Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — War Prices in Paris. [ARTICLE]

War Prices in Paris.

One Hears a greatdeai about the rising cost of living in Germany, resulting from the British blockade, but comparatively little about the privations of the allies. The following Tetter from an American engineer in Paris tells something of the hardships of the City of Light: “Cold boiled ham costs ninety-five cents a pound and each thin slice comes to ten cents. Butter is uneatable at less than sixty-four cents .a pound, and everything is in proportion. Gasoline Is twenty cents a quart. Alcohol is out of the question, as It is now forty-eight cents a quart as comparedto—fourteen before the war. Sugar Is fourteen cents a pound. “I believe the war won’t be over before next year, so we settle down to it as a fact to be borne. -It hits everyone except a few. I am comfortable, have enough to eat and a good bed, but living in ‘juste’ (narrow); I ■just about come out even.” —Wall Street Journal.