Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
RIcS EneusHmrns' EXPENSES.
Ono Hundred Thousand Dollars
a Year 20 Keep up Eslablish-
menfs.

Year 90 Keep up Estabiish-
menfs.
New York sun.l
Ifrich people in England should
see fit to bring down their domestic
expenditures to that usual among fam
lilies Of similar means here, they 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 S25,-
900 a year spend more freely than En-
glishmen with the Same income, but
as regards those with incomes over
that amountit is quito another matter.
When Macaulay, before proceeding TO
India, consulted Sydney Smiths OK
nerienced brother, the "Robus,' as to
expenses at Calcutta, he was told that
he could not be comfortable under
$4,000 ayear, and that he could not
possibly get through $4,000. This is,
in a measure, true Of the United States.
1t might safely be asserted that in the
whole Of this country there are not
fge persons, if as many, who spend on
their establishments 100000. A
careful estimate, made a year or two
ago by persons eminently qualified to.
make it, brought such expenditures
up to sos 600 1t included a town
house. a Yacht. a villa at NeWpOrt and
a country seat.
What runs away with incomes from
$4,000 to $l25,0O0 in England is the
keeping up Of country seats, hounds,
hospitality, and game preservers. At
Drumlangwig castle, for instance, one
Of its owners ten residences, there
are eighty miles Of grass drive kept in
order; at Gridgo, more than forty.
Add to this acres Of garden and grass
and expenses of parkkeepers and game
keepers, it is easy to see where the
money goes. If there is a hunting
establishment on a liberal scale, at
least $4,000 more must De added.
Again, while the hospitality of an
average well. to. do American favorably
compares with that Of the E%nglishman
of smaller means, that Of the broad
acred Englishman is immensely greater
than thatof the American millionaire.
The later gives some dinner paties,
and, perhaps, an annual ball, and keeps
a dozen servant; the Englishman, on
the other hand, besides continually
entertaining in town, often sits down
to dinner for weeks at a time with
twenty guests staying with their SER
wants in his country house, and feeds
from fifty to sixty every day in his
servants hall, with as much beef aud
as they please to consume. More than
tits, be at times entertnins whole
schools and parishes, besides giving
away hundreds Of pounds in the shape
Of beef and blankets at Christmas. He
subscribes, too, to every public churi-
ty in the county sometimes in two or
three counties.
Merely to take a single example,
there is Lord Derby with ten men
servants in his house, and about forty
more domestics feed daily at his
board. Suppose tomorrow he and
his wife should agree to struggle
along on 100000, he could ave at
least S800,O00 a year, while were the
Dukes of Westminster, Devonshire
and Bedford to do likewise, their
savings would be still greater. Sup
posing Lord Derby to save at this rate
for thirty years, what an arch
millionaire be would become.
Twenty years ago there died a queer
old bachelor, Lord Digby, who owned
Raleigh's ill tated home Of Shelborne
castle. He was a most liberal landlord,
but did not care to spend more than
some $4,000 a J year, and let his money
go on rolling up, investing it all in 8
per cents. His income was not a 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 ,000,0 900 would be regarded as
an unusually large sum for q man with
100000 a year to have, and there is
but one case on record-of Lord Dy-
sart, an eccentric recluse--of a peer
leaving over 81, 800 600 personally.
On very large properties the surplus
income is chiefly expended in very
costly improvements. Thus the Duke
of Devonshire has built E~astbourue
and much Of Buxton, The Duke Of
Buccleuch has expended thousands at
Grafton, and both have put large
sums in the enterprises connected
with BarrOw-in- Furness. About
$l0,000,000 of Lord Bute's has gone
into docks at Cardiff. The late Lord
Westminster built and rebuilt proba-
bly, no less than 1000 houses in Lon
don, and Northumberland and Suth.
erland reflect on all sides the generous
expenditures of the Dukes Of theiI
names while beautiful churches,
commodious schools and handsome
homesteads soon inform the traveller
in Wiltshire and Bedfordshire tina. he
is on the broad domain of the Earl o
, Pembroke or the Duke of Bedford
Had the vast sums thus spent beer
mainly put into stocks, or bonds anC
mortgages, the present holders Of thi
land might have been richer men, bu
the country would have been in man,
! respects the loser, and it would be
widely different looking region iron
l what it is to day.
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