Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-24
How the Money Goes in London.


weekly export of cotton was 9,44O bales.
How the Money Goes in London.
The annual report of 1876 of the Treas
urer of London has been issued, and
makes a formidable showing of figures.
as compared with the financial reports
of American cities. By way of local
comparison, some Of these figures will
be Of interest. Mayor Heath draws o
salary of $500, and is allowed the priv
ilege Of spending it all or spending none
OF 1t, as he pleases, wherein he has the
advantage of the Lord Mayor of Lon
don. The latter, in addition to the ex-
ira prefix to his title, has a comfortable
salary Of $50 900, but he is not expected
to save a cent of it, or to growl if bis
expenses exceed his income. His most
onerous official duty consists in dinner
giving and entertaining, and these little
items alone will give our readers some
idea OF the enormous amount it must
require to keep up his state: His violet
train gown costs $85, his state train robe
5000, and his velvet reception-robe 1925.
If our Mayors were obliged to lay out
nearly 81 900 in good clothes as soon as
they entered upon the duties Of their
offices, and then to make a spread every
day IN the year of turtle, grouse, and
other luxuries, there would probably be
fewer candidates than there are now.
The other city officers of London also
receive large salaries, as compared with
ours, and we presume it would be trea-
son to the Crown if any one of them
saved a farthing or refused to invest
their earnings in victuals and drink.
The Comptroller receives $4,000; our
Comptroller, $1,000 Thus, Mr.. Farwell
may consider himself favored; for,
while the Comptroller of London gets
only twice as much as he, the Mayor of
London gets over sixteen times as much
as Mayor Heath. The Treasurer of
London gets 81 500; our Treasurer, So
500; the City Attorney of London $40
900, ours $1,000: the City Clerk of Lon
don $4,000, ours $3.50; the Superin-
tendent of Police of London $780,
while Superintendent Hickey comes
closely up to him with 1915; the City
Physician of London So, 625, ours 81 500;
and so on.
Dinner-giving in London is a serious
matter. When the Prince of Wales
visited Chicago years ago and was enter
tanned In royal state at the Richmond
House with prairie chickens and veni-
son, and the guests had the most roys-
tering time primitive Chicago had ever
known, it cost only few hundred dol
lars, and yet every citizen of Chicago at
that time, from Long John down, flat
tered himself that Albert Edward had
never seen and would never see such a
spead again. When the Prince of Wales
recently returned from his Indian trip,
the City of London gave him little
dinner which cost only $137 $50. The
pounds, shillings, and pence were flung
about somewhat as follows: Upholster-
ers, carpenters, painters, decorators,
gas-ftters, plumbers, bricklayers, plas-
terers, GLACIERS, and scrubbers had to
make the apartmen at Guildhall ready
for their reception, and their bills
amounted to So. 224O,-a sum sufficient
to put up handsome business block in
Chicago. Flowers to the value of 81 900
blossomed IN the windows and on the
stair-cases, and the gas that shone upon
them cost 1886. The eatables footed up
S25,4 400, and wine washed them down to
the tune Of $3.50, to recover from the
effects of which cost 1855 IN mineral
water. The dance programmes cost
S2,795, the banquet and ball tickets
81 ,72O, and the general printing 81, 160
The yocalists who warbled their dulcet
strains were paid $1,115, and the bands
that blew their noisy welcomes were
satisfied when they received a check for
81 $40. The casket that was presented
the Prince cost $500, and it took $50
to illuminate the long-winded address
that was read to him. The reckless
providers spent 1925 for gloves, PERU
merry, and hair-brushes, -probablv more
than the whole dinner to the Prince in
who called the carriages went home
with $50, the hostlers with $50, the
gravel-spreaders with $165, the special
police with 81 400, the committee men
with 81 500, the fremen $275; and last
but not least, So, 800 were paid in gratu-
tiles to walters and others in the service
that night. By the side of that dinner
our civic banquets to distinguished
guests seem small affairs, but the Cor
poration of London is not extravagant.
from one point Of view The most of
our large cities are head and ears in
debt, New York, the principal dinner
giver, being hopelessly swamped. The
corporation which gave this $4,000
dinner had an income last year of So
PIG, $50 Its total debt amounts to but
so, $50, 900, while New York City can
show a net debt of over 1926, zoo, 0OOi-
Chicago Tribune
More Telephone Discoveries.
Still another development of the
mowers of the te1eDhOne has been made