Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-07

the kitchen maids. 1have omitted 10 mention
for larder boys whose pay is probably very
small but who doubtless have good oppor-
tunity of getting fat. Then there are num-
Der Of workmsn In constant employment on
the house. large number OF pensioners ana
Sometimes Som 1So 30 yisisors snd servants ~ are At Hat
field at time.
IN FULL DRESS.
The upper servants dress for dinner. though.
for that matter, they are usually in evening
dress, and my ex-butier told me that 40servants.
male and female, in full Dress often sit down
to dinner in the upper servants hall. This in
cludes, of course. the Wallets and lady's maids
1--WE get very refined. we do, always h'asso.,
sheratfn with the 'ighest of the Ugh, remarked
my informant. OF course a very important
item in the income Of these servants is con-
tributed by tips. which they call walls cor
rect but somewhat unusual word. The serv-
ans who come most in contact with visitors
receive fully half their wages over again In the
form of tips
Lord Salisbury spends q fortune every year
among employees at Hatfield, indoors and out: !:
He has, for instance, head gardener with .
assistants and a forester with 20 men under
him. The total yearly expenditure of LORD
means one Of the richest Of his class. These
facts only refer to the servants of the very
exalted They find the life to be one OF unin-
terrupted and balmy content. The servants OF
the smart but poorer people in the west end
of London do not have nearly such good time
These are the people who must keep snowy
proper supply of help In the kitchen. It Is
generally believed that when they have their
houses crowded at the height of the London
season the servants are slowed away to sleep
somewhere In the cellars.
A London journalist recently told me story
of a servant Of Lord Salisbury's who was quite
political parsonage at the time his master
was about to form a ministry in the autump OF
1885. The journalist in question is the parlia-
mentary correspondents of several of the best
provincial papers in England and Is a man OF
world great deal and has seen some fighting,
and Is big, stoutbearded and strong-voiced.
He does not ordinarily condescend to door
Se: to house: where they are likely to get snu6bed
He still boils with rage when he tells OF the ex-
When the Unionist majority was returned to
Parliament, in 1856 there was considerable de-
lay, on the part of the Queen, in sending for
Salisbury to form Ministry, and IL was ru-
mored that Lord Harrington would be sum
moned. Reporters were calling at Salisourys
house, in Arlington street, all day long. One
morning paper announced that Salisbury had
gone to Bafmoral, where the Queen was at that
time My friend the Journalist rushed TSgpS S1
Mr.. Sands. the Marquis's hall porter. He
asked Sands II 1t was true that Lord Salisbury
had gone to Balmoral, and Sanos replied IN q
calm and stately way: ais lordship his now
hupstairs hin bed"
The journalist Immediately went away and
sent out to the papers what was good item OF
news of negative kind. Next morning it was
officially announced that Salisbury had gone
to Balmoral with his list of ministers The
correspondent found that 1t the moment the
hall porter had said that Lord Salisbury was in
bed upstairs, he had really about reached Edin-
burg on his way north. Almost overcome with
fury, he went round to Sands once more and
demanded to know what he meant by telling
him such lies. But Sands was six feet two and
unabashed, and he answered: my business is
to look after my master. You've got nothing
to do with it. shall tell you as many lies as l
like. Go away" Then he slammed the door
in the newspaper mans face.
Lord Salisbury plsyfully speaks Of Sands as
his treasure" There are many such in En-
gland Indeed know of no quality which IS
esteemed more highly among Englishmen than
this sort Of rude loyalty. A man servant is very
often of measureless valueto the spendthrifta and
broken British gentleman. He acts as buffet
and shield, and guards his masters interests to
the END, even when he has nothing in the world
to gain. AS I have said, he believes his mas
ter to be of high order of mankind, and Is
content to serve him to the end.
BLAKELY HALL.