Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-20
Elk KAISER WEALTHY
in HIS OWN RIGHT
HAS Personal Fortune o, $5,000,-
600 Besides Cl.um on
Ninety Estates
Special Gable to. Evening Public Ledger
. COPYRIGHT. 1918, bu Eeto York Times Co.
Berlin. Dec. 20 (via Copenhagen

Berlin. Dec. 20 (via Copenhagen.
1t has been ascertained that the ex-Kalser's
cash fortune amounts to 90, 900, 900 marlss
S6,0oo,0oo), which is deposited in vario Is
banks at Al per cent and interest, and now
has been taken charge of by Prince Eltel
Fritz, whom Wilhelm has appointed head Of
the Hohenzollern family in Germany.
This fortune was accumulated by Frederick
Wilhelm III. the ex-KaIser's great-grand-
father, back in 1870. and beaueathed by him
to his successor to the crown, with the
proviso that one-half should be left intact
unless Prussia was in a desperate condition,
which Wilhelm will probably assume now.
The Hohenzollerns also claim their ninety
estates, consisting of castles. farms, forests
and moorlands. only seven being crown
domains and all the rest their private prop
erty. The Finance Minister Is investigating
this claim. as the revolutionary government
has Professionally decided to confscate all
crown property.
Prince Eitel Fritz and Count Zulienburg,
Former Minister of the royal house, believe
they have documentary proof showing that
their contention is correct. They claim, for
instance as private property Bellevue palace
and Mon Bijou palace, with the English
church., both In Berlin thirteen palaces at
Potsdan,, Wilhelmshohe palace IN Cassell,
where Napoleon III was confined after Sedan,
and palaces in Charlottenburg, Cohlenz,
Wiesbaden. Freinwalde and many other
places, as we'll as the well-known farming
estate Of! Kadinen and the famous shooting
resort of Rominten.
Besides, the HohenzOllerns own public
property In Trouville, France, Achillon, Corfu
and the Carfelll palace in Rome. 1t Is
thought that, all this property. though diff
cult to realize on at present. presents enor-
nous values, which will keep the Hohen-
zollerns very comfortably IL they are per-
mitted to retain II.
There Is n plan to make a special law
compelling the Hohenzollerns to pay large
sums in taxes. Most likely, too, they will
be compelled to return the 15, 900, 900 marks
63,750.oO0), which the present Wilhelm's
grandfather appropriated as his share Of the
war indemnity paid by France.
Sums amounting probably to another
is, 100000 marks (s3,75 O00) which the
Kaiser received from the state for certain
sites on which to erect public buildings in
Berlin. such as the Royal library, we're in
vested, by him In land property elsewhere.
The payment of large annulties to the
members of the Hohenzollern family has been
suspended, but no law has yet abolished
them. Mecklihburg, however. has abolished
all payments to. members of its grand ducal
house, among which are nearly zoo, 900
marks annually to the former Crown Prin-
cess's mother, Apastasie. who, being I'M
mensely rich anyway. used to spend most
of her income in France and at Monte
Carlo.
Among the Princes thus suddenly losing
their incomes is Duke George of Mecklen-
burg, who before the war lived on a ranch
in Arizona or Texas, and whose very ad-
yenturous flight from America as a stoker
on an ocean liner caused a sensation at the
time. Little Mecklonburg saves zoe, 900
marks by stopping these payments.