The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 13, 1918, Image 4
I HE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. I). Nile* Mini
K N. McDowell
Published ever/ Friday at 1100 No.
Hroad Street, and entered at the Cam
dan poetottlce aa necoud claaa wall mat
ter. Price per annum $1.50.
Cmuikn, s. I'. M.< 18, mm h
Friend* throughout South Carolina of
l.ieuteuuut W. F. Caldwell will bo glad
to know that it Hum been lea rued tbut
lie In alive nnd wall and bos rejoined
bin hatttlliun in France. It was oflicially
reported through error some lime ago
that be had (li of wounds, Meut.
Caldwell was formerly in charge of <be
Columbia bureau of the New* and ('our*
ier. \
No reduction in railroad fares (luring
the holiday aeahon is contemplated t bin
year, according; to W. K. M<<loe, dftsiat
ant general passenger uk<*U( of (-bo
Southern Railway. The travel promises
to be unusually heavy and the usual
extra cquiimout for the holidays wilr
be provided by the railroads.
Three men connected with the Flor
ence gas plant have been arrested on
the charge of making illicit liquor. The
ilistillery was in operation on the prem
ises of the gas plant. The arrest of
the three men seriously crippled the
K as plant and for a time threatened to
put the plant out of commission for
lack of help to operate it.
American troop* ore occupying the
(Jermnn city of < 'obleni. They have
been sent there at the requoHt of the
(icrmnn authorities. The Germans fear
ed an uprising of the civil population
after the departure of (lermou foreea.
The Meeting Yeaterday.
Pursuant to the .coll of Supervisor
M. West anil County Chairman I..
T. M ills, u meeting was held on Thurs
day at the Court House to dlweuss leg
islative mutter*. On account of the
inclement weather and the inihieuKa u
very small crowd was present. Legis
lation looking to betterv roada was dis
cussal and the .meeting seemed to be
almost unanimous in favor of improve
ment even at the coat of higher taxes,
it being pointed out that uo pennaneut
good could be oxpe<-ted without, a Jorge
expenditure of money. ^The question
of milking the bridge over the Wateroe
free was discussed. Tt was also sug
gested that all vehicles other than motor
driven be allowed free passage and a
grtiduated t .>11 be place<l on automobiles.
Publlohera.
.Over three thousand dollar* worth Kof
whiskey, cnmlMl to barrels of or?n|f?,
uud consigned to MUlvr'i Market, At
Columbia, H. t!., wait peised by federal
officer* at n station Just thin wide of
Tampa. Kh?.t one day last week
I ? _
The most powerful aud wealthy tuition
in tb# world guarnut*>eK war sUviegs
stumps and W. S, ? H. bring over 4
i per rent interest.
In uu interview to the Anfcoeiuted
I'rexft at Oosterland, Holland, Tuesday
the former Herman Orowu I'rince stated
that he bad not signed auy document
renouncing 1hc throne, lie glao deuied
all reN|Hinhibility for caugfag t.be yur.
Warreu Hill, a young >whitc uaau of
< Aiken, died Tuewigy at t'amp Sevier
from a gunshot wound received during
( a row ?t the ramp, The bullet wiih lo?
i tended for auother party.
John K. Itradford, for six yearn nherifl
of Sumter county died last Tuesday
at the Tourney hospital, He was for
a number of yearn a member of the Hum
ter )>ollce force.
The millions of \V. S. S. purchased by
j the American people constitute one of
j the reasons why the ex-kaiser -Ih today
j a fugitive from justice, and why hi* for
f mer empire Iiuk "kameraded.*'
To Hava Houm Painted.
It wan a simple boyish tetter writ*
tan in London by a youth from Wor?
ces tor. Mass., with a little bit of new*,
a little bit of complaint, and a great
big bit of confidence In what he and
the Americans were going to do; faiit
the better part by far was: "I hare
saved my pay for some time now, and
I want to give dad a surprise by hav
ing the old house painted! Won't you
j please let me know how much It will
i cost? and I'll send you the money and
j leave the rest to you, by t you mustn't
; let dad know who Is paying for it"
That same evening on a train, among
the missing and reported as a prison
er, I read the nnine of the aviator who
wrote the letter. ? The Outlook.
Portable Houses Form Hospitals.
The United States navy, with knock
, down houses contributed by the Amer
? lean Red Cross, has been able to' erect
a base hospital of 250 beds on un old
estate on the Irish coast. These port
i able houses, ready to bolt together,
solved the problem of lumber short
age. The hospital has a staff of 123
phys(.'l<?ns and attendants and main
tains its own vegetable garden, dairy
? and poultry farm.
Head the long list of legal advertising
to be found on the last: page of The
Chronicle today.
3MW YEAR cut from
PAYROLL OF GERMAN EMPIRE
ItKHILT OF Ol 8TINU OF GKRMAN
ICM I Its li A IS Kit l>ltl.\\ SAI . \
Itv AM) UKANT TOTAIJJNti 9ft,
500.000 ANNUALJUY} THK C'KOWN
I'KINCK WAN ALLOWO) $100,000
A YKAK HY HIS FATHKK ? KINGS
OF II.\\\kIA A\l? sa\om 1WF.W
$1,730,000 AND $1,000,000.
