Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — An Expensive Junket. [ARTICLE]

An Expensive Junket.

The British admiralty’s estimate of the cost of the trip of the Duke and Duchess of York on the steamship Ophir includes the following items: Wages of crew, $41,980; victualing and clothing, $9,880; coal, $125,000; naval stores, $3,140; hire of the Ophir, $633,500; total, $813,500. The British taxpayers are a loyal class of people, but when they read in Sir Michael HicksBeach’s budget statement that the Boer war has added $275,000,000 to the debt, that the deficit last year was $255,935,000, and that they must pay $56,000,000 of new taxes this year, they will read the admiralty’s estimate of the expense of the Duke of York’s junketing trip with somewhat mixed feelings.