Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1907 — Great English Estates. [ARTICLE]

Great English Estates.

Private estates In America do not t«gln to compere with those of England. There la, for Instance, the Duke of Buecleugh's place at Houghton. The private drive around this estate Is 76 miles long and cost $1,750,000 to bulfd. Duke of Axgyle has at Inverary a private drive on the banks of Lodh Fyne that cost $1,550,000 and this drive has trees 00 both aides that were planted by kings and queens. The Marquis of Allesbury, Lord Overtoun, the Duke of Westmdnrfer and the Duke of Devonshire all own private drives that cost or ■doc* to buikL „ •. ...