Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1902 — Work at the White House. [ARTICLE]

Work at the White House.

Aside from the President’s salary nnd the expense of keeping the White House in repair it costs the government only abont $65,000 a year to operate the establishment. Of this amount $50,000 Is expended In the salaries of the thirty men on the executive pay roll. These range from tho secretary to the President, with a salary of $3,000 a year, down to messengers and doorkeepers, whose pay is in some instances perhnps one-tenth that sum. The remaining $15,000 defrays all the other expenses—the replacing of worn-out office furniture, typewriter repairs, stationery and feed for the half dozen horses in the Wlilto llouso stables. Of course the executive office has tho benefit of many economies beyond the reach of the thrifty merchant For instance, all official mnll is franked, saving approximately S2O a day. Special telegraph and cable rates are also secured.—World’s Work. Fqrty-flve hours constitutes a tfeek’i wort for women pud girls In New Zealand. Massachusetts bos 4,500 reglsterel physicians. ' *