The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

doubtful because each complains OF
suffering from chronic poverty, and
therefore feels that his miserable tax
alton mite will not help the expensive
empire. Kaiser Wilhelm, it seems, feels
this most He has the biggest income.
but he is only the fifth richest indi-
vidual in Prussia. Richer than him are
Frau Bertha Krupp, who possesses s71,-
100000; Prince Henckel Won Donners-
nlarck. who has s6s.00o. 600; Baron Won
GoIdschmidt- Rothschild of Frankfurt
with s40.o00,0o0, and the Duke of Ujest
with sST,000,000. After these come poor
Kaiser Wilhelm with a miserable ss5.-
100000. Kaiser wilhelms forests and
fields are valued at $4,000 00o: his 40
palaces. country houses castles and
shpoting boxes at $4,000 600. and his
land sites in Berlin at s4,500,o coo. That
accounts for s3200o.000 out OF the $685.
100000. Wilhelm II also has land in
westphalia and the Rhine province of
unknown value. Altogether he has "A
different estates in seven different
Prussian provinces Wilhelm II has no
power to dispose OF this property as
it is a family trust. Only the model
farm at Camden. and some small farms
i, purchased by himself he can do as he
likes with. His trust properties are
liable to property tax.
Wilhelm II will have to pay on 9TH
e. property. There is $3,750,0o left by
Friedrich Wilhelm III, to which has
been added about sl.0Oo.0oo presented by
the empire to Wilhelm I after the war
with France; s20,0o0,ooo left by Will
helm I. and large sums gained by
Kaiser Wilhelm from the sale of his
land In Berlin. unluclSily for Germanys
treasury. Wilhelm has always spent
mere than he received, and the result
is all the treasure now amounts to only
$4,000 600. The land and the money
funds altogether are worth s37,000,00
Out of this, says the Berliner Tageblatt,
Kaiser Wilhelm will pay the non-re-
curing tax on only about $4,000, 900,
and he may also have to pay per
cent income tax every year on his in
come of $5,50OO0o.
No other sovereign or prince will
pay anything like Kaiser Wilhelm. The
crown prince is worth $4,000, 600. This
- tHieAiS iHdue up ny TIE CIONn tS-
tate of Oels. which came to the Hob
enzolerns 80 years ago from Duke
Wilhelm of Brunswick. Kaiser Will
helms kinsman. Prince Frederick
Heinrich of Prussia is worth 81, 500 900,
and at ] per cent he will have to pay
$4,000; Prince Friedrich Leopold, an
other kinsman. will pay on $3,500,000.
Kaiser Wilhelms brother. Henry has
estates in Posen. Brandenburg and
Schleswig- Holstein. which are worth
50, 600, 900. Altogether the Kaiser and
these relatives are worth SOL, 500, ,00o
The younger sons of the Kaiser and
the other junior Hohenzollern princes
have no property worth mentioning.
A sum of s5S 900 600 would cover all
the Hohenzollern wealth, and $530.000
is the utmost they viii pay in tax.
Rudolph Martins Dictionary of Mil
lonaires" says the wealth of the King
of Saxony is $6,250,000. Most of II
consists of vast Slesian estates which
came from the Duke of Brunswick. who
died In 1884. The Duke of Sake Wei
mar, who has big properties in Silesia
end Posen, is worth sl5.O00,000 and he
is the richest sovereign after the
Kaiser. as far as German property Is
concerned TIL Bayarian royal family
is hard up. The King of Wuerttemburg
Is worth s2,5O0,000i the Grand Duke