, 1875-05-31
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Your President Is an expensive nnimal,
and, for MI tint, 50 arc your Secretaries, who
revolve nbous him at homo and, when ho
travels, form tho tail Of the national comet.
The City Of Boston has Just discovered this
fact, and is distressed on account Of 1t.
Among oil the horrors sho hns had Of Into,
nothing has agitated thai three-hilled munici-
pnlity SO much as The horrid bill rendered by
tho Revere House for entertaining tho Presi-
dent and his Secretaries pending the time
they went to Lexington and Concord 10 do
the Centennial and set up the Minute Man,
aud. judging from tho quantity and quality
Of the bill, the national guests Must hive
been moro sot up than the Minute Man.
Even Paul REvEnE did not 50 alarm the
villagers from Boston 10 Concord ns the
house named for him hn9 nlarlnod their
descendants. And little wonder when the
items Of this bill aro examined Tho Presi-
dent and party had the liberty Of the city,
aud the city, now being at liberty to pay the
bill, finds that the Presidents board was $50
per day four days, $leo RonEaox, JEWELL.
DAucocK, md WILSON consumed $40 each
per diem in eating and sleeping. DE1AAo is
m article Of luxury. He must be an
enormous enter, or tho proprietora charged
for possible accidents, ns 1t WIS then expect
cd every day TINT he might resign, for he ia
rated at tho comparatively high figure Of sl8
per day. This high-touc.1 crowd consumed
in four days 343G.35 in wine md cigars, 912
in extra moals, and they toastod their ahins at
humorous s. Gros, BADcocK aeems to have
been more Of success with the wine-fxtures
than the wnter-Axsures, for ono day,
In fit of Observation-Disclosures or some-
thing worse, lo went of and left
tile wnter running, and tho water, with
that total depravty always characteristic Of it.
aowod over tho basins, irrigated tho flowers
i'll tho carpet, went down through tie crackn,
and mover coasod itB ravages until 1t had
done 800 worth Of damage to tho frescoes
on tho parlor ceiling below; but this WIS tho
only water~bill presented Tho little itcms
arc as appalling aa tho largo oaes. Tho Pros
idsnt, unlike the elephant, dooa not always
take his trunk with him; 80 whom 10 arrived
at tho depot that valuable receptacle Of the
Administration 1inon was handled by Il gilt
edged aggngo-smasher, who took it to tho
inn so tonlsrly and ca-cfally that tho opera
ton cost 1926! What do the Grangors think
Of this discrimination in rates? Worse than
TINT, whom tho 50. o6 trunk eventually landed
in tho Presidential room, q full-lengsh portrait
Of somebody was hired to keep 1t company
and watch It, the rent OF which was $50 md
the insurance S17,-tho insurance being axed,
ITO presume, to prevent Tho visitors carrying
away bits Of the portrait rs souvenirs, or to
guarantee the integrity of tha gentleman in
the gilt frame, provided tho Presidential
quarters should grow mora than ordinarily
festive. There wos one oconsion Of this sort
which figures in tho bill ss follows: ITO
banquet to President GRANT md party, 81 GOO.
onthis au,nptuous occasion, the floral
adoruments amounted to $3.50, and the Rtsaw-
berries cost only $3.50 per quart which is tho
penalty Of having your diAhes christened In
French and catalogued On satin; Of eating
your roast beef md potatoes among
tubcroacs, and tea-roses, and tho vari-
Gus exotic rosies, which are employed
to beautify the occasion, and are sup-
posed to DO omblematio Of the virtues Of the
guests. It is rough on Boston, but then, II
Boston will have Contennials, 1t must pay for
| them. Il Boston will dance, the flddlors bill
| must bo respected and honored. But az tho
President has to come again, On tho Bunker
Hill Centennial, will not that frugal and
thrifty city arrnngo matters beforehand with
tho inn where the comet IL to put up? It
should at least Btipu]ate that Dx1AHo'a board
shall not bo higher than that OF tho other
Secretaries, that some economy shall he rrac.
tieed In the handling Of tho Presidential
trunk, or else ho ahall only bring velise
and that, II DAnooox lenves the water run.
ming again, be shall foot the bill himself. Hia
pos!tion should not shield him,