The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-22
HEAVY COST OF WARS
LARGE FIGURES TELL TALES OF
 BLOODY CONFLICTS.
Russia's Outlay Since the War With Japan-Price in Money G'aid for War Between the States--Tre- mend0us OutIays in Oth-
 CT Struggles.
New York World.

New York World. The last Russian budget estimates the cost of the war with Japan for the eleven months of 1904 at $31S. .5o0.- 900.
 Total Russian army and navy expen- ditures for 1905 are estimated at $997.l 317.123
 Financial cost to date of the Ameri. can civil war is approximately ten billion dollars. Total expenditures from July 1. 1861, to June 30 1879, were $6,S44.571.- 3A.o3.
 From June 30, 1879, to June 30, 1904, (close of the fiscal year). the amount paid out in pensions was s2,720. .000. 900. The following are some of the chief items in Secretary Snerman's detailed statement of our war expenditures up to 1879:
 Interest on public debt, .. .. ..$1, 1,S0g,301 ,4s5. .19 pay of volunteers. .... 1.040,102, 702 .58 Army pensions. .... 437,744,192.S 80 Ary subsistence. .... 42O,041,037.7 .75 Army transportation ..t 407,463, ,324.81 Army clothing. .. 356,651, 466 31 Quartermasters De- partment. .. .... 357,51S,966. 61 Purchase of horses. .... 130.990,762 .95 Army par, mileage, etc. 1S4,473.721.26 Bounty on enlistment. 3S,522.046. 83 Bounty to widows and heirs. .. .,..... 31.760.345. .95 Additional bounty .... 6s.9sS.7S T Medical and hospital. 46,954. 146. SS Ordnance and ordnance stores.. .. e. .... 59,7S9,079.7O Armament of fortifica-
 tions.. .. .. .. 12.336. ITO. sS Armories, arnesals.. .. 29,730.717.53 Purchase of arms. .... 76,37S.935 IS Collecting, drilling, etc 29,091, 666. 57 Bureau of refugees and freedmen. .. .... 11,454.23I.3O Pay of the navy. ...., 144,549,073 96 Provisions of the navy 32,771,931 16 Construction and repair 170.007,7S1. 25 Equipment of vessels. 25,174,614. 53 Ordance for navy..... 3s.063.357 67 Yards and docks. ..... 33.638.1 156 59 Steam machinery for
 navy .. .. ...... 49.2s7.S1S.57 Permanent forts and Qualifications, sur veys, etc.. .. .... 20,SS7,756 .96
 The Northern States furnished 2,656,- 900 and the Southern tSates 1,100.00O volunteers during the civil war, &C., cording to the most reliable figures.
 The Franco Russian war (1S12-1S15) cost Russia $77,75O.000 and France probably more, though there is not an estimate in the latter case.
 The Crimean war (1s54-1S56) cost Russia $500, 100000 and the allies $960,- OOO, ,OOO. The total cost of the Aus tro-Prussian war QS66) was $330, ,OOO.- 900.
 The Franco-Prussian war QS70- 1S7D cost France $2,533, 400, 900 in mon- ey, besides the loss of Alsace-Loraine, but the financial cost to Germany is unknown. In that war there were nearly three and a half million men under arms, the forces being divided as follows:
 French army:
 Mobillzed by the Empire. 650,000 Paris National Guard .... .... 350,000 Mobilized by the delegations
 in the departments. 100000
 Total. l.... .l,9S0.OOV
 German army:
 Crossed the French frontier .1 1,146,3 ,355 Remained in Germany. .. .. 34S,O57
 Total mobilized personneI.N .1.494.412
 Of which Prussia alone mobilized 1,02O,126 men.
 Russia's war with Turkey in 1877 cost her 37,5O0,O0O. Russia had about 100000 men in the field, exclu- sive of artillery.
 The war with Spain cost the UnitSd States $15O,O0O,O00; the war in the Philippines cost 100000.
 At the close of the war with Spain the American army consisted of 7,54O officers and 171,646 enlisted men.