---------------------+--------------+------------------+------------ Economic classes of | Number | Aggregates of | Average families. | of families. | wealth per class | wealth per | | in dollars. | family. ---------------------+--------------+------------------+------------ The wealthy classes, | | | $50,000 and over | 126,750 | 33,000,000,000 | 260,355 | | | The well-to-do | | | classes, $50,000 | | | to $5,000 | 1,394,250 | 22,676,863,197 | 16,264 | | | The middle classes, | | | $5,000 to $500 | 5,584,576 | 8,522,541,600 | 1,526 | | | The poorer classes, | | | under $500 | 5,584,576 | 837,686,400 | 150 ---------------------+--------------+------------------+------------ Totals | 12,690,152 | 65,037,091,197 | 5,125 ---------------------+--------------+------------------+------------ Now, this restoring has been made up by borrowing $323,136,803 from the wealth found in the 2d group; and again by adding $37,091,197 worth of wealth which was omitted in the round numbers of the total aggregate of wealth. These two amounts, consisting of $360,228,000 in the restored table, have on the basis of the original averages been distributed among the families of the 3d and the 4th groups. So that the 3d group of families appears to be richer by $322,541,600; while the 4th group by $37,686,400; and the 2d group appears to be poorer by $323,136,803 worth of wealth. Hence, we have made the 1st R. table represent the distribution of wealth by $360,228,000 more equal than the author of the original table has actually found it to exist.[31] On the other hand, in restoring the numbers of family-members to the census average of 4.93, we [SN: FAMILIES MADE EQUAL TO CENSUS.] add about 7 members to every 100 families of five members each, as Dr. Spahr represents them. This addition of 190,152 families to the whole renders the average-family and the total number of families in the United States exactly as they were given by the census in 1890.