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PURCHASES OF CLOTHING, SHOES, AND SMALL ARTICLES.

ollowing accounts, which have been copied from the books of merchants selling on credit, will serve to supplement the showing as to purchases of food. The individuals whose s are given bought exclusively from the merchants furnishing ormation. They give an exhibit of the average individual's tures for clothing and other articles than food. The accounts h one exception, taken from periods during the year 1907, in of prosperity and steady work, preceding the present depresad have been selected according to the leading races in the nity. They are not submitted as an accurate statement of living, but are considered representative of the kind and y of articles purchased by the representatives of the different

DETAILED EXPENDITURES FOR CLOTHING AND OTHER ARTICLES.

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nt paid by the individual immigrant is, of course, small, f the large number of persons who occupy a cottage or room le the rent among them. The average alien endeavors not expenditure for rent go above $1, and the landlord, on the d, seems to have departed from the usual method of fixing a point where it will yield a fair return on the amount in the house and land by placing the rental charge on the s that exist the occupancy of a room or cottage by a large of persons who divide the rent among them.

sultant income is out of proportion to the investment, and . By way of illustration, the cottages in Hungary Hollow considered. These cottages usually have three rooms, some scattered here and there have four rooms. In each of tages twelve to sixteen men live, paying a rent from $14 to month. Multiplying these amounts by twelve to get the ents, they are found to be $168 and $192, respectively. These re the equivalent of an investment of $2,800 and $3,200. inal cost of the cottages, it is claimed, was $1,500, although is to be an excessive estimate. On this basis, however, the s are receiving from 11 to 13 per cent gross. As the houses y in need of repair, practically the only deduction to be made xes and insurance. The cottages are very similar to, but ood as, those for which the southern cotton mill operatives ent of $3 to $3.50 per month.

as the rooming houses are concerned, which are conducted mercantile establishments, and in which such a large proporthe population lives, the rents are from $5 to $8 per room. an average rental per room of $5, which is a very low estimate, ntile house having 50 rooms to rent would receive $250 in per month, or $3,000 annually. This amount represents the interest payment on $50,000 at 6 per cent. In practice a case exists to substantiate this supposition. A mercantile 1 the community has 50 rooms for rent, from which it receives

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