Nevada County picayune., 1889-01-16
Life in the White House.

house completely furnished and filled with beds and bedding. silver and tableware, servants and cooking utensils, or will all or any of these things have to be brought along or provided after she gets here:
 That is the question very often asked. and with it q good many oth- CTS. as to horses and carriages, coachmen and waiting maids. cost of and payment of the necessarics of the kitchen and dining room. etc. It is curious fact that all the Cabinet officers are furnished with horses and carriages at Government expense. but the President is not. The Cab- net officers are furnished horses. car riages and coachmen, and the horses are kept at Government expense.
 If the President wants any of these things, he must supply them him. self. There is stable near the White House, built during Grants S time, with plenty of room for horses. but every President who comes finds 1t empty, and of course it costs him lot of money to fill it. Whoever sells horse or carriage to the Presi- dent of the United States expects to get about twenty-five per cent more for it than he would if he sold it else where. Of course the President must have three or four carriages and several horses.
 Whether Gen. Harrison will bring any with him, or buy them, is not known. Probably he will buy new carriages, and, of course, Presi- dents horses must be thoroughbreds. And he need not expect much of them after he gets through his term ill the White House either, for Wash ington pavements are hard on horses, as President Cleveland big browns show. The President is obliged ;o furnish his own driver. Albert flaw Sins, big coored man whom Grant brought here before he became Pres ident, is still driving at the White | House, as he has done ever since Grants term, and will probably he re-engaged by Mir. Harrison, but if he does, it will be at his own ex- i pense, for the Government does not pay Albert's salary.
 Inside the White House Mrs. Har- rison will find servants waiting ,o be re-engaged and paid for their scrvi- ces. The steward. who has charge of the kitchen and dining room. the various subordinates who sweep and cook, and attend to the table ware they are all private employees. Down i'll the basement, if yna pass at ,,e right time, you see the laundry work of the White House going on. hI, ! these employes are, however. paid privately. Of course there k yearly apportiOnment for the contengent expenses of the White House, but this is intended more to keep up the furniture and furnishings generally | than to pay the cost of the Prcsi- dents living or the hire of his ser wants.
 One thing that Mrs. Harfison will ind is completely furnished house solid silver, the finest of china, linen for the table and bed cham bers, elegant furnishings in the par lors and fairly good in the private parts of the house. The private din ing room is on the first floor, just across the hall from the state dining room--the only room on the first floor used by the President family. 1 The parlors are used for callers. and the entire family or diving" rooms i are on the second floor. There are, l perhaps, half dozen of these, scarcely more; sitting room or two near to the circular library room where the President sits during hls business and working hours, and sev- eral handsomely furnished bedrooms and dressing rooms. An elevator carries the family down stars at meal time, and when they go down i for other purposes, if they desire il {; but as q rule they walk ap and down the broad, easy and iuzuriously car peted stairs, and through the hand some and always attractive corridors, which lead the way to the dining room and pariors on the first floor. There they find everything ready for the experienced steward is able to relieve the mistress of the White House of all cares of housekeeping