Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-05
THE CARS PRIVATE LIFE.
Has Thirty Thousand Servants, and
Earns $4.sooooo a Year.

Has Thirty Thousand Servants, and
Earns $4,soo,ooo 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 $4,800,000 per annum
for acting as managing director of
the Russian empire, with it's area OF
eight million square miles and it's
population of one hundred and thirty
million persons. But, considering
the crushing weight of care and re-.
sponsibility which he bears on his
shoulders, his remuneration, high as
it is, does not appear excessive. His
salary is paid him in monthly in
stallments of four hundred thousand
dollars each, which are sent to him
treasury buildings in the form Of a
check on the National bank of Russia,
just as an office clerk receives his
monthly wages; with the difference,
however, that the cars talent and
industry exercise no influence on his
payment. At the same time, he is
expected to maintain a certain stand
ard of living which he would be I'm,
able to do in the style required of
him if he did not possess private in
come three or four times as big as
his official salary. He is the owner
of over one hundred estates, all OF
which supply him with private
revenues, but he is also the possessor
of one hundred palaces and castles,
which have to be maintained in i'm
perial style at great expense to their
owner. He has more servants chan
any one else in the world, for VERT,
able army of over thirty thousand
domestics, cooks, pages, buffers,
grooms, gardeners, and so forth is
employed on his hundred or more
estates. He possesses over forty resi-
dences which he has never seen, a
score of homes which he has viewed
externally, but never inhabited, even
for one night, and another score in
each of which he has slept on only
one occasion. His private stables
contain over five thousand horses be-
longing to him, and the herds of
cattle feeding on his own lands are
estimated to number over fifty thou
sand head. His wealth is enormous,
yet there is no doubt that he extracts
very little pleasure out of his life of
perpetual toll and worry.
He habitual1y rises at six, and eats
Enthusiastically English break
fast of ham and eggs, bread and butter
with marmalade specially and
privately prepared for him, and tea
This prediction for English manners
and customs is common to both the
car and czarine, for both like English
fare best, prefer using English to their
respective mother tongues, and are
agreed upon the necessity of educat-
ing their children according to Eng
lish methods. Immediately after
breakfast the czar begins to smoke
some of the heaviest brands of
Havana cigars, which he continues 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 dangers of nicotine poisoning.
By seven o'clock in the morning he is
at his desk, perusing an enormous
heap of state documents sent to the
palace for his inspection. The variety
of subjects with which he is called
upon to deal is astonishing, for he Is
not merely the emperor, but also the
father of his people. No order or in
struction or communication of any
kind can be dispatched from any
ministry or state Office in ST. Peters
burg to local or subordinate author
tiles unless it bears the signature OF
the car, indicating his assent and ap-
prevail Every communication sent
from the ministry of war to the rep
resentative officers commanding sew
eral hundred garrisons throughout
the Russian empire, every dispatch
sent to the captains of Russian war
ships all over the world and every
circular issued by the ministry of the
interior to the police and to all
varieties Of local authorities have to
bear the cars own signature
| George Weise in Success.