A little while after, a humble hackney-coach was seen advancing also towards the factory, from the direction of Paris.In this coach was Rodin.
[30] The average price of a workman's lodging, composed of two small rooms and a closet at most, on the third or fourth story.
[31] This calculation is amply sufficient, if not excessive.A similar building, at one league from Paris, on the side of Montrouge, with all the necessary offices, kitchen, wash-houses, etc., with gas and water laid on, apparatus for warming, etc., and a garden of ten acres, cost, at the period of this narrative, hardly five hundred thousand francs.An experienced builder less obliged us with an estimate, which confirms what we advance.It is, therefore, evident, that, even at the same price which workmen are in the habit of paying, it would be possible to provide them with perfectly healthy lodgings, and yet invest one's money at ten per cent.
[32] The fact was proved in the works connected with the Rouen Railway.
Those French workmen who, having no families, were able to live like the English, did at least as much work as the latter, being strengthened by wholesome and sufficient nourishment.
[33] Buying penny-worths, like all other purchases at minute retail, are greatly to the poor man's disadvantage.