. (From the New York Auieriruu)
a one of the rewulta of the revolu
tion lu Germany the German people will
be able to make a cut of aoinethiug like
$10,000,000 Id the imperial and royal
ducal "payroll" of that country'* fotner
i ulcrw. . ,
The United >H<al?o, with it population
of more than one hundred millionH, -ban
u ttalary payroll for a Presldedt and 49
governor)* not exceeding $000,000 a year.
The sixty-nine million people of the
Genuaa empir* bava bean far more ap*
preclative of toeing governed and more
generous toward those who did the gov
erning. They allowed" the ruler* of the
r 2*1 kingdom**, grand duchies, principal;*
tie>* and free or republican cities which
make up the Gerin*u confederation t?>
draw the munificent aggregate "salary"
of approximately $10,000,000 to $11,000,
000 a year.
Heftttinlg his rank and title, William
II of Hohenzollern stood at the top of
the "payroll." Ah King of Prustda he
drew the Bplendid "salary" of 19,219.
?200 marks, Or approximately $4,804,824
? year. That ia just about $400,000 n
month, i?k against the $75,000 a year re
ceived by the President of the United
Statea.
Ah kaiser emperor h** had uo claim to
any salary. He received pay only for
ruling Prussia. The honor of being kai
ser is It he only reward or compensation
provided by the Imperial constitution for
being hend of the* German empire. The
reichstag. however, could by an "act of
grace" grant the kaiser up ,to tt.OOO.OOO
murks a year, that its. add $750,000 to
the amount allowed by Prussia.
That brought the total salary of the
kaiser up to live uud a half million dod
lura. This truly Imperial "wage" was,
however, uot all raised by taxation. A
large part, of It was derived from the
crown domains in PrussHa. ' .
It cannot be said that the kaiser's sul
nry was all "velvet." In the first place
it iucluded an allowance of more than
$100,000 a year for the crown prlncei
and he had to provide the "living" for
live other sons aud their families.
Out of . his salary the kaiser nlso had
to defray his own "household" expenses
and pay for the upkeep of about 20 dif
ferent castles, palaces and hunting lodges
each of which up to 'the outbreak, of th?'
war had a large retinue of> servant*? There
were the royal stables ant|, the royal au
tomobile park. His motor cars were in
most cases given him by mauufacturers.
Next, he had to foot the dj^icit in six
different royal operas and royftl theaters.
They had a payroll ofl.500 members and
a <-oi?niderable pension list.
? ? ? ? ? 7 \
Th< annual (Illicit in th?? Il**rliti royal
opera <huI royal theater usually wa?
around $100,000. The deficit iu 0?hko1
and Wlexbadeu was less. He also spent
much moueypu the restoration of old
castles. When iu 11)12 the walla of the
ancestral Hohenxollern ca*Ue WW badly
crqeked by an earthquake tin; German
press coutaiued many conifttf nta that the
"omen" boded il) for the house of Ho*
heuxoller*.
Notwithstanding his iucome, the kaiser
often <N>mpIained of being ? "hard up."
WUheltn did not always invest wisely.
Prince Kgou xu Fuersteuberg, hia moat
intimate personal friend since Prince an
Fnl??nherg font favor and was baniahed
from the presence of the kaiser when he
went bankrupt, causing the kaiser heavy
losses. Fuerstenbeng attempted to be*
eome a captain of industry and organ'
iaed inauy enterprises iu which Wilhelm
II invested heavily.
Tu Germany the kaiser wa? rated aa
the third richest man in the empire. Fi
nancial authorities such aa Dr. Martiu,
the tynance statistician, placed his private
wealth at about .15,000,000, It waa gen
erally understood that he waa a heavy
stockholder in the Hamburg- American
end North Gennan IJoyd steamship linea.
Of the German rulerw, the deposed Lud
wig III the aged King of Bavaria, came
next to the kaiser on the "payroll" with
$1,700,000 a year, made up of the Bava
rian "civil list" and "appanages" allowed
the king,
King Frederick August III. of 8ax
ony, repotted also now .to be a "past"
king, was thiitl. Notwithstanding that
his salary was a few thousand more than
$1,000,000 a year, his wife, Ixtuise, when
Frederick August was still Crown Prince,
eloped with her. music teacher.
Next came King Wilhehn II of Wur
temburg also reported -to have abdicated.
He had an income of about $525,000 a
year. The last three named, like the
kaiser, being patrons of 'music and art,
besides their "grocery bills" and pocket
ami pin money for all member* of their
sometimes extensive families, had operas,
theaters and art galleries to keep up.
Krnent August. Duke of Hrunswick,
the kaiser'* son-in-law, had $830,000 a
year. On this lie had to support the for
mer Luiae of Hohenzollern and two chil
dren. The entire amount paid bim as
ruler of Hruuswlck was derived from ren
tals and income from crown, lands. Be
ing of the house of Cumberland. Ernest
August was very wealthy in his own
right.
