COST OF A LONDON FOG.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 2

COST OF A LONDON FOG.

Attempting to hOU]« idwft of tbn eobt <>l ii two-day*/ in Loßfion iu January an 'hvening Newa 1 representa tivo was jjiven the following approximate showing thn eMra expenditure by railway companies and light. v;v,\ s o!!)f lh;—Kx,ra '* lK,r ° n railways, tlO.HIX); i-ost ot lug MjinaU, £020; lire*, flags ami Mir ions items, £400; extra gui>. South Metropolitan aroa, tlnft7; extra eloetric I lie Great, Northern Railway Company had '2OOO men on fouling duty oil tlmr system and tlie Koiiih-Kawtern bad luen stationed every t>.7) yards in tlie f«i|t zone, rh« iind Sonth-Woatem the ]/ondon mid Hiijjhton and Great, pastern each had nearly 1000 men employed in this way. [,oss caused to trade is impo*sihl» to calculate. The manager of a large Wet Kud stor« stilted that, the fog lout bis firm about. C7OO in receipts iu the two da*s and varying cutiiiiatej from £SO to il'-tl »cre given us thoir lumph by tradesmen ill Recent strict. A* for (ha theatre a manager said that if all the theatre* Mjffemi ah Uit houttc Ji<) <>n the two nights tho low* mimt «t ni>out mw.