Cost Of Water Iu Different Cities

■V. B. Buil, superintendent cf the Quincy, III., water works, in a letter to a local paper, furni&hes the following table, taken from the Erie, Pa. , water works report. It gives the cost of water o the average householder in twenty-five cities, compiled from official reports: Alleghany City, $24.50; Boston, 837.25 ; Buffalo, $25.50; Chicago, $21.75; Colnmbus, O., $32.80 ; Dayton, O., $45.30; Detroit, $28.25 ; Erie, Pa., $21.75 ; East Sagnaw, Mich., $26.50; Fall Kiver, Mass., 532.00; Grand Rapids, Mich., $3:ï.00 ; [ndianapolis, $32.00; Lawrence, Mass., S25.80 ; Milwaukee, $22.00 ; Minneapolis, $20.00; Newark.N.J., $26.00; New York City, $32.75 ; Omaha, Neb., $30 00 ; Philadelphia, $28.75; Pittsburg, $23.50 ; Sandusky, O., $25.50 ; St. Paul. 24.80 ; Syracuse, $31.75 ; Toledo, $28.50 ; Utica, N. Y, 31.50. The average cost in Ann Arbor s $12.25.