The Hocking Sentinel

Cost of the White House.
Most people believe that the $50,000 a
year which the President gets as his
salary is the sum total. This is a mistake.
The estimate of the amount which
Congress is to appropriate this year lies
before us, open at the page relating to
the President. We see that $36,081 is
asked for him, in addition to his salary
of $50,000, to pay the salaries of his subordinates and clerks. His private secretary
is paid $3,250, his assistant private
secretary $2,250, his stenographer
$1,800, five messengers each $1,200, a
steward, $1,500, two door-keepers who
each get $1,200, four other clerks at
good salaries, one telegraph operator,
two ushers getting $1,200 and $1,400, a
night usher getting $1,200, a watchman
who gets $900, and a man to take care
of fires who receives $860 a year. In
addition to this there is set down $8,000
for incidental expenses, such as stationery,
carpets and the care of the President's
stables. And further on, under
another heading, there is a demand for
nearly $40,000 more. Of this $12,500
is for repairs and furnishing the White
House, $2,500 for fuel, $3,000 is for the
green house, and $15,000 is for gas,
water and the stables. The White
House, all told, costs the country, in
connection with the President, considerably
over $125,000 a year. -San Francisco
World.