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CENTRAL CITY MARKET
IS URGES IS GUT HIGH
FRIGES ATLANTA PAYS
Government Estimates Show Gate
City Second Only to Boston in
Living Expenses-—Shopping Condi
tions Barrier to Effective Economy.
Why is thF rnst of living higher in j
Atlanta than in any other city of
the United States, Boston alone ex- j
cepted
Careful and widespread investiga
tion by th*- Federal Government, im
partially distributed throughout the
Union, places Atlanta right near the
top notch as an expensive city in
which to Jive, and although explana
tions of this unsavory indictment
have been many and varied, no one
of them has seemed to explain com- ;
pletely and convincingly.
And yet. there must be some rea
son why the coat <»f living is rela
tively so-high in Atlanta In Atlan
ta. wh< re, of all places. It should be
at least as reasonable as the average,
if not below the average, taking into
consideration th*' very many advan
tages Atlanta unquestionably has as a
place of residence.
Some of Atlanta’s marketmen
frankly admit that the Government’s
figures do Atlanta no injustice what
ever. They say the cost of living 1«
high in this city, and that they can
not help it or. at least, if they can
the way has not yet been shown
them
Other market men vehemently deny
that there is anything whatever about
Atlanta's marketing situation that
differentiates it conspicuously or un
favorably from any other city, and
that the Government figures simply
make a mountain out of a molehill, .
to Atlanta’s senseless discredit
Various reasons are assigned for
the high cost of living in the Gate
City of the South.
High Living Blamed.
Atlanta people merely are high
livers, and pay the price because it
suits them to do just that; the farm
ers do not diversify their crops suf
ficiently to make Georgia independent
of the outside world, which they
might do easily enough; Georgia
farmers do not raise beef, and for that
reason the city is dependent upon the >
West for its meat supply, and this ,
runs up the cost of living tremen
dously; rents are abnormally high in'
Atlanta, and the merchants have to
add to their margin of expense suf
ficiently to take cure of the rent, of
course, and this the consumer neces
sarily pays, cotton crowds al) other,
lines of agricultural Industry so close
ly that many foodstuffs must be ob
tained from sources beyond the State,
at a higher rate of expense than
would be entailed If wheat, oats and
corn were raised at home; butter,
that might be made in Georgia, is not
made h* re in particularly apprecia
ble quantity, and that keeps the price
of butter up; freight rates are dis- |
criminatory, and people do not shop t
Intelligently, anyway!
These are a few of the reasons
why Atlanta, according to local mar
ketmen, has been handed the doubt
ful award of being next to the most
expensive city in the United States
in which to live.
Whatever the cause may be for the ,
high cost of living In Atlanta, how
ever. on*- thing seems to stand out
undisputed the cost of living is some
high, all right ’
The One Vital Question.
Indeed, there is no topic in which
the public, the home makers, espe
cially. Is s » vitally and *ompellingly
interested as this problem of living
within the family income.
The people of Atlanta are much
more seriously concerned with the
question of how to live on their daily,
weekly or monthly stipends than they
uro with whether Mayor Woodward
is a “cheap skate” or Dr Lincoln Mc-
Connell “a coward!”
They will hearken much more in
terestedlx to a sensible dissertation ,
on how the cost of living may be
brought down, even a little bit. than
thex will to why sornebod.x sent His '
Honor a lube of carbon dioxide in
stead of a nosegay of tuberoses.
What Mr. and Mrs. Atlanta want to ■
know, above all things else nowadays. '
is how they may live within their in
come and lay. by something for a
rainy da\’
As the matter stands, they not only
are “up against it” to the limit every
month, but constantly are in dread
that conditions may grow to be even
worse
And Mr and Mrs. Atlanta are not
pessimists far be pessimism and ’
ouch from them!
