Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-02-27
Mansion in Bad Fix.

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1t doesn't take long for a business
building or a residence to get COM
|pletely run down unless almost month
ly or yearly attention. repairs or addj-
tons are made. Everybody knows
that who has had ownership exneri-
ence with such property. or as an ocL
cupant only.
The following report of the special
committee appointed to examine he
condition of the Governors Mansion
owned by the State and OCCUPIED nv
many OF it's chief executives as tenants
by election, shows how badly it needs
immediate attention and the expendi-
ture OF considerable cash to make it
decently habitable and to preserve
a fine building from decay. The com
msttee, n its report to the Senate
said:
We visited the Mansion in a body
and were shown over the entire build
ing and made a most careful examina-
ton of it and the furnishings therein:
we examined every hall, room, bath
and other apartment of the building.
and from such examination found that
the interior of the building is in great
and imperative need of repair, such as
the interior, wainscoting, doors, win
dows, stairways and doors throughout
the building, need to be worked over
with some kind of finish so as to re-
store and preserve same.
The walls of the building all need to
be worked over and in some of the
rooms they are so cracked and other
wise in dis-repair that they will have
to be papered, or else be made anew.
A number of the carpets in the build
ing should be discarded and new ones
supplied, while all other carpets in
the building need to be taken up and
thoroughly cleaned and renovated.
The curtains and shades to most Of the
windows on the first floor are old, fad
ed and worn and should be discarded
and new ones supplied.
"The linen supply is insufficient and
needs to be replenished. The china
and tableware is wholly insufficient.
The building is practically without any
tables, and at least a dozen good sub
stantial tables of different sizes are
badly needed.
THE kitchen is in need of a number
OF articles as well as in bad need of
some repairs. The refrigerator used
in the building needs to be discarded
and a new one purchased.
w find that the building also needs
a number of chairs, sofas and settees.
Our examination also disclosed that
there are a number of articles of fur
niture in the building that are old and
worn and otherwise unfit and unsuited
for use and should be disposed of to
the best advantage possible. We have
endeavored to obtain estimates as to
the amount that would be required to
make the needed repairs upon the
building, and to supply the necessary
furniture, but this has been difficult to
do as the Judgment of those consulted
differ, ranging from fifteen thousand
dollars as the highest estimate to
twenty-five hundred as the lowest es-
innate, the last named sum not includ-
ing the purchase of any new furniture,
or if any, but very little.
"Our committee. bearing in mind
that our State has so many institutions
to provide for, and further realizing
the. present condition of our State
Treasury, decided to adopt the lowest
| estimate hereinbefore mentioned, and
in accordance Herewith we recon-
mend that a special appropriation of
twenty-five hundred dollars be made
at once to be expended upon the re-
pairs of the Governors mansion e
hereinbefore referred to-. and we fur
ther recommend that such furniture
as may be found to be unsuited and
unfit for the building be disposed of,
and anything realized from it be used
as a supplemental fund to the twenty
five hundred dollars here recommend
ed"