Show WASHINGTON OUT OF FUNDS Kit It IT of UN Ill Country for tur lIoney IODe- A recent publication of or the letters of ot George I Washington to 10 his private secretary secretary sec sec- Tobias Lear Indicates that Phil Phil- Philadelphia adelphia Is about the same now as In Inthe Inthe inthe the days das of the first President Wash Washington ht ington lon accepted Zio n U t year ear as President President dent on the assumption that It would Just about pay his Ills expenses In maintaining main main- taming the dignity of the nation He lie seems to have hll supposed that he could get gel t along alons like on any private citizen He Hp was soon Moon unde In the letters let let- tors men mentioned t the hI President t pou pours rs ou out t the agony of his soul because of his position He lie says flays that he can not live livens as ns well as the ordinary citizen on or n a wear vi nor entertain ln so much nor so well aside from front state tate dinners a as' as these as-these these private gentlemen livery very one cheated him He lie paid ex exorbitant exorbitant OX- OX or rent it cost him hire enormously ly for furniture provisions pro servants and travel el It I Is commonly said Mill th that t Washington was the richest man mun of his day but most oC of his i property ty was wa unproductive In ht net fact the 1111 father r of his country was hard up most of the time Ills His servants servants NV ants stewards and officious friend f were worn extravagant to 10 degree a lie had to 10 hire double th the requisite number of servants whom he declared lI to be the th most expensive t and Incompetent ever 01 known his slaves tried to leave e a him hint and h he 11 desired to In hire short squat Dutch Duch servants sr at Ir e every vacancy but hut buttens was tens anxious to make mak a n close clos bargain with them Ills plantation at ut Mount Vernon 1 did III not lIot pay expenses because ho was continually continually con con- ro robbed bell If he ht sold grain or to- to o ha he Iw got the lowest price rand and a 1111 sometimes never got ot the mone money prom prom- hwd Ills tenants refused to pay rent renton on farms both hoth In 1 Virginia irgInia and Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania his houses hO In Alexandria went to 10 rack Ills hi- hinds hands In th the West cst wt were r at I any price Brice Moreover loro all nil fi lends friends and desir de desiring lr- lr many ninny strangers Were re constantly ing log to borrow mom y at tines times when he was b behind In his bills bills Philadelphia Inquirer |