The\ believe in their home town—
they have been swearing by. and not
at, this fair city for years, and they
propose to proceed right along that
optimists and primrosed path in the
futur*
• ; is only t'.iat t’ie\ ar* able to see;
the point when Atlanta fs unfavora
bb held ui » comparison with other
cities \nd it ever has been their
abilits to meet outside criticism fair
ly and manfully, to recognize unto
ward tonditions and to remedy them
enthusiastically, that has made At
lanta th. great and wonderful citv
it is.
It is not “knocking’’ Atlanta to say
that such and >uch a condition ex
ists her* that ought not to exist, and
that does not exist In some other
<reat cities
The truth doesn’t hurt any city that .
Is frank and honest with itiself and
with it- neighbors and friend*.
Must Face the Question.
7- quanta is honest with itself and*
with Its neighbor- and friends, which t
•very’ patriotic Atlantan prepared
to affirm it is. then then can come
no harm, even if there comes no ■'
good, of facing this question of the
high cost of living openly and above
board.
After all. that is a quest on con- j
cerning Atlanta more, in its imine- '
diato aspects, than any other \ j
Th*- problem to he solved in •, ir
cumstances of the present cost ol \ '
Ing is universal, and Atlanta’s • i i
1s not astonishingly high or disturb- |
Ing. from many points of view, wd • u
th* entire situation is taken into cor
sideration.
A number nf explanations of the
situation !n Atlanta have been pro
mulgated ■' *\: • ited In the public
prints. 1 ’i*-s*- explanations
mig be joined -pologie» and ex
cuses. others logical and rational :
I statements of fact, and still others
shots in the dark.
Maybe the farmer might relieve the
status of affairs by diversifying his
crops. He haw had that preached to
him for many years, and hr has of
late shown some inclination and dis
position to accept the advice and sug
gestions. Whatever he has done in
that direction, however, the price of
food steadily has advanced, never
theless.
Maybe rents ar" a tittle stiff in At
lanta. but landlords are not going to
1 lower rents so long as the demand
for store space in Atlanta is growing
more and more insistent; and no
body wants to throw any obstacles
In the way of progress in the city -
particularly that quality of progress
Imitated in continuously increasing
real estate values
Many Atlantans are high livers,
relatively speaking, but the average
citizen will deny the impeachment
vociferously, when put to the- test,
and no doubt his denial will be right*
teous enough, and his ability to prove
, it ample.
Maybe freight rates are too high.
The chamber of Commerce might
i look Uito this, maybe.
Maybe a lot of things, of course
and yet. no one maybe thus far
thrown out appears to suggest a rem
edy guaranteed to produce material
results
Old High < ’oat of Living remains
right on the job. grinning in mockery
and derision, the while Atlanta hems
and haws over the whereforeness of
old High Cost's why!
Estimates Are Truthful,
This writer has talked to many
persons of late concerning the prob
lem revealed to Atlanta In the recent
more or less disconcerting Govern
ment figures with respect to the high
cost of living.
The Government’s estimates are
truthful they were based upon hon
est Investigations scattered all th*
way from Maine to California. No
body undertakes to dispute or ques
tion them. They concern themselves
Iv Ith various staples of life house
hold necessities that can not be dis
pensed with In the average house -
hold without serious discomfort both
to health and happiness
Very few people expect or antic I
pate any considerable reduction In
the cost nf living because of th**
enactment of the* new tariff law. Per
haps that will save a few dollars here
and then*, taking the year’s outgo as
a whole, and perhaps It will gave a
good many If th** latter comes true,
it will be a pleasant and agreeable
surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Atlanta
‘ who are hoping
Not very many house holds are fig
tiring next year’s expense account
Upon the new tariff schedules, how
ever. Ask the first ten persons yob
meet and see if anyone of them is
taking the* new tariff law seriously
into consideration as a possible factor
in relieving perceptibly the present
expc use of living
What. then. If anything, CAN be
i done to bring down the expense of
living in Atlanta”
Well, there is one housekeeper In
Atlanta who has some notions about
things, and her Ideas ar** worth con
sidering. for the> suggest .< metho i
whereby conditions may be remedied
in a measure in Atlanta, If not tre
mendously relieved.
Work of Housekeeper.
