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Show II "1 SStots ' 1 Some Striking Statistics Gatli- ''Mw QVC as Sample From Great h 1 City of New York. . INCREASE IN SUICIDE ' -im AND D0MKSTIC TR0UBLE 7 Nation-Wide Movement in At- - 'iJ tempt to Get at Bottom of ; ';;fl Problem. --HM i What High Prices Are Doing ? and How They Arc Being -r ."J M r Fouglit. v i ? Increasing suicides -10 per cent In r s'lifc T Ncw York City. t f itf I r ChnrJtnblo Institutions and free -f '' nl lodging- houses taxed to capacity. r ;'-ft.f f" Courts unable to handle nonsup- 4- ' t 'fi'H T I)0, t cases Jn Now York City. . 4- ' ' : r American Federation of Labor gets 4 t ., iWH .f. In thick of fight. 4' "liK Jersey City grand Jury, which hnn "''im kon Investigating cold storago con- ! "i dlHoiiK, to report next week. 4. ''Bt Federation of Women's Clubs In ( 'im ! Now York City withdraws as or- - r.'.jB ganlzntlon from light. fjB 4- Railroads claim high prices koop J 1 T dwn wages. 4-T 4-T Attorney General O'Malloy of New -- l?3 York state expected to act next 4. wiJPi wcc' against cold storage houses. i Detectives In environs of Greater 4. i '''rfH v .Vcw York gathering data, against , '.'?ilB i c0 storage houses. '''Mj t Health commission investigating jB f. cold storago houses. v It ' ' Wh By Leased Wire to The' Tribune. ) . -M NEW YORK, Fob. 5. Tlio climax in ' nc K"1- "K'linst high prices, not only ,' t:!a of foodstuffs, but b othor commodi- ' '-m 'cs as nc' 13 GXPcctecI in tlio east next '' Cm week with official action against the , v' tin beef trust ami cold storage trust, nnd , -Jm with individuals niding in the battle with their bo3cott of prohibitively pricod foods. Y-;'' jjfl Statistics made public todny show :''3 la general effects from high prices which i ' H US aro astonishing. One-sixth of those i 1 ofl in Greater Now York are buried I I'.jM in 1,10 potter's field. Tho ratio of sni- I tlES cidos in tho environs of New York has ; VjfM increased 40 per. cent. Afore than 102,- l 'MflllH persons are seeking shelter in frco lodging houses, an increase of 100 por S.''J;fl cent. Aloro than 50,000 persons are I 'SfcB seeking relief from charitablo organ- FJim izations, an increnso of S2 per cent. ! IeH loro than 2500 persons havo been sent ! ajfin "lc nms houses, an increase of lu " -5B por cent. More than 1S00 husbands havo " ItS boon placed under bonds to support I jfifl their families, an incrcaso of 1S.G5 per I n '''MB cent. These figures havo been com- t' iPM piled over tho period of time in which Vm 00 trusf an(l other combinations J i;"'-wB wore gradually increasing prices. With ! hi 'lc c'max reached within the pnst few I iilaB weeks interested persons began to in- I ''jf quire into statistics. 8ome of tho fig- I' J'IfiH ures covor tn0 period of a. few. weeks; rjttm others go back to the end of the 1907 ftuW panic when prosperity burst forth and i jjJB the trusts began to tako advantage of 1-HllH 1uo opportunity to edge tip prices a few I -s urn cents at a time, f ' SB Approaching a Crisis.' "S"s flM c con",1C week is going to bo a I 83 critical o'no as affects Now York. Or- "i BB dinancos introduced in tho board of al- ' fl dernicn, bills introduced in tho legisla- L' M tnro and measures proposed by the 'im health commission como up for 'consid- 1'P I oration, while in New Jersey tho Ilud- I h 91 son county grand jury will roport on , S lB it investigations. I; IB 'r'10 'ow Jcrs3' grand jur3' Teport .. iw is important because of many of tho 'v'lfl railroads having terminals in Hudson : j H countj', such as the Pennsylvania. Eric, v Baltimore & Ohio, Delaware, Lnckn- n wanna & Western nnd others. A state- V Pl TOcnt was issued by representatives of S'TbB eastern roads todny complaining that ' v'M'rfi '10 rnron3 ftre suffering from high CMisH prices and that tho increnso cost of ll things in general is keeping down the 'vIsB wnges of employees. In part tho state-ni state-ni cut rends: l'PSBB Tl10 railroads aro victims of high 4 SIS prices. Tf beef, flour or any other com- (m modity has increased in prices in tho ' It uB ?)0Bt tcn years t'10 roads cannot b'o hold RM responsible because freight ratos have ill no' ',een iocrensed. Froicht rates have i Sgfl hoou lowered on certain live stock and SB yet mcat prices advanced. Total cost 4 ' m railroad fuel is 208 per cent higher 'i ttm than in 1007. Railroads aro heavy pur- '81 chasers of everything in the market . from butler nnd eggs for dining cars, ' ?SS to stce rns- A- fc' tlgnres just to , im show tho incrcaso in supplies used by '''tlH railroads: v g99 Lead pipe, 55 por cent.;, yellow pine, - CM 85 per cent; hemlock, 102 per cent; cut ' HI nails, 02 per cent: window glass, 27 per jffl cent; common locks, 140 per cent. i U M0 interstate commerce commission i . '. MH compiled statistics and from those the l information contained in this statomcnt I ? m 1S gathered..- j '.H ' Costs More to Dio. i Perhaps thero is nothing that has 5 M escaped. It costs moro to dio than it I -' SnB ( 11 fow 3,car8 atl0 for medicines, I SI cemetery lots and burial . clothing Have i ' 'laB 311 ono up' Tnero '9 vn agitation (' 1 for hiehcr rates for physicians. The I 1 I ' jM outlook is fearful, oven in considering ti . ; H 11,0 PTucsomo subject of death. From I " I ' M tno s,Pan of "high cost of living" it i i 91 eventually will bo changed to tho "iu- ! ' - SB creased cost of dying." j ' 'm A- statement issued toda5 bv tho Con- t (H tral Labor unidn, the local branch of t V )M American federation of Labor, I VjsB Eays that moro than two million work- r ' 1 i i (li mon aro now hoycotting meat. In part ( am tlio statement said: f rriltlffl ' "Th0 boycott against high prices is t 'CURI grovrmg . rapidly in Mississippi, Mis- U " il IB $r!,n: Towa N'obraska." Illinois and MmJ Michigan. Marked strength is shown i ' &mi m fonnsylvnuia, Doluwarel Marj-land I, r-' SlH a."(1 Connecticut. We hare, informa- I .JiilH t,ou tlmt tnc Chicago Federation of ! llBI Labor will act." |