7. The erection in the national military park at Gettysburg, Pa., of a memorial tablet to Abraham Lincoln.

8. Executive and disbursing officer of the Sheridan Statue Commission.

9. Since March 6, 1901, executive and disbursing officer of the Grant Statue or Memorial Commission.

10. Since May 4, 1901, the same for McClellan Statue Commission. 11. Since August 11, 1901, in charge of the portion of Potomac Park between the tidal reservoir and the Washington Monument grounds, and between Seventeenth street and Virginia avenue NW., and Maryland avenue and Fourteenth street SW., called hereafter Monument Park Annex; since November 25, 1903, of the portion between the Virginia channel of the Potomac River, the tidal reservoir, and the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge; since June 11, 1906, in charge of the portion between the tidal reservoir and the sewer canal; and since April 4, 1907, in charge of a strip of section 1 of Potomac Park about 165 feet wide adjacent to sea wall on Potomac River side and extending from the mouth of the Seventeenth street sewer canal northwestwardly to the mouth of the Easbys Point sewer at foot of Twenty-third street NW.

12. Since July 26, 1902, in charge of the erection of a monument at Fredericksburg, Va., to the memory of Gen. Hugh Mercer.

13. Since December 17, 1903, executive and disbursing officer of the Pulaski Statue Commission, and of the Von Steuben Statue Commission.

14. Since May 6, 1904, executive and disbursing officer of the Jefferson Statue Commission.

15. Since June 22, 1906, executive and disbursing officer of the Barry Statue Commission.

16. Since December 24, 1906, executive and disbursing officer of the Longfellow Statue Commission and executive officer of the Kosciuszko Statue Commission.

17. Since May 18, 1907, executive and disbursing officer of the Columbus Memorial Commission.

ORDINARY CARE, REPAIR, AND REFURNISHING OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.

Diplomatic Assembly Room, ground floor. The walls, ceiling, and woodwork were painted.

Diplomatic Ladies' Cloak Room, ground floor. The walls, ceiling, and woodwork were painted.

Congressional Ladies' Cloak Room, ground floor.-The walls, ceiling, and woodwork were painted.

Electricians' room, ground floor.-The walls were touched up and painted.

Toilet rooms, ground floor.-The ceiling, walls, and woodwork were touched up and painted.

Steward's Room, ground floor.-A steam radiator was placed in position and connected.

Guard Room, East Terrace.-The floor was varnished.

Carridor, ground floor.-Portions of the wall were touched up and painted.

Entrance to elevator, ground floor.—The door and door frame and glass doors were painted.

Service stairway.-The walls from the ground floor to the second floor and the iron railing and iron work of the stairway from the ground floor to the attic were painted.

The entrance vestibule. The old paint was burned from the windows and they were painted.

The Private Dining Room.-The ceiling was cleaned off and painted, the old paint was burned from the woodwork and it was repainted; the walls were repainted and the hard-wood floors cleaned and varnished.

The State Dining Room.-Portions of the sashes were painted and stained.

The butler's pantry.-Portions of the woodwork were painted. A steam radiator was placed in position and connected with the steam pipes on first floor.

Main corridor, first floor.-The walls were touched up and painted. Elevator landing, first floor.-The door frames were painted. Main stairway.-The walls were touched up and painted. Hard-wood floors.-Those in the East Room, Ushers' Room, first floor, and in the elevator car were filled and shellacked.

Large northwest bedroom.-The ceiling was washed off and repaired, covered with muslin, and painted. The walls were cleaned and painted, the hard-wood doors cleaned and varnished and parts of the mirror frames regilded.

Room east of above. The ceiling was cleaned off, pointed up, sized, and painted; walls, woodwork and window scerens painted, and hard-wood doors cleaned and varnished.

Large southwest bedroom.-The ceiling was cleaned off, covered with muslin, and painted; the walls and woodwork painted; the hardwood doors cleaned and varnished and parts of the mirror frame regilded. The woodwork and ceiling of the passageway leading into southwest dressing room were painted.

Room west of Library. The ceiling was scraped, repaired, covered with muslin, and painted. The walls, woodwork, and window screens were painted; the hard-wood doors cleaned and varnished, and parts of the mirror frame regilded. The walls and woodwork of adjoining bathroom were also painted.

