000; King Leopold Of Belgium,
1860 900; the queen OF Holland, $780,
OOO the king Of Greece, $3.50, 900: the
king of italy, s2,S5S 900. The en-
peror OF Russia. being an autocrat, can
do what he pleases with the revenues
OF the empire, but the expenses OF the
court are about 100000 year
| Boston Herald.