The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-09
THE GLARS PRIVATE LIFE.
He Has Thirty Thousand Servants an,
Earns n SalarY of a .&lO. OOA a year.

The Car earns a bigger salary than
any other man In the world for the
public exchequer of his country pays
him the sum of $4.SO0.oO0 per annum
for acting 8 managing director Of the
Russian Empire. with It's area of S.000,-
600 square miles and its population of
the crushing weight of care and respon
sibility which he bears on his should
ers. his remuneration. high as 1t Is.
does not appear excessive. says George
him in monthly instruments of four
hundred thousand dollars each, which
are sent to him by special messenger
from the treasury, building In the form
of a check on the National Bank OF
Russia, just as an Office clerk receives
his monthly wages; with the difference,
howevr, that the Cars talent and In
dustry exercise no influence on his pay :.
ment At the same time he is expected
to maintain certain standard of liv-
ing which he would be unable to do in
the style required of him if he did not
possess a private Income three or four
times as big as his official salary. lie
is the owner of over one hundred eS-
tates. all of which supply him with pri-
waite revenues: but he is also the pos
SCISSOR of one hundred palaces and cas-
ties. which have to be maintain In
Imperial style at a great expense to
their owner. He has more servants than
any one else in the world. for Il Verita-
BILE army of over 10000 domestics. cooks
pages. buffers, grooms, gardeners and
so forth is employed on his hundred or
more estates. He possesses over forty
residences which he has never sen
score OF homes which he has viewed
externally, but never inhabited, even
fer one night. and oanther score in each
of which he has slept on only one oc-
caSsion. His private stables contain over
5000 horses belonging to him, and the
herds of cattle feeding on his own
lands are estimated to number ov(s
$4,000 head. His wealth is enormous,
yof 10 Doubt that he extracts
very little pleasure out of his life of
perpetual toll and worry
He Individually rises al and eats
Enthusiastically English breakfast of
'ham and eggs, bread and butter with
marmalade specially and privately pre-
pared for him. and tea. This predilec-
ton for English manners and customs
is common to botn the Car and the
Czarina, for both like English fare best,
prefer using English to their respective
mother tongues, and are agreed upon
he necessity OF sdSating their chill
dren according to3Inglish methods. I'M
mediately after breakfast the Gar be-
gins to smoke some of the heaviest
brands of Havana cigars, which he con-
tinues to puff almost continuously till
bedtime, Notwithstanding the fact that
his doctors have warned him again and
again that excessive Indulgence in this
habit Is exposing him to the worst dan
gers of nicotine poisoning. BY O'Clock
in the morning he is at his desk, persus-
ing an enoromus heap of State docu-
ments sent to the palace for his in
spection. The variety of subjects with
which he is called Upon to deal is as
tonishing, for he is not merely the En-
peror. but also the father of his people
No order or instruction or communica-
ton of any kind can be dispatched from
any ministry or State office in st. pc
tel sburg to local or subordinate author
tiles unless 1t bears the signature of the
Car indicating his. assent and APP
prevail. Every communication sent
from the ministry of war to the repre-
sentative officers comma ndlng several
hundred garrisons throughout the Rus
sian Empire, every dispatch sent to the
captains of Russian war ships all over
the world and every circular issued by
the ministry of the intt rior to the po
ice and to all varieties of locay author
tiles have to bear the Cars own sig
nature.