Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — PRICES UP ON THE BOWERY [ARTICLE]

PRICES UP ON THE BOWERY

Food and Coffee in Famous Section of Manhattan Cost More Than Ever Before.

Sugar costs more today than it did six weeks,ago. Therefore coffee on the Bowery lias been increased , from one

end. two cents per cup to three and four—and in some,, exceptional cases even to five cents. And it isn’t apt to return to the old .price. There was a day when one could get a “golden stew” on the Bowery—always provided, that one wanted a golden stew and had the price—for five cents. It rose to eight cents, and to ten, and now the real gilt article commands 15 cents in every Bowery soup emporium. It is also true that a dish of golden stew is apt to satisfy hunger for a considerable period. There are men who keep quite fat upon "it, from one year’s end to another.

The pinch of the penny is being felt throughout the East Side’. During the summer just past the five-cent piece of ice was smaller than ever „ before known. On the authority of the buyers, the ten-cent hod of coal has shrunk to a pocketful. Not long ago a nickel’s worth of bacon was a sizable bit in any shop east of Madison avenue and south of Thirtieth. Now it is barely enough to slip in the old man’s dinner bucket. Even garlic has been boosted In price. A year ago Antonio, who fills the interior of a loaf of hard baked bread with garlic by way of lunch, and on that diet sticks a pick in Manhattan’s bosom ten long hours a day, could get enough for a dime to scent up a subway express train. Now he can hardly scent subway local for the same price. Rent and milk and flour and all the other necessities of life have been increased in price here in the York Letter to the Cincinnati Times-Star.