Room east of Library. The ceiling was cleaned off, pointed up, sized, covered with muslin, and painted. The old paint was burned off from the woodwork, and it and the window screens were painted. The hard-wood doors were cleaned and varnished.

Corridor, second floor.-The ceiling from the east end to the west end was cleaned off, sized, covered with muslin and painted. The burlap on the walls at east and west end was retinted in dark green to its original color. All the woodwork from the main stairway at the east end to the west end was painted.

Alcove Hall, second floor.-The ceiling was cleaned, covered with muslin, and painted.

Room east of Alcove Hall. The ceiling was cleaned off, pointed up, sized, covered with muslin, and painted. The woodwork and window screens were painted and the hard-wood doors cleaned and varnished.

Passageway to elevator, second floor.-The walls and woodwork were painted and the hard-wood doors cleaned and varnished.

Southeast bathroom, second floor.-Work was commenced in June, 1907, for retiling this room. The plumbing fixtures were taken out, the tile removed and placed in condition for retiling.

Exterior of Mansion.-In August, 1906, the exterior walls were washed off and the top cornice tuoched up in spots where the paint had chipped off. In September places on the walls where the old paint had chipped were painted and the coping around the north portico was also painted. In June, 1907, work was commenced for repainting the entire exterior, and by the close of the month the old paint had been burned off from about three-fourths of the north front and the surface given a priming coat. Work was also commenced scraping the balustrade around the roof and burning off the old paint from the south portico and giving it a priming coat.

Plumbing, heating, and lighting.-Increased facilities for washing down the exterior of the Mansion were provided by running 550 feet of 14-inch galvanized iron pipe around the roof balustrade and placing 14 valves on the pipe at intervals for attaching hose. Necessary attention was paid to the plumbing fixtures during the year, minor repairs made as required, and the large water filters regularly cleaned and maintained in good order. The 5-inch rain leader under the floor of the attic was fastened up with iron hangers whereever found insecure.

Radiators and pipes for hot-water heating were installed in two workrooms and in a small passageway in the west end of the west terrace, and connected with the heating boiler in the basement of the Executive Office building. Necessary attention was given to the entire heating plant, and it was maintained in efficient working order. Attention was paid to the lighting system, minor repairs made, and burned out electric lamps replaced with new lamps. A defective section of the main lighting cable leading in from the dynamos in the State, War, and Navy Departments building was cut out and replaced with new cable. Chandeliers and other lighting fixtures were cleaned. Gas was run into the guardroom at the east end of East Terrace.

Carpentry, glazing, etc.-Minor carpentry repairs were made, doors eased, locks repaired, and keys fitted. Some repairs were made about the elevator, and the dumb waiter from kitchen to butler's pantry was overhauled and put in good order. Broken glass in windows throughout the Mansion was replaced with new glass.

Furniture and furnishings. The furniture was cared for, cleaned, and slight repairs made where needed. In the autumn carpets were relaid, lace curtains and window and door draperies were rehung, and the house put in order for the winter. In May, 1907, carpets were taken up, cleaned, and stored at the storehouse on Monument grounds, window and door draperies taken down, cleaned and packed away in boxes, and window awnings put up.

Social functions.-The work devolving upon this Office in connection with these functions was performed in December, 1906, January and February, 1907. These functions were: One tea, three dinners, one day reception, four night receptions, and two evening musicales. For the night receptions the furniture was removed from the rooms on the drawing-room floor and attendants provided for the hat and cloak boxes and the dressing rooms on the ground floor. This latter

was also done for the musicales, and in addition chairs placed in the East Room for the guests. For the dinners the tables were placed in position, and the usual floral decorations provided. After all of these functions the house was restored to its usual condition. For use at the night functions an electric carriage call was placed upon the roof of the East Terrace, and two sets of telephones, with necessary connections, put up temporarily for calling carriages at the south entrance. These were all removed when no longer needed.

Inventory of property.-Sundry civil act approved April 17, 1900 (vol. 31, p. 97), provides:

And hereafter a complete inventory, in proper books, shall be made annually by the steward, under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, of all the public property in and belonging to the Executive Mansion, showing when purchased, use to which applied, cost, condition, and final disposition, to be submitted to Congress with annual report of officer in charge of public buildings and grounds.

In compliance with this law an inventory has been made and is submitted with this report as Appendix A. It shows the total quantity of property on hand at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, the quantity purchased during the year, what was disposed of during that period, and the total quantity on hand June

30, 1907.

