St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20

noInced a free thinker. He need not
receive a deputation, but if he does, he
has the satisfaction at least of knowing
that If they dirty. his carpets with their
feet he can throw them (the carpets)
out OF the window and order new ones
for the morrow charged to the govern
ment of Canada.
Rideau hall will certainly be a historic
building. 1t has cost the country more
for its size and continues to cost it
more than any building ever cost any
single individual. The repairs and the
additions to that place, together with
some table linen and a little extras,
have cost more than $4,000, on an aver
age, every year during the past ten
years. Last year the governor general
cost Canada the neat sum of SIG, 02S. 30,
divided as follows:
Governor generals salary........ S4S. sos is
Governor generals secretary. 800. 400 90
Governor generals aids de camp. 5000 90
Governor generals secretary's
12,150 90
Contingencies of secretary's office. 10, 167 81
Repairs ana keep of Rideau hail.. 31,6A 90
Amount allowe governor general
for fuel aud hight. 5000 90
Total........ SIG, OPS 20
Beside this pretty penny there was
also paid the sum of S506.44 for a special
train which conveyed the governor gen.
eral from Lewis to Ottawa. Some peO-
pie may wonder why it was not the ex-
act $500 that was charged; but that
would not look right. The only reason
presumably why it was S506.44 was be-
cause that was the outside cen the gov
eminent would allow. The s506.44 be-
longs of right to the expenses of the
governor, but your correspondent found
it among a batch of accounts marked
unforeseen" AS there was no charge
for snow Shoveling or keeping the tobog-
gan slide in order it may be fairly as
sumed that those charges are also hid
den away.
The items which go to make up the
S31,644 expenditures for Rideau hall are
many and varied. Damask napkins
were supplied to the tune of S1,O0S, and
some table cloths to the extent of S31S.
cred sheets, and he had to have them
at the cost of SSl6, while a few
pair of heavy blankets were got for
him for 1924. Everything vas supplied
him, from his roast pans, SkiverS and
c%ullenderS, up to the oil paintings on
the wall, and from his street car fare of
1886 to his regular travelling allowance
of $1,000. That $1,000 a year for tray
cling expenses" is a fixture, and is
drawn whether the man travels or not.
Of course, if he does not travel he is the
guest of somebody. 1t took S603.37 to
supply him with newspapers, $1,045.22
for his kilograms, $50 for tumblers,
S56.25 for claret glasses, $50.15 for
sherry glasses.
And so it goes on until the mind
m orNraI@ of fhn JtNrnDI1Tfx- xrhTaL mn
geStS all these things. But that the
governor is human and has a heart is
shown by the fact that tips" are
paid for, and lest some of the sport
ing fraternity might feel that the
governor was Il Of themselves it
is added ''to messengers" There is an
item of waiting on" his excelleAcy at
Quebec for Sl20. There are ''petty sun
dries" too, that amount into the thou.
sands, but then it would not be cour-
teouS. perhaps, to have everything eX-
planned. One thing is peculiar about
Rideau hall. and that is the amount of
lumber that is annually destroyed upon
it. In 1890 there were % 0 feet used;
in 1889. A., 900 feet; in 1888, 67,037 feet,
and so on.
In 1889 the cost of the governor gem
eral to Canada was 1914, 165. 40. of which
ST. 2S. Is was for salaries and 'cOntin-
gencjes," S48, 666.66 for personal salary,
S2.394.SS for a secretary, S23, 1921 for
Rideau hall, S695 for removing snow,
5000 allowance for fuel and light and
some trifling extras. The heaviest sim
gle item in the contingencies" was for
advertising .'official receptions"
In 1888 the cost footed up to 500, S04.-
So, Rideau hall costing 500, $50. II, and
always in the same way-for lumber
and crockery and damask napkins and
coal scuttleS. old paintingS. fire screens,
ice plates, carpets and to~boggans-for
be it known, though its heydey has
passed, tobogganing was m a great
sport on the Rideau slide. The youth and
trancing. Lanterns that cost S14 each
Illuminated the pathways to the slide,
while along it great bonfres made of
wood that the county paid for added to
the picturesquenesS of the surroundings.
The country paid for the ground,
the slide, the toboggans, the
suits for the governors aids. the
fires that burned and the band
that played. But they had the felicity
of reading that 1.-THE best people" were
there some of them from New York at
that, for Rideau Is not quite so bigoted
as some of the men who occasionally go
tlleIe-SO everything is all right lner6
is a sort of a feeling that the governor
has got to spend or take out of Canada's
treasury somehow for salary and ex-
penses about $780, 900 a %year-that it
takes that to keep him going"
In 1887 LanSdOwne was still governor
general. and he cost sos, 257.55, while in
1856 he cost S104, lille. The Marquis of
Lorne was in command in 1885, and he
cost 10,27S.06. He always travelled
with a r%etinue, and not content with
two pianos at Rideau paid 81, 1924 for rent
of more. His dry goods" whatever
they were, for they did not include table
linens. cost s602.44. In 1854 the country
paid SIT, 129.47 for the maintenance of
the marquis ct al. Rideau hall that year
cost S31, 1924 6 outside the 50, 900 allow
ance for fuel and gas. There are such
items as these: "Sundry persons
travelling" etc. In 1888 the governor
0 S Sl05, OIL .06, of which S22, 254.52 was
paid for Rideau hall account. In 1882
500, los. 76 was expended. and in 1881 no
less a sum than Sl37, 765. 99. 6l,391.91 of
which was for Rideau. j. B.