HIGH COST OF LIVING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 24 April 1911, Page 7

HIGH COST OF LIVING

ONE DAY IN NEW YORK. The New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives a very instructive extract from a .speech made in the American Senate. Senator McCumber, as an example of the high cost of living in the I United States, incidentally gave an expense Account of a trip to New Y'ork, using the products of farms instead of dollars, as follows: Cab to hotel, six bushels of oats. Tip to driver, fifteen cabbages. Tip to elevator boy, two dozen eggs. Tip to bell-boy, iy 2 bushels of barley. Breakfast, quarter ton of hay. Tip to waiter, two bushels of potatoes. Luncheon, one sheep. Tip to waiter, \\/ t bushels of carrots. Dinner, four bushels of rye. Tip to;,waiter, one bushel of onions. ' Room, half a car of turnips. In the same connection, the same correspondent tells us that several prominent preachers, writing in the New York World, all practically agree that £2500 a year for preaching ''is not better than the £IOOO a year which Dr. Jowett is now receiving at Birmingham." •- ■»■""