CANADA TAXPAYERS AROUSED
New York Times. Dec 3, 1893.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 2. -- That the Governors General, their stair, traveling expenses, and official residence have cost the Dominion about $3,000,000 since confederation twenty-five years ago -- an average of close on $120,000 a year, exclusive of interest -- is not generally realized. When it was alleged a little while ago that Lord Aberdeen, upon a brief inspection of Rideau Hall, had decided it to be inadequate to accommodate his large retinue of servants, and that he would like the Dominion Government to make an addition to the hall, there was a howl in the press.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ROOMS
New York Times. Feb 18, 1893.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. -- When Mr. Cleveland came to Washington in the early morning of March 3, 1885, prepared to take the oath of office as President or the United states, he went at once to the Arlington Hotel, where a suite of three rooms had been prepared for his use, in what is known as the "Pomeroy annex." Across the corridor in the "Sumner annex" another suite was placed at the disposal of Col. Lamont and his family.
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