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Show Tub New York Hun in an article headed, "We must take in Sail," assumes that "Eve thousand families in New York are to day living in houses which represent a rent of over three thousand dollars a year, and o the five thouEand at least one thousand thou-sand in houses whose rental value is between five and ten thousand dollars a year. This means that so large a number of people are under a yearly expense for living of from fifteen or twenty to fifty thousand dollars. This is a degree of extravagance that no European city of the relative size and wealth of New York begins to equal." |