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Show SALT LAKE HAS UTIOIURECOID WASHINGTON'. -Tnly 27. According Accord-ing 10 figures prepared by the census bureau, the larger cities of the country coun-try pay more for schools and for police po-lice and fire protection and related service than on all other accounts and of these two Items the payment on account of schools Is much (he largest, larg-est, the per capita expenses for schools being $4.70 as compared wlih .2.2o for police, and $172 for Are protection. protec-tion. The figures are given out as a part of the bureau's report covering the financial operations for cities during the year I9"R The report covers all cities of more than nn.flCM population, of which there are 1oS. The aggregate cost of operating these cities was $404,397,312. The report Indicates a penetal Increase In-crease In the cost of maintaining city governments. In 19"2 the average was HM per capita. By 190S It had advanced ad-vanced to $K $1; of the totaJ amount, mere than one-fourth was paid by New York. Philadelphia's expenses were only about one-fourth as much as those of New York. Rut large as v.ere the figures for New York, the people of Boston paid In more proportion to population. The new England Metropolis heads the list with an expense cost of $27. 5S for each person. Of the large cities New York comes next with a cost of $21 71. while Washington, with a cost of 524.CS makes a close third. Of tho first class cities New Orleans paid less fer city government than any other, the cost being only $1 2.70 per capita. Baltimore with an expenditure of $13 34. was a close second. Of the cities of the second class. Denver slood at the head, and St. Joseph. Mo., at the foot of the list, the figures for the Missouri city beln; only $5 C per person and those of Denver $24 44. Salt Lake City paid most for per capita for schools, $$ 18. but Newton, Mass., was second with $3. In this respect re-spect Montgomery, Ala , made the low-est low-est expenditure $l.f3 per caplla. |