The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-30
VASSAR GIRL TELLS
HOW SHE WORKED
TO SAVE CHILDREN
Got Job in CannerieS and
Found Infants Toiling
Alongside Parents.
SHE GIVES FACTS ONLY.
"The Day of the Muckraker
in Social Betterment Work
Is Cone" She Says.
SHE GIVES FACTS ONLY.

could go a year or 30 ago. II has
righted itself now and hangs straight
AMI true. leaning neither 10 one side or
IN. otb.r r. an far N. soelai betterment
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brown ha,r which .ou1h, IN wander
over her frank. interesting face.
''The day OF the muckraker in social
betterment work In gone. To-day We
seek to understand the viewpoint OF the
employer as well as the employee; we
strive to bring both sides into close
harmony for the Improvement of the
whole race"
The speaker was Mary I,ouisa Cham.
berlain, the girl investigator, who
donncd coarse clothes and worked for
eight cents an hour through long
stretches of hot summer days In vari.
Gus canning factories OF the State that
she might better understand conditions
under which the industrv emp,oved
women and children. Thu storv Of her
experiences. when she to,d before the
New York state Factory Investigating
Commission. of which senator Robert
II. Wagner il the chairman. In expected
to 20 long way toward bringing
about the enactment Of more strinvent
laws governing the emplovmcn, of
women and children and the hours they
may work.
cANNepa n,nN,r vuo,u N,u.r
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ms u 'nese eanhers are 1000 rel
80 'su ""s S"Asnoer'A'h To-Day.
many Oh them honestly were shocked
'he Story ! was Aoie 10 tel on the
witness ''s"u' They d'dht know tns
s'u..on IN 'he'r own plants we
snou'dh 90 these people any in)usuce.
~ true they should know the condi'
uohs' out thst - what AN surviving 10
or'ps aoou. aon' want 10 create
s"s 'e"sa"oh'' ! only want 70 sno" .ne
puo". a.u ."e e"'"ers themselves w"s'
"s '.v"s sre. ~"u =" eo""ue"'
",aa'e's W." oe i"proVeo'
miss chamoe'aih Is the daugnter OF
wealthy psreh's residing IN Hudson'
Mass ehe was sraduated from Vassar
IN the ciass OF wv receiving the desres
OF oaehe'or OF arts she won the pr'sed
Borden scholarship. which includes .
trip to Europe for the study OF socio-
logical conditions. over a large num-
Der of contestants. When aha returned
:, Naw york ,ror .hrosa ~. .r,.r.d
," ,o "s e.u
i,n,ysrsI,y for post.rradus,s xorS Thsr
she put aside any Temptation, toward
A life in society and devoted herself az.
cIu.ivsiv IN hsttermen, vort
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vi. Issuo.' y, oe".uor w.s"'r snu
uhoer 'ne lh"eoaste oTocuon OF Dr'
george NJ Frice. VINO heads the inves'
tlgation department OF the commission,
Mis- Chamberlain plunged ,lnlo her
work nv anpiyinr for N foh m, m can.
Navy ~ uol,v Nv Oh. later hala hal,
-. 80. st.. ..,Sr
NS-s" o""e' ''"S's' ."~'0"" " ".'
employers save rs mere worker IN
ther sheds. gathering data on condl-
tons among the women and children.
The young woman = story OF insults
N the h,nds of unacrunuiou. ho.,s.
Who onsniv t.un,.S h.r Ana n,h.- r,.
~. 80. LIZ, 80.
'"e ~" 'e Aeo' INST sneS
.ouidnt make living wage 1T the
work alone and suggested how money
might easily be made At the cost oil
honor. OF her long hours OF labor anc
OF the hours OF those about her, have
created a sensation. But even more sC
has been her Story OF the hours oil
work OF children--youngsters not yet IN
their teens.
0Nc Lo,tpe ANN Nam u,o,u
WIN"
ron CH'IoheN.
THINK OF little ones. boys and girl
eleven and twelve years old. going Il
work A. early as 4 o'clock In the morn
ing ana Hnlshins up a. ~ O'Clock In tn,
evening! OF course. they were no
working every minute OF the time, bu
one day OF which kept a record show
ing Just how much time was spent wor 4,
Ing. gives a total OF siAteen ana hal
actual working hoars In the eighteen
hours which elapsed Before "A little gli
who went 10 the shed In the morn.n
was dismissed for the day In the eve
ming.
And what was she doing? snippin
beans--plnching the ends OF the bean
of with her little finger nails. In man
Of the sheds the children must gaths
their unsnirped beans In mea ures hold
M twenty or thirty pounds. carry the,
the 400 feet lensth Of the shed, baianc
the weight on their little heads or hol