Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-12
Thompson Feature
Continued from Yesterday


The grand-.nasters of both Kaiser
and Kaiserin and the several house
marshals received $500 per year
salary, lived in royal villas rent free.
and had the free use of carriages
and horsss Cor motor cars) tor
themselves and family for private
and official use. The Court, besides
furnished their households with two
servants wearing the lmperiai
livery, and as many houSe-malaS.
Their mileage equaled that Oh u
commanding general, and as tfaVel-
ing fees they received $3.50 per day.
When their EXcellencieS wanted 10
eat at home or dine out, they needed
but notify their chief in order TO De
entitled to an additional 1910 per
day.
Her Ntajesty's grand-mistress, the
Countess Brockdorff, having no
household of ffer own, occupied
splendid apartment in the royal res
idence, and received the same sal
ary, mileage, and travelling fees as
the gentlemen mentioned, While Two
lackeys and carriages galore were
subject to her orders. The Kaiser
even paid mileage for her mald,
though the girl denied ever having
received copper OF IT, AS 10 @ neI
y,
perquisitas as the devil is after the
souls of poor sinners, and month
seldom passed that she did not mana
in a bill for so and so many meals
missed.
Pay of Untitled Servants
There is an idea abroad that
danes of the Court endure Inc
caprices of their mistress ana the
monotony of life in the gilded cage
out of sheer devotion to royalty OF
on account of the distinction 1t con-
fers upon the appointee; but this IS
not true.
1 received a salary of $1,5OO per
annum, had royal lackeys and malds
and carriages, as we'll as board ana
lodging, and travelling fees amount
ing 10 $3.50 per day.
The Kaiser's Wallets received about
$40 salary per month, besides board
and lodging, and either liveries or
remuneration for dress-suits, ike al
the rest of the servants and officials
hereafter named. To married men,
lodgings for their families in royal
houses were assigned. The ward
robemen's salaries varied between
$40 and $75 per month, accordng
to the age of servitude. Epellns'
the Kaiser's body-groom, had teW
dollars more. Rieger, his pictur-
esque gun-charger, had $40 per
month, and the other chasseus and
stable officials received from S3o
TO S35.
Her Majestys body-service in
cluded Fraulein Won Haake, woman
of the bed-chamber, salary $40 per
month; two wardrobe-woman, sal
ary $50 to $22 per month; TWO
wardrobe man-servants, salary saw
TO S45 per month; the caretaker OF
the royal bed, had S21 per month.
besides board and lodging, and
$3.50 per month for dresses. Her
Majesty's two seamstresses, en-
gagged all the year round, received
so cents per day and board and
lodging.
$50 Per Month for Maid Servants
Just TO .ease the people in Amer
lea who cannot hire servants Tor
love or money" I'll append list
of the wages our Court used to pay
to the ordinary run of male and fe-
male servants before and during the
war.
The Kaiserin's five footmen had
$40 per month: her body-coachman.
received $3.50, and her body rid
ing-master $50. The valet, who
waited at table, and the under-stew-
ards, received from $40 to $50 per
month.
Augusta Victoria employed twelve
of them trim, sturdy girls. They
received $3.50 per month in wages
and So for dress. But all these
men and women comprised only all
infinitesimal part of the total num-
ber employed. Our Court-marshals s
office had sixty different kinds of
employees on it's staff, the majority
being entitled to board and lodging,
or board wages. The board wage
was as cents per day in foreign
countries, half that amount in Ger
many.
Do you wonder that a royal peer
age, starving his servants at 81 Is
cents per day, has no sympathiZerS =?
But William thought he would
never need sympathizers.
Kaiser BorrowS Money From Ser
wants
Sinking responsibilities toward
servants Is mighty small business,
but what do you think of a Kaiser
who forceI his servants TO advance
him moE"y, and quite considerable
sums at hat?
When Williams Court marshall
sent servants, men and women, to
other cities, they had to pay for
their transportation out of their own
pockets. Neither did they receive
money for expenses.
l remember that Count Eulen-
burg, my superior officer, at one
time dispatched four maids from
Berlin to Homburg TO prepare the
old Schloss for a visit of the EN-
peror-one with linen, another to
take care of the silver, the rest to
put the rooms in order. They stop
ped at Kronberg overnight, and
borrowed money right and left, to
procure food, because they had
spend their last money for railway
fares, a~d could get nothing to cat
in Hombdrg until the kitchen crew
arrived from Berlin; that is, three
or four days later. Count Eulen-
burg, to my utter amazement, bore
out the women's pleas. Where
should the money for advances come
from?" he said. I'VE pay all COM
pulsory accounts at the beginning
of the month, and what is left must
be held at the Kaiser's disposal!"