The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-09

The towel schedule calls for all
sorts of towels. There are 100 birds
eye huck, hemstitched, with the words.
commonwealth of Pennsylvania
woven in each towel fifteen dozen
snow drift bath towels, five dozen
linen bath towels, twenty FIVE dozen
hemstltched towels, three dozen
bleach towels and ESQ yards Of crash.
Strange to say, the schedule does not
call for any cork screws, but it calls
for about everything else kept by
first class hardware establishment
Some of the useful articles provid-
ed for by this schedule are claw ham
mers, monkey wrenches, carpet tacks,
wire brads, cross and rip saws, chisels,
scratch avis, rivet cutters, gimlets,
screw drivers, nail pullers, syringes,
fumigators, hoes and rakes, trowcls,
sheep shears spades, manure forks,
pruning knives, lawn mowers, axle
bolts, red, blue and green paint, wal.
nut stain, harness dressing and glue.
The schedule OF miscellaneous sup
plies includes ten dozen baccarat and
six dozen fine cut tumblers, one dozen
Llmoge pitchers, one dozen filters,
twenty gallons Of the best bay rum
filtered, twenty gallons Of ammonia,
four demijohns OF cheaper grade of
ammonia, half barrel of lubricating
oil, half barrel of castor oil, twenty
pounds of lump alum, ten pounds Of
camphor, ten gallons of insect fluid,
eighteen dozen of shoe blacking, nine
alligator satchels and one refrigerator
The board has contracted for two
| $500 clocks with chimes and mantel
decorations and three office clocks
ranging in price from SIS to 500
| There is greater variety of clocks
now on Capitol hill than in the largest
establishment in Harrisburg. After
every session Of the legislature one or
two Of these expensive time pieces
disappear and it becomes necessary"
for the board to purchase new ones to
take their PAGES.
Lieutenant Governor Lyon will have
in his new apartments five pairs Of
curtains to cost $500 each, a cover
for grand parlor piano to cost SIoo.
although no arrangement is made in
the schedule for the piano. These
apartments will be furnished with
mahogany furniture and costly carpets
and rugs. The schedule provides
for six fire sets at $r25 each, Gas
yards of the best Wilton carpet and a
great many rugs, ranging in price
from $2.5o to 500. Many of the de-
partments are to have new furniture Of
mahogany, quartered oak, walnut or
cherry. The carpets will be used for
the lieutenant governors rooms and
the departments of internal affairs
and public instruction.
| The executive mansion will be re-
furnished at an expense of about
$4,000. The parlor will be Louis
| XIV style and the study Moorish.
There will be expensive portieres,
curtains, overdrapery and wall and
window hangings. The schedule also
calls for a "tea service, SIX pieces,
latest designs" to cost $500, for the
mansion, and an entire equipment OF
silverware, including i marquis set OF
tea, dessert and table spoons, forks,
dessert and eating knives, sugar spoons
and tongs, oyster forks, coffee spoons,
punch ladlc, gravy ladle, orange
spoons, lettuce forks and soup ladle,
Besides, there are fruit knives, fish
sets, salad spoons, ice cream spoons,
tomato server, Jelly server, Trilby
berry forks, pickle forks, grape scissors,
cake knife, bon bon dish and spoons
cheese scoop, butter plates and
spreaders, sugar sitter, pepper and
salts, candelabras, chahng dish and
chahng spoons and hagon.
The special cut glass schedule fol
the executive mansion comprise:
bowls, trays, water pitchers, carafes
cheese dish, frIit dishes, vase, sugar
bowl, cream pitcher, cruets, tumblers
goblets, spoon holders, finger bowls
knife rests, ice tubs, cracker jars ant
fruit saucers. Much of the furniture
carpets and drapery now in use are ir
good condition and will stand the
wear for ten years. To make room
for the new furnishing for which The
board has contracted it will be sold a
public sale in the corridor of the capi
, tol to the highest bidder.
At first If wac reDorted that th,