Grand Duke Frederick II of the Grand
Duchy of liaden, heir *to which is Prince
Maximilian, the present regent of Ger
many. received 1.428,840 marks or in
round figures $,'150,000 ft year. In addi
tion. to that he was given an annual al
lowance of $75,000 a year for upkeep and
improvement of his palaces. Grand Duke
? Krnent Lftdwig of Hesse had a similar
salary, but without the additional allow
ances' for "improvements." .
The salary of Prince Leopold II of the
little principality of Lippe^ with its 150,
JH57 people, depended in no small measure
upon weather and crops. He ruled on
what our farmers would call "shares."
He received whatever amount the rentals
and empa of tb?- frtftttf dom*ta? wteaadrd
$?\000, up to $l!fc,000. By whatever k
exceeded the latter muu), -the roller waif
given half aud the other half weut'itito
the public treasury. .
< i raii<l Duke Frederick Fran* of Meck
lenburg tychwerin worked for hi* "t>oard*.
Nit civil llat or salary la provide) in that
grand duchy, politically the mo*t back
ward of all (In- Oenuau atatea. The
grund duke rulea for hia 'Vxpeusea".
Those '>*<? paid out 'of the n'turiiN from
the crown domains. Belug well to do,
h?* could afford to rule for bla "board",
The name la true of , Mecklenburg -Htre*
lit*.
Frederick August of the grand Duchy
off Oldenburg received $100,000 a year
"contributions to the grand diiop) house"
and in additiou to $08,000 from the in
I'lHiir 'from th? ducal domains,
Duke Kruat II, of 8hxe-AH?uburg and
Duke Karl Kduard of 8aze-<\>burg<<}otba
both ruled on the farmers' ahare basin.
The former received two-thirda of the
income from the atate domains find the
latter divided half and half with hiapeo
pie.
Duke Hernhard of the duchy, of Haxe
Meiniughen, whoae wife ia a sister of ,
the kaiser, received about $08,000 a year
ami one-half of the surplus of the do*
mains. Between 1012 and1 1914 that
amounted to approximately $200,000 for
his ahare.
The grand duchy of Saxe-Welroar gave
tlrand Wilbelm Krnat $250,000 a year,
while the 100,702 inhabitant* off the p&o
tureaqufl little principality 8<;hWAr?burg
lludolatadt let Prince Guenther draw a
salary of 383,667 murks, or juat about
$10,000 a year more than the one' hun
died million Americana pay ' President
WUaou.
The republic of Hamburg la governed
by a senate of eighteen members. Nine
of these must be jurlata and eeven inn
chants. These elect two buergermeia
tei-M or mayora, w hieh ? complete* the IS.
Strangely enough, 4be lawyer ae? atof* re
ceived $7,500 a year, but the merchant
Kenatora get but $3,750. The government
of the free citiea of Bremen and l^ubeck
ia similar to that of Hamburg. . ,,
PERSONAL.
Mrs. John S. Lindsay visited in Co
lumbia this week.
Mrs. 11. T. Marye is visiting her par',
cuts Dr. and Mrs. John W. Cofbett.
Bince her marriage in Aufttist ahe lias
been at Fort Funston, Kans., whore CJap
tain Marye has been stationed. He la.
expected to join her / in Caih.deu at
Chrlstmaa.
I Jeut. 11. < 'asaels Zetnp has received
his discharge from thl> army und baa
returned to Camden. F 6r several months <
he has been stationed at Camp Tay
lor. Kentucky. He aleo served several
years with the regular army in the>
Canal Zone. ' i . ,
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Krumbhol/, und
daughter, Miss Klara Krumbholz, have,
returned to Camden for the winter. Mr.
Krumbbols is the popular.; manager of
the Kirkwood hotel. Hia hotel will not
open until the first of January but he
is here to put it in shape for the sea- ,
son. \
It has always been a custom with me to have an Annual Sale, but on account of the shortage of help
I have been unable to have my Annual Sale, but for the next Twenty Days I am offering my entire
stock of Mercandise to the people of Camden and vicinity at 25o|? less than manufacturers prices.
300 Pairs Ladies' Battle Ship Grey
Boots, worth $6.00. AQ
Sale Price - . -
One Case Shamrock Outing, white,
pink, tan, gray and blue. 1 A ^
Special Sale price, yard - *? **
250 Pairs Ladies' Cordovan Boots,
Sold for $8.00. Sale QQ
Price
H. L. SCHL0SBURG
"The Underselling Merchant"
944-946 SOUTH MAIN STREET
500 Pairs Ladies' Black Boots, all
styles, sold for , $6.00, ?9 QQ
Sale Price
- m .
One Lot Children's Play Suits, any
one in the window, ^lr-0 A
Special Sale Price - *r
?500 Pairs Children's Shoes, lace and
button, tan, black, grey (1 OA
sold for $3.00 - -
H. L SCHLOSBURG
"The Underselling Merchant" 1
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA