The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-08-31


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dred, all of whom are served with
salads, cakes, coffee, punch and SIM
liar refreshments in the State dining
room. These buffet suppers are pre-
pared in the white house kitchens,
with the assistance of extra servants,
| and the number of turkeys and chick
ems and the amount of other ex-
pensive provisions consumed is
| astounding.
The State dinners, given for the
| diplomatists of all the foreign couu,
| tries and the leading American Of
ficials and jurists, usually are attend
ed by from fifty to ninety guests, who
sit at a table set in the shape of
horseshoe. There are nine or ten
courses, the cost of dinner COM
pairing favorably with that of re-
| ception.
In addition to this a presidents
| personal expenses are very heavy
Half a dozen suits Of clothes a year
| and the other furnishings needed by
man are quite sufficient for presi-
dent, but the gowns for the "First
Lady of the Land" and the white
house daughters are no mere Incl
dent. These ladies are called upon
to attend four or five functions every
week during the season in Washing
ton, and they must have ready no
less than score of becoming even
ing gowns as we'll as an extensive
stock for afternoon wear.
Contributions to charity range
from inexpensive handkerchiefs and
autographed pictures of the white
house, for sale at bazaars, to sub
stantial checks.
AS the government provides no re-
fuge from the hot weather of Wash
ington, a president must furnish him
self and his family with summer
residence, the rent to come from his
own pocket. And then there is the
cost of keeping up two establish
ments.
Because a president is so busy
with affairs of State, the work of
looking after bills generally is left
to some other member of the house
hold, his wife, daughter, or his
stenographer. The president, then,
merely signs the checks, prepared for
him with the bills attached.
Of course the president has abso-
lutte supervision over the money ap-
propriated by congress to meet GER
tain white house bills. The sundry
civil act for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1915, provided $4,000
'+for ordinary care, repair and refur-
nishing of the executive mansion,
and for the purchase, maintenance,
and driving of horses and vehicles
for ordinary purposes, to be expend-
ed by contract or otherwise" This
covers the wages of the servants,
which range from $40 to SIS a
month, the pay of the chauffeurs and
the upkeep of five white house auto
mobiles.
In the same act there is provided
$4,000 for the care and maintenance
of the white house greenhouses, $6,-
600 for fuel for the white house and
the greenhouses, and a sum not to
exceed $500 for lighting the white
house, the surrounding grounds and
greenhouses. An extra item of $3,-
900 also is carried for repairs to the
greenhouses.
Another appropriation is $4,000
for the travelling expenses of the
president, to be "expended in his dis
cretion and accounted for on his GER
tificate solely" What remains at
the end of the year of this fund, as
we'll as of the other appropriations,
stays in the treasury.
When the president travels he in
: variably occupies a private car, usual
ly attached to a regular train and
requiring the payment of twenty-five
full fares. The government owns no
private car for the president-one is
rented by the day.-American Maga-
zine.