The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-28
VICTOR EMMANUEL.
Cutting Down Expenses and Setting
Up a New Moral Standard.

King Victor Emmanuel has inaugurated
an era of strict economy in connection
with the royal househOuld. At the time
of his advent to the throne there were
400 horses in the royal stables. The king
has reduced this number to 100 Hum bert
insisted that the filters should be changed
four times a day His son has directed
that it shall be done only twice. The
whole service of the court IS being re-
formed, and even the royal dinner table
has been reduced to the most modest pro-
portions. the king at the same time pro-
Vidlng tItat there snail be nothing dlmIn-
lshed In this grandeur or splendor OF state
entertainments.
There is one point in connection with
the new reign which is particularly
worthy of note. Henceforth the Italian
court will no longer be as easy OF access
as heretofore. 1t has become far more
exclusive and the lines more sharply de-
fined Victor Emmanuel, unlike his two
predecessors on the throne, Is ineXorabie
on the question OF morality and decOrunl-
IT may be remembered that a year ago
ne suddenly dismissed his chief of house
hold, General TerZaghi and banished
him from court for the sole reason that
the unfortunate officer. in sending out
the commands TO ball given by the
then crown prince and crown princess at
Naples. had inadvertently comprised in
the invitations high Official dlgnItary 5
wife, who, prior 10 her marriage, had
been member OF the corps de ballet OF
the San Carlos theatre.
Military officers have been taken TO
task, transferred and even placed on half
=
ciating with women Of questionable ante
cedents, while the least indelicacy in
money matters is punished, where mill
tary officers are concerned, with stern
hand.
The king has likewise intimated to the
members of the cabinet that he expects
more decorum than heretofore in their
mode of life, and that in particular ne
strongly diSapprOves Of the habit which
several of their number have of frequent
ing public cafes, where they have been
accustomed to sit for hours together,
surrounded by a petty court of ObseQui-
Gus parasites, discussing political and ad-
ministratiVe questions with the utmost
so long minister of justice, and as such,
at the head of the entire judiciary mag
iStrdcy of the kingdom, used TO be seen
every night throughout his term of Of
flee in one or another of the music halls
or cafes chantants of Rome drinking
champagne with fOotlight faVOriteS.
Victor Emmanuel at present is engaged
in carefully going through the Volumin-
Gus mass of private papers. left BY his
father, EMPLOYING the early hours of the
pose. HumberC made q point OF never
under any circumstances destroying any
letter that was addressed to him EV-
erything, no matter how trivial, in the
filed away. And while this has resulted
in the accumulation of an immense mass
of perfectly useless paper, the eXamina-
ton thereof by the young king is not
without enlightening him on the subject
of many peculiaritieS with regard to the
statesmen and politicians of his father )
reign. some of whom cannot fail to be
terribly perturbed at the discovery that
King Humbert, so renowned for his mag
unanimous reticence and generous dis
every communication, confidential and
otherwise addressed to him.