Evening star., 1920-04-04
FOOD PRICES IN D. c.
|. LEAD IS BIG CITIES
Greater Here by 8 Per Cent,
Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics Shows.

rood products in Washington on
January Is cost about per cent more
than in sixteen other large cities of
the country, 1t is shown in tabulated
food prices for nineteen cities in the
United States made public last night
by the bureau of labor statistics
We're higher here tina In most of the
other large cities, food prices as a
whole in New York and Philadelphia
were higher than those in Wash
| ington
At the same time retail prices of
food obtained throughout the coun-
,, try show that on January Is. 1920
the cost of twenty-five articles of food
was per cent higher than on Decen-
Der IS, 1919. 9 per cent higher than
IN January. 1918, and 144 per cent
higher than in January, 1913
While food purchasers in Washing
Ton PAID ~ cents pound for sirioin
steak on January Is, 1919. buyers in
Seattle. Wash. paid but Sc cents. and
puEers in San Francisco paid but 80
GEMS cent, for the same articles. while in
I Philadelphia the same price of 40
cents obtained. and in New York the
price was 43 cents. the report says.
| Round steak cost more here than in
| all other cities but New York Phila-
/ delphia and Boston, house wives in the
. u,
as against "A cents here and the same
price in Philadelphia and New York
Articles Cheaper Here.
/ AS against these prices Washing
tonians paid less for canned salmon
nut margarine and bacon. while they
| paid more for rib roast. chuck roast
/ plate beef. ham, lamb and hens than
buyers in most other large cities OF
the country. according TO the report
AS to prices. the report'say vs.:
During the month from December
10. 1919. to January Is. 1890 twenty
nine of the forty -four articles of food
| for which prices were secured in 1913
! increased Is follows: Cabbage, 33 per
| cent; potatoes. 26 per cent; granu-
lated sugar, 23 per cent: onions, II
| per cent; lamb and rolled oats, per
cent each: hens. per cent: plate beef
| 8 per cent; flour, per cent; sirloin
steak, rib roast. chuck roast. bread
and cream of wheat. per cent each;
| round steak and raisins. 3 per cent
each; canned salmon and rice, per
| cent each: ham, evaporated milk
macaroni, baked beans. tea, coffee and
| bananas. l per cent each. Bacon. nut
margarine and cheese increased less
than five-tenths of l per cent each
| The eleven articles which de-
| creased in price were: Strictly fresh
| eggs. per cent: butter. per cent
., lard and canned tomatoes. 3 per cent
each; pork chops. storage eggs and
oranges. per cent each; fresh milk
| canned corn. canned peas and prunes
! l per cent each
! "Oleomargarine. corn meal corn
-, fakes and navy beans were the same
| in price as in December. 1919.
| During the year period, January,
1919, to January. 1920, twenty-five of
the forty-four articles for which
I nricPS u
| creased as follows: Onions. 120 per
| cent; cabbage, 9S per cent: potatoes
SO per, cent; granulated sugar, 65 per
cent; taisins. SO per cent; prunes. AZ
per cent; -four, 23s per cent; rolled
oats, is per cent: canned salmon. 16
| per cent. and bananas. IL per cent:
oleomargarine and strictly fresh eggs
10 per cent each; bread. per cent;
fresh milk and Corn meal. 6 per cent
each: evaporated milk and storage
! eggs. 4 per cent each: lard and
| macaroni, per cent each. and lamb
and tea, / per cent each.
Articles which decreased in price
| during the year were: Navy beans,
IS per cent; plate beef. 16 per cent;
bacon, IA per cent: canned tomatoes,
II per cent; chuck roast and baked
beans, 10 per cent each: pork chops,
! 8 per cent; ham and canned corn. 6
! per cent each: round steak. per cent
rib roast, 4 per cent; cheese and can
| ned peas, 2 per cent each; and sirloin
steak, nut margarine and oranges. !
per cent each. The price of corn
fakes was the same as in January
1919"
| A recent review Of prices issued as
! of March Is by the bureau shows
that prices in Washington had drop
ped six-tenths of one per cent. and a
little less than 1 per cent all over