Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — Use Royal Estates [ARTICLE]

Use Royal Estates

To Supply Pension Fund for Care of Invalid Soldiers. War Victims to Receive Incomes From All Property Left by the Emperor of Austria. Vienna. —The vast estates of the late Emperor Francis Joseph will be devoted to the pension fund of invalid soldiers under a decision just taken by the cabinet council. Certain castles and dwellings in this city and the nearby suburb of Baden will either be occupied, by them or the fund will receive the rentals and other accruements. Included in the arrangement are the splendid estates of Orth, Voessendorf, Maltlghoefeu, Poeggstall, Aiigonten, Laxenburg, Hetzendorf and many others, the decision also covering the Lalnz Tiergarten, near Vienna, on which a group of some hundreds of former soldiers recently squatted. The income of the Prater, Vienna’s most famous suburban park with its numerous restaurants and amusement places, is also included. Many of the estates contain model farms and others are under rentals of much value. The late Emperor Francis Joseph,

who died in 1916, bequeathed 60,000,000 crowns from his private fortune to a fund for wounded soldiers, invalids and relatives of men killed In the war. To two daughters and one granddaughter he bequeathed 20,000,000 crowns of his estate to be divided among several other legatees. It has since been reported that an American-Dutch company has bought the emperor’s summer palace at Ischl, in the Tyrol, for hotel purposes. The hunting estates and lodges of the late emperor in the Tyrol were advertised for sale in January last Francis considered these the finest ii Europe.