Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-15
PENSIONERS IN OTHER LANDS
OVER 5000 FORMER soLDIERs
LIVING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
About Three-Quarters of Million DOL
lars Paid to Those Who Have
Left the United States.

| among the 9S5 9Tl recipients affords an In
| teresting comparison as to where the money
| goes,'" said pension official to a Star re-
porter.
About three-quarters OF a million annu-
! ally goes TO other lands, in which reside
men now upon our pension rolls. who served
the Union in the various wars. There are
| 5.26S of these pensioners I'm foreign lands
| who look forward TO the receipt OF their
| pension vouchers with their equivalents
exchanged into the money or the nationality
OF the country in which they are abiding.
The largest amount which goes to any
| one country outside OF cur boundaries is
| 1897 coo. and this sum is distributed among
2,657 pensioners in Canada. Germany
comes next in line. with COO pensioners. re-
ceiving $4,000. The sons OF ireland follow
in number 495 and In amount $4,000 On
the tight little isle there are 39l pen
sioners in England. getting $4,000: IO3.
drawing sl5.O0O. in bonnie Scotland, and
"a receiving $1,000. in hardy Wales.
| In the mountain Businesses OF SwltZer-
land are 30 ex-soldlers. who draw an sg-
| gregate OF $4,000 annually Sweden has
about the same number. both in men and
| In amount, and. by a curious coincidence,
fair France likewise TALES almost to a man
| and dollar. Diminutive Denmark shell
| tiers IS of our former defenders. receiving
$500. while in sunny Italy 81 OF the kings
| subjects are 5000 to the good on the PEN
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Sent All Over the World.
"Twenty-one reside in Belgium, and arc
allotted about s., 600; Russia has 10, who divide
| $500; Norway has GS receiving s., coo; the
| Netherlands s. who are given 1900: Greece
has IL, receiving about 5000 while in EN-
| peror Franz Joseph's dual monarchy there
are 81, IN receipt of $500. Under the star
| and crescent of the sultan there are now
IA former Union soldiers drawing SLIGO.
| Spain has but two, who divide S262. 80
nually. Portugal has but one. and he gets
a yearly allowance of $36. Siam likewise
has solitary pensioner and he gets So
year. In India there are 10. who receive an
| average of about 500 a year
| On the many islands scattered through
| out the world are former American soldiers
| who anxiously await Uncle Sans pay day
| as regards pensions. On St. Helena, where
| Napoleon breathed his last, is a solitary
pensioner getting sOS year to help pass
! the long hours on that lonely rock. On St.
| Martin there is another disabled man who
draws $50. while In the Seychelles Islands.
| In the faraway orient-so far away that
you can hardly find it on the map-is an
other solitary in receipt of sos. There
| are two on the Isle of Man, getting SIG:
five on the Isle OF Pines getting $500: two
| on the rock of Malta. receiving s2SS: one in
| Maurltus, In the Indian ocean, getting $S4:
| one In the Cape Verde Islands. getting $4S;
| four in the Azores. drawing $500: one in the
Somoro Islands. receiving $50; four in the
| Danish West Indies. getting 500; two in
! the Dutch West Indies, In receipt OF 1890;
| hve In the Bahamas, receiving $3.50; two i'm
| the Windward Islands, getting $40; FIVE in
| Hongkong, getting $500; one In sunny Sa-
| moa, getting 500; still another solitary in
Haiti, with s12 to help him out on tropical
| days; five in Jamaica, drawing about 5000
a year each; four in the Madeira Islands,
| with an $3.50 allotment while in Cuba there
are III. who divide $500.
To Sister Republics.
In the various Central and South Arnsri-
can republics there are about 10 pensioners
drawing an aggregate of about $4,000 q
year. In South Africa there are 8 getting
$500; In Panama there are 13 receiving
$"oi IN Mexico the number Is Ill and the
amount distributed Is about SIS 900 annual
ly; the Dominican Republic boasts of 2 in
receipt Of $500; Newfoundland has 8 with
$2SS; Liberia IL with $1,000; New Zealand
an equal number, but with only SLIGO al
l GS;an while Japan has % with 5000:
| emma II, with $500. and unhappy Korea
has solitary who draws $s4 a year from
the vaults OF the treasury building on 18th
street . northwest. Australia numbers 20.
with $1,000 distribution, while on the hot
| sands OF Algeria Is an ex-soldier who gets
| Sl2o year to remind him of other DAYS
IN another land In what we call our in
| Suiar possessions there SO pensioners
! living In Hawaii, getting an aggregate of
| So,ooo year: 80 In the Philippines receiv-
ing ing, about $1,000 and a bakers dozen in
little Porto Rico who get S., 500
| or the various states In this country
Ohio leads off in total amount with as 5Ga
pensioners who receive $l4, 800. 900 annually;
Pennsylvania 9S, 500 pensioners with an AL
lotment of Sl3,225. 900; New York follows
| with $3.50 pensioners receiving $11 S35 600;
Illinois with 9,I04 ex-soldlers within her
| limits. receiving $9,9o3.OoO. closely accom-
| panied by Indiana, with 6l,44O receiving
S9,916.O00 while Michigan is sixth with Al
OI4 pensioners, getting an aggregate Of
| SO, $4,000.
Over 5000 District Pensioners.
an the District of Columbia there are
$40 on the pension rolls, drawing the COM
! Portable total sum of 81, 1851. 900. The PEN
soners in the states forming the former
Confederacy and the border states and the
| aggregate amounts distributed are as fol-
lows: Alabama, 3,943. $504. 100; Florida.
1852, sos, 400; Georgia, 3,G32. sIsG,9OO:
Louisiana, $780, Ss05. 100: Mississippi, 1885,
$5SS60O; North Carolina, 4,204, $557. 200:
South Carolina, 2,095, s2J9,30J: Tennessee,
19,2SS. s2,753,9o3 Texas. s.9i3. 81 500, 500: s.
Virginia $500, SLIGO, 500; Arkansas, I0907.
81, 800: Kentucky. 27.244, S;,SJ0, 400:
S7.300.C00; West Virginia, 12,211. $l.740,s 500.
I'm the New England and the mudle
states the number of pensioners and the ag-
gregate amounts to each state are: Maine,
1871. 81, $50, 200; New Hampshire, S212,
| 81, 20S. 400; Vermont, S.347. $l.377."OO: Mas
sa .c 4oGl0. $500 500; Rhode Island.
New Jersey, 20,6S6. S2.4oO2oO; Delaware.
26S3. S3S1 800. ~ D."
| al Inc remaining central and western
states and territories the figures and the
amounts are as follows: Alaska. 10 $40, 100;
| Arizona. S62 SIIS,9O0; California. 2J.SSs,
s.. $3.50, 300: Colorado S,747, $40, 40: Idaho.
=, 253, S311 800: Indian Territory 4.S2l. $780,
600; Iowa. 80, 132, So 300. OOJ; Kansas 81, 076,
| s., 400, 100; Minnesota. l5.207 S2.l00,3O0:
! Montana, 2,OS2, Sl0o.2oO: Nebraska. 10. 1903.
s. 49, 100: Nevada, 1884, $4,000: New Mexico,
2,1C6, $4,000, North Dakota, 20i3. S2S9. 800:
Oklahoma, 9.236 Sl,2!GOo0; oregon. 1910,
| S1,047,300: South Dakota, 1892, S62S.o 00;
| Utah. 102S $l31 100; Washington. 1892.
81 ,33S. 200; Wisconsin. q .044, $3.50 800. and
| Wyoming, or $125, 800" >.
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