Executive office building. The hot-water faucets in the toilet rooms were connected with the laundry boiler in the West Terrace, in order that there might be a supply of hot water at all times. The hot-water boiler in the basement, which formerly supplied these fixtures in the winter months only, was removed. The hard-wood floors in some of the rooms were filled and shellacked. The large water filter in basement was disconnected and removed, being no longer needed, since the city water supply is already filtered before it reaches the supply pipes. Some of the door frames, doors, slat doors, washboards, and one mantelpiece were painted. Repairs were made to the windows. A hot-water boiler was placed in the basement and all necessary connections made. The plumbing and lighting fixtures were maintained in good order and some minor carpentry repairs made. Leaks in the roof were repaired. The attic room was rewired, so that the electric lights therein may be distributed where required. The asphalt pavement at the north front of the building was repaired, the area resurfaced amounting to about 20 square yards. Stable of Executive Mansion. In the stall rooms on north and south sides the old floors and floor joists were taken up, new joists put down, and a new double floor laid. All new work was painted. The old waste pipes were removed from the south side of the stable, and a new watering trough placed and connected with drainage system. The sink in kitchen of living rooms on second floor was connected with new waste. A new valve and pipe were placed for flushing the trough in the rear of the stable, and the new troughs on either side of the building were connected with sewer. The watering tank on north side of stable was reset. The plumbing fixtures were maintained in good order during the year, minor repairs having been made as required. The hall way between the two stall rooms, the base of the brick wall in the harness room, the two kitchens, the pantry, bathroom, and the entrance to kitchens were all painted, and the stained woodwork in the latter rooms was touched up and var

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nished. Broken window glass was replaced with new glass. tions of the iron fence at the front of the stable were scraped in June, 1907, preparatory to painting it.

Stable of Public Buildings and Grounds.-Minor repairs were made to the plumbing and to the gas fixtures.

Greenhouses, Executive Mansion.-These houses are located at the Propagating Gardens on the Monument grounds. Necessary care was extended to the collection of plants, and they were maintained in good condition. Decayed woodwork of plant benches and other parts of the houses was torn out and replaced with new materials and painted. Other necessary painting was done and broken glass replaced with new glass. Heating boilers were overhauled, repairs made, and flue pipes cleaned. The dirt floor of the bay-tree house was lowered 12 inches by excavation, brick piers built under the center posts supporting the roof, a brick and cement gutter with sewer trap laid along the interior of the south wall, and new guttering put up on the north side. Two old boilers were removed from the furnace room under potting shed, and replaced with a new boiler, which was connected with flow and return pipes. In the two new rose houses the wooden purlins were replaced with galvanized-iron pipe, supported on iron-pipe posts. Braces were placed across the west end of the houses to make the roofs and sides more rigid. The old rustic siding was removed from these houses, that which was in good condition painted on the outside surface and with necessary new material replaced on the sides and ends of the houses. The grounds between and around the houses were maintained in a cleanly condition.

Grounds of the Executive Mansion.-These grounds were maintained in good condition. Lawns were mown, roads, walks, sidewalk pavements, gutters, and drain traps cleaned. The macadam roadway at north front was repaired with crushed stone as required, and the gravel roads in the south grounds were repaired with fresh gravel. Bare places on lawns were loosened up and seeded. large Norway maples were planted in the south grounds. Three hundred and ten cart loads of manure were spread over the lawns in December and raked in in May and the refuse removed. The shrubs and beds of plants were mulched with manure.

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In the Colonial Gardens south of the East and West terraces the grass was cut, gravel walks rolled, cobble-stone gutters cleaned, and 14 feet of them taken up and relaid, hedges trimmed, climbing roses and vines tied, dead and broken limbs removed from trees and shrubs. In the late autumn the bay trees on the roofs of the East and West terraces were taken down, hauled to the Propagating Gardens, and placed in the bay tree house for the winter. Their places on the terraces were filled during the winter and early spring months with evergreen trees in tubs and boxes, which were hauled from the Propagating Gardens for the purpose.

In accordance with usual custom the grounds were opened to the children on Easter Monday, April 1, 1907, from 9 o'clock a. m. until 1 o'clock p. m. for the "egg rolling." After the grounds were closed they were cleaned up and the rubbish removed. The cost of this extra cleaning, and the work which was done in putting up the wire protection for the shrubbery, etc., amounted to about $20.

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