The National tribune., 1881-10-29
HOW THEY SPEND MONEY.

HOW THEY SPEND MONEY
If rich people in England should see fit to bring
down their domestic expenditure to that usual
among families of similar means here, they would
very soon be able not merely to recOup themselves
for the losses Of several bad harvests but to
vast sums of money. In our large eastern cities
family men with anything under $4,000 a year
spend more freely than Englishmen with the
same income; but as regards those with incomes
over that amount is quite another matter. When
Nacauley. before proceeding to India, consulted
Sidney Smiths experienced brother the famous
"Bobus," as to expenses at Calcutta, he was told
that he could not be comfortable under $4,000 a
year, and he could possibly get through e5,0eO.
This is in measure true of the United States.
It might be safely asserted that in the whole of
this country there not five persons if as many
who spend on their establishments 100000 A
careful estimate, made year or two ago by per-
sons eminently qualified to make it, brought
such expenditure up to $4,000. 1t included a
town house, a yacht. a villa at Newport and
country seat
What runs away with incomes of from $50 900
to S250,000 in England is the keeping up of
country seats hounds, hospitality, and game pre-
serves. AT Drumlanrig castle, for instance, one
of its owners ten residences, there are eighty
miles of grass drive kept in order; at Gridge
more than forty. Add To this acres of garden
and grass and the expenses of park-keeperS and
game-keepers, and it is easy to see where the
money goes If there is hunting establishment
on a liberal scale, at least $4,000 year must be
added.
Again, while the hospitality of an average we'll
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an Englishman with similar means, that of the
broad-acred Englishman is immensely greater
than that of the American millionaire. The
latter g ives some dinner parties and, perhaps an
annual ball, and keeps a dozen servants; the
Englishman, on the other hand besides con-
stantiy entertaining in town, often sits down to
dinner for weeks at time with twenty guests,
staying with their servants in his country house
and feeds from fifty to sixty every day in his
servants hall, with as much beef and beer as
they please to consume. More than this, he at
times enteTtans whole schools and parishes be-
sides g'~'ng away hundreds of pounds in the
shape OF beef and blankets at Christmas He
subscribes, too, to every public charity in the
county; sometimes in two or three counties
Merely to take single example there is Lord
about forty more domestics feeding daily at his
board. Surprising tomorrow he and his wife
should agree to struggle along on 100000 wear.
he could save at least 100000 year; while were
the dukes of Westminster. DevOnshire and Bed
ford to do likewise, their savings would be still
greater. Surprising Lord Derby to save at this
rate for thirty years, what arch millionaire
he would becOme
Twenty years ago there died a queer old bach
elOr, Lord Digby, who owned Raleigh's Inflated
home Of Sherburne castle. He was a most lib !
eral landlord, but did not care to spend more |
than some $4,000 year, and let his money 90 |
rolling up, investing it all in the 3 per cents |
His income was not fourth of Lord Derbys |
but he left in the funds S4.500.000. Asa rule a |
peer leaves comparatively little behind him: |
81 100000 would be regarded an unusually large
sum for man with 100000 year to have and I
there is but one case on record-that of Lord |
Dysart, an eccentric recluse-of peer leaving |
over S7,500,000 personally.
On very large properties the surplus income is
chiefly expended in very costly improvements
Thus the duke of Devonshire has built East
bourne and much of Buxton. The duke of Buc
cleuch has expended thousands at Granton and
DOM nave put VAST sums into enterprises con-
nected with Barrow in Furness About 100000
900 of Lord Butes has gone into docks at Cardiff.
The late Lord Westminster built and rebuilt
probably not less than 1000 houses in London.
and Northumberland and Sutherlandshire reflect
on all sides the generous expenditure of the
dukes of their name; while beautiful churches
schools, and handsome homesteads
soon inform the traveller in Wiltshire and Bed
fordshire that he is on the broad domain of the
earl of Pembroke or the duke Of Bedford Had
the vast sums thus spent been mainly put into
stocks, or bonds and mortgages the present
holders of the land might have been richer men.
but the country would have been in MANY re-
spects the loser, and it would he widely diff.
erent looking region from what it is to day
Eec York Sun.
1t is said that four applications for the office
IF Governor of Arizona were filed within two DAYS
IF Governor Fremonts resignation. The names
IF the would-be Governors are not given but
General Banks is said to be among the aspirants ,