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New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

the majority OF the Italian parents were
forcing their children TO work. Most or
the American parents were not forcing
their children 10 work.
Take. for instance. the woman. Mrs
McGaffick. the woman / have mentioned
before. She had little girl ten years old
in the factory She did not use such
stringent methods Of forcing the children
IN work as the italians did. but she kept
the child constantly at work for six or
seven hours day. But she was not so
brutal about IL as the Italians were. ana
she dd let the child go home TO meals.
Also she let the child stop work when
she pleaded and pleaded with her mother
that she was tired"
"Did these children appear to he very
tired" Miss Chamberlain was asked.
"They did she replied.
In her diary she made this entry
ION August 2l Milly Vacant. the little
Girl ten years old. who worked In the
shed. said she got up at o'clock in the
morning. She said she liked TO snip. but
was awful tired. but her mother made
her keep at 1t.
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LYING FOR TRUTHS SAKE.

Miss Chamberlain told the necessary
falsehood. 1t was desperate case she
did not know what II meant. but she
said she was considered an exceptionally
good sorter on the tables.
The Italian said ne would help her. His
wife. she work at da peas an ds beans"
he said. with pardonable pride, so re,
in consequence, had what you call da
pull with da boss"
While Miss Chamberlain waited and
continued to compliment the children, the
storekeeper telephoned the factory, got
the boss and explained that there was a
young woman in his store who was
friend Of his wife and who needed job
In another moment Miss Chamberlain
was informed that the labor boss at the
cannery would see her. especially since she
was such good sorter on the tables.
With this cheerful prospect TO comfort
her. she asked permission Of the Italian
to deposit her SO cent suitcase in his
store, and went to the cannery immedi-
ately
Il got d job there on July s." said Miss
Chamberlain
Did you have no difficulty in convinc-
ing the boss at the Cannery that you were
not the sort OF person YOU seemed to be?
she was asked
None whatever ] got job as sorter
on the tables at 10 cents an hour No
one suspected me ] boarded with a man
and his wife. The woman worked in the
cannery.
The food was pretty sood-about the
quality and variety that one usually gets
when i'm the country. don't YOU know I
mean condensed milk. canned peas, canned
beans and such things. I paid 81 a week
for board and room"
Did no one discover that your breed
ing. training and manner Of speech were
suspciously different
NO. / told the people with whom !
boarded that had had a high school edu-
cation That explained everything 10 their
satisfaction and to the satisfaction ~ the
others ] met
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1T really is not at all difficult to pass
ones self off as a day laborer If one
merely wears poor clothes" she added
mo one suspected that I was not a girl
VINO had to make her living and who had
always done so in the canneries."
Miss Chamberlain is the daughter Of
well-to-do parents. who live at Hudson,
Mass She was graduated from Vassar
i'm the class of '09, receiving the degree Of
Bachelor OF Arts. She won the Borden
scholarship, which entitled her to a year
i'm Europe for the study Of sociological
conditions Upon her return to New York
from abroad she entered the School of
Philanthropy OF Columbia University for
postgraduate work. Then she put aside
any temptations to life in society and
devoted herself exclusively TO betterment
work
Miss Chamberlain was al Holly from
July s TO IA. and then, it being the
slack season. she applied for work in the
canneries at Hamburg and Eden Centre.
but did not get job at either place.
They would not take you?"
NO. II was the slack season between
peas and beans Then tried South
Dayton for a day and half as laborer.
There siid the hand labelling. / could
not work there any longer because the
season was slack
How much did you get as a labeller?"
"Ten cents an hour Then | went 10
silver Creek. farnham and Fredonia. /
didn't get work in any Of those places.
They all promised me J would get work
AS soon as the bean season began. but ]
could not get any between peas ana
beans. They we're laying off their help.
They were very slack.
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A TIRED BOY.

