Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-21
Rich Engii-hmer's Expenses.

What runs away with incomes Of from
$50 000 to $3.50, 900 IN England is the
keeping up of country seats, hounds, hos
pitslity. and game preserves. At Drum
laurig Castle, for instance, one of its own
er's ten residences, there are eighty miles
of grass drive kept in order; at G-idge
more than forty. Add to this acres Of
garden, and grass, and expenses of park
keepers and gamekeepers, it is easy to see
where the money goes. II there is hunt
ing establishment on a liberal scale, at
least 500 900 year must be added.
Again, while the hospitality Of an aver
age well-to-do American favorably COM
ares with that of an Englishman of SIM
liar means, that of the broad scred Eng
lishman is immensely greater than that
of the American millionaire. The latter
gives some dinner parties, and, perhaps,
an annual ball, and keeps a dozen ser
wants; the EnglishmaD, on the other hand
besides constantly entertaining in town.
often sits down to dinner for weeks at a
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 a. times entertsins whole schools
and parishes, besides giving away hund
reds of pounds IN the shape Of beef and
blankets at Christmas. He subscribes,
too, to every puOllc charity in the coun-
ty; sometimes in two or three counties.
Merely to take single example, there Is
Lord Derby, with ten men servants in his
house, and about forty more domestics
feeding daily at his board. Supposing to-
morrow he and his wife should agree to
struggle along on $l00.O 900 a year, he
could at least save $500, 900 year; while
were the dukes of Westminster, Devon
shire and Bedford to do likewise, their
saving would be still greater. Supposing
Lord Derby to save at this rate for thirty
years, what an archImillionaire he would
become!
Twenty years ago there died queer
old bachelor, Lord DIgby, Who owned
Raleigh's Inflated home of Sherborne cas-
tie He was a most liberal landlord, but
did not care to spend more than some
$35, 900 a year, and let his money 60 on
rolling up, investing il all in per cents.
Derby's, but he left in the funds 81 590,-
900. As q rule peer leaves compare
lively little behind him 81, 900, 900 would
be regarded as an unusual large sum for
man with 1900, 900 a year to have, and
there is but one case on recOrd-Of Lord
Dysart. an eccentric recluse-of a peer
leaving over s., 500, 900 personally. On
very large prODerties the sllrDIus income
is chiefly expended in very costly i'm
provements. Thus the Duke of Devon
shire has built Eastbourne and much of
Buxton. The Duke of Buccleuch has
expended thousands at Grafton, and bO.h
have put large sums in the enterprises
connected with Barrow in-Furness- About
SIC, 900, 900 of Lord Bute's has gone ir;o
docks al Cardiff. The late Lord West
minister built and rebuilt probably no less
than 1000 houses in London, and North
umberland and Sutherland reflect on all
sides the generous expenditures of the
dukes of their names; while be iutiful
churches, commodlous schools, and hand
some bomesteads soon inform the traveller
in Wiltshire and Bedfordshire tnat he Is
in The broad domain of the Earl of Penn
broke or the Duke of Bedford Had the
vast sums thus spent been put into stocks,
or bonds and mortgages, the present
bolders Of the lands might have been
richer men, but the country would have
been in many respects the loser, and it
would be widely different looking
region from what it is to-day.