New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-21
NEW YORK STATE BUYS
COSTLY LINEN FOR DIX
Economy, Taxpayers Friend,
Departed from Executive Man.
sion When Governor Went In.
SHEETS BILLED AT $47.25
Controllers Vouchers Show Ia
bic Cloths at SAT, Napkins
at $42 a Dozen-Crests
Charged Extra.

In the name Of economy-that fetch
which was most sOlemnly invoked by Gov
ernor John Alden Dix as candidate and
also In his inaugural speech-how about
this. Sheets bought for the Executive
Mansion a $47 % a sheet, pillow cases at
SIT 80 each. table cloths at $47 a cloth
and napkins at sac a dozen. The hard
cold facts are contained in vouchers on
file in the Controllers Office in Albany
These vouchers show that in June OF
this year 1856 IS was paid to an i'm
porter in this city for table linen, bed
ding and pincushions and for the marking
of the same In September $685. go was
paid TO the same firm for additional table
and bed linen and for marking the same
with the crest of the opulent State OF
New York. This last bill was rendered
on July 81. There is nothing to indicate
what the next one will show.
But what must the poor grooming tax
payer think of such purchases-in the
name Of economy?
How can William Sulzer, who freely
Acknowledges that he is plain man and
a friend Of the common people, continue
to aspire to the occupancy Of the EXecu-
tive Mansion after he learns that II is
stocked with sheets at s47 25 and pillow
cases at SIT So each? And how can he
ever desire TO rest his humble head upon
a crest Of the state that cost 50 to en-
brOider?
Among the vouchers upon which the
last item Of 1866 90 was paid In Septern-
Der was one for purchases made on May
"A, according to the records. At that
time the tastes Of the purchaser for the
Executive Mansion did not run quite so
high as they did in the following month.
There was one sheet for s34 and two
more, triAe smaller, for S26 each. There
were .wo pillow slips at IS 80 each and
two pillow cases at 81 65 each.
There were no crests placed on these
articles. They were probably considered
only plain. ordinary garden variety Of
linen. II cost only IS cents 10 mark each
sheet and 80 cents TO mark each pillow
slip and case.
But the splendor and magniflcence were
10 come. when on June p were purchased
one sheet at SAT 25, two sheets at 1872
each. two pillow slips at so ~ each and
two pillow cases at ST. 81 each. These
were altogether too splendid to go with
out the official seal Of the state done In
the most expensive style. To mark each
sheet cost 50, each pillow slip So 20 and
each pillow case So 20,
It was on July &c that the standard OF
the napery at the Executive Mansion was
raised by the addition Of the following
pieces: Four table cloths at s47 each and
three and one-half dozen napkins at S42
d dozen. OF course, the crest of the
state Of New York. showing that the arti-
Giles belonged to the taxpayers must needs
be placed on these linens de luxe. II cost
50 TO mark the cloths and 81 80 each to
mark the napkins.
Meanwhile appropriations for good
roads and other state Improvements were
being cut IN the name Of economy, and
even at that the expenses Of the Dix ad-
minlstration have exceeded by millions Of
dollars those Of former Republican ad-
ministrations.