This woman, who is the wife of an
Atlantan receiving a monthly salary
of 1150. and the mother of three chil
dren. talks after this fashion:
“The questions of freight rales. 11-
v* reification of crops and the like* arc
things for the business nun to set
tle, I think, and no doubt each has Ils
• specific bearing upon the cost of liv
ing Inasmuch as the* men are .is
deeply concerned In this problem as
the women the one the bread-w In
i' ners and the other the bread-dis
tributors inaide the family I take It
that they will not shirk the respon
sibility of regulating those things »n
due season.
"My business is to distribute the
mom \ m x husband giw eg me for
housekeeping purposes intelligently,
economically and with as great re
sults as 1 possibly can manage. Notn
i ing distresses me more than to think
, that I have frittered away or used to
small purpose so much as a dime of
the hard-earned salary m\ husband
provides for the home and its up
keep.
“We have just so much in* orr»»
every month. I know exactly wnat
house rent is. approximately what
light« and fuel will cost, what mus’
go to the church and the Sund •>
j school, what pleasure is to have
awarded to It—for wc «pend some
thing ’hat wax and what must go
into the savings bank for life insur
tnce. taxes and fixed charges of that
kind
"M\ husband puts, and rightful’v.
the responsibility of shopping m i
marketing on m*-. I should not r
spec t him so much as 1 do if he didn’t.
And then, having put the responsibil
ity there, he turns me loose and he
never ‘makes a holler’ if I fall to get
the maximum of result from th** min
imum of financial *ffort. That, per
haps. is one thing that snakes ne
feel so bad when 1 know, away down
•in my heart, that I haven’t done the
very best that might be done with ny
household money
“The worst obstacle 1 find in dis
i pensing mx houg* hold funds intelli
gently is th*- apparent impossibility
of really intelligent marketing In At
lanta.
Good Food Hard to Find.
1 do not think the quality of food
I sold in Atlanta always is al! that it
should be. Now. 1 do not mean by
| that that I think it is not possible to
obtain the v»r\ best of food in \t-
I lanta—for I think It is—but what I io
mean is that it Is next to impossible
, for the average marketer, which 1 im.
Ito locate the best that may be ha 1
: for a given sum.
Take the average display of t'ool
stuffa in average Atlanta mar
k .nd gi > r\ stor 1> it ir
watc ■ I tltii
maxbf that t'.i'Tr has been a scgfi ity
COST OF LIVING INCREASE SHOWN
IN THE LARGEST CITIES OF U. S.
rrtHH tuble xhotci the piicrx iharged frrr xeven xtaple fir-
i tii It xuj ff>fj<i by rlcalrrx of thr mmr rank in fifteen of' the lary
ext eitiex m the country, according to figurex compiled by erpertx
of the llcprrrtment 'if Labor. The total in the laxt column xhonx how
mu< h the conxumci in each of the fifteen citicx paid for hix order of a
pound of xirloui. round xtcal:. prwk chopx, ftacon. ham. eggx anil cream
ery butter.
Sirloin Round Pork
Steak. Steak. Chops. Bacon. Ham. Eggs. Butter. Total.
Boston ... 38 .35 .24 .28 .32 .35 .30 >2.22
ATLANTA .. . .27'/i .20 .22'/ a .37 .22'/ a .30 .40 1.99'a
New York .... .25 .22 .24 .28 .31 .<1 1.96
Cincinnati ... .28 .25 .22 .30 .30 .20 .42 1.97
Los Angele* . . . .25 .20 .25 .30 .35 .20 .35 1.95
Seattle ... .22 .20 25 .30 .30 .40 1.92
Denver .. . 22'2 20 20 .35 .30 .25 .40 1.92 2
Baltimore ... -24 .22 20 .28 .30 .24 .40 1.88
Kansas City . . -25 .20 .22 .30 .30 .20 .40 1.87
Chicago ... .25 -20 .18 • .30 .30 .20 .40 1.83
Charleston ... 22 .20 20 .25 .28 25 40 1.82
Buffalo 24 20 21 22 - 22 -25 .40 1.79
Washington . . .25 23 .22 .25 .20 .22 .42 1.79
Cleveland 25 22 .22 .26 21 .22 40 1.78
Detroit ,-26 •» 23 23 2 * 22 .39 1.66
■--
■if good, plump, sound tomatoes, for I
Instance, this year, but 1 have not seen
It so stated anywhere. Yet It is a
fact that nowhere in Atlanta, with I
perhaps an o< i asional exception, has
it been possible to see the best of
them on display this season.
