The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-18

| of French taxpayers also Is woman.
| Mime. Lebaudy. the mother of Jacques.
| Emperor of Sahara" is believed to be
worth at least $50. 600, 900. She holds her
| wealth in horror, and lives under an as
| sumed name, in order to avoid publicity.
| Her residence. all the year around. is
| small fat in Versailles. where the do
| nestle Stan consists of one servant, who
| is assisted in the work by her mistress
J Nine. Lebaudy gives away nearly the
whole of her income most of her dona-
| tons being bestowed anonymously. II
| is an open secret, however, that for
| many years past she has made up the
annual deficit of the leading French
Royalist paper. which usually amounts
to about sS0.eoo There are at least two
American women with very large for
| tunes. Mrs. Russell Sage administers an
estate worth about s2Seo0oGo. and Mrs.
Z. A. Hartman controls but little less.
Frau krupp, who upon her marriage to
Herr Won Bohlen was permitted by i'm
perial decree also to retain her maiden
name, is the only daughter and heiress
of the world-famous ironnfaster. Krupp.
who for decades has furnished most of
the nations with cannon of bored steel.
and who told his sovereign, the King of
Prussia, who insisted bestowing upon
him a title, that .'Krupp OF Essex (the
town in which his mammoth works are
located was plenty good enough for
him.
a ruler who journeyed to the scene of
his inauguration in disguise was the
King of Roumania. Prince Charles of
Hohenzollern travelled to Bucharest in
1866 in defiance of the powers, when war
between Prussia and Austria was immi-
nent In Switzerland he had a passport
made out in the name of Karl Hettin-
gen." on his way to Odessa on business,
with a special note recording that Herr
Hettingen wore spectacles. At the Aus
TRAN frontier a customs officer demanded
his name. and the prince had forgotten
it. Happily. Councillor Won Werner, who
accompanied him. had the presence of
mind to create diversion by insisting
upon paying duty for some cigars and,
meanwhile, the prince consulted his pass
port Thus he proceeded safely on his
railway journey in a second-class coach.
During their 800 years rule of Russia
the Romanoffs never have been assigned
a Civil list. The Cars always have
been allowed to take what they liked
from the imperial treasury 1t is said
that during the year before his assassi-
nation Alexander II drew 81. ZOO. 600 from
this source to make provision for his
iici SdhdI' Wiz, fTfHCeSS DOlROTOuhl,
and her children. At present the civil
list for the whole of the imperial fam
lily amounts to sS,0OoOo0 a year. but this
figure, having been fixed by the Car
himself, could be increased if he so de-
sired without any formalities. He has,
moreover, vast private resources his ST.
berian properties alone netting him an
annual revenue of 100000 Besides, he
has vast estates, forests, preserves, and
mines in almost every section of his
great empire. But the grand dukes of
the imperial blood have to be provided
for by the state in separate "apanages,"
sums that run way UP into the millions
of roubles.
Some ill-informed papers state that the
King of England by comforting the style
and precedence of the widow of X. C.
3. Cknight Commander Bath on Lady
Scott, has created a new precedent This
is not so. At the close of the
Crimean war the widows of a /
number of officers were given |
the same style, title, place, and prece- |
dence. to which they would have been !
entitled had their husbands (who lost /
their lives in the public service during |
the war; survived and been invested with |
the insignia of knights Commanders of |
the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, |
FOR which honor they, among others, |
would have been recommended, had they |
survived.
AS the admiralty order stated, Capt.
Scott was held to have died in action |
and had he survived would certainly |
have at least been made X. C. 3.
FLANEUR
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