Deseret Evening News | 1901-10-12 | Page 13 | Cost of Victoria's Funeral

COST 01 Ol VICTORIAS its The sum aum of was required to defray the las expenses s of ot Queen Victorias obsequies Though considerable this Is it I not riot the largest t amount spent on a public funeral That of ot Lord Nelson NellOn cost more while the lao burial of or the great groat statesman Pitt six pix months later cost the nation u similar sum slim lIng King Edward Idward witnessed el the most moat s Gr r funeral of or tile the nineteenth century ry In London It was that lint of ot the great Duke of Wellington ton on which about Is said to have been spent I The Duke Dulce of or funeral In III the previous century cost coal afI while the more recent Interment I II of I Mr Gladstone Involved an on expenditure expenditure of ot only half bolt that sum The last rites of the Grand Duke I Nicholas of ot cost COlt 1000 toO more mor mo than that of tho the late que queen n and the I greet Emperor l m eror William ot of f I WAR vas burled buried at a II cost of only UK Thirty thousand dollars was WAI spent I I on flowers alone at it the funeral of the murdered President CarnaL