■ The price of tomatoes In Atlanta
may be the same as the price of >-
tnaloes in Nashville, and yet if Nash
ville gets a belter tomato for the mtn
money than Atlanta gets the Atlanta
housekeeper Is the loser.
“Truck gardeping seems to have b.
come a lost art around and about At
lanta. In the remoter residential sec
tions wagons fresh from the farms
visit households occasionally, an I
sweet, tender vegetables, fresh eggs,
country butter and the like may be
had but the total sum of this sor* of
shopping in Atlanta is relatively notn.
ing.
Small Store! Big Price.
“If a housekeeper has to pity even
the downtown price for produce thus
ac<|utred. tt hii li she doesn't, she has
saved money, nevertheless, for sh<
has obtained a more wholesonu
article of dlei more often than not.
and she has received It fresh from
the farm, besides saving the tlnn
and carfare of a rtlp downtown.
“She depends upon the neighbor
hood grocery store for nothing much
more than the small necessities, for
experience has taught her that shi
can not expect much more In thnl
quarter. She realizes that the small
grocery of the neighborhood must
charge a maximum price in order
to live at all. She has no possible
quarrel with the neighborhood gro
cery—she merely knows it is not a
particularly inviting place in which
to make her pennies stretch very far.
"What, then, is my remedy? 1 have
set up numerous objections to shop
ping conditions as they now exist In
Atlanta, and it Is 'up to me.' I sup
pose, to sty what I am going to do
about it!
“I can tell you what I would LIKE
to do about It. and what 1 SHOULD
BE able to do about, and lhe which
if I could do about it, could save
myself a pretty sum every month
arid get a better quality of food In
inv home, moreover!
"If we had in Atlanta a big < enter
market-or, better still, a <'enter, a
Northern and a Southern market,-1
could go there and get the best of
everything the markets afford, and
gi t it exactly when, how and after
whatever fashion I desired.
“in one of these city markets it is
possible to shop with a maximum of
•result, and at a tremendous saving ot
time and nerve tissue, moreover.
Articles ottered for sale in one of
these markets necessarily are of the
last quality (for the money asked)
to lie obtained As kissing goes by
favor, so patronage in a big market,
when' contrasts in displays ate im
mediately observable, goes to the
most deserving.
"If Marketman A in a big market
offers me tomatoes at so much per
dozen or per pound, he must make
mo tin offer in the full and steady
ing knowledge that right nekt door to
him. in the neighboring stall, Market
man B also lias tomatoes for sale.
Whichever lias the best tomatoes for
the price gets my coin!
"it is the same way with cauli
flower, snapbeans, beats, pickles, pre
serves, cheese and what not. Over
in tile' meat and tlsb stalls tlie same
rules obtain. Get the point—it is
plain enough.
"A shopper can not very well con
trast tlw wares of Groceryman A, on
this corner, and Grocery man B. on
yonder coiner, two or three blocks
away, for one can not carry tilings
of that sort In one’s head. But when
they are In a big market, 'side by
each.' as tile saying goes, one can tell
mighty quick which is which!
Salesmanship Inspired.
"A city market inspires and
prompts salesmen to offer only the
TOH! SEE WtyVS HERE*
Dainty
vjW Dashing 1
jlr 1 I Singing K
’’ Dancing >
GIRLS
WITH THE r J
BIG Or
WAY .
BURLESQUE
Fun, Frolic, Mirth, Melody
COLUMBIA Bin AN the Week
„ , _ x “Almost a Husband.’’