"on that morning l got out to the shed
at 7 o'clock, and Jack, the twelVe-year-
old hoy. was sitting wrapped up III
hie shawl. He was very pale, with MS
black ewes lust sagging out of his mead.
He had his fingers done up in dirty rag.
7 asked him If he had to get up at .
again. He said:
They pulled me out Of bed at O'Clock,
and nv sister cried, but we had TO go or
get a beating.
Another little chap, aged eleven, VINO
had shipped from a. m. until n. m.'
picked all day and shipped from $50 p. M.
until 10 p. m, told me he thought 1t vas
only o'clock at night when they dragged
him out of bed the next morning at
o'clock. He thought he had been asleep
only a minute.
Miss Chamberlain said that after the
visit of the Factory Commission there
were only few small children IN the
sheds that she observed only Two or three
under five and six years old. and that
those worked only few hours intermit-
tently.
They did not work-they were not
forced 10 work, those chliureh uhuet nNe'
and did not work constantly" she said
II saw a few of them come in one day
or on one or two days and they just
waited for their mothers
There were. she added. fifteen to twenty
who gave their age as ten. but whom she
did not believe were more than eight or
nine. They might have been ten. how
ever.
II met little fellow on the street. 9"
she said, "and asked him If he was snip
ping. He said he was only nine. but
would he ten in few weeks. and then
could get a certificate from the Italian
school.
They ceased employing boys that were
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

"On August IS she worked from II a. m
until Gas n. M" said Miss Chamberlain
"seven and three-fourths hours. and ate
a peach only for lunch
"On August 20 she worked from $3.50 a.
m. until 80 a. m, shipping; ii "A. m. uh'iI
1890 p. m, shipping; p IN. until p' hi''
shipping: $50 p. M until $3.50 p. m" snip
ping; total. l2i2 hours
Little Milly had therefore, begun WORN
Al 4:3O o'clock on the morning of August
20 But Miss Chamberlain is continuing
TO read.
"On August q she worked from 4:So
a m. until a. m. snipping' sald MISS
chamberlain; "7:3O n. m. until noon snip
ming: 1890 y. m. until p m.' shipping;
total, lie hours
August % she worked from I O'Clock
in the morning until 7:50 a. m, snipplng'
from n. m. until 1870 p M. shipping
n. m until p. m. shipping, $50 untii
10 II. m. shipping; total. 1872 hours
..p,rom 1880 i'm the morning until whenY
Miss Chamberlain was asked.
Until 10 o'clock at night she repled'
"On August q she worked l4ia hours
beginning at a. m.
.Do you know how much she maze
.No. l don't know how much she made.
have a record Of boy twelve years
old in this same factory.
This was a record OF hours similar 10
the one that fitted the case OF Miiiy'
Miss Chamberlain was urged to give
her impressions from day TO DAY she
road from her diary. as follows:
august l5.-Noise Of the commission
reaching Rome has arrived here preceded
Them TO Albion, and the boys had the
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

sheds pretty well cleared Of the little tots
when they arrived.
August l6.-There are several very
fresh bosses at the factory, and the
youth who's keeps time and has some
charge of the sorting tables has good
deal of influence over the girls he puts
on the tables.
This fellow should he reported TO the
superintendents. The situation is much
like that in a department store, where
the 0oorwalker has a lot OF girls under
him receiving low wages and all more or
less at his mercy. Only up here night
work makes the situation even more dan
gerous."
At Albany Miss Chamberlain testified to
the following situation a few days ago In
response to "A question by Mr. Elkus:
"The timekeeper VINO was Objectionable
to me was also insulting to several girls
He said TO me: You can't make enough
money up here to pay your board, but
will give you a chance To make 81 or -
ON the side any time. II you come up here
10 work at night We can go for stroll
etc
THAT was the timekeeper and his name
was Gillette" Miss chamberlain testi-
fed He was cousin Of the superin-
tendent.
'On August rs. ! also say" continued
Miss Chamberlain. referring to her dairy.
there were about l75 in the sheds this
morning. about one-half children and
twenty or more OF these between eight
and ten
August Il. write: The bean tables
are risht' under the combination grader
and sorter. and the noise 10 terrific.
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mittee that you cannot legislate human
ity into heaven"
Drastic legislative measures. directed
against the Gamers in Central New York.
viii be submitted to the next session of
the legislature. according TO Chairman
Wagner OF the investigating committee
II requires a fine degree of courage TO
accomplish the things that Miss Cham
0erlain tells about, with charming frank
ness and absence OF pose. but she makes
light Of this fact Her story is confirma-
uon enough that only an unusual young
Woman could do what she has so thor
oughly done
In reply 10 a request by The Tribune
mat She recount her experiences IN OBJ
aiming her first engagement as laborer
u cannery. Miss Chamberlain smiling
related. as being typical, an account
ot her search for wcrk at Holly. y. Y"
Were she got her first job.
One day last July she boarded a troll
's car at Rochester. which in com
pNstvely short time brought her TO the
own Of Holly.
before leaving Rochester Miss Cham
Vuiain had dressed herself in poor
e'oihes. done few things TO punish her
Aa'uIahy attractive hair. and In various
o'lsr little ways not followed by the ais
'"es OF Mig Lillian Russell, had made
e'seli look as plain A. possible.
arrived at her destination. she walked
'0 small grocery store presided over
az Italian. She carried a cheap suit
she gave the suitcase solicitous
sn''on' Seemingly. It contained all ner
80 tod the Italian she wanted a job.
,@o sas booked the part.
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NAUGHTY-NINE vassar girl ha

