The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-08

| ttAis Soui Se !ids DeeIl SteaullS lHSl
ing. Thus, in 1865 it was e26000: in
1857, e29,oO0; in 1869. GS1, 900; in 1872,
900; now 1T is over e50,000 a year.
A second source of income which the
queen held until the Prince of Wales
| came OF age-when it was, according
to precedent, made over to his royal
| highneSs-Was the duchy of Cornwall,
the estates of which lie in Devon, SOM
erset, Wits, Surrey and London. The
| duchy had been, at the time of the
| queens accension, however, mismanaS-
| ed, and it was owing to the prince con-
sorts untring energy that his eldest
sons heritage was at all worth nav
| ing.
In 1924 the gross revenue had fallen
to G22. 600; in 1872 it was nearly GlO,000
When the Prince of Wales came of age,
| instead of having SIS, 900 to &l4,000 a
year from his duchy as the last Prince
of Wales had, there was a revenue OF
e50,O00 year clear and cash enough
to buy Sandringham The princes IN
come from the duchy of Cornwall is now
| increasing at the rate of about 33,oOo
| year on the average.
| Far more romantic, however, than the
incomes from long settled heritages can
ever be is the origin of the greater por-
| ton of her majesty's great wealth. On
Aug. so, 1852, there died a penurious old
gentleman of u named John Camden
| NeiId.
He was the son of goldsmith, who
had executed work for George Ill, and
kept a shop in st. James street. The
old jeweler was, in his way, great
| philanthropist and emulated Howard In
| his attempts to emeliorate the condltlon
| of those poor wretches who langulshed
in his majestys prisons He sent ms
son to Trinity college, Cambridge, and
the bar, and at his death left him
$3.50, 900.
This great sum John Camden Neild
saved and invested, living himself in a
| most miserly fashion. When his Will
| was opened it was found that with the
| exception of a few legacies he had lett
his fortune of $500 600 to Her most
gracious majesty Queen Victoria, beg
ging her majesty's most gracious ac-
ceptance of the same, for her sole use
and benefit and that of her heirs The
queen sought out Nield's relatives
and gave them $1,000 each and raised
a monument to his memory. This splen-
did sum her majesty has left practl-
cally untouched and it must now have
accumulated to G1000,000 The queen
also inherited from her husband, VINO
was of a most careful and businesslike
disposition, a large part of the 1boo,oVo
he left behind him.
1t was in her comparatively poor
days that her majesty purchased the
greater portion of the Osborne estate.
She had originally hoped to buy Norrls
castle also in the Isle of Wight where
she had stayed in her childhood, but
was obliged to give it up as she said she
could not afford it, A little later Bal
moral was bought and the castle built.
Both these private properties OF the
queen have been added to very largely
from time to time and their value is
yearly increasing. Osborne is now reck-
oned as being five times as valuable as
when 1t was purchased in 1884 The
queen had another stroke of luck in 1881,
when. by the advice of Lord Cross, Lord
Sidney and the late Sir Arnold White
Cher solictor), she bought outright
some property for e 600. The market
value of that purchase is now reckoned
at -G110000. III
According to the new doomsday book,
her majesty owns privately some 1892
acres of land, which yields yearly in
come of between 600 and G25,OOo.
The return would be higher but for the
fact that much of the acreage is Scot
tish moor and forest lands. The queen
owns three very fine forests-those of
! Balmoral, Ballochbine and Abergeldie.
The use of the Claremont estate was
granted to the queen for life in 1866, but
in 1882 her majesty bought it from the
crown. Of property abroad the queen
possesses land and houses at Coburg
and magnificent villa at Baden, which
was left to the queen by a princess of
the house of Hohenlohe.
Invested money ard land do not form
the limits of the queens wealth; far
| from it. No monarch can point to such
a mass of valuables as We're presented
| to her majesty at the time of her first
| jubilee in 1887 and at the diamond jub-
| lee year ago, and then, though much
| of the gold and silver plate at Windsor
is. like the crown jewels, crown prop
erty. the queen can claim nearly e500,000
| worth as her own.
| Her private collection of jewels is also
very valua BILE, while her laces, of which
! she is extremely proud. are worth an
enormous sum. Her own pictures and
| statuary hold perhaps a value that is
| more sentimental than monetary
though many of her Landseers would
| fetch heavy prices, but much of the
| china, carvings, bronZes and knick-
llnacks which she has purchased are
intrinsically worth very great deal.
| 1t is obvious, from these known facts,
that her majeSty's wealth must be
great. For the last twenty years al
| most every year that has passed has
witnessed a curtalage of her majesty's s
expenditure and a vast Increment to
her savings. The exceptional period
were the two jubilee years, when the
| most lavish entertaining was indulged
in and immense sums were spent in
| all directions. The vast fortune of the
| queen has not merely dropped into her
| hands, however.
Her majesty is an exceptionally good
| business woman and economy with suf-
tciency has been the watchword of her
career. During the '40s, when the most
| gorgeous entertainments We're year after
| year being given to crowded heads and
| for the good Of trade" and the circula-
| tion of money at the royal palaces, the
| ministers of state used frequently to
boast of the wonderful management
which could do things so royalty and
| yet never ask the country for a penny
| One of Manager Graus opera company
| notified him the other day in New York
| that she did not like the paper on the
walls of her room in a certain hotel She
did not wish to change her rooms, for