Show ' L INCOME AND OUTGO How Revenues of the Nation Are Collected and Spent Jacob Hysler of New York Has Shaved Five Presidents Has Strict Rules on Subject of Conversation for His Men— Generous and Persons Wh Have Patronized Him New York— To have shaved five presidents of the United States is no mean distinction This honor belongs to Jacob Hysler who started in business at Ninth street and Broadway just 62 years ago Thirty-fivyears ago he followed the course of business and moved his establishment to the Windsor hotel where he remained 23 years and for the past 12 years has been at one of For many the biggest uptown hotels years he had the barber shop in the United States hotel at Saratoga Mr Hysler Is the sort of man who turns a trade into a profession and it is doubtless due- to this fact that he has enjoyed an exceptionally disHe is a tall tinguished patronage t genial man who carries his 75 years lightly and whose face is adorned with silvery white mutton-chowhiskers Mr Hysler’s establishment requires who the assistance of 17 barbers He also emshave 300 men a day ploys a large number of manicures "One of my strictest rules" Mr Hysler said "is that no barber in my employ shall enter into conversation with a customer unless the man in the If chair shows a disposition to talk the customer is talkative the barber who is attending to his wants is privileged to take part in the gabfest’ The five presidents shaved by Mr Hysler were Gen Grant Chester A IMMENSE SUM EXPENDED YEARLY It Takes an Enormous Sum to Run the United States Government for One Year— War and Navy Departments Are Especially FROM CU5T0M5 $286113230 ' Costly to Taxpayers— Some Figures netted $954304 and the small tax of two cents a pack on playing cards ' brought in $459680 t Other Sources of Revenue The other sources of governmental revenue are of great number and Infinite variety although the amounts derived are comparatively small In the last fiscal year the sale of public lands netted $9731560 and the profits on coinage bullion deposits etc amounted tp $1122333662 These are the two large items of income after customs duties and internal revenue taxes The District of Columbia turned into the United States treasury the sum of $606297096 which represents of the amount appropriated by congress for the maintenance of the District government Under the system which prevails the United States of the cost of the Dispays trict government The amount paid by the District includes all amounts raised from ' taxation license fees etc Fees of all sorts including consular letters patent etc brought into the treasury the sum of $522299492 There was received from the immigration fund the sum of $338889457 The Central Pacific railroad indebtedness was partly liquidated by the payment of $509822741 and the federal tax on national banks brought in FROM CONSULAR TEES 15JZL9H93 19 There were numerous other items which were classed under the general head of “miscellaneous receipts" They included $117775270 which was a payment of interest by the Pacific railways $1329791 received from the sales of government property received from Judicial fees fines etc in the federal courts $607004 received from customs fees fines penalties etc and a host of other items to one for $12864 running which was the amount received from the proceeds of town sites in the reclamation service How the Money Is Paid Out The disbursements of the government for the last fiscal year may be bulked lnder the following general headings: $175420408 Civil establishment establishment (IncludMilitary 175840452 ing Panama canal) 118037097 Naval establishment Jacob Hysler 4 7 t Arthur William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt and William H Taft He Fairhas also shaved banks and Sherman and William J Bryan and Alton B" Parker Among other notable men who have submitted' to Mr Hysler’s razors are Moses H Grinnell who backed Elisha Kent Kane’s search for the north pole Sir Henry Mv Stanley the African ex- Gens Franklin Smith and plorer Banks and the present commander of the department of the lakes Gen Frederick D Grant also Gens A A Chaffee II C Corbin and Nelson A Miles His older customers included Pierre Lorillard Cornelius Fellows W C 'Whitney Jay Gould William H Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt and their sons Harry Payne Whitney George Edwin Frank and Howard Gould Alfred Cornelius Reginald (Frederick George W William K and jHarold Vanderbilt continue to him The late John T McCall of the New York Life Insurance Paul Morton of the Mutual and (Henry M Hyde of the Equitable have (sat in hi3 chairs Other distinguished patrons have been Mark Twain Frank Munsey James Gordon Bennett William Randolph Ilearst William and John D Rockefeller John D Archbold Andrew Carnegie Charles M Schwab George Westinghouse Thomas Edison Joseph H Choate W’hitelaw Reid Gen Steward L Woodford J Pierpont Morgan Prince Auersperg George Perkins who married Miss Hazard Frank H Hitchcock George B Cortelyou the late Bishop Henry C Potter Bishop Greer Bishop McFall of Trenton and Bishop Duane of Albany Ogden Mills A H Kissam M C D Borden President Diaz of Mexico Govs Odell Hig gins Flower and Hill of New York and Douglas of Massachusetts Speaking if tips’ Mr Hysler remarked that the men in his employ are treated generously by customers "The average tip is ten cents Sometimes they get a quarter "One of the most generous men who came to me was W C Whitney who besides giving a present to his barber every month presented him every summer with $100 for his vacation Another very liberal man was II H Rogers who every Christmas gave a generous gift to each of the barbers and manicures' view ASHINGTON— of the fact that congress has been struggling with the question of raising millions of dollars of additional revenue for the next flrcal year so that when June 3(5 1910 rolls around there will be no staggering deficit of $80000000 more or less to meet such as will have to be met at the end of the present fiscal year two months hence a resume of just exactly what it costs to run the United States government in one year together with some facts concerning the existing sources of revenue' is interesting The only basis of such information if detailed and accurate figures are to Is obviously to be found be given in the reports covering the fiscal year In which ended on June 30 1908 that year the receipts and disbursements of the government were as follows: In Receipts elusive from all sources of postal) (exclusive Disbursements postal) Deficit (exclusive of postal) (ex- 1(50112611853 of 659196319 68 6807020115 