The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16
Yachts, Horses, Servants and Furn-
iture.
Thanks to Mr.. Roosevelt, His Successor Will Find
Presidential! Roses to Offset Thorns.

ter will pass to their trains without
exposure to platform crowds This
suite has retiring room where the
Chief Magistrate may rest if his de-
parting train be late or where he NAV
arrange his toilet after leaving his ear,
and there is also an elegantly decorated
apartment where he can meet official
guests OF the nation or be met by
functionaries welcoming him to the
city, as at inaugural time Under the
same roof is branch police station,
and another has been put in the new
east terrace of the White House. 1t
occupies the left wing of the new pub,
lie entrance. The public, now admitted
to this wing instead of to the north
doorway used by the presidential fam.
lily, views the museum features in the
space beneath the rows of bay trees
and is admitted upstairs to the east
room, but no further; so the President
may now pass downstairs to one
of his drawing rooms without dedg-
ing some crank or zealot who
might wish to buttonhole him.
The exterior of the building is
guarded by thirty eight policemen, and
to Mr.. Roosevelt s great chagrin, the
President is no longer allowed to go
out of sight of the Secret Service men.
To guard against another Mckinley
tragedy, this branch of the govern
ment detective force has been enlarged
and made more adequate, and these
detectives are the only government en-
ployes who can safely disregard the
President s orders Were they to obey
them religiously they would keep out
of his sight.
So Uncle Sam will take pretty good
care of the man who wins in the No
vember contest. His life will not he
all fuss and feathers and humdrum and
grind. If he wants to take sea trip
to get away from the shop he will have
ever at his command a luxurious yacht,
the Mayfower, of $500 tons, for which
Mrs Ogden Goelet originally paid
$500 900, and which she sold to the
government for $450,000 during the
Spanish war. This has been refurnish-
ed to meet the demands of Presidents
and their guests, and it has a crew of
nine officers and 104 jackies. Mrs.
Roosevelt and her children availed
themselves of this craft several winters
ago for a trip to the coast of Cuba.
The next President will have at his
command also the smaller presidential
yacht Sylph, on which the Rooseyelts
have made occasional trips down the
Potomac and on Chesapeake Bay. At
tached to this latter vessel is a seven
teen-knot auto boat, designed at the
Norfolk Navy Yard especially for the
use of presidential families When of
fetal guests of the nation are enter
tanned aboard these vessels the con-
tingent fund of the Navy Department
can be drawn upon to cover the ex-
pense.
The future President will also enjoy
less restraint as to where he may go
on these cruises, and this freedom, too,
he will owe to Mr.. Roosevelt, who has
established the precedent that will al
low future Executives to leave Their
native waters when they see fit, just as
he has established the others allowing
them to go aboard forei IN warships CT
to visit foreign embassies and legations
in Washington.
DOCTORS BILLS PAID.
November victor will have no doc
tors bills to pay, for, being the com
chief of the army and navy, |
he may call on regular surgeons, part /
of whose official duty it is to give med /
zeal attention to officers and their fam
lilies.
To keep petty details away from him
he will have an office force receiving
SCI 900 a year, headed by a private
secretary paid $4,000 a year, and to pay /
for such contingent expenses as station |
cry, record books, reference books, tel |
eGrams, office furnishings, maintenance .
of office horses, carriages, harness, etc, |
he will be allowed 100000 a year. HIS
official correspondence will go free IN
the mails. and his secretaries will open
all of his letters save those containia5s
the private mark confided to his rela-
tives and very intimate friends. Only
of Importance viii
ever be shown to him. the others being
referred to the different departments
of the government. His secretaries
will have forms for answering the
various letters which remain in his NJ
fee. and he will have to dictate in
dividual replies to only a small per
centage.