[169] X 493.
[170] By X 508.
[171] X 418, X 509.
[172] X 419.
[173] This expression means that the girls should be broken into the business in some private place, until they were fitted for the public houses.
[174] For statistical details, see [Appendix III], “Inmates of Vice Resorts.”
[175] See Chapter VIII.
[176] See Report on “Relation between Occupation and Criminality of Women,” page 29, being Vol. XV of Report on Conditions of Women and Child Wage-Earners in the United States.
It is further to be remembered, in accounting for the disproportionate number of servants among those arrested, that, as Miss Jane Addams has pointed out, many of these girls have had such brief periods of domestic employment that they cannot fairly be reckoned in the servant class. They describe themselves as such merely in default of any other convenient term; they may have served for a few days here or there, but, strictly speaking, they have no calling at all.
[177] This statement is substantiated by the findings of a private investigation made in New York City during 1912.