Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-23
pENROSE CLANS PLAN NEW
ATTACK ON BRUMBAUGH

! regarded them so would have been
| after them when the vouchers were pre.
sented to me for payment
Following are some OF the items.
| september 90. 19l6-Two pair auto pog
gies, ggi, Front-Market Motor Supply Company,
| Harrisburg, $3.50.
September 27, i916-one hundred and
! seventy dinners at Juniata College (natnes
! OF diners omtted). S2i25O.
September 6, 1916 Board of Lewis Snv-
der and Walter Mclean probably SER
! vants) at Pocasset House. Wayne. Me, July
! 4 TO September 6, $l45O0
! September 25, l9l6-Taxicah hire, Phlla-
! deIphia Tone daH), American Taxicab Com
! pany, S25.OO
August | to October t. 19l6--Itemized
! account showing expenditures Of Governor
| ana guests at Lewiston. Poland Springs
! Breton Woods, Hanover, Greenfield Spring.
! field. Stockbridge. Poughkeepsie Milford
! Water Gap. Philadelphia. Lancaster. New
! YORK Huntingdon, Scranton. etc including
! charges for meals lodging. garages. oil
! gaSullhe, drawing rooms sleepers Pullman
| chairs, bellbuys, porter service telephones
! extra servant hire. extra meals taxicabs
| guides, books, magazines. newspapers serv-
! ices of physicians. kilograms. telephones and
| many 'inctdentals." Total $l566.9S
| Inc Governor does not appear to have
! Deen III Harrisburg much during this time
| nut the bills from grOcers, butchers ice
| cream stores. fruit stores, Iaundrymen and
| tailor arrived as usual, and were paid bv
| the state out Of The Executive Mansion
! fund' also out Of which the Governors
| expenditures noted above were being paid
The phonograph in the Governors Man
| sion Is evidently supplied with records at
| the states expense for an Item in one Of
the vouchers shows that the j. II Troup
music house was paid 81 for records
The Governor charged the State S76 % as
| his personal expenses for gong to phila-
| delphia to attend the funeral of eX-GOvernor
PeunypaCker September 4 to g. lie also
| charged the state $5.92 for kilograms Incl
| dent TO the eX-Governor's death
William H. Ball. the Governors seCre-
! tary, also collected hundreds Of dollars for
personal expenses incurred in the service of
his chief.
CIGARS BY THE HUNDRED
on October 30 and 81 last, d. D. Harry.
a local cigar merchant. furnished the Gov.
ernor with S67 worth of fine cigars The
State paid the bill. on September 26 one
month previously, Mr.. Harry furnished S46
worth of cigars and tobacco to the Gov
ernor. Mr.. Harry's bills appear also with
frequency in the vouchers. The kind of
cigars the Governor smokes are expensive.
one brand, of which he buys 100 at a time.
cost twenty cents each. The cigarettes the
Governor buys cost twenty cents a pack.
They are named after one of the Pharaohs
a well-ltnown but long dead induger in
Egyptian luNuriousness. On May 2S, 1915,
the Governor got SG6 worth of cigars and
cigarettes from Harry, the state, as usual,
paying for them.
The Governor gives his suits to two
tailors to press clean and repair. one of
them Is Fred s. Lack. of Dewberry street
another is a. j. Sims. Each charges
enty-fNe cents to press a suit Beginning
with the Governors induction into office
two years ago these talOrs have rendered
regular bills to the State for pressing and
cleaning and repairing the Governors suits.
The state paid without a whimper.
on one of his trips to New England the
Governor evidently promised to send Win
st0n Churchill, the novelist picture. lie
did The State, in consequence, paid to
William II. Rau. Of Philadelphia, the sum
OF S1.50 for photograph sent to Winston
Churchill, Windsor Vt"
PULLMAN SEATS AND TAXIs
Voucher 55, check for SlOO to James s.
Hiatt, dated July |, 1915 for travelling ex-
penses of Governor and private secretary.
covered the following:
Pullman seats 81.
Mileage books, Pennsylvania Railroad and
Philadelphia and Reading Railway, $45.
Gasoline, SO.
Two railroad fares winthrop to New
York, $500.
Meals en- route. SS.01N
Hotel, taxi and messenger $40
Two tickets, Portland to North Leeds,
S31O.
Two stage seats ana expressage. $3.50.
Chauffeur S.
voucher Sc. check for S2S699 to NJ. G.
Brumbaugh, dated July 9, 1915. for Mansion
expenses, June and part Of July. covering:
l.. G. Clancy, fruits and vegetables,
slO10.
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
butter. $3.50
c. b Hassler. milk and cream. S2O.9S.
A. H. kreider & Brother, groceries,
S35O56.
Peerless Hand Laundry, s4,22.
Russ Fish Market fish and game, $11 20.
A. J. Simms, pressing clothes, S426.
T. G. Slabach Company, meats, S2S.4O.
c. Smdebaker, groceries, S24.93.
Guy S. Vogt, meat, S1S,44
Voucher 60, check Tor 500 to James s.
Hiatt, dated July II. 1915. for travelling
expenses, Governor and private secretary:
Service. hotel, Philadelphia, So.
Porters and services, Philadelphia, So.
Toll to Philadelphia, S1.O2.
Taxi, Philadelphia, $3.50.
Service, so cents.
Telephone. so cents.
Meals, $40.
Taxi, $500.
Pullman drawing room, Winthrop to New
York. $40,
Drawing room to New York from Phila-
delphia $3.50.
Drawing room, Harrisburg to Philadel-
phia, $3.50,
Lunch $3.50.
Mileage, S22.50'
Cigars, Jub 70 Zone day., $3.50.
Pullman, 80 cents.
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