Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-28
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U. s. PENSIONS.
Their Territorial Distribution at Homo
and Abroad.

". ,. PENSlONS.
Their Territorial Distribution at Home
and Abroad.
"The territorial distribution Of the
$13s, 100000 annually appropriated for
pensioning among the s85,971 recipi-
ents affords an interesting comparison
as to where the money goes,'" said a
pension officer to Star reporter:
About S750,OO0 annually 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 in foreign
lands who look forward to the receipt
Of their pension vouchers with their
equivalents exchanged into the money
Of the nationality Of the country In
which they are abiding.
THE largest amount which goes to
any one country outside Of our boun-
daries is $4,000, and this sum is dis
tributed among 1857 pensioners in
Canada. Germany comes next in line,
with 900 pensioners, receiving $4,000.
The sons Of Ireland follow-in number
4s5 and in amount $4,000. On the
tight little isle there are 391 pension
ers in England, getting $4,000; 1G3,
drawing $4,000, in bonnie Scotland,
and q, receiving $4,000, in hardy
Wales.
I'm the mountain Businesses Of Swift
zerland are 70 ex-soldiers, who draw
an aggregate Of $4,000 annually. Swe-
den has about the same number, both
in men and in amount, and by a Gu
rious coincident, fair France likewise
tallies almost to a man and q dollar.
Diminutive Denmark shelters SS Of our
former defenders. receiving $500,
while in sunny Italy 81 of the kings
subjects are $1,000 to the good on the
pension score, exchanged into Italian
lire.
"Twenty-one reside in Belgium, and
are allotted about $4,000; Russia has
sixteen, who divide $2.50O; Norway has
sixty eight, receiving $500; the Meth
erlands eight, who receive $1,000;
Greece has eleven, receiving about $2,-
900, while in Emperor Francis Joseph's
dual monarchy there are thirty-seven,
in receipt Of $500. Under the star and
crescent Of the sultan there are now
fourteen former Union soldiers, draw
ing $1,700. Spain has but two, who
divide $262.73 annually. Portugal has
but one, and he gets yearly allow
ance Of $36. Siam likewise has q SOL
itary pensioner, and he gets $72 year.
In India there are ten, who receive an
average of about 500 year.
ION the many islands scattered
throughout the world are former
American soldiers who anxiously await
Uncle Sans pay day as regards PEN
sions. On st. Helena, where Napoleon
breathed his last, Is solitary PEN
sioner getting $10S year to help pass
the long hours on that lonely rock.
On st. Martin there Is another disabled
man who draws $3.50, while In the Sey-
chelles islands, in. the far away Orient
so far away that you can hardly find
1t on the map-is another solitary
in receipt of $108. There are two on
the Isle Of Man, getting $216; five on
the Isle of Pines, getting $500; two on
the rock of Malta, receiving 1888; one
In Mauritius in the Indian ocean, get
ting $S4; one in the Cape Verde is
lands, getting $4S. four in the Azores,
drawing $500; one In the Comoro is
lands, receiving 500; four In the Dam
ish West Indies, getting 800; two In
the Dutch West Indies, receipt Of $3.50;
five in the Bahamas, receiving $3.50
two in the Windward islands, getting
$240; five in the Bermudas, drawing
$3.50; five In far away Hongkong, get
ting $3.50; one in sunny Samoa, getting
500; still another solitary in Hayti,
with $72 to help him out on tropical
days; five in Jamaica, drawing about
5000 a year each; four in the Madeira
Isles, with an $3.50 allotment while In
Cuba there are sixty, who divide $S,-
500.
I'm the various Central and South
American republics there are about
seyenty-five pensioners drawing an
aggregate Of about $4,000 year. In
South Africa there are five getting
$500; in Panama there are thirteen re-
ceiving $500; in Mexico the number ID
III and the amount distributed Is about
$25,0 annually; the Dominican Re-
public boasts Of two in receipt Of $3.50;
Newfoundland has three with $2SS;
Liberia twelve with $4,000; New Zea-
land an equal number, but with only
100 allowance, while Japan has
twenty-five with $4,000; China seven
teen, with $2,500, and unhappy Corea
has a solitary who draws $84 q year
from the vaults of the treasury build
ing on Fifteenth street Northwest.
Australia numbers seventy-nine, with
$11, 900 distribution, while on the hot
sands of Algeria is an ex-soldier who
gets $12O a year. to remind him Of 9TH
er days in another land. In what we
call our fnsular possessions there are
fifty-six pensioners living in Hawaii,
getting an aggregate Of $500 year;
thirty five in the Philippines receiving
about $1,000 and a bakers dozen In
little Porto Rico who get $1,000.
"Of the various states in this coun-
try, Ohio leads off in total amount with
9S,564 pensioners. who receive $14,sO0,-
900 annually; Pennsylvania, 9S'S2S
pensioners with an allotment Of $13,-
225, 900; New York follows with 1920
pensioners receiving $11,SS5,OOO; ILL
nois with 69,7O4 ex-soldiers within her
limits, receiving ss,sO3,OOO, closely ac-
companied by Indiana, with 61,44O, re-
ceiving $9,s16,OOO. while Michigan Is
sixth with 41,674 pensioners, getting
an aggregate of $6,436,000.
I'm the District Of Columbia there
are s,74O on the pension rolls, drawing
the comfortable total sum Of $1,357,0OO.
The pensioners in the states forming
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