Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-30


: still getting not very much more than
/ his hundred crowns and the older man
! or employe IS getting only little
moro than his six thousand per year.
/ 1T can be seen that when thest
amounts can only buy what one can
/ buy in the United states for thirty
! dollars and eighteen hundred dollars
| respectively there is some reason for
complaint about the increased cost of
! living.
! Prices Go Up.
! Prices have increased about as
/ follows: Carfare IL the same. as the
/ company gets its power from noun
tain streams which run all the time.
war or no war. Reduced to United
States currency, coal costs about ten
times as much per ton as before the
war MIX has gone from five to
eight cents per litter. bread from
4, eight to eleven cents per loaf, eggs
from twenty-five to forty-eight cents
per dozen Meat has doubled in
price. IT now sells at from thirty
three to fifty-fiye cents per pound.
Pending and projected strikes and
lockouts in the various trades have
not tended 10 help matters much,
however. the government has inter-
coded In these matters now and hopes
are entertained that these questions
can now he adjusted.
To encourage thrift. the municipal
ity has secured control of most of the
vacant lots of the city and has let
them to industrious citizens in small
tracts for very moderate sum for
the present summer season on the
condition that they be planted TO po-
tat0cs or other staple foodstufIS. Dur
ing the past month, the holders Of
these tracts could be seen industrious
~ working in the evening twilight,
for al this latitude, even as early as
May |, 1t is not dark until after nine
in the evening In June and July
there is quite enough light to read by
all night
Another matter which may be not
ed is the high rate OF interest when
banks here pay on savings accounts;
viz -four and four and one-haH pei
cent. American gold is selling at a
very low figure at the local exchanges.
Previously one could get about thir-
weight crowns for ten-dollar gold
piece; one can now not get more than
thirty-three or thirty-four crowns.
English pounds sterling are not any
better off, while German marks are
still lower. Russian rubes due II Is
understood, 10 having been placed on
paper-or-p promise TO pay basis, are
lower than any of the others
Banks Change Methods.
All sorts of financial adjustments
have to be made on account of pres
cnt unusual conditions. Banks when
heretofore have provided funds for
tt.,s, in bA oh n
first mortgages now find II more pro-
fitable to buy up government obliga-
tions of various kinds, and are there
fore not aiding house construction as
heretofore. on account of the rapid
growth of Christiania, this has made
the housing question a rather serious
one to the inhabitants. House rents
have increased at least fifty per cent
and as leases expire they are general
il renewed al the higher figure.
In order 10 raise funds Tor new
buildings, builders and property own
ers are now inviting prospective ten
ants to subscribe to shares IN new
apartment houses. Permission 10
lease an apartment of a proposed new
building ut a certain fixed rental,
goes with the sale of certain mum
Der of shares. In the leasing of apart
ments in numerous buildings now be-
ing erected for completion before win
ter sets in, ii is necessary TO purchase
about 5000 crowns in stock in order
10 secure the privilege of renting an
ordinary modern apartment OF from
four to six rooms.
Congestion Of Freight.
Down on the water front the docks
are piled high with different Kinds OF
freight. Pig iron from Sweden, AM
erican cotton-seed oil, flour, cotton,
automobiles and machinery of various
kinds. All ocean going steamers, eX-
cept the English, have their names
painted in huge letters along the en-
tire side of the ship with the national
flag painted at each end. No German
boats are noticed for while they do
occasionally make the trip within the
three mile limit along the coast or
Sweden and Norway from Denmark,
the risk is pretty high and freight to
and from Germany is therefore gen
orally sent by rail through Sweden
and Denmark A new German mo-
tor car shipped from Strassburg was
noticed. Presumably on account OF
the scarcity of rubber, the tires were
made of series of detachable wooden
blocks bound together with steel
band like flexible wooden chain.
the car was run off the dock by ils
own power and the vibrations over the
Belgian block pavement did not APP
pear to he excessive.
Political opinion here is divided
There is very little high strung argu-
mentative kind of party feeling. Nor
way has never suffered from the
growth of German power and the
people therefore are more inclined 10
view the war in the spirit of pas
sive bystander Anti-German feeling
shows itself over the invasion Of Bel
GUM and the apparent disregard Of
the lives OF neutrals. Anti English
feeling centers around English espion-
age and the illegal interference with
neutral mails between neutral coun-
tries. Passenger and mail vessels are
now regularly boarded by British Of
ficers and conducted by them through
the mine fields to Kirkwall in the
orkney islands where mail is removed
for inspection by the censor, who then
forwards matter not considered detrl-
mental to the allied cause to lis des-
tination