The daily gazette., 1881-10-26
WEALTHY ENGLEsHMEN,
How the Rich spend their Money
I'm England.

How the Rich spend their Money
I'm England.
If rich people in England should
see fit to bring down their domestic
expenditure to that usual among
families of similar means here. thew
would very soon be able not merely to
recoup themselves for the losses of
several bad harvests, but to save vast
sums Of money. In our large Eastern
cities family men with anything under
$25, 600 year spend m freely than
Englishmen with the same income !:
but as regards those with incomes over
that amount it is quite another mat.
ter. When Macaulay, before proceed
ing to India, consulted Sidney Smiths
experienced brother, the famous
"Robus," as to expenses at Calcutta,
he was told that he could not be COM
Portable under e3, 600 year and could
not probably get through e5,000.-
This is in a measure true of the United
States. 1t might be safely asserted
that in the whole of this country there
are not five persons, If as many, who
spend on tbei- establishments 800, +.
600. A careful estimate, made year
or two ago by persons eminently quail
flied to make 1t, brought such expen-
dilure up to $95,000. 1t included a
town house, a yacht, villa at New
port, and country seat.
What runs aw y with incomes of
from $4,000 to $3.50. 600 in England is
the keeping up of country seats,
hounds, hospitality and game pre-
serves. at Drumlan1g Castle, for
instance, one Of its owners ten resi-
dences, there are eighty miles of grass
drive to keep in o der; at Gridge,
more than forty. AID to this acres Of
garden and glass and the expenses of
park keepers, and game.keepers, and
it is sy to see where the money goes.
If there is hunting establishment on
liberal scale, at least $40, 900 a year
must be added.
Again, while the hospitality of an
average well-to-do American favora>
bly, compares with that Of an English
man with similar means, that of the
broad Scred Englishman is immensely
greater than that of the American
millionaire. The latter gives some
dinner parties, and, perhaps, an annual
ball, and keeps dozen servants tine
Englishman, on the other hand, be-
sides constantly entertaining In town,
often sits down to dinner for weeks at
a time with twenty guests, staying,
with, theil 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 entertains whole schools and
| parishes. besides giving away hun
dreds of pounds in the shape of beef
and blankets at Christmas. He sub
scribes, too, to every public charity in
the county sometimes in two or three
counties.
Merely to take sirgle example, there
is Lord Derby, with ten men servants
In his house, and about forty more do
mestlcs feeding daily at his board. Sup
posing tomorrow he and his wife should
agree to struggle ale tlg on 100000 q
year, he could save at least $780, ,0c0
year; while were the Dukes of West.
minister, Devonshire and Bedford to do
likewise, their savings wonld be still
greater. Supposing Lord Derby to save
at this rate for thirty years, what an
arch-millionaire he would become!
Twenty years ago there died que or
old bachelor, Lord Digby, who owned
Raleigh's ill-fated home Of Sherborne
Castle. He was q most liberal land
lord, but did not care to spend more
than some $4,000 a year, and let his
money go rolling up, investing 1t all In
the three per cents. His income was
not fourth of Lord Derby's, but he
left in the funds $4,500,000. As a rule
a peer leaves comparatively little behind
him: 81, ,000, 900 would be regarded an
unusually large sum for man with
100000 a year to have, and there is
| but one case on record-that of Lord
| Dysart, an eccentric recluse--of a peer
leaving over $500, ,0d0 personally.
| On very large properties the surplus
income is chiefly expended in very
costly improvements. Thus the Duke of
| DevoDshire has built Eastbourne and
much OF Buxton. The Duke of Buc-
cleuch has expended thousands at Gram
ton, aud both have put vas. sums into
enterprises connected with Barrow-in-
Furness. About $10,000,000 of Lord
Bute's has gone into docks at Cardiff.
The late Lord Westminster built and
rebuilt probably not less than 1000
houses In London, and Northumber-
land and SutherlanJshire reflect on all
sides the generous expenditure OF the
dukes of their name; while beautiful
churches, commodious schools, and
handsome homesteads soon inform the
traveller in Wiltshire aud Bedfordshire
that he is on the broad domain OF the
Earl of Pembroke or the Duke OF Bed
fo.d. Had the vast sums thus spent
been mainly put into stocks, or bonds
and mortgages, the present holders OF
tue lands might have been richer men,
but the country would have been in
many respects the loser, and 1t would
be q widely dfierent-looking region
from what II Is to-day.
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