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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Cities. 



New York, N. Y 



Chicago, 111 



Philadelphia, Pa. . . . 



Brooklyn, N. Y 



St. Louis, Mo 



Boston, Mass 



Baltimore, Md 



San Francisco, Cal. . . 



Cincinnati, Ohio 



Cleveland, Ohio 



Buffalo, N.Y 



New Orleans, La. . . . 



Detroit, Mich 



Milwaukee, Wis 



Washington, D. C. . . 



Newark, N. J 



Minneapolis, Minn. . . 



Omaha, Neb 



Rochester, N. Y 



St. Paul, Minn 



Denver, Col 



Indianapolis, Ind. . . . 

 Worcester, Mass. . . . 



Toledo, Ohio 



New Haven, Conn. . . 



Lowell, Mass 



Nashville, Tenn 



Fall River, Mass. , . . 

 Cambridge, Mass. . . . 



Camden, N. J 



Trenton, N. J 



Lynn, Mass 



Hartford, Conn 



Evansville, Ind 



Los Angeles, Cal. . . . 



Lawrence, Mass 



Hoboken, N. J 



Dallas, Texas 



Sioux City, Iowa. . . . 



Portland, Maine 



Holyoke, Mass 



Binghamton, N. Y. , . 



Duluth, Minn 



Elmira, N. Y 



Davenport, Iowa. . . . 



Canton, Ohio 



Taunton, Mass 



La Crosse, Wis 



Newport, Kv 



Rockford, 111 



Ateeage Cost per Head of Population in Fifty Cities. 



Totol. 



$7,057 

 8.245 

 4.964 

 4.716 

 7.087 

 9.973 

 4.563 



11.414 

 8.844 

 6.143 

 6.867 

 7.310 

 6.522 

 6.695 

 7.059 

 5.110 

 5.706 

 7.922 

 4.875 



10.500 

 6.233 

 7.160 

 7.242 

 8.650 

 7.111 

 6.587 

 7.821 

 5.780 

 7.034 

 4.220 

 4.240 

 5.375 

 5.815 

 6.820 

 7.850 

 4.770 

 4.536 

 9.534 



23.913 

 8.409 

 6.571 

 4.760 



22.688 

 6.227 

 4.484 

 4.280 

 6.870 

 4.490 

 6.250 

 4.143 



ance witli the items specified, but that to the whole city the cost 

 per capita is as stated. According to all economists, however — 

 and there is no reason to take issue with the proposition — the 

 taxed cost is "borne by every man, woman, and child, either di- 

 rectly or indirectly. It is fair, therefore, to assume that in each 

 of the cities named, for each person there must be paid, either 



