Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — Kaiser a Millionaire. [ARTICLE]

Kaiser a Millionaire.

There are 1,500 people upon the em* peror’s list of employes, including 350 female servants, who are engaged in looking after the twenty-two royal palaces and castles that belong to the crown. Their wages are small. The women receive not more than sl2 a month, and the men servants, who number over 500, from sls to $25 a month. Most of the palaces and castles are in a sad state of decay. The emperor himself seldom uses more than three or four of them. The rest are occupied by his relatives and dependents, who number a hundred or more, and are nearly all supported from the royal purse. His private fortune is estimated at $25,000,000, the greater part of which is represented by landed estates. He has forty-eight farms, fourteen forests, eight vineyards and owns the royal porcelain factory near Berlin. The Income from several of the estates goes directly to his brothers and sisters. Prince Leopold, a second cousin, la much richer than the emperor. His wealth Is inherited from his grandfather, Prince Carl, a brother of the old Emperor William. In addition to this income the kaiser draws full pay and allowances for all the titles he assumes, both civil and military. It is said that he can add to his Income at any time by creating himself a duke or a baron, or by appointing himself general of an army corps or colonel of a regiment. He is already the colonel of several German regiments and holds honorary commissions in the armies of England, Austria, Russia and Belgium. He is also an admiral of the German fleet and has just been made an admiral In the Russian navy, for which he draws full pay and allowances.—Boston Transcript.