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Show ROYAL FINANCIERS. Earopeaa Crowned llrada Who Hae la-veatmenla la-veatmenla lu Amertf-. Many European royalties have Investments In-vestments in this country. The Emperor Em-peror of Russia Is a stockholder In the Pennsylvania, the Northern and Canadian Cana-dian Pacific, the New Jersey Central and the New York Central Railroad j Companies to the amount of $, lesyOoO. j thermos' of t invite i in h ' f't )ar on th sdvl -e of a well-known American tl.p'om.it. n It he draws an average of J, ' annually, or eigl.t per cent Interc.-t on his money. King Edward VII h.is found means to put $VU'",' "0 In Ameritan Industries. Indus-tries. They are said to average him 11 per cent a year-something s. uply gigantic gi-gantic in view of the low European ; rate of interest. It is even told bow he borrowed a larire part of this capital cap-ital to make these investments. The Duke of York, the Kings of Italy and Greece. Is nmark and Belgium, the Sultan and the Shah l Persia have salted down great sums from their private pri-vate fortunes in the American securities securi-ties which give, such lasge r. : urns and are so safe and far away from European compilations. Even poor Spain 1 e.. the rich (Jueen Regent figures on the list for I.M0 .(M. The Kaiser has tJ.o-n.ooO Invested in Atrh- Ison fc Topeka. Illinois Central. I oul-.nia oul-.nia Nashville, and I'nlon and Northern Pacific Railroad Companies stocks. The Empress Augusta Vic- j torla had " and th. princes of , the house of Prussia have U.O-i.CM) in I the same' securities. j |