Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-08-08

Prussia, wants to have his salary
raised. He is not getting enough
pocket money, and he has demanded
more. Most OF us have repeated the
old nursery rhyme, 1T must be nice to
be king" and doubtless It is, some
Tins. But it must be horrid to be a
king and not have enough money to
spend. One does not easily imagine
a king nowadays not having all he
wants, especially king of leading
European country. But so 1t Is. In
other words. the Kaiser is hard up,
He has admitted 1t. At present he re-
ceiVes from the State $3.50, 900 as Ger
man Emperor and nearly $4,000,O0O as
King OF Prussia. The last increase,
which amounted to $750,000, was made
in 1889, In the second year of his
reign. Still, 1t is not enough. The
Kaiser today actually is receiving less
than the old Kings annually received.
An income exceeding four and half
million dollars year is not despic-
able sum, even for Kaiser Wilhelm,
but those who know say 1t is not ex-
other members of the royal family and
very little comes from the royal do
mains. Some one began, year or
two ago, to try and foot up the Kais-
ers tailors bin. They became tired
In the middle and never got to the
end. The Kaiser has several hundred
uniforms; complete uniforms of all
the Prussian regiments-horse, foot
and artillery-besides the regiments
OF the lesser states and those OF which
he holds honorary rank in foreign
countries. He has jeweled accoutre7
ments equal to those of an Indian
prince, and every appointment is per
feet. The Kaiser is a great stickler
in matters of dress, and none can ever
find fault in his personal equipment.
He is a.connoisseur in the art of Sc
curing apparel and in the art of wear
ing 1t to the best advantage. Nobody
has ever denied that Kaiser Wilhelm
as Emperor looks the part.
Kings and emperors cannot trav-
ell alone. The Kaiser always has a
large retinue with him. He forgets
nothing that can make for pomp and
,splendor. Hence his travelling ex-
penses amount to pretty tall figure.
Then, in addition to the upkeep of
his fifty-two castles, palaces, country
homes, innumerable farms and for
ests, he is expected to maintain the
royal theatres at Berlin, Hanover and
Cassel, and has to foot the bills for
the royal concerts. The Kaiser has
been very fortunate, however, in the
way Of receiving legacies from veal
thy subjects. Only few years ago
Herr Wilhelm Hilderbrand left him
an estate worth $375,O0O and $3.50, 900
in hard cash. A West Prussian land
owner gave him an estate of 5000
acres as an earnest of greater pos
sessions to come at the donors death.
Baroness Oppenheim-Cohn gave him
100000 and Herr Henckel Won Don
nersmarch placed two and a half mil
lion dollars at his disposal in 1906.
Statistics published in various for
eign journals prove that the Kaiser is
by no means the best paid monarch
in Europe. The Gear Of Russia has
that honor. The Russian imperial fam
lily is the wealthiest in the world of
rulers. 1t derives its wealth from
three sources-the State treasury, the
imperial domains formerly church
lands) andthe so-called cabinet prop
critics" The State treasury provides
for the Gear as sovereign, the imperial
domains are the joint property of the
members of the House of Romanoff,
but administered by the head of the
house; the cabinet properties are
the personal possessions of the reign
ing sovereign as such. No data of any
kind are available for estimating the
amount of property held by the Gear
and other members of his house in
their private capacity as individuals.
It is known to be very considerable
both in land and gold, but is very rig
idly treated as purely private mat
ter.
The State treasury pays out ST.
0O0,00 annually for the needs of the
imperial house, principally for the
maintenance of the palaces and the
officials attached to them. The
reigning Empress has an allowance
of 100000 per year, and the Dowager
Empress the same. Every child born
to the Gear receives from birth to
the age of twenty-one nearly $4,000
year, while the heir to the throne
receives annually, in addition to the
maintenance of palaces, $4,000.
Daughters receive a dowry of $780,
900 when they marry.
The imperial domains, the main
source of the wealth of the Roman
offs, were originally church lands,
and comprise 21,S2s,OO0 acres, an area
larger than all Ireland. The clear
profit derived from them, in their
agricultural, viticultural, pastoral
and forest yield, is over $10,000,0OO
Der annum. During the past hundred
years no less sum than $125,000,-
600 has been paid out to the imperial
house.
The cabinet properties" comprise
l15,OOO, 900 acres, and belong to the
resigning Czar personally as Gear.
This property is almost entirely IN
Siberia, and includes the best and
largest of the gold and silver mines.
King Edward gets $2,S50,000 an
nually for his own use. Each men,
Der of the British royal family re-
ceives various grants, which exceed
in total $5OO,00O per annum. Besides
his official salary. King Edward has
a large private purse, but court gos-
sin has had 1t that the King could do
with more pocket money In fact, it
has been openly stated that King Ed
ward is very often short of funds for
his private needs.
The Emperor of Austria has a
salary of s4,72O,O0O, which is derived
from two portions of his monarchy
Thus the Kaiser receives far less
than his Austrian neighbor.
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