The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
ESTATES OF LORDS.
A GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT COUNTRY
HOMES OF TITLED ENGLISHMEN.

HOMES OF TITLED ENGLlSHMEN.
How Palace in the Town and a Para
disc in the Country Are HIaintained-
Warnings to Trcsp;,ssers--A Few Crit
icis1ns.-
The great country homes of rich and
titled Englishnen are something stagger-
ing. Almost anybody has sense enough
TO know that dukes and lesser gentry live
in better style than most folks, but how
many who have not seen one of these es-
tates realize their immensely? How many
chance to know that an English nobleman
often resides in an edifce whose main door
is two miles from the front gate? Do not
begin comparing such a place mentally
with single holdings in America like the
old Sullivan farm in Illinois. There isn't
even this junction for Yankee pride, for
these homes are not farms at all, but vast
Enclosures of garden. field, hill, vale,
meadow, copse, and forest solely for the en-
JOyment of the owners and their families
Nothing is usually raised on them eX-
cept what may bc used by the immediate
residents, their servants, and stock
The income for the maintenance of
such home comes from outside rents.
for the poSSessor Of castle set in the
midst Of a private park ten square miles
in extent may also own huge slice in the
heart of London, half dozen villages in
the neighborhood of Lis homo and two
thirds of a county in Ireland. 1t is with
the enormous rentals squeezed out of
!
in the country quite as large and probably
much finer than the original Eden are
maintained. l have driven through parks
owned by plain misters; one actually be-
lOnged to a Smith-it was "Colebrook."
near Tunbridge Wells-larger than Lin
coin park, while | have also been in the
domains Of more distinguished parties
whose grounds, with the adjoining de-
mesno, would afford more than room
enough for the whole city of Chicago.
Fridge Park, in the heart of Kent, home
Of the Marquis of Abergavenny, just seen,
is, with the accompanying contiguous
property, seven miles long by five wide.
The pleasure part alone contains $500
acres.
NOT FOR TIE PUBLIC.
This and similar estates are not open to
the public, though portions Of many Of
them can be seen on stated days. They
are entirely for the comfort of my lord
and family and such friends as they may
choose to invite TO walk, ride, drive shoot
and otherwise disport therein. Some Of
the cunning grounds, left wild only that
his lordship and cronics may in fall and
winter pop over the tenderly preserved
pheasant and grouse, are extensive
nT1nf1rh 70 h11i1l How
the American sportsman, accustomed to
ramming right into any farmers woods
and fields in quest of his prairie chicken
and partridge, like that? A little figuring
and inquiry make it p0-sible to learn who
is the steward in charge Of almost any
one Of these granG Enclosures, and from
him admission to the parks is usually OBJ
tainable. But otherwise boards duly let
tered are up everywhere, warning away
the treSpasser and giving him careful nc
tice that if he is a man he will be prose
cuted; Z a cat, destroyed.
The buildings in the vicinara belonging /
to the estate are often marked by the /
crest or else the initial of the owner, and I
sometimes the ''An for Abergavenny, ''D'' /
for Bea Lfort, 'C'' for Cairnes, I'D" for /
Devonshire, and so On through the whole .
peerage alphabet, may be seen uDon a .
majority Of tie cottages, ale houses and .
other structures for miles around A
friend was telling ne that on his first
visit to the English country he struck into
a &c" neiglborhood-a Grafton, Green
vile, Gainsborough or Cover, it doesn't .
matter which. He didn't know at first
what it stood for, but from the magnitude
and splendor of the estate, the universal .
Difference accorded 10 its unseen owner
and the initial letter, all combined, he |
thought perhaps he had at last reached |
the place where God lied.
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