$360 00 $30 00 $100 00 $ 8 00$ 50 00 $644 00 $116 00 250 00 No. 125 00 15 00 100 00 20 00 299 00 $49 00, No. Total earnings over expenses by 61 families....... Total expenses over earnings by 73 families.. Total number of families whose earnings covered, expenses...... 147 694 $65,402 05 4,058 75 69,460 80 68,992 30 468 50 5,410 55 4,942 15 13 4.72 $444 91 162 31 472 52 469 33 3 11 REDUCTION IN COST OF LIVING SINCE 1873. In response to forty-four, requiring the per centage of reduction in prices of the four leading items of household expenses, rent, fuel, groceries and clothing, one hundred and forty-five returns out of five hundred and seventy-five (twenty-five per cent.) furnish the figures given in the following table. A comparison of the three leading cities, namely: St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph, shows that while the returns. from Kansas City show an advance of one hundred per cent. in rent. and fuel, five out of thirteen report a reduction of twenty-three and thirty-eight in groceries and clothing; the reduction in all four items in St. Louis and St. Joseph were nearly all the same in both cities. The returns are tabulated for convenience of reference: |