The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17
WEALTHY EXTRAYAGANCE.
HOW THE RICH SPEND THEIR MONEY IN
ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.
New York San: If rich people in |
England should see fit to bring down |
their domestic expenditures 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 !
save vast sums of money. In our
large eastern cities family men with |
anything under $4,000 year spend
more freely than Englishmen with the
same income; but as regards those
with incomes over that amount it is
quite another matter. When Macau-
lay. before proceeding to India, con-
suited Sydney Smiths experienced
brother, the famous "Bobus' as to eX-
penses at Calcutta, be was told that
Inc could not be comfortable under
63OOO a wear, and could not possibly
yet through $4,000. This is in d meas
ure true of the United States. 1t
might be safely asserted that III the
whole Of this country there are not five
persons, if as many, who spend Oh
their establishment 100000. a care
| full estimate, made year OF two ago
| by persons eminently qualified to
make it, brought such expenditures
up to 5000. 1t included a town
house, a yacht, villa at Newport and
| a country seat.
| What runs away with incomes of
| from $4,000 to $250,O00 in England is
the keeping up of country seats,
hounds, hospitality and game pre-
! S rvs. At Drumlanring Castle, for
! instance, one of its owners ten resi-
| dences, there are eighty miles of grass
! 4 ~ of MI
/ than forty. Add to this acres Of gar
den and grass and the expenses of
parks, keepers and game-keepers, and
it is easy to see where the money goes.
| If there is a hunting establishment
on a liberal scale, at least $4,000
year must be added. Again,
while the hospitality of an aver
age well-ts-do American favOrably
compares with that of an Englishman
| with similar means, that Of the broad
acred Englishmam is Immensely great
er than that of the American million
aire. The latter gives some dinner
parties and perhaps an annual ball,
and keeps a dozen servants. The Eng
lishman. 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 feed from fift-' to sixty
every day i'll his servaI is 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 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 a simple example
there is Lord Derby, with ten meT
servants i'll his house, and about forty
more domestics feeding daily at his
board. SHppOsing tomorrow he anC
his wife should agree to struggle
along on 100000 a year, he could
give at least $4,000 a year: while
: were the dukes Of Westminist er
DevOnshirc and Bedford to do like
, wise. their savings would be still
= greater. Surprising Derby TO save a
+ this rate for thirty years, what AZ
q arch-millionaire he would become.
E Twenty years ago there died queer
/ old bachelor, Lord Derby, who own
j ed Raleigh's Inflated home of oher
borne castle. He was a most liberia
: landlord, but did not care to spenC
j more than some $4,000 a yea, anC
let his money 60 rolling up, investing
g it all in three per cents. His income
was not fourth of Lord Derby S, bu
: he left in the funds $4500000. AS
rule Il peer leaves comparative littl
Z behind him 81 100000 would be re
: garded as an unusually large sun
a for a man with 100000 a year t.
have, and there is but one case on re
d cOrd-that of Lord Dysart, an eccen
g trio reclusG-Of peer leaving owe
it $7,5O0,000 personally.
g On very large properties the surplu
y income is chiefly expended in yer
T costly improvements. Thus the Duk
of DevOnshire las built EastbOurnI
q and uuch of Buxton. The Duke c
II BucclcUch has expended thousands o
D GrantOn, and both have vast sums i
=. enterprises connected with Bun
% rOws-in-Furness. About $I0,000,000 c
n Lord Bute's has gone into docks q
4 Cardiff. The late Lord Westministe
built and rebuilt not less than thou
sand houses in London and North
1 cumberland and SOutherlandshire an
reflect on all sides the generous exper
10 diture of the duke of their name
N while beautiful churches, commodiOu
schools and handsome homestead
soon inform the traveller in Wiltshir
Of and Bcdfordshire that he is on til
, broad domain of the Earl of Pembrok
u or the Duke of Bedford. Had the va
~ sums thus spent been mainly put
at stocks, or bonds and mortgages, til
K present holders of the land might hav
been richer men, but the countr
would have been in many respects I'll
loser, and it would be a widely differ
u ent-looking region from what it
At To-day.