New-York tribune., 1910-01-09
AGENCY MEN KICK
WRITE ROCKEFELLER.
Say Business Has Nothing to
DO rcith "White SlaUe" Traffic.

The Employment Agency Society OF New
York, incorporated organization Of tls
men engaged In that business. jumped into
the white slave Investigation yesterdsy
and though they are not able TO furthsr
the work Of John d. Rockefeler. jr's.
grand jury they want that grand jury or
some one connected with the investigation
10 give them clean bill Of health
Charles O'conor Irwin. president OF ths
society and the proprietor of an employ
ment agency himseIr. sent letter 10 Mr..
Rockefeller yesterday. In which hs csilei
to his attention an article printed In L
newspaper last Octoter. in which was the
statement that employment agencies In thu
city were concerned in the white slave
traffic
Mr.. Irwin's chief grievance. however, "a
In regard tc a photograph used 10 illustrats
the "McClure's Magazine article. In his
letter TO Mr.. Rockefeller Mr.. Irwin says.
This picture over the title The Interior
Of a Typical Employment Agency" - az
No. f52 East 81 street Mr.. = Grsenoaurn,
.,hotosraph. is the proprietor. He has been
fourteen years engaged IN the employfnert
agency business. and bears the hizhesl
New York Agents Association
7 am sure IL would be of grea. interest 20
YOU 10 know how this picture was procure
ten.
The picture referred TO shows half a
DOZEN girls seated on chair. along the wal
Of Crenbaunl's establishment. and scattsref
hs,veen thcm, here and there. ara young
men IN shirt sleeves.
THAT picture was taken last summer,
said Mr.. Greenbaum yesterday. when a
Young man with q camera came into ~
place one day and told me he'd hks 20
! make a quarter by taking q picture OF ths
agency"
II. refused 81 first. GreenbaUm said. cut
the Young man importuned him 80 that he
finally consented. and the young man ar
ranged the clerks OF the agency on The
seats beside the girls awaiting employment,
II didn't think any more of IT, said
C;reenbaum. until customers began calling
me up TO ask me why my picture and
picture OF my shop was In the magazine
article about white slaves
Mr. Irwin declares IN his letter TO Mr..
Rockefeller that the employment agencies
Of New York have been grossly hbeled ~
the linking of the name cf their business
| with the white slave traffic articles, and
h. offers 10 produce witnesses 20 show its
/ injustice
The actual work OF the special grand jury
will start tomorrow morning, and as Pre-
liininary TO il Mr.. Rockefeller and District
Attorney Whitman. with Deputy James 3.
REYNOLDS, met yesterday morning and
talked over the situation with Professor
Jeremish ". jerks. OF Cornell University
who mas been connected with various IN
vestigatfons and reforms in the United
States immigration service. Professor
.Jenks will testify before the grand jury to-
morrow. it was said. as will George hiebe
Turner. the writer of the article on the
subject published in "McClurs's Asga-
zine"
In the Tombs court yesterday Joseph ka-
Iinsky. who was arrested AT No. iiiS Fittn
avenue was not on hand when his case
was called. and his bail of 5000 vas for-
feited He was arrested on Information
furnished by Joseph Graveur, the peohation
officer in the Court Ot Special Sessions
who has been investigating white slave
matters KaIinsky was charged With keep
Ing a dsorderiy house