“Satisfactory if watched.”
“I have been able to get only one girl, who is entirely untrained, though willing.”
“Competent for plain sewing and mending.”
“Competent for plain work.”
“For very plain sewing and mending her work is very neat.”
“Qualified for plain sewing; not to cut or fit.”
“I do not employ any at present, as I have found all I have tried incapable or unreliable.”
Forty-eight report paying from $2.00 to $3.00 a day, which always includes lunch, and often breakfast and carfare. The remainder paying $1.00, $1.50 and $1.75 a day. There is an opportunity in this field for a number—perhaps fifty—competent workers.
The day is as a rule eight and a half hours long, beginning at eight in the morning and ending at five in the afternoon. No one nationality can be said to give more satisfactory service than another, although the Portuguese are by far the most numerous. The reports cover:
| 57 | Portuguese |
| 15 | Hawaiians or part Hawaiians |
| 2 | Negresses |
| 2 | Norwegians |
| 1 | Russian |
| 1 | American |
| 78 |