Connecticut western news., 1884-02-27
RICH MEN OF ENGLAND.
HOW THEY MANAGE TO SPEND THEIR
 MILLIONS.
Country Seats, Hounds, Hospitality, md
 Game Preserves.

If rich people in England should see fit to bring down their domestic expendi- ture 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 mon with anything under $25,000 a year spend more freely than Englishmen with the same income; but as regards those with incomes over that amount 1t is quite another matter. When Macau- lay, before proceeding to India, con- suited Sidney Smiths experienced brother, the famous "Bobus, as to ex- penses at Calcutta, he was told that he could not be comfortable under g3, 900 year, and he could not possibly get through 95,00O. This is in a measure true of the United States. It might be safely asserted that in the whole of this country there are not five persons, II as many, who spend on their establishments S10O,0 careful estimate, made a year or two ago by persons eminently qualified to make it, brought such ex- penditure up to 5000. It included a town house, yacht, & villa at Newport, and country seat.
 What runs away with incomes of from $50, 1000 to $250,000 in England is the keeping up of country-sests, hounds, hospitality, and game preserves. At Drumlanrig Castle, for instance, one of it's owners ten residences, there are eighty miles of grass drive kept in order; at Gridge, more than forty. Add to these acres of garden and glass and the expenses of park-keepers and game keepers, and it is easy to see where the money goes. If there is hunting-es- tablishment on @ liberal scale at least $2O, 900 year must be added.
 Again, while the hospitality of an average well-to-do American favorably compares with that of an Englishman of similar means, that of the broad-acred Englishnan is immensely superior to that of the American millionaire. The latter gives some dinner parties, and, perhaps, an annual ball, and keeps dozen servants; the Englishman, on the other hand, beside constantly entertain ing in town, often sits down to dinner for weeks at a time with twenty guests, stoyine, with their servants, in his coun- try house, and feeds from fifty to sixty every day in his servants hall with as much beef and beer as they fleose to consume. More than this he at times entertains whole schools and parishes, beside 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 an example, there is Lord Derby, with ten men servants in his house and about forty more domes- tics feeding daily at his board. Suppos- ing tomorrow he and his wife should agree to struggle along on $100,00 a year, he could save at least $500, 900 a year; while were the Dukes of Vest minister, Devonshire and Bedford to do likewise their savings would be still greater. Supposing Lord Derby to save at th1s rate for thirty years, what an archi-millionaire he would become.
 Twenty years ago there died queer old bachelor, Lord Digby, who owned Raleigh's ill-fated home of Sherborne Castle. He was most liberal landlord, but did not care to spend more than $35, 900 year, and let his money go on rolling up, investing it all in the per cents. His income was not fourth of Lord Derby's, but he left in the funds S4, 300, 900. As a rule Peer leaves com paratively little behind him $1,OO0,- GOO would be regarded an unusually large sum for man with $400, ,00O a year to have, and there is but one case on record-that of Lord Dysart, an ec- centric recluse-of 8 Peer leaving over $4, 300, 900 personally.
 On very large properties the surplus income is chiefly expended in very costly improvements. Thus the Duke of Devon shire has built Eastbourne and much of Buxton. The Duke of Buccleuch has expended thousands at Granton, and both have put vast sums into enterprises connected with Rarrow-in-Furness. About $10, 100000 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 Northumberland and Sutherlandshire 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 and Bradfordshire that he is on the broad domain of the Earl of Penn broke or the Duke of Bedford. Had the vast sums thus spent been annually put into stocks, or bonds and mortgages, the present holders of the lands might have been richer men, but the country would have been in many respects the loser, and it would be a widely differ ent looking egion from what it is to- | day.
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