The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-21
Fourteen of Is Staples Are
Dearer to LabOrer.
ONLY SUGAR HAS DECREASED
Retail Price in February Com
pared With Decade.
Relative List of Costs in Cities
Over Country.

Washington. June 21.-Every princi-
pal article of food except sugar of the
Is staples representing approximately
2-3 Of the expenditure for food by the
average working man family, showed a
decided increase in retail price on Feb
Is, 1913 compared with the average
price for the ten year period. $780,
1899, according to the test investiga-
tions of the statieticians of the bureau
of labor. Sugar was As per cent, smok-
ed bacon was 11-6 per cent higher. In
creases in the other food articles We're:
Sirloin steak. sos per cent, round
steak, S4.5; rib roast, 62.7; pork chops,
S94; smoked hams, 691; pure lard,
623; hens, 66.6; wheat flour, 27.4; corn
meal, 5S1; strictly fresh eggs, 56;
creamery butter. 63; white potatoes,
% s; fresh milk, 40.1-
The prices were collected in SO i'm
portant industrial cities in which live
one-fifth of the total number of people
in continental United States.
There was an advance of 80 per cent
over February 15, 1912, in the relative
prices weighed according to the aver
age consumption of the various arti-
cles of food in working mems families.
Retail prices of February Is, 1913, COM
pared with those on that date in 1912,
in the principal cities show:
Sirloin steak increase-Boston, 10.1
per cent; New York, 17.3; Atlanta, 106;
Chicago, 13.A, Kansas City, 17.9; New
Orleans. 14.S; Denver, 12.1; San Fran
cisco. 23.0; Seattle, 1876.
Decrease-Dallas, 0.8 per cent. Round
steak, increase-Boston, ~ per cent;
New York. 17.6; Atlanta, 11.S; Chi
cago, 1875; Kansas City, 2O.1; Dallas,
56; New Orleans, 26.7; Denver, 1913;
San Francisco. 300; Seattle, 1875. Rib
Roast, increaTe-Boston 20; New York,
1856; Atlanta 10.7; Chicago, SIS; Kan
sas City. ia; Dallas, 6.S; New Or
leans, 5.S; Denver, 1875; San Francisco,
15.9; Seattle. 27.1.
Pork Chops, increase-Boston, % per
cent, New York, 23.9: Atlanta, 107; Chi
cago. 22.6; Kansas City, 23.3; New Or
leans, SO; Denver, 200; San Francisco,
pa; Seattle. 80.
Decrease-Dallas 21 per cent.
Smoked bacon, increase-Boston 25.5
per cent; New York 13.5; Atlanta 1872;
Chicago 11.6; Kansas City 5.S; New
Orleans 7.3; Denver III; San Francisco
eS; Seattle 1877.
Decrease-DaIlas II.
Pure lard Increase-Boston 2o.5; New
York 1O.4; Atlanta II; Chicago 81;
Kansas City 1853; Dallas 11.9; New Or
leans 155; Denver 213; San Francisco
2L5; Seattle IFS.
Hens, increase-Boston 14.2; New
York rs; Chicago 14.0; Kansas City "A;
New Orleans Al; Denver 9.S; Seattle
%.
Decrease-Dauas 5; Atlanta 1913
Wheat flour, increase-Atlanta 2.S
per cent; Dallas 2.1; New Orleans 3.9;
San Francisco rs; Seattle 4.6.
Decreases Boston 81 per cent; New
York 90; Chicago 1870; Kansas City
so: Denver Go
Corn meal, increase-Boston OIL per
cent; Atlanta 0.6; Chicago O.S; Kansas
City 35; Dallas As; New Orleans 119;
San Francisco 5.4; Seattle 4.S.
Decrease-New York / per cent;
Denver 2.5-
Strictly fresh eggs. decrease-Boston
1919 per cent; New York us; Atlanta
19.1; Chicago 2O.6; Kansas City 1875;
Dallas SIS; New Orleans, 50; Denver
rs; San Francisco Ii; Seattle 5.1
Creamery butter. increases-New
York city 81 per cent; Atlanta 1917;
Chicago 81; Kansas City 1913; New
Orleans 10; Denver 40; Seattle 81.
Decreases-Boston 9.5; San Francisco.
%.
White potatoes. decrease-Boston
40 per cent; New York no data; At
lanta 28.6; Chicago S9.1; Kansas City
35.S; Dallas 206; New Orleans 221;
Denver 49.4; San Francisco 4O.4 Seat
tie 1913.
Sugar. decrease-Boston 155 per
cent; New York 14.7; Atlanta 20.2; Chi
cago 1913; Kansas City 1876; Dallas 1877;
New Orleans 15.4; San Francisco 17.3;
Seattle 1872
Milk, increase-Boston L6; New York
IA; no change at Atlanta, Chicago,
Kansas City, Dallas. New Orleans or
San Francisco. Decrease-Seattle S.3
per cent.