Burlesque Theater, Three Show , Dai]y
16 Central Avenue. Mat. 3 P. M., Night 7:30
Opposite Union Depot. an d 9-
WHl'i ES ONLY Prices 15c and 25c, Boxes 50c
Smoke if You Like.
IIEaRST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA .SI NDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1913
best of everything for the price ask
<d--lt makes it a necessity that the
marketman offer a maximum of ma-
I terial for a minimum of charge.
Moreover, what he may lose In mar
gin of profit by reason of this change
hs compared with his present meth
ods of selling hin goods—he more
than makes up In the Increased vol
ume <>f business he does. He has
rhe additional satisfaction, too, of a
perfectlv pleased patronage, without
any loss whatever In rhe total of
money h»* inakw.
“It I* astonishing to me that At
lanta has no city market. There is
hardly a of its size in. the na
tion that has not two or mnre -and.
‘fe- a matter of fact, I know of many
much smaller cities that have city
markets to make glad the hearts of
housekeepers.
"There must be a mistaken idea
somewhere as to the vpkie of a city
market, or Atlanta long ago would
hav»* had one or more.
"I feci safe in venturing the as
sertion that no present resident of
At.anta who ever has lived in or near
municipality wherein a city mar
ket is located will say that it did not
make shopping easier. more eco
nomical* and more satisfactory in
dozens of ways.
"Who has visited one of these city
markets habitually for an\ length of
lime, and failed to be won complete
ly by the sensibleneM and merit of
ii as a business proposition?
"They do not interfere with any es
tablished business that ought not to
be interfered with -on the contrary,
they frequently gieatly extend estab
lished businesses and make them
more profitable.
"There is another thing in favor of
the city market, and any physician
will affirm this statement—it Is pos
sible to enforce sanitary regulations
therein with far less expense and far
bigger results than it is to enforce
them in scattered markets, small and
managed by dealers unmindful of the
great part sanitation plays nowadays
in the matter of conserving health
and happiness among the people.
Question of Sanitation.
"Seldom, If ever, are bad odors en
countered in city markets—the dealer
who manages a stall that fails to come
up to every reasonable sanitary regu
lation is hopelessly outclassed by his
neighbor who does—and whose ef
forts may be plainly seen and imme
diately contrasted.
"I honestly believe that I can take
a dollar bill Into a well-regulated city
market and make it go as far as a
dollar ami a quarter now goes -and if
1 could do that In Atlanta. I could
solve part of MY problem of the high
cost of living, all right!
"I know* I can do this, because I
HAVE done it in another big city in
which J once lived—a city in no way
more delightful, more inviting or more
charming than our own dear Atlanta,
at that!
"To be sure. I do not offer my city
market suggestion as a final and com
plete solution of the high cost of liv
ing problem. After smh a market
were established there still would be
a high cost of living problem to face
-only eternal vigilance and persist
ent application of enmmofi sense and
intelligence will hold within reasona
ble limits the problems of living, rear
ing a family, and otherwise becoming
a level-headed, reasonably contented
and satisfied American citizea.
“But I know there is merit in the
city market suggestion—l know it by
experience extending over several
years in another city that I left to
come to Atlanta, and which leaving I
never have regretted
"Atlanta is a great city, constantly
growing, forever expanding, continu
ously waxing greater and grander
She can take another long step for
ward In establishing a city market
er two or three of them —and sooner
or later she will. The sooner, how
ever. the better!"
CLERK BECOMES
MILLIONAIRE IN
JUST ONE TEAR
Burr Byxbee, of South Norwalk, |
Left $lO-a-Week Job; Makes ■
Millions in South America.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Youngr man,
i ko Sooth!
