In the foreign section we found weaving-machines (only introduced October, 1902, and already largely sold), German shoe-making and cigarette-making machines, and searchlights from Nuremberg, match and matchbox-making machines, rifles, wire samples, chemicals, perfumes, British-made electrical appliances, timber, paints, varnishes, gas and oil engines, steam-engines (British), a turbo-alternator (electric) from Newcastle-on-Tyne, rubber and steel goods from England, Maxim’s famous guns, fountain pens, typewriters, Indian cotton, American bone goods, American motor cars and bicycles, meat extracts, American provisions, American lighting and heating apparatus for railway carriages and street cars, refrigerator cars, Boston pile-sinking outfits, New York pumps, marine gasolene engine, and sewing-machines.
Canada also made a good exhibit of the cereals and food products of the Dominion, with the Canadian system of cold storage, and of pulp woods, furniture, and iron work.
Cost of Living in Japan
How Laborers Live
The following tables are from “The Labor World” for July 1, 1898. The editor sent a form to be filled out by the laborers themselves, to get accurate statistics of their lives and work. A few samples throw light upon the inner life of Japanese laborers:—
No. 1.—House, two rooms; a family,—man (30), wife (23), mother (53), two sisters (14 and 11); occupation, blacksmith.
| Working days in a month | 26 |
| Working hours in a day | 12 |
| Daily wages | $0.52 |
| Monthly income | 13.83 |
| Monthly expenses | 13.65 |
| House rent, one month | 0.96 |
| Rice | 5.76 |
| Fuel and light | 1.08 |
| Vegetables. | 0.87 |
| Fish | 0.96 |
| Sake (rice beer) | 0.24 |
| Soy (Japanese sauce) | 0.73 |
| Tobacco | 0.20 |
| Hair cutting and dressing | 0.83 |
| Bath | 0.88 |
| Pin money | 0.25 |
| Sundries | 0.89 |
No. 55.—House, two rooms, with kitchen; a family,—man (27), wife (25), boy (6), girl (2); business, iron worker.
| Daily wages | $0.25 |
| Overtime income for one month | 1.50 |
| Monthly income | 8.28 |
| Monthly income | 8.28 |
| Monthly expense | 9.44 |
| House rent | 0.75 |
| Rice | 3.25 |
| Fuel and light | 0.41 |
| Vegetables | 0.60 |
| Fish | 0.60 |
| Soy and miso | 0.23 |
| Tobacco | 0.25 |
| Hair cutting and dressing | 0.18 |
| Bath | 0.20 |
| Pin money | 0.60 |
| Sundries, including interest on debt | 2.37 |
Increase in Living Expense