Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-04

second man 30
COOK 300
Cooks assistant 30
Two hoStlers 80
COachman 80
FOOtman 80
1OJdi
The bill for groceries and provisions
of any one of these will not be less
than a thousand dollars a month and
very often that amount is expended
on a single dinner. The carriage in
which our CrOeSuS drives cost a thou
sand dollars at an American makers.
And he usually has three or four of
them. The horses which draw his car
rage were raised upon the stock farms
md he considers a team cheap at less
that 1880. He usually owns from
two to three teams. Only a harness
which costs $500 or $500 is suitable
to his high class Steeds. In flowers
alone most Of these fifty men spend
not less than $1,000 q year, and pro-
badly the average would more nearly
IN VI LII VI Z.
Whitney has had 5000 worth of
flowers at a $4,000 dinner. Probably
the florist would chip in quite a sum
10 nelp u1ro --;l1ianairc out of his pvI-
sOnal taxes before he would see him
go.
The artist would suffer heavily. The
best American pictures are bought by
Americans and, discourse as much as
you will about the lack of taste for
art among Americans. it is doubtful
if there is one among this fifty who
does not own thousands of dollars
worth of paintings. Five or six az
lists who do mural work have actually
m"de their living during the last few
years from the orders they have 'e-
Ceived from these fifty ~millionaires.
The interior decorator would suffer.
Five or six men who receive very large
pay for designing special things il
furniture for magnates would have
their salaries reduced. 1t was not long
ago that Mrs. Havemeyer paid $1,000
for a special design for Il bed, and
the designer made enough out of his
work to buy him a house and lot in
the suburbs. The most celebrated
wOman's tailor III the city would be
forced to discharge some of his en-
plOyeS and to reduce the salaries Of
some of his expert assistants. When a
woman has q husband who is worth
100000 900, if by the spending of Il
few hundred dollars she can make her
self look q little more attractive when
she is riding in the park she does not
mind the mite. 1t is said that mil
lionares are not literary. but if you
will go into their homes you will find
that their libraries contain volumes
unread perhapS-bound and printed
specially for them by the big publish
ing houses, whose orders from such
patrons amount to thousands in a year
and upon which there is great profit. !
Tutors in the preparatory courses, tu-
tors in music. tutors in dancing would
lose their richest pupils. Sellers Of
furniture, of carpets and of china.
whose profits on their finest wares
are something tremendous would lose
not less than 100000 a year. There
is a milliner on Fifth avenue whose
profits are no less than $4,000 a year.
sells only to people Of the -four
hundred" ilk. You could cut his pro-
in two and you would have what
the exodus would mean to him. When
wOman has four or five bOnnets in a
year at 500 apiece and one-half is \
profit two or three men in fifty fami-
lies soon count up.
The clubs also would be affected if
m~illiOnaires gave up their member
ship. Probably there is not one of
men who is not a member of at
least five clubs. Some Of these clubs
do not visit twice a year. But
pay annual dues Of from 500
% $500 a year. =
Few people have an idea Of the r
sums Of money which mil I
iOnares spend for the things they +
drink and wear. and with which {
hey adorn their houses and try to
make themselves happy. The million
tire who might raise a h~ullabalOo L
bout an advance Of his private Sec
'etary's salary would pay-that sum to
tradesman as overcharge without Y
ouch complaint. He rather likes to &
big prices to tradesmen. 1t seems c
xclusive. While most of US are ia r
niliar with the great incomes Of these t
we do not go sufficiently into de- r
ais to realize that he pays. $3.50 al I
oxen for his shirts,s2e % a bottle for a
is wine, and eorrespondingly high ]
ates for ali things else. O