Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-23

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purpose. There are number of other
| equally absurd sinecures which ought
| to be abolished, but they are held by
men of Importance and influence and
parliament does not like to NEEDLE
with them.
For household expenses 1866, 900 is
allowed. With this money eight or
ten palaces have to be kept up-Wind-
/ sor, Buckingham, st. James, Hampton
! Court, Osborne, Balmoral, Sandring-
ham, Kensington, Claremont, Frog
more and others, although the greater
part of the expenses at Osborne, Bal
moralgand Sandringham, which were
the private property of Queen Victoria,
are paid from the privy purse. The
official palaces are an enormous ex-
pense, and the maintenance of the sta
| bleS, carriages and parks must be paid
from this fund. For repairs the sum
of 100000 is appropriated, and to this
the cost of the new furniture, now be-
ingEput into Windsor and Buckingham
! palaces, is charged.
Over all these expenditures the Of
ficials of the government have practi-
cal control and an account is rem
dered to parliament; but the privy
purse which amounts to $550000, the
king can use as be pleases. No &C
count is rendered From this are paid
the personal expenses of the royal
family and the court, the state cere
monials, balls, dinners and other
functions, travelling expenses and
consists of 100 persons or more.
Added to the privy purse is the
100000 which the king gets from the
duchy of Lancaster. This gives him
total of $85O,OOO for his personal ex-
penses, of which he is required to rem
der no account.
Alexandra has an allowance of
$3.50, 900, from which must be paid all
her expenses and salaries of a large
number of retainers required by the
queen. She has reduced the number
considerably, but is paying about 80
per cent. larger salaries than Queen
Victoria allowed because the ladies in
waiting upon the present queen will
be subjected to many more expenses
in the way of wardrobe. Queen Vic
toria was exacting in many respects,
but she entertained SO little and
tendants did not require elaborate or
expensive toilets. Under the present
regime things will be different and
none but ladies of wealth can accept
such positions. Queen Alexandra has
notified her ladies in waiting that
their services will be required only
at important state functions. She
will be attended regularly by Lady
Sufield and Miss KnolIys, who have
been her secretaries for several years,
and are ultimate confidential friends,
thoroughly acquainted with all her
wishes, ideas and preferences.
Queen Victoria left a large estate in
jewels, stocks, bonds and landed pro-
perry. She owned some of the most
profitable buildings in London, and in
herited from her husband whole blocks
of residences in the fashionable quar-
large that it required staff of eight
or ten men to look after them. No
one knows what disposition she has
made of them, because the will of
sovereign is not probated and the
facts have rot leaked out. 1t is the
general impression, however, that the
estate has been placed in trust for the
perpetual benefit of her heirs, and the
king no doubt gets a large share of it,
so that his income will be increased
thereby.
Queen Victoria has seventy-four di-
rect heirs and when the revenues of
her estate are distributed among them
no one can receive a large amount, al
though she was a very rich woman.
She had nine children, of whom six
survive; forty grandchildren of whom
thirty-one survive, and thirty seven
great grandchildren all of whom sur
vive, making eighty-six in all, of whom
seventy-four survive. Of the great
grandchildren twenty-one are boys and
fifteen girls. Six are grandchildren of
the present king, eighteen are grand
children of the empress Frederick,
eleven are grandchildren of the the
late Princess Alice and six grandchil-
dren of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg.
This would appear to make total of
forty-one, but several are grandchil-
dren of two of the late queens chill
dren Eight of them are direct heirs
to the different thrones of Europe, and
there are enough remaining to rule the
rest of the kingdoms of the world.
Several of them will no doubt reach
thrones
The civil list also contains an an
nual allowance Of 100000 for the
Duke of Cornwall and $4,000 to each
of his sisters, the Duchess of Fife, the
Princess Charles of Denmark and the
Princess Victoria. The Duke receives
about $4,000 year from the reven-
ues Of Cornwall, which makes his in
come 100000. His wife has an allow
ance of $4,000. The allowances to
the kings brother and sisters are as