50 
AACHEN. 
Guild, is a loaf of black bread, made of pure rye once ground, weighing 
2 kilogrammes or 4 4 lb. English and sold in October, 1905, at the uniform 
price of A^d. per 4 lb. English. Much “ grey ” bread (made of rye mixed 
with wheat), and “ white ” bread (wheat mixed with rye) is also eaten, 
and what the Guild of Bakers calls a “household” bread, made of rye and 
wheat, is baked in small loaves. Wheaten flour is only used in working class 
households for fancy baking and the predominant price was ll^rf. to Is. O^c/. 
per 7 lb. ; rye flour is not sold at all by retail dealers. Nearly the whole 
of the bread supply is baked by small bakers, for the factory baker is very 
rare at Aachen. 
Coal is the usual fuel ; briquettes are also used, but coke hardly at all. 
Coal is sold by the bushel, a measure which should contain half a hectolitre, 
but which is a very uncertain indicator of weight. Probably not one coal dealer 
in twenty is able to guess how much coal he sells as a bushel, though he himself 
buys by weight ; everything depends on the class of coal, its size, and its 
degree of humidity, uncertain factors which explain a variability extending 
from 75 to 100 pounds German, the latter equal to the English hundred 
weight. The ruling price is about Is. per cwt. 
Predominant prices paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and May, 1906. 
Commodity. 
Predominant Price. 
October, 1905. 
May. 1906. 
Coffee 
Sugar : — 
Loaf ... ... 
White Granulated 
Bacon :— 
Fat 
Streaky 
Eggs, Foreign 
Cheese :— 
Dutch 
Limburg 
Swiss 
Butter 
Margarine ... 
Potato.es 
Flour (Household) 
Bread (Rye)... 
Milk ... 
Coal ... ... ... 
Paraffin Oil 
per lb. 
per Is. 
per lb. 
per 7 lb. 
per 4 lb. 
per quart 
per cwt. 
per gallon 
lid. 
2\d. to 3d. 
9# 
11 d. 
13 
8£(7. to 11 d. 
5(7. 
11 d. to Is. 1 d. 
Is 
8 f(7. 
3t7. 
111(7. to Is 
41(7. 
1(7. to Is. 2|(7. 
0f(7. 
2|(7. 
Is. 
10(7. 
11(7. 
2# 
2# 
8|d. 
9|(7. 
14 
8f(7. to 11(7. 
5(7. 
11(7. to Is. 1(7. 
Is. 1(7. 
8£(7. 
3(7. 
ll\d. to Js. 01(7. 
4^(7. 
2|(7. 
Is. 
10(7. 
Meat. 
A comparison of the slaughterings at the public abattoir during recent 
years shows a marked diminution in the case of oxen and other cattle, sheep, 
calves, and latterly also in pigs, but an increase in horses : 
Oxen and steers 
Other cattle ... 
Pigs ... 
Sheep 
Calves 
Horses and ponies 
1900. 
3,294 
4,840 
24,365 
8,193 
17,639 
466 
1901. 
3,408 
4,571 
22.932 
8,093 
17.932 
473 
1902. 
1903. 
3,760 
4,027 
23,362 
7,552 
16,492 
466 
3,582 
3,984 
28,629 
6,378 
16,084 
431 
1904. 
3,370 
4,013 
30,848 
6,026 
16,433 
445 
1905. 
3,052 
4,300 
23,411 
6,519 
15,899 
609 
The working classes oí Aachen are not 
large