The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-18
Life In the Whllehouse.

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thing of the experiences which
Mrs. Harrison will have when she
reaches Washington as the wife OF
the president. Will she pack sila-
ply her trunks with wearing appar-
ell and move into house COM
pletely furnished and filed with
beds and bedding, silver and table
ware, servants and cooking uten-
sis, or VIII all or any Of these
have to be brought along or proyi-
ded after she gets here? That is
a question very often asked, and
with it a good many others, ast
horses and 'ar-isg5s, toachmeh
and waiting maids. cost Of and
payment for the necessaries of the
kitchen and dining room, etc. 1t
is a curious fact that all of the
cabinet officers are furnished with
horses and carriages at government
expense, but that the president is
not. The cabinet officers are fur
nished horses, carriages aid coach
men, and the horses are Kept at
government expense. II the pres
ident wants any of these things he
must supply them himself. There
is stable near the White House,
built during Grants time, with
plenty of room for horses, but ev-
cry president who comes finds it
empty, and of course it costs him
a lot of money to fill it. Whoever
sells a horse or carriage to the
president of the United States ex-
poets to get about % per cent
more for it than he would if lie
sold it elsewhere, OF couf1As;,,1.,, L.. :.
president must have three ur
carriages and several horses.
Whether General Harrison will
bring any with him or buy them is
not known. Probably he viii buy
new carriages, and, of course, a
presidents horses must be thor
oughbreds. And he need not ex-
poet much of them after he gets
through his term-in the White
House either, for Washington
pavements are hard on horses, as
President Cleyeland's big seal
browns Show The president IS
al4s eiAiiead 10 far4siah his os~~
Alhert Bavlsins a big
cohbred man whom Circuit 5seng1t
here before lie became president,
is still driving at the White House,
as he has done ever since Grants
term, and will probably be re-en-
gagged by Mr. Harrison: but if BE
does it viii be at his own expense,
for the government does not pay
Alberts salary.
Inside the White House Mrs.
Harrison will find employees wais-
ing to be re-engaged and paid IL
their services. The steward. *,
has charge of the kitchen o
ing room, the various subol s
who sweep and dust and COOK Nd
attend to the table and tableware
they are all private employees.
Down in the basement, if you pass
at the proper sime, you see the
laundry work of the White House
going on. All these employees are,
however, paid privately. Ofcoursa
there is a yearly appropriation for
the contingent expenses of the
White House, but this is intended
more to keep up the furniture and
| furnishings generally than to pay
+he cost of the presidents living
or the hire of his servants.
One thing that Mrs. Harrison
Will find is completely furnished
house salid silver, the finest OF
china, linen for the table and bed
chambers, elegant furnishing in
the parlors and fairly good in the
private parts of the house. The
fpri7ate dining room is on the frs
floor, just across tie hall from the
state dining room. This is the
only room on the first focr USED
for callers. and TIC entire family
or Giving rooms are on the sec
ond floor. There are, perhaps
half E dozen Of these, scarcely
more; a sitting room or two neal
to the circular library room,
where the president sits during his
business and working hours, and
several handsomely furnished bee
rooms and dressing rooms. An
elevator carries the family dow
stairs at meal time, and when they
so down for other purposes, if they
desire it, but as rule they wall
up and down the broad, easy, apt
luxuriantly earpeted stairs anC
through the handsome and Away.
attractive corridors, which lead th.
way to the dining room anJs cit
lors on the first floor. The
find everything ready, for tHs
lperienced steward is able to relic