Williams news., 1904-03-19
THE EXPENSIVE ROOSEVELT
Lives Like a King and the Peo-
 pie Pay the Bills.

dore Roosevelt entered the White House. MT. Mckinley, like his predecessors, lived in a style of simple dignity beftting his great office and harmonizing with previous usuage, says the Tucson Citizen. But all this has been changed.
 Things that were good enough for others were not good enough for Roosevelt. The White House must be improved and in 1902 ap- propriations amounting to $5S2,- .641 were made for that purpose. This sum was spent and yet there remained a deficiency of $11S,O00. The architects were paid $65,O00 for the plans and the result is not improvement, according to compe- tent testimony, but sheer disfgur- ment. In order that MT. Roose- velt's horses may be housed in the style deemed necessary, $9O,O0O is asked for new stables. The gov ernment vessel, Mayhower, was fitted up as family yacht at an expense of $1165,OOO, and it is esti- mated that the cost of keeping up the Mayfower and Sylph for the Presidents convenience this year will be $S5,OOO. Champagne glasses have been bought at $446 a set.
 A new piano was put in the East room of the White House, at cost of $15, 5,6OO, chairs were bought at $4OO each, and cut glass, specially ordered India rugs and the most expensive carpeting without end, at enormous price. Paintings of Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and others have been displaced by the stuffed heads of bears. mour tain lions, buffalo and caribou, the stuff ing of which cost the government $2,000. It takes 2,S00 electric lights, each having from twenty to sixty candle power, to light the mangled White House according to MT. Roosevelt's notion. The cost of lighting is $20,OOO a year. For secretaries and clerks employed in the Presidents offices more than $65,OOO is required annually. For servants, flowers and such like $SO,50O was allowed for this year, which sum is $3O,OOO less than was asked Nearly three times as much money is now wanted for the green house as was used under Cleveland and Mckinley and their predecess- ors. The fire shovel and pokers used in the East room cost $1,674 and some other odds and ends in this room such as electrict light fixings, gilt pieces and curtains, took from the treasury more than $15,000 additional, which sum does not include rugs, chairs and other principal articles of furniture.
 To make room for the expensive new gimcracks and gewgaws, wag- on loads of valuable articles of his- torical interest were put up at auc tion and sold for a song. Costly candelabra presented to President Jackson by General Patterson of Pennsylvania was sold to a negro. The sideboard presented to the wife of President Hays by the temper ance women of Cincinnati, was sold to brewer, as was also a magniti- cent walnut bookcase made by or der of President Buchanan from a tree under which Henry Clay had made famous speech. Members of Mrs. Hayes family, aided by Ohio women, have been trying to get possession of the sideboard but it's purchaser, who paid $S5 for it, now prices it at $15,000. For a long time 1t was on exhibition in a cheap beer hall It is less than a ssicrilegiolls hand that has been laid upon the White House and it's contents in order that q taste for responsiveness and glitter may be gratitied.
 But these things are not all the