NAUGHTY-NINE Vassar girl has
jumped into fame in night. She
n mas been praised from one end of
80 coantry to the other. but it has not
..oged her. nor will it. She is not that
5pd of young woman.
sire has laid bare the sufferings of chill
,,sn In the canneries of New York State,
md a big cry has gone UP demanding
nat their bondage shall no longer be
osrated.
II IS doubted by those in a position 10
,oow If any industrial revelation of re-
,snt years mas so shocked the community
os has Miss Mary Louisa Chamberlain 5
oracticany undisputed description cf
,oung children with bruised. cut fingers.
awning at their monotonous toll. beaten
by their parents when they rebel or when
tbe instinct of play overbears their
geariness.'
Asked by The Tribune for her story.
Miss Chamberlain gave il. modestly nut
unhnchingly. few days ago. i'm the Of
sce of Abram /. Elkus. chief counsel of
the New York State Factory Investigat-
ng Commission.
How. as inspector for tins commission
ast summel. she went about the rather
risky and decidedly unpleasant business
Of obtaining employment in canneries at
cents an hour; how she lived with en-
ployes OF cannsries and aroused no sus-
Ucion Of her motives, how she gathered
the mass OF evidence against the Gamers
which she conscientiously wrote down
each night in her disry-this is the story
which Miss Chamberlain tells for The
Tribune readers.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08
SUSPICIOUS FACTS.

81 got up about AS o'clock and got
away to catch them shipping, and walked
out TO the shed. which is about half a
mile away from the town and the fac
tory.
When / got there the streets in front
of the shed were full of children, just
going away. and they all had baskets
with them no beans in the baskets.
Many of them were trundling baby car
riages and they were evidently just going
away from the factory.
Il got back about $50 o'clock. and they
were still away. There were no children
there There were only about hundred
or more women of forty to sixty years
old and upward shipping inside the shed.
They were all grown women ! asked
a boy why he had sent away the chill
dren, and he gave no explanation. He
said he thought the children were afraid
OF the Inspector, but gave no explanation
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AMno


simply ear-spitting My ears are still
ringing. Combined with the juggling Of
the tables caused by the CRATER the work
Is most unpleasant.
ct makes one quite seasick. though
sorting beans is not so monotonous and
trying on the eyes as sorting peas
Mrs. McGanick worked on the bean
sorter this morning, and IL made her SICK
TO her stomach. could not work on 1T In
the afternoon. IL gives one the same
sensation as seasickness. with the grad
ing going up and down and the beans
moving forward on the table
ION August % | write: The Italians
got up this morning and sorted from 4
until 7 o'clock. but no one else knew any
thing about IL.
How many were in that party?'
From 100 to 100"
How many OF them were children?
About one-half. and twenty or more
of these between eight and ten. That is
my record No one else knew anything
about the beans until they were all
shipped.
(Reading): ION August ~, little Jack
aged twelve. up from o'clock In the
morning shipping beans. From 4:So a. m.
until 10 D. m. with only one-half hour for
dinner and only few minutes for sup
per said, My fingers is broke
He went TO bed last night at II clock
and got up at 8. He said he was not work
ing the night before until IL, hut went To
bed at T. He said he was awful tired,
but his mother made him work. RE tried
10 go home several times. His hands
were swollen. His sister, aged ten. could
hardly keep her eyes open, and her
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08
The Young Vasa Graduate Who Did Such Effective Work as Humanitarian
Detective the Cnnees This State Tells the Tribune Readers Sad
dng Anecdotes OF Her Observations Of Tiny and Unhappy aboren
Abram l. Ekus Chief Counsel Of the investigating Commr-
son Purposes TO Submit o the Legislature Immediately
Upon Its Conyenng Remedial Measures

