The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-26
OF POPULATION A POPULAR GRAND DUKE
Went 600 over His Grand Duchy Giving
Everybody the clad Hand-His BIS
Wealthy Family

Grand Duke Friedrich August Of
Oldenburg is not satisfied with his
nay His present civil list calls for
G55. 900 marks US15GO0W. however, ne
wants $4,000 more, so as Co have as
much as the whole household of the
president of the United States, salary
Included. costs. This sum. equally
divided among the grand dukes sub
jects. would make about go cents a head
OF the population of his bailiwick, a
territory not more than twelve times
the size of the city of Chicago.
when shortly after his accession to
the throne of his fathers last summer
the grand duke announced his intention
TO ask the diet for a raise of salary.
there was considerable opposition to the
scheme. Determined TO nip this i'm the
bud. he adopted the hand shaking
policy ana visited each and every town
and village i'm his detached territories
There is now no more opposition to the
plan and the diet viii vote the addi-
tiOnal $4,000.
The dukes of Oldenburg are one Of
the wealthiest reigning families i'm the
German empire Frugal, economic and
always with an eye to business, they
have been able to add to their "fidei
cOmmssum," which gives them an in
come, apart from the civil list referred
to, of about 100000. 1t was the late
side with Prussia in her struggles with
Schleswig- Holstein and Hanover,
though the blind king of Hanover was
closely related to him and though he
had legitimate claims to Schleswig-
Holstein and the Danish crown. He
believed in hard cash rather than in
running the risk of losing his claims
and being absorbed by powerful Prus-
STA after all. He therefore readily ac-
cepted Prussia's offer Of $3.50 900 in cash
and the Ahrensbock domain in Holstein
If he relinquished all claims in favor Of
Prussia.
Old Grand Duke Peter was penurious
in the extreme and seldom went to
Berlin, for fear of mourning expenses.
But his people liked him none the less
for that. His ways of mingling with
the people made him their idol
At the Schutzenfest and at the other
occasions he would join them on the
grounds, eat, drink, shoot and chat and
joke with them in the low German YER
nacular that made him all the more
popular. The present grand duke, when
still student at the Leipzig university
could not bear being addressed by his
fellOW-students as your royal high
ness He insisted on being merely
Friedrich August. And jolly August
he was one day he and his associates
took an Eek bummel" to one of the out
lying beer villages as students cali
them After an eXhilarating quantity
of the students beverage had been con-
sumed the party began to upset the
bedroom, much to the annoyance of
the landlord. For a while he viewed
things quietly, but when Friedrich Au-
gust, who was the widest, began to
dance jig on the bar the patience Of
the bierwirth was exhausted. Without
further ado he boxed the ears of his
royal highness" so vigorously that the
then hereditary grand duke was oblg-
ed to seek the advice of a physician up
on his return to the city AS a result of
this incident old Grand Duke Peter
sent his son abroad for two years.