The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-27
CAN LIVE ON S183,952.
Yearly Expenses of a Very Swell
Family Computed by Ward
McAllister.
Bv Dint Of Close Figuring They
Gan Be Kept Within Six
Figures.
s.v.n Thousnnd Dollars for Dances. 5000
for Papers and Magazines, $500
for Pow Rent.

II ID startling to think that any citizen o
this republic can readily expend $150,oW
annually IN supplying the wants of himself
and family, says Ward NcAllister i'll the
New York World. Now lot us see how liz
does it.
To begin with, we must remember thai
in England the average family consists o
the parents and eight children, here or the
parents and three children. Tho pater ia
miliss, endowed with newly-acqulred
wealth. comes to New York to enjoy it. tic
is worth. we will say. many millions. f1is
first purchase is a Fifth-avenue corner
house, for which he pays $C0o,o0o house
and lotl.
Not satisfied with its interior, he expends
over $780, 900 In superb tapestries. IN PIC
lures. furniture and decorations. In essl-
mating the annual rent, then. OF this city
house We must charge him with seven per
cent. on $1,000 to cover taxes, insurance,
etc.-that is, $4,000.
The number of his indoor servants and
their wages would then be as follows: But
Ter, Der ulOutL, NsO AooAAo PtS w
$1,000: second man, $40; third man, $50;
French chef, 800 to S125 q know OF one
man who pays $150); his first sculllon, S2u;
his second scu!lion, 500; man to take coal
ID bedrooms and make furnace fires, SD;
NIGHT watchman, $40; first housemaid, S2o;
second housemaid. SIS; housekeeper,
$50; parlor maid. $50; his valet, $50;
lady's maid, s25; private secretary, SO
making his s~esYants' wages monthly S66e,
and yearly Ss,0l6.
His monthly marketing, including fish,
vegetables and fruit. $500 yearly. $4,000;
his groceries $500 a month $4,000 yearly:
bread, $54O d year; milk, $54oayear; cream,
$500 a year; ice, $720 a year; fuel. Sl,UD q
year; gas bill, $500 year; breakage annn-
ally of glass, crockery, ETC., $500; repairs TO
house and wear and tear to furniture, sou
annually: wines for his daily USE apart
his own consumption, apart from those
usad at his dinners and balls, S5O0-maklng
the running expenses of his household an
nuallv. exclusive of servants wages, Sls,-
964. Adding servants wages, which
properly oome under this headlng--namely,
IS. 0l6-and you have $27,1l2 as the proper
unnln expenses of his household. apart
NOM TEups 6ukEA 6hA AAlf AAN
His vife's dressing, $4,000 q year; his
own wardrobe, 49, 600 a year; his chlldrens
clothing and pocket money, S4.5O a year;
his three children's schooling. S3,6OOa year;
his yearly entertaining. having one ball n
three small dances, Mt q cost Oh S7,Ooo, IN
Guiding the wines, cigars ana flowers, De
sides Which he gives thirty-two dinners a
wear during the winter and summer, cost
ING $4,000. including the wines. cigars and
floral decorations; his opera box, S4,5OO a
wear: his theater parties, with private boxes
and small suppsrs after the theater,. Sl,2oo;
his papers and magazines, SlW; bis run
ning account at the jewellery for the small
repairs to jewelry and trifing purchases,
$1,000; his yearly stationery, $500; purchase
OF books annually. $500: his wedding gifts
and holiday presents, 81, 1900; his pew IN
church, $500; his club dues, 1925; his ply
sician's bill for medical attendance, $500;
his dentists bill for self and family, $500;
TRANSPORTATION of household to country
and back to city, $3.50; travelling in Europe
three months each year during the spring,
including the expenses out and back,
$1,000.
And now for the expenses of his stables,
he keeping twenty horses ~(several of the
Newport swells keep twenty-five horses).
It will be as follows: First %ooaohman, $75
a month; second eoachman, $50 a month;
nf6G groom. 6oU; SeCoAA kiOolu, FOOi eAltu
groom, $50; five helpers at $50 each, $3.50 a
month; keep of twenty horses per month,
$500; shooting horses per month, $40; re-
pairs to harness monthly, $50; gas for
stables, Sl5 a month; coal for stables, $12 a
month; veterinary bill, $50 a month ($240
a year,; five ~liveries q year at $50 each.
$500; fva horses a year to replace those in
capacitated for use, whose cost will be from
$500 to $500, taking the smaller sum, make
this item foot up s., 800; repairs to carriages
and doing them up yearly, ST, 800, giving
the total cost of maintaining his stables at
$17. los.
The cost of his country house, $500, 600,
with insurance and taxes, charging him
with seven per cont. on that sum-, makes
the summer rent of his country house
$40 To maintain his graperies, green.
houses. forcing houses and keeping the
grounds of country house. our owest esti-
mate must be $4,000. II am told that in
some CAGES at Newport it amounts to
$4,000.