The stage perhaps has lost as much
rs the children Of New York state have
won in Miss Mary Louisa Chamberlain.
The Italian storekeeper inspected her.
coolly at first. In his store were two small
children. and these children Miss Cham
berlain adroitly complimented every lit
tie while during her conversation with
their temperamental parent
The father was beginning to show signs
OF sympathy.
Miss Chamberlain informed the chill.
drens father-she was patting the chill
drens heads by this time-thc work in
the Rochester canner1cs was slack. and
that she had decided TO come TO Holly,
hoping she might succeed in finding
job in her line.
He asked her If she had had experience
as sorter on the tables
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

to get the boxes weighed have seen
children of ten and eleven and twelve
years stand with forty to fifty pounds
waiting for the boxes to be weighed This
is quite customary
After Miss Chamberlain left the can
merry at Albion she went to Mount Morris
to inspect officially. She gave the names
Of two factories in that town that she
inspected
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

it but it also has its popular side. and
that papulor side cannot be JUDGED
by any political standards-either
those political standards Of the Roose.
welt movement or those OF the older
and mere familiar brand
As to AFR Taft pl,tba has tb;o .o
sav. "Mr Taft was At tho 1,,.s.
ebb of his nolitical fortunes u,bon aa
was nominated a. r,bicaeo t1a n,,,ia
NOT have Lass or non,,lar oon,.,..,a
Of votes than ba bad tban u on,
time and have anv snnnort ~ an r,n
aaonantlo an oba,oos - ras,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28
THE CRY or WOLF

Orlando Clipper We have per
haps all read the fable Of the boy
who was sent to herd sheep and
cried Volt wolf' when there was
no wolf, just Tor the fun OF seeing
the men run TO his assistance when
NOT needed until when THE wolf did
come not a man Needed his frantic
cries of The wolf. The WoR, be-
cause he had lied to them so often.
Oklahoma CITY mas promised to
build a capitol and has violated each
separate promise until 1he people OF
the state no longer believe a word
City says or promises We
all know that Oklahoma City mas not
redeemed a single pledge it made in
the capital matter nor is it in a con
iition nov to do So although spend
ing large sums OF money to again
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28
BLYTHE ON THE
POLITICAL OUTL COX

FOLl lCAL OO LOOK
| In Before the Battle" review 81
the political situation, Samuel c
Blythe. in this weeks issue OF the
Saturday Evening Post. declares the
election Of Governor Wilson to the
presidency is practically certain,
Measured by any political stand
ard or By any law or theory of poll
tics, the candidacy of Woodrow VIII
son seems certain Of success, writes
Blythe, and further states that his
opinion is the result OF visits 10 every
state in tine union except those III
the far south.
information from the most relia-
bic sources indicates that Mr Wilson
Will mold the bulk of The Democratic
vote received by Mr. Bryan. Hence
Mr.. Taft and Nr Roosevelt political
ly speaking. viii divide the normal
Republican vote Thus, with Mr. Will
son getting the normal Democratic
vote and Mr TAFT and Mr. Roosevelt
dividing the normal Republican vote
by reason OF the two parties they rep
resent, both composed of what was
the Republican strength to a large dc.
gree in 1908 the only political result
that can be foreseen Is the sweep ot
the country by Mr. wilson
While there is nothing new in this
deduction, it is given force by Mr..
Blythe's espousal lie is d seasoned 20 |
itical reporter and careful one
Campaign managers are expected - |
make absurd predictions. Mr. BLY, he
makes living by making reasonable
mes And he recalls the fact that
'nly in TWO campaigns since the civil I
var has the month of October failed
0 develop the victor in the presi
entail race.
Air. Blythe believes the vote fog
Roosevelt viii be larger than expect <
d in most quarters, but concerning
be new party he has this 10 say: "rt
J quite true there is plenty of poll S
cs ia the Roosevelt movement-poI Z
cs by Mr. Roosecelt and politics by {
zen who have hitched on TO the a
ooseyelt movement for their own r
Ids. This Roosevelt campaign isn't d
altruistic as it is said to be. There d
a heap Of pactical politics about il
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28


