The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

Uncle Sam will pay the valet
who shaves him. cuts his hair and
.e2res for has wardrobe. the maid
who -wS%5s upon his W. she groom
of his stables, land $3.50 his .~-
bic laborers; the lsN ssses
care for the Whistle Htase
and the corps of house servants
dust, scrub, wait on table and pos..
up the handle of the biz front door
But his eoachman and other servants
hired for purely personal service he
viii have 10 pay out of his own pocket;
and he will have to provide his own
riding and driving horses, as well as
their oats. But, like any other high
officer of the army, he will be provided
with an orderly to fetch and take his
mount and accompany him when riding
abroad, while petty officer of the
navy win be detailed to raise aud low
er the flag which indicates the Pres
ident s presence when flown over the
White House. Some time ago a house
servant few this flag in distress, with
the ensign down, and this signal being
Ia just cause for alarm as to the Pres
ident's safety it was deemed best to
make a regular sailor responsible
for it. II so "a
The wife of the winner of the com
ing campaign will not be worried much
Eby housekeeping details. At salary
of $500 year the government will
provide her with a steward, whose duty
it viii be to engage all servants, give
orders to the housekeeper and do all
of the marketing in government
wagon provided for the purpose. This
important functionary win be a sworn
government official. who, under the
terms of a bond of $4,000, given be-
fore he enters office, will be person
ally responsible for all government
property used in the White House. This
ine!ae4es table linen, plate, glass, furni-
ture. carpets and ornaments. When
ever the next first lady of the land
, wishes any repairs made she will SIM
ply call upon the engineer officer of
the army, who is detailed in the dual
capacity of superintendent of public
buildings and grounds and master of
ceremonies at the White House. He
will be allowed about $4,000 year
for the care of and refurnlshing of the
mansion, an equal amount for repairs,
$4,000 for fuel, $4,000 for greenhouses
and $4,000 for taking care of the White
House grounds. All food bills, includ-
ing those which the President must
contract for the four annual state BAN
quets-costing about $1,000 apiece--or
for extraordinary state dinners requlr-
ed by the presence of distinguished
foreigners in Washington, must be paid
for by the President. The floral deco
rations for these functions cost him
nothing. however, as they come from
the White House greenhouses, and the
music is also free, being furnished by
the famous Marine Band, which now
has a special dress uniform for all
White house entertainments.
HOME LUXURIES.
The home luxuries of the remodeled
White House include, on the first floor,
four magnificent parlors-the great
East Room, with its $4,000 piano,
where President and Mrs. Roosevelt
have given their musicals; the adloin-
ing Green Parlor, now refurnished in
the style of the First Empire; similar
" furnished, the Blue Parlor, where
the President receives MS guests on all
state occasions; the Red Parlor, in the
same Empire style as the other two,
and used as a smoking room for family
guests; the magnificent state dining
room. with its tapestries and trophies
of the hunt. which President Roosevelt
had enlarged to hold one hundred din
ner guests, instead of forty, and the
adjoining private dining-room. On the
upper floor, reached by an electric ele-
vator, there now are eight bedrooms;
with private bath to each suite; the
President s study and a large library,
where Mr. Roosevelt IS successor can
enjoy a valuable collection of books
gradually assembled by Presidents from
the time of Fillmore to the present time.
In the basement the new lady of the
White House will find two modern
kitchens, a large laundry and a won
derful pantry containing an electric
dish heater with a capacity of 5000
plates At the state dinners over which
she presides the viands, prepared in
her two kitchens by a caterer, will be
served on a 10000 service of Wedg
wood china, besides the new glassware,
also bought under Mrs. Roosevelt's di-
rection, and the historic silver plate
which has been collected by White
House matrons since Abigail Adams
time Cards of her guests will be
brought to her by ushers paid by the
government, while on formal occasions
guests will be presented to her and her
husband by brilliantly uniformed army,
naval and marine officers detailed as
81 social aids to the President. - She
will never have to return any calls,
and all of the petty details of cor
respondence viii be attended to by her
private secretary, if she can afford to
employ one at her own expense, as Mrs.
Roosevelt has done.
She and her husband will be shower
ed with presents from every part of the
world. Mr. Roosevelt has received
gifts from nearly every crowned head
of the Old World, and these have
ranged from menagerie of zebras,
lions. balloons and ~other wild beasts
from the King of Abyssinia, to mag
nifcent rug which arrived the other
dav from the Sultan of Turkey; but
all of these gifts from royalty he has
accepted on behalf of the nation and
has turned them over to the Smith
sonian Institution.
Despite all this, the presidency is not
vet bed of roses by any means. /