These houses are rented by the room,—and the standard room is eight to ten feet wide. Sometimes there will be no other division of the room upstairs than wooden pillars that support the roof, yet these will measure the eight or ten feet, and if there are two sets of pillars there will be three rooms to rent. Rent is usually based on the number of rooms, two dollars for a two-room house, three dollars for a three-roomed house, and so on. The largest and - best of these rent for seven dollars.
The average house has three or four rooms,—downstairs a front room or "chow" room, behind that a bed room, and between them crevice that is called the kitchen. Upstairs there is one room or two or three according to the number of standard rooms it would contain.
The men who live in these houses earn as skilled or semi-skilled workers in the factories from fourteen to twenty-five dollars or thir-
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