But for the activity Of single Re
publican politician Jack Love would
have had no opposition for reelection
as corporation commissioner. No
man in Oklahoma has rendered this
state greater service measured by
actual dollars and cents. The cor.
Boradon commission will pay out
within few days $400.000 saved 10
the shippers OF Oklahoma and in the
adjustment Of rate controversy which
saves this sum already improperly
collected, a basis of rates is estab-
lished which will save Oklahoma ap-
million dollars a year
L would be ingratitude for Jack Love
to be defeated and his unknown op-
ponent elected 10 this important posi-
tion.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Of the taxpayers money in unneces-
sary street cleaning.
What happens he asked passion.
ately. What happens? one Of them
white wings comes along and he
brushes the dirt in the street up into
"a myrapid Then the wind comes
along and blows the myrapid Then
the white wings brushes it up again
INTO another myrapid And SO on ad
infinitesimal"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Six hundred and sixty-seyen thou
sand dollars is the amount spent ID
secure delegations for Roosevelt in
the states that have thus far report
ed, and more than half are yet TO
hear from. The demand Tor Roose-
velt's nomination was said to be over
whelming but it was evidently held
in solution and it cost more than a
million dollars 10 preeipitate it and
made it visible at the primaries. If
was the most expensive chemical ex-
pertinent ever made.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

The Lawton Star. edited by ~ r
Maxwell does not assume very
definite stand on the capital cues
ton. In fact it takes no stand az
all It says The state weats and
needs capitol building Whete it la
located is less important 70 ne ay-
erage voter than the question Of its
ultimate settlement Hence let every
body vote for one or the other of he
cities and If they do there can be no
doubt Of the verdict being
accepted by each OF the contestants.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Il cost $4,000 rental to house cap
ital officers in Oklahoma City last
year. II costs $4,000 to house the
same officers this year. And 1t is fair
to presume that taxpayers must dig
up like amount for like purpose ie
the yes vote does not prevail No.
yember =
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Oklahoma Ciy-tae state hog-kln.
ed baseball; tried to grab all state
Institutions; lied about all other state
towns; stole the capital in 1910. oy
false representations; now lies to re-
tain it. Hit the hog Nov. .. Vote
"yes'on the capital question.
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A valuable dressing for flesh
wounds, burns, scalds, old sores. rash
chated skin, is BALLARD,S SNOW
LINlMENT, it is both healing ana ami.
septic. Price 25c, SOC and 81 o0 ner
bottle, Sold b. Owl Drug store.
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'LET ME HELP TOO"

deceive the voters. but SO far has not
succeeded in hiring tine preachers Of
the city to 90 ont ana stump he
state making promises for Oklahoma
City to violate for no doubt. expert
ence has succeeded in teaching them
bitter though Faluable lesson.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

That the lightning OF genius rarely
strikes twice in The same family jlree
seems 70 be Illustrated III the case
Of a nephew Of former President Dlaz
who mas failed miserably IN an ef
fort . get control Of Mexico.
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From the Jaws of Victory

And Hearst-what part did Hearst
play at Baltimore" asked man lust
returned from Europe.
Great" said a man who had been
at the convention. Hearst came
there for Clark, who was the popular
choice, and by series of mastery
maneuyers Hearst snatched defeat
from the jaws Of victory,"
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WILL CARRY EVERY COUNTY

- NfNiAf' - n = ~ ~tN 7
In this Democratic year oil 1912
when there is a possibility and indeed
probability that the Democratio
party will carry every State in thc
Union Oklahoma state that has
led the onward march Of Democracy
lis not going to lag behind NOW
that she sees the ripening fruits OF
her earlier struggles Immediately i'm
the future is not going TO abandon
the faith upon which she is founded
Oklahoma Will remain in the Demo
cratic column This is her natural
place. She is not prepared to make
herself a founding or an out-cast po.
litically but 1t is well enough for
Democrats TO remember The danger
o. oyer-confidence and the Importance
OF an impressive Democratic major
ny There is every possible in cen
tive for The greatest activity on the
part Of all Democrats from now until
the polls are closed on Nov. 9Th.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Chairman Wykoff. OF the Oklaho.
ma City capital committee, IS "A nice
man, personally, and an able one, but
he lets his zeal get the better Of his
Judgment. The same may be said Of
Col Alexander. One is a Repub-
lican, the other a Democrat On the
capital question, they seek TO catch
the voter coming and going.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-28

Clinton Chronicle The capital
question is not political For many
years The Leader has been recogniz.
ed as the leading Democratic paper
of the state. It says the removal Of
the capital to Guthrie, means lower
taxes and The Leader is right. Down
in this section, The Leaders attitude
is heartily appIauded