News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
RICH MEN OF ENGLAND.
HOW THEY MANAGE TO SPEND THEIR
MILLIONS.
Country Seats. Hounds, Hospitality, and
Game Preserves.

with anything under $25, 900 a 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 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 a
year, and he could not possibly get
through e5,000 This is in 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 their establishments
$780, 900. A careful estimate, made
year or two ago by persons eminently
qualified to make it, brought such ex-
penditure up to $95, 900. It included a
town house, yacht, a villa at Newport,
and country seat.
What runs away with incomes of from
$4,000 to $3.50, 900 in England is the
keeping up of country-seats, hounds,
hospitality, and game preserves. At
Drumlanrig Castle, for instance, one Of
its 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 a liberal scale at least
$40, 900 year must be added.
Again, while the hospitality of an
average well-to-do American favorabIy
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 o
dozen servants; the Englishman, on the
other hand, beside constantly entertain
ing in town, often sits down to dinner
for weeks at time with twenty guests.
staying, 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 please 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 100000
year, he could save at least $780, 900 q
year; while were the Dukes of West
Minister, Devonshire and Bedford to do
likewise their savings would be still
greater. Supposing Lord Derby to save
at this 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 a most liberal landlord,
but did not care to spend more than
s35, 600 a year, and let his money go on
,oll1ng up, investing it all in the per
cents. His income was not fourth of
Lord Derby's, but he left in the funds
A, 500, 600. As rule Peer leaves COM
,aratively little behind him $1,OO0,-
100 would be regarded an unusually
arge sum for man with $4,000
-ear to have, and there is but one case
N record-that of Lord Dysart, an &C.
entric recluse-of Peer leaving over
A, 500, 900 personally.
On very large properties the surplus
ncome is chiefly expended in very costly
Thus the Duke of Devon
hire has built Eastbourne and much OF
Buxton. The Duke of Buccleuch has
expended thousands at Granton, and
10Th have put vast sums into enterprises
onnected with Rarrow-in-Furness.
bout $1O,OOO,OOO of Lord Bute's has
one into docks at Cardiff. The late
Iord Westminster built and rebuilt
not less than 1000 houses In
london, and Northumberland and
reflect on all sides the
enerous expenditure of the Dukes OF
heir name while beautiful churches,
schools and handsome
omesteads soon inform the traveller In
and Bradfordshire that he IS
n the broad domain of the Earl of Penn
roke or the Duke of Bedford. Had the
asst sums thus spent been annually put
1to stocks, or bonds and mortgages,
he present holders of the lands might
ave been richer men, but the country
7ould have been in many respects the
Oser, and it would be widely olffer-
mt looking region from what 1t Is to-
law