Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-06
|DEFlc|T NOT LARGE TO PICK own SEATS
Cost of the Inaugural About House to Abandon Drawing of
$4,000 More Than income Numbers From Hats.
TO BE PAID OUT OF FUND FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
Subscribers Will Get All New Benches Minus Desks Will Ac
Is to 18 Per Cent commodate 456.
LACK USUAL REVENUES FOR LARGER OFFICE BUILDING
at
Burden Stands Of 1924 40oo-Temporary
Programs err Al xatby structu
Cost of the Inaugural About
$14,O 900 More Than Income.
TO BE PAID OUT OF FUND
Subscribers Will Get Back All But
Is to Is Per Cent.
LACK OF USUAL REVENUES
Abandonment Of Ball and Concerts
Put Burden on the Stands
and Programs.

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There will be deficit Of between Ii
and Is per cent to be made good of the
inaugural guarantee fund. The expendi-
lures OF the inaugural committee will be
about $4&O00 and the committee will have
taken In. when all receipts are counted, in
the neighborhood OF $4,000
These statements were made today to a
Star reporter by Corcoran Thorn, chair
man of the finance committee Of the
inaugural committee, who also said that
the guarantee fund amounted to $SS, ,0O6
AS the inaugural ball, and therefore
necessarily the concerts, were dispensed
with, there will be only two sources OF
revenue during the adjustment OF ac-
counts for President Wilson's inaugural.
These will be from the committee on re-
viewing stands. which covers the sale of
tickets, old lumber. grandstand privileges,
ETC., as one. and from the committee on
printing. which covers the sale Of pro-
grams, etc., as the other.
Largest Of Guarantee Funds.
The total amount subscribed to the
guarantee fund was larger than that SUBJ
scribed for any previous inaugural. not
withstanding the elimination of the ball
and concerts, and Mr.. Thorn said that
the committee could have had s15OO0O
for the guarantee fund il it had
wanted it.
Most OF the money for the guarantee
fund, he added, was paid in after
the ball and concerts were declared of,
but when we found that the expenditures
were going to be about $4,000 we stop
ped asking or taking money. as there
nee in koG tn vx,Ipxs vr-n
had around $4,000 In sight and knew
we would not need it.
Fifteen or eighteen per cent is not a
large deficit. There is no business man
In any city in the country who wouldn't
be glad to put up hundred dollars or
flve hundred dollars to bring q great
gathering to his city such as that which
came to Washington for this event. and
be perfectly satisfied. more than satis-
fed; in fact, to get back $S5 or $425. as
the case might be, and do the amount
Of business. In the bargain. that most
people did during the Inauguration
Subscriptions Have Increased.
It is a curious fact that the inaugural
guarantee fund has steadily Increased
since CIeveiand's time. The. guarantee
funds for -comIarativeiy recent inauktd-
rails WERE as follows:
Cleveland. $3aO00:- Mckinley, first. $47,-
600; Mckinley, second, $56 coo; Roosevelt.
$4,000: Taft. $4,000; Wilson, $6S,UO0
The figures are all approximate.
All the figures, given today by Mr..
ThOfn are approximate, as, Of course,
tho accounts OF the committees have not
yet been made up. Mr. Thorn. pointed
ont that while his duty as chairman Of
the finance committee practically ceased
with the gathering Of the guarantee
fund. he is necessarily In touch with the
finances OF the Inauguration, and that the
estimates he makes upon which to base
the probable deficit are the result Of his
own calculations In advance Of seeing the
actual reported figures.
1t is reported that the hotels OF the
city took In during the inauguration
period In the neighborfood OF 500, 600.
This estimate Is said not to include the
very small hotels and lodging houses.