Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — Most of European Rulers Have Also Become Monarchs In the World of Business [ARTICLE]

Most of European Rulers Have Also Become Monarchs In the World of Business

Royalty does other things than ruling. In tlie business world many of Europe’s crowned heads are said to have achieved notable success, the following examples of which are pointed out by a writer in Tit-Bits: The king of Spain is the proprietor of a lhrge motor and bicycle factory near Madrid. The kaiser runs a case at Potsdam, close to his castle gates. He also receives InTgc dividends from a lager beer brewery in Hanover; and he is ■tiw snip owner of the big and flourishing porcelain works at Cadinen, which return him a profit of about 9 per cent on a capital of $500,000. King Peter of Servia owns a shaving saloon and chemist’s shop in Belgrade. Before the war, his majesty was the agent for a well-known French motor car. The queen of Holland supplies from her dairy, near the palace at Het Loo, a large proportion of milk consumed by buyers in Amsterdam. Before the war the king of Wurttemberg drew a net profit of at least $50,000 a year from the hotels lie owned in tlie Black Forest. The beautiful queen of sorely stricken Roumania started, a fewyears ago, a factory for manufacturing toothpicks. So successful was this enterprise before the war, that her majesty was able to make quite a comfortable income out of it. The czar of Russia is a timber merchant. The duke of Ulrich of Wurtitemberg owns one of the largest corset factories in tlie world. The grand duke of Snxe-Weitner is a butcher. Archduchess Frederick of Austria invested nearly $2,500,000 in a candleTrmking factory near Budapest. The 1-In;- of Denmark confines his commercial ventures to the stock exchange,

and lias made many considerable “deals.” J- i The king of Sweden has a larfce interest in a Stockholm brewery. A large brandy distillery Interests the new emperor of Austria. King Albert of Belgium, when a young man. courted fickle fortune as a reporter on an American puper at a salary of sls a week. The king of Bulgaria enjoys the reputation of being the shrewdest and wiliest_nf all royal business men. Ho owns theaters, cinemas, tobacco factortos, dairies and lids made considera* bio sums on the Austrian stock ex* ■ change.