Evening star., 1920-02-01
FAMILY FOOD COST
ROSE IN NOVEMBER
Average Expenditure In.
creased in All But Two of
Fifty Cities Examined.

+ The averag ge family expenditure for
| food in Washington increased ave
tenths of per cent i'm November the
! bureau of labor statistics announced
/ fYeste rday. w hile this rise was indicat-
ed in the National Capital the average
| family expenditure for food rose in an
but two of fifty cities in the United
States from which reports Of food
COSTS were obtained. These cities were
New Orleans and Louisville
In ten cities the expenditure in
| creased ! per cent: in eighteen cities
per cent each and in ten cities !; per
cent each. In Birmingham. Memphis
Houston, New York and rtland. Ale.
, the increase was per cent, in Dallas,
; per cent. and in Mobile. : per cent.
During the year period. from Novem-
Der. 1918. to November. 1919 Mime
apolis showed the greatest increase. or
IL per cent.
Three cities decreased as compared
with year ago. as follows: Balti-
more. per cent; Newark. l per csn,t
and New Haven. less than five-tenths
of | per cent. As compared with the
year 1913. the cities showing an in
crease of 100 per cent and over were
; as follows: Washington. u. G. 100 per
cent; Richmond. Detroit and Charles
ton. 1e1 per cent each: Mem
phis. 1872 per cent. and Birming CHAM.
1o4 per cent The average family ex-
during November, 1919. in Washing
ton. was s711.22. as against $7OS.0I
in October. 1919.
steak Cheaper in Other Cities.
Relatively few food articles in
/ Washington in November cost les
than the same articles in other cities
and in most cases they cost more in
the capital. While residents of this
city were paying AZ cents a pound for
CT L hSfl l..
. Wash. and of San Francisco. CSl.
were paying but 30 and 20 cents. re
spectirely. The same article COST ~
cents in Philadelphia and ~ cents I'm
New York.
Pork chops cost less here thaw in
many cities along the Atlantic sea
board. the bureau reported. Va, lie
eggs were about the same here Al $ the
national average. Potatoes cost NJ ss
| in Washington during November than
IN most cities of the country, while
butter averaged higher by about >
cents than in other cities.
Situation Summarized. y
Taken as whole. the retail prices
of twenty-five articles of food show ed
an increase of per cent in the United
States in November as compared with
october. The increase as compared
with the 1913 average was SO per
cent The articles which increased in
the month from October to November
were; Eggs. 13 per cent: onions and
sugar, 10 per cent each; raisins. . per
cent: butter. per cent; storage eggs
and prunes, per cent each: canned
salmon, fresh milk and potatoes. .
per cent each: rice and bananas, = per
cent each: evaporated milk. oleomar-
garine. cheese, lard. Crisco. bread
flour and macaroni. L per cent each.
tea and coffee, less than five-tenths
of l per cent.
The following articles decreased in
price: Pork chops. per cent; ham
per cent; bacon. per cent: round
steak. plate beef. hens. navy beans
and oranges, = per cent each; sirloin
STEAK. rib roast. chuck roast. lamb
baked beans. and canned corn, j per
cent each.
showed an increase of 3 per cent for
November. 1919. as compared with
November. 1918.