. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . Lesson XI. The shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway at Elk-hart, Indiana, are equipped with 13,288 running feet, or practically twoand one-half miles, of leather belting. This belting cost the railroadcompany $6,, or an average of cents per running foot. Thebelting was shipped from Boston to Elkhart, a distance of 937 total freight charges amounted to $, or fourteen one-hundredthsof one cent per running foot. An increase of 10 per cent would add$ to this cost, or fourteen one-tho
. Freight rates and railway conditions; addresses and correspondence . Lesson XI. The shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway at Elk-hart, Indiana, are equipped with 13,288 running feet, or practically twoand one-half miles, of leather belting. This belting cost the railroadcompany $6,, or an average of cents per running foot. Thebelting was shipped from Boston to Elkhart, a distance of 937 total freight charges amounted to $, or fourteen one-hundredthsof one cent per running foot. An increase of 10 per cent would add$ to this cost, or fourteen one-thousandths of one cent per running foot. This belting, moreover, cost the railroad company $1, morethan it would have cost at the prices prevailing in 1899, representing anincrease of 21 per cent. During this same period there was no changewhatever in the freight Lesson XII. The Railroad Transports All the Food,Clothing and Fuel Consumid by theAverage Family in the United Statesfor Less Than Three Cents Per Day. According to an investigation madeby the Government, the average sizeof a family in the United States isfive persons and the average yearlyincome of the family is $ this amount $ is ex-pended during the year, dividedas follows: Food $312 92 per cent Clothing 94 99 pnr cent Fuel and Lighting 38 59 por cent Rent 118 40 per cent For All Other Purposes 134 34 19-gg prsr cent Total $69924 per cent The total freight charges for food, clothing, fuel, etc , used by this average family, living in anyone of our central commercial cities, costing approximately $446, amounts to $ per year, or lessthan three cents per day. A 10 per cent increase in freight rates would add ninety-nine cents to theannual expense, or less than one-third of one cent per day. Is this not an exceedingly limall pricefor the
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