News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
GREAT PROBLEM SOLVED.
now A YOUNG MAN C ,NLYR ON $500
AYEAR.
The Fall Details OF the Anair-witk Facts
and Fixsres to ProVei Is,


DAY, ana II he be Intelligent he may
earn the price at the cost of very little
! blr. ] ct US suppose that single man
Il the city of Boston puts the question
20 himself, "At what price can I live
independently by myself in small
room, or cumming with companion
II better room ~ The answer is that
5000 year is the price of very com
fJrtable substance. If he can earn
800 for eight or six hours days work,
lie will also live at a low cost, and en-
%, large modicum of leisure.
If the man is really poor, or if he de-
slres to save large part of his earnings,
the price of his life in money may even
be reduced to $3.50 year. How is it to
be done?
l, Shelter. Two men can find de-
cent room in one of several parts of Bos-
ton, tolerably furnished, which can be
hired for 500 year, or $50 for each,
including the care of the room and the
modicum of heat which they will need
an winter. If they choose to take care
OF their own rooms and to buy their own
fuel, they can do still better.
2. Clothing. If the man knows
where to buy and what to buy, he can
purchase a full and comfortable supply
of C othing, including outer and under
garments, hats, boots and shoes, over
alls and the like, at cost of $40, that
Is say, within this sum may be included
one-third part of the wear of best
oNercoat, of best pair of shoes and OF
a best suit of clothes for Sundays and
holidays; also, good, warm, wCollen
ff1r la . o = n
to be used up in the year, and all other
necessary articles of good quality. II
the man cannot afford S45 year, he
may dispense with best overcoat; and
IT he be willing to wear very durable
satlnet garments in winter he can save
from IS to S. on the $40. A very warm
and durable suit of satinet can be pur-
chased for $3.50. None of these gar
ments will be of the so-called "slop
shop" order, made at starvation wages
by poor sewing women. The fabrics
will have paid profit to the mill own
er; the making of the garments will
have been profitable to the clothier; the
cutters viii have earned SIS to $50 per
week, and the shirtmakers $40 to S12
per week. And the sewing of the wool
len garments will have been done in the
farm houses of New England, bringing
to the wives and daughters of the house
hold little money income where it is
most needed.
3. Food. From the best information
which can be obtained, the price of an
adequate supply of food served in the |
ordinary way, either in boarding houses |
or in workmen's families, is from TWEEN |
ty 10 thirty cents a day for the mere cost
of the materials How much is wasted |
in bad cooking after the materials are
bought each reader can imagine for
himself. The average cost of materials
in the cities of the East is not far from
twenty-five cents per day. On larger
scale the inmates of the jails of Massa
chusetts are supplied with food in per-
fectly nutritious and suitable manner,
the food being of excellent quality, at a
cost of materials of from thirteen to |
fifteen cents day.
Probably no single man or woman in
Boston or New York could obtain at |
any restaurant, or any cheap boarding |
house, suitable supply of nourishing |
food, well cooked, at cost of less than |
80 cents or 35 cents-probably more |
Lowell, mill operatives, who have their |
rooms elsewhere, but who get their |
meals in the factory boarding houses,
are served with good, nutritious meals |
three times a day at SLIGO to So. 80 a |
week, or from % cents to 81 cents per
day. But in these cases the houses in
which the meals are served belong to
the factory corporations, and yield little
or no rent.
1t would therefore, seem to he difh-
cult for a single man, after having ex-
pended $3.50, viz, for rent, $50; cloth
ing, S45; washing, SIS, and heating,
say $40, to obtain an adequate supply
of food without coming to the ordinary
rule of spending as much for food as
for all the rest of his subsistence, or at
least 1920 to $50. The method would
imply to large extent the substitution
OF the stew pan for the frying pan, of
oatmeal, farina, and the like for pale pie
and doughnuts, and of good, well-made
bread, like that which is sol1 in New
York at three cents pound for dyspep-
tic biscuit served hot.
The trimmings of the best Joints of
meat are now thrown into a scrap heap.
and sold in every market at from ! cent
to l cent pound, to be rendered into
fat. am assured by market man in
our principal market here that enough
meat Is wasted every day from that mar
ket TO feed 1, 900 people or more. OF
course, when people become intelligent
enough to make a selection from this
food, which is now wasted, the price
may rise in some measure But when
that which is now wasted is substituted
for sirlon and rump steak the price of
the best uts MY be rcdu G |. This is
the reason why the best cuts even of
American beef are cheaper in London as
compared with the prices in New York
and Boston. The English know how to
make use of the coarse parts of beef and
mutton much better than we do. The |
average of the whole beast is higher in
price in England than it is here. We
pay the highest price for what we call |
the best plrt, and we waste the rest, or
else it is sold at a small price to the |
keepers of the ialls, to be served to per
sons in form which makes it better |
food than three quarters of the working |
men on side of the jails can secure for a |
much higher cost. have myself pur- |
wasted, at l cent pound, in parcels of
ten pounds, ut which price the market
man said he would select any quantity
at any time. Adding to this ten pints !
of water, with suitable seasoning, Ihave |
made a rich and nutritious bouilion. Re
Jecting the bone and leaving the stewed |
meat IN the broth, ten pounds remained
oil very nutritious and appetizing food,
ut cost not exceeding 49, cents for the !
ten pounds of food, including the fuel /
with which it was prepared. 1t was
cooked in an air-tight vessel surrounded |
by hot water In the same vesscl-a
pine box-in which this bouillon was :
prepared there were cooked at the same
time seven pounds of solid beef in !
another vessel and two pints of oatmeal
N four pints of water, making in all
about twenty-five pounds of food
material thoroughly cooked with one
cents worth of kerosene oil burned in
hand lamp.
In a smaller vessel of the same kind
three pounds of solid meat can be thor
oughly cooked in its own juice in one
hour and quarter, Ic. of oil burned in !
a common lamp which may also serve
the purpose Of lighting the room while
the cooking is going on.
The singular merit of this apparatus
is that a very ample supply of food for
a large family may be put into the va
nous receptacles at night, the lamp may
be lighted, and in the morning every |
thing will be ready to be served. In |
this method no overlooked food is pos
s.ble. After the chemical changes
used by heat are accomplished, the !
flYther effect Of tho nrrl;na4;.- l.. |