That is the advice that comes from 1
(('laience Burr Byxbee, a year ago n | 1
I $lO-a-week insurance clerk in his i
, home town, Norwalk. Conn., but n rv I
the poMeeeor of more than $2,600,000 I
as the result of minlnK operations in
South America. He Is 21 years old
Success with leaps and '
bounds. A student of theosophy and '
a deep thinker, .Byxbee met Miss
Stella Chlnilla, daughter of a wealth.,
( hiiian planter and the possessor of i
a SIOO,OOO dowry. She, too, was tn- ,
tereeted in the "New Thought" move- 1
ment, and It was this that brought 1
them together. \ ,
The wedding was a double one, for .
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103-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street. Corner Mitchell Cents
’ h*r sister was married at the
• same time to Charles R. Hammers
j ley. a teacher, from their home town.
Valparaiso. Uhili. The nuptials took
i place in Brooklyn August 30. 1912.
"This is the land of opportunity,"
I Byxbee wrote hi?» widowed mother.
I Mrs. Eunice J. Byxbee. in Norwalk
"Everything is in the embryo statd
j and anybody with energy can ma-te
j money fast. Just watch me.”
( Now he is rich. He has purchased
i a modest home in Iquique, Chili, the
' center of his operations. His young
wife Is spreading her ideals and
thoughts among her native people.
Byxbee Writes he will come ba"k
home when he has made his third
I million. Norwalk is preparing a
: rousing reception for Byxbee when he
comes back, and it is s. J that the
j mayorship will be offered him.
GOLD CROWN PLACED
ON PRIZE COLLIE’S TOOTH
GRAFTON. W. VA„ Sept. 20.—Dr.
N. E. Shai has placed a gold crown
on a broken tooth of his prize collie.
In a fight some time ago the dog had
»»ne of its teeth broken off. The bro
ken tooth interfered with the dog's
eating, so last Sunday Shai put
in a gold tooth.
The dog objected strenuously to
the operation, but alter the w*ork was
over seemed delighted with it.
TERRIER ADOPTS KITTENS.
SALEM, OREG.. Sept. 20.—1 n lieu
of her first two puppies, wrhich died a
few days after they were w’helped.
two orphan kittens have been adopt
ed by a fox terrier belonging to T. M.
.Jones, a liveryman of this city.
TEAR RE TRIAL
WEDDING FINDS
BRIDE CONTENT
Wife, 21, Says Novel Match
Proves Truth of Theory That
Freedom Holds Love.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.—One of
I*he country's best known trial tnar
riages has proved to be a sucess af
ter a year, according to Mrs. Julia
Davis ('handler, of this city, whose
daughter. Miss Heloise (’handler, was
married to Carleton W. Washburne. a
student at the University of Chicago,
at Los Angeles a year ago.
An agreement was reached by
which each was to enjoy a sense of
absolute freedom, and was to be tiea
down by none of the conventions. The
death of love in either party to the
contract was to be the signal for free,
unostentatious separation.
In a letter which her mother has
received from the trial bride the latter
wrote:
"The fact that we know
I to be free makes each show the best
I side to the other that we may cofc-
I tinue to hold each other by the one
' tie than can ever really hold people
toKCther —love.”
Mrs. Washburne also wrote that her
husband says that they are as happy
as two vounK people possibly can be.
and that their low for one another is
constantly increasing.
Immediately after the wedding Mrs.
• Washburne obtain'd a position as,il
lustrator, on the theory that she
sNould enjoy as much independence
is her husband. She Is 21 years old
and her imshand is 23. Thev have
I’v.d n-ar Pasadena since their mar
riage.
1 Husband Kept From
Church by Wife, Sues
Wealthy Pennsylvania Man Takes
Trip to Reno When Religius
Devotions Are Stopped.
RENO. Sept. 2».—James G. Shep
ard. of Scranton, Pa., unable to esti
mate his wealth because it is mostly
standing timber in the Northwest,
said he had a wife who would not Ist
him go to church. Te testified in his
‘ divorce case to-day that Jennie Shep
ard. his wife, however, told him he
might go to church to live. She per
petually nagged, ho asserted, and
spoiled a nine months' trip abroad in
that manner. Finally she threatened
him with a revolver as he was dress
ing for church.
He left her January 13 last. Shep
ard owns a famous art collection.