The two great sources of income are of course the customs duties and the internal revenue taxes For that fiscal year the government received $28611313029 in customs duties and $25171112670 in internal revenue if taxes' Thus more than the total revenue is received from these two sources An analysis of the Internal revenue receipts shows that $140158807 was received from the tax on spirits from the tax on tobacco and $59807617 from the tax on fermented The tax on oleomargarine liquors Pensions Indian service Interest on the public debt 153892467 14579755 21426138 The general heading “civil establishment” covers the cost of Maintaining the three great- - branches of the government the legislative the executive and the judicial During the last fiscal year there was disbursed for the maintenance of the legislative branch of the government the sum of $13788886 This includes the salaries and mileage of the gensenators and representatives eral salary account of both the lower and upper houses the cost of maintaining the library of congress the botanic garden and the capitol and the maintenance and cest of operating the government printing office of This last item is about this general appropriation the amount Tomb disbursed on its account during the year having been $6394810 Salaries ot High Officials The amount disbursed for the executive department proper that is to say for the salaries of the president and for the salaries and contingent expenses of the executive office and for the salaries and expenses of the civil service commission was $404523 Under the general heading of exare included ecutive disbursements the disbursements for the maintenance of all the great executive departments of the government including the war and navy departments but not including the cost of either the military or naval establishments The state department required the expenditure of $3745562 to pay salaries and expenses of its officials resident in the United States and the demands of our foreign Intercourse with all The treasury department its varied activities expended $64201-52This includes the cost of the maintenance of the departmental offices of the mints and assay offices of the territorial governments of the internal revenue service of the revenue cutter service of the public health and marine hospital service of the life saving service of the bureau of printing and engraving of the commerce commission of the national museum and of the Smithsonian institution not to mention a host of other less inconsequential lines of activity For the Army and Navy The war department expended on salaries and office expenses and on the maintenance of public The navy debuildings and grounds partment spent $743136 on salaries and office expenses of the interior The department spent $25475412 In addition to salaries and office expenses this was expended for the public lands service the geological survey the colleges of agriculture the reclamation fund and a number of other fields of federal activity over which this department exercises supervision The department of agriculture spent $1460764 for salaries and office expenses for meat inspection for the forest service for the purchases of seeds for the expenses of plant indusinvestitry and the cotton gations for the agricultural experiment stations and for the weather bureau The department of commerce and labor expended $14850228 This includes salaries and office expenses and the cost of maintaining the bureau of labor the bureau of standards the census bureau the coast and geodetic survey the lighthouse establishment the bureau of fisheries the steamboat inspection service and the immigration service It cost $9093846 to run the judicial This went for the salardepartment ies of judges district attorneys marshals clerks etc the fees of jurors and clerks of courts the support of prisoners and the miscellaneous expenses of the United States courts Thus expenses of the judicial branch FOR4' lvv AGRICULTUff COST $13460764 the government are really included the disbursements for this depart ment Military Establishment The more important items of expense which go to make up the $175 840452 expended on the military establishment during the year were ai follows: Pay department $32982606 department quartermaster’s Panama canal $38093425 improving rivers $19513880 improving harbors $10643768 ordnance depart ment $11456861 subsistence depart ment $6439915 engineer department $4568593 National Home for Disabled Soldiers $3945098 Military academy military posts $1912635 $1602185 enmedical department $1455816 campment and maneuvers army and militia $1014196 The principal Items included In the naval establishment disbursements oi the wardrobe and articles of toilette $118037097 were: Increase of the of the young wife Mirit had carried navy $27468655 pay of the navy with her to the grave a dozen boxes $25492613 bureau of equipment $10some of which contained clothing of $8617939 bureau of construction and the finest material carefully folded 376 bureau of supplies and others had in them combs bureau of construction and powder boxes vases and nicknacks — Scientific repair $7192521 bureau of yards American and docks $5772537 bureau of steam marine corps engineering $5549155 $5595253 bureau of navigation $3 Handing In His Decision 742246 Naval academy $980628 "Well Sir” began the budding novThe following detailed Items will elist who had come to see about his give some general idea of the princimanuscript "I suppose you have by pal expenditures made for the Indian this time finished my latest effort service the total amount for the year and — ” being $4115540 fulfilling treaty obli"Pardon me young man" broke in gations $2163390 funds the editor "I confess I have not I current and contingent-expensecommenced it but It was such an $855686 miscellaneous exeffort I couldn't finish it" penses $2498897 of in of Ancient Engineer The Italian Egyptologist M in the course of recent excavations in the Valley of the Queens discovered intact the tomb of the engineer Kha architect of the mighty buildings at Thebes and of his wife Mirit The tomb contained two huge sarcophagi with a mummy in each and also a large number of objects of to domestic use buried according Egyptian custom with the dead and tools utensils including furniture clothes boxes of linen jewels etc From an inscription on a papyrus over 16 yards long found in the tomb it appeared that husband and wife had died within a few days of each other and were buried together Among the most interesting objects In the tomb were the numerous boxes containing tst A V |