Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-07

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or two items on each. the prevailing
charge is seventy-1iVe pfennige. Add
to this the price of "Getraenke" and
tip and you arrive at Il fair compari-
son Of restaurant charges in the tive
cities. OF course there are especial
delicacies on each which come much
higher. The highest price on each is
one mark ana n half with the exception
of wine and with the further exception
of three iterlS of foreign delicateSScn
on the Berlin Speise-karte.
Some idea of the cost of living to
houselleepers in Hanover, may be
found iii a few items extracted from q
grocery list furnished q month ago by
tn. konsum-Nerein.
Pest cutter, NJ. 81 Pr. per ID.
Good lard. 81 IF. per II.
Lard from America. G5 Pr. per ID.
White beans. q Pr per ID.
Fine sugar, 20 Pr per III.
coffee, | NJ. 10 to l NJ. GO.
Sage, 40 IF. yer ID.
Pork. 50 IF. to NJ. TO-
Beef So IF. to NJ. 10 NJ.
Wheat flour. NJ. for twenty-five lbs. NJ
ttNt hour, y NJ. Tor lWtntS-louf IDS NJ
S2lt herring. Pf. apiece
Eggs = Pr. apiece. or seven for fifty
rferniSt.
Condensed milk, 20 IF. for a one-pound
can.
Bread. 30 Pr for q four-and -one-hall
pound loaf.
Honey. - IF. per IL.
Milk. II IF. Ter litre.
Potatoes. :. Pr for five litres.
4 quart of distilled water weighs twS
pounds on American scales. a liter 81
t he ";4Hr weighs two pounds on Ger
man a,alts,... The. pound referred TO is
OF course the heavy German weight
of five hundred grams. coal, [ ar
toll ly Il householder here. costs one
mark and thirty pfennige per centncr
Reckoning nine German pounds a
equivalent to ten of our own, we may
say. in terms familiar to ourselves, tina
coal in Hanover sells at about fv,
dollars and sixty cents Il ton. TIL,
| householder referred to says he use:
sixty ccntner a year lie has {
| "wohnung' Of five rooms and heat:
about half Of it in cold weather. IL
| uses gas for cooking purposes.
Sine" Eiun"y is but tie measure o
| effort. the real significance Of these
prices. as bearing upon living condi
| tons. can be rightly appreciated onl,
when taken III connection with some o
| the Representative" WAGES ana othe
earnings \ public official told m'
tfat his Oldest son who is : merchan
| ~
| ceiveS an income II three thousan'
marks per annum. lie is 4 marrie'
man and lives On the l'n !bielSkiSt IN Sc
| This is in Il fine district on the caS
side Of the city in the fragrant atmos
| pIerc Of the filcnricde. lie pays 81,
| hundred marks per year for the rent o
| five rooms. q bath. and a cellar room
| The place is entirely separated from
any other tcnenont-a 'geSchlossen
| Wohnung''-and has two balconies. on
at the front ana one ut the rear.
| second son but twenty-five years .
| age and unmarried has eighteen hun
dred marks This public offria
| showed me = record of the wages re-
| ct iv,d hy Il certain workman. a mason
| by trade. in three hundred and fou
| working days, from November II, 1a0:
Ia November II. 1901. The sum tota
amounted to fifteen hundred and sixty
four marks and one pfennig. This. H.
| assured me. was an average case. IL
| stated that during that year the work
ms time was nine and one-half hour
| ser ,lay. From his records he foun
that good masons We're receiving al
. Inn Il tn
| teen hundred marks per year: Whll
| those engaged in the work of building
| tall factory chimncys receive as high a
| Twenty-Five hundred and even tire
| thousand marks Wear. a good IA
| hurrr" he said. can earn thirteen hun
drrd and fifty marks a year. com
| mon laborer'' from nine hundred /
| eleven hundred and fifty. Of cuurS
these work fewer hours per day in win
tel than in summer. one OF the record
Of n common laborer gave seventies
| marks as the earnings for six days /
| December and twentyfour marks a
| the earnings for six days in July.
these represent half-year average,
they mean ten hundred and thirty-si
marks a year.
| Rents. of the size indicated in IN
case Of the merchant first referred Il
come as high as seven hundred an
seven hundred fifty marks per year j
some parts of the city. In others. a
equal number of rooms. with less or II
a iornment can be had for from fou
hundred fifty to five hundred fft
marks per month. A man who Re
ceives twenty-five hundred marks pc
year for his own services can affor
any OF these rents, but if he receive
much less he either contents himse
with much cheaper accommodations. I
else pays the higher price and sub-lei
one or two rooms. In the renting
rooms to transients. forty marks pc
month is considered high for a goo
large room with the service Of coffe
and rolls in the morning and the blacl