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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
GREAT ARMY OF FosEIGN WORK
ERs IN CHICAGO.

How did / get Interested in the I'M
migrant girl?" she asked, repeating the
| interviewer's question. why, II seems
as If / had always been. When l was
student at the University Of Chicago
used to go down in the evening TO
/ the University of Chicago Settlement
which, as you may know, is just back
of the stockyards. A great army OF
workers, mostly foreigners, pass
through that street daily TO their sor-
did toll. The tramp of their feet us
the men marched by was an inspiration
/ to me, when l considered that the long
/ lines were made up Of men from the
bleak st, ppes of Russia, from the
mountains of Spain, the vineyards Of
Italy and the tulip fields of Holland
from all Europe, in fact, each as
strange to the other as all were TO us,
all being gradually moulded into Amer
lean citizens. / went TO the homes OF
the newcomers and became their
friend. That is the only way really TO
know them and be of any help.
The fathers and mothers and chill
dren claimed my interest, AS my
work widened. however. it took me into
many cities. where l constantly studied
new colonies, and l found that the
greenhorn girl was the most neglected
and most worth while Of all imn;-
grants.
And so 1 came to owe the lii
greenho'n.'
What nationality do | find most in
teresting? How can l say? Each is
most interesting. Each is. 10 me.
heroine. You smile! You are thinking
Of the queer clothes, and the awkward
manner the strange brogue and the
poverty l am thinking Of the stout
heart, the steady determination, the
smothered longing for home and kin
that make the immigrant girl remain,
once here. You have TO know her TO
understand. Her heart full of ideals
to be fulfilled in the great new country,
she has tried to take destiny into Der
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
CITIES INCLUDED IN THE PRES,
EMIT PLANS.

She took from a drawer a large map,
blotched With many colors.
Here is Trenton" she explained.
The different colors show the location
of each nationality there. Here's
Chambersburg. Our workers meet the
trains here and take the lone immi-
grant girl to her friends and note the
surroundings. II friends meet the girl
at the train, our representatives talk
with these and make sure that they are
responsible. At Lawrence the same
work is going on-I am adviser of the
three, New York City, Trenton and
Lawrence Ultimately / hope to en-
large our plan, providing an economic
director for the girls in each city.
Through normal channels we hope
to extend the work to cities like Cleve-
land, Pittsburgh, Boston. Minneapolis
and San Francisco"
What a pity that the girls isolated
in the small town cannot get your
helpl" was calculated.
well. we are equipped to help those
girls also. Canada, our neighbor, Is
working along the same lice. Every
nation has its national committee"
Mrs. Bremen presented these views to
the Worlds Committee on Immigra-
ton. The international conference
meets once in four years. BY the time
the next quadrennial conference meets
Mrs. Bremen hopes to see her plan in
complete operation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
REASONS THAT BRING THE
YOUNG GIRL TO AMERICA.

Another large number are allowed
to go to America that they may earn
for themselves the generous wedding
present that the parents will be unable
to give. Moreover, good marriages are
easily made in America. And there is
no husband so good as he who has been
in America.
"a smaller number come while their
betrothed serves time in the army.
The money earned in America will
either start them well when she gets
back TO be married or will bring him to
America.
Another large number come to earn
money TO send back 10 the father for
debts or to keep the old folks comfort
able-money that could not be earned
at home.
And so it is easy to see how much
she needs protection, the first of our
cardinal activities. Ignorant of its
tenements, its industries. its homes and
its dives, this ardent voysger lands in
NCN lOIh. Jltl Ollly maj htldbi0 asset
is her young strength Of body brought
from her life in the fields and hillsides
Of the Old World. She has TO elbow her
way into the ranks Of the vast army of
unsklled workers. She gets a job
where hands are wanted, not heads. In
her ignorance and friendlessness she is
helpless, unable to reach out to the OPP
portunities America has for her.
Agencies ordinarily reaching the men
pass over her head.
And so the first problem is 10 reach
her as soon after landing as possible.
Every immigrant girl who comes here
alone, with the exception Of the Jewish
girls who are already under the care OF
the Council of Jewish Women, is visited
within short time OF her arrival.
Through the long. dark stairways OF
the big tenement houses long search is
ofttimes made by our visitors before
the new 1ir greenho'n' is found, for
she is known only vaguely to a few
neighbors as Anna or Marika or
Wawara. Sometimes no clew is oh
tanned; then. after we report to the
Department of Immigration, a special
investigator is $ nt from there.
"our visitors |are women of deep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
IGNORANCE OF THE MARRIAGE
LAWS.

Then there is her ignorance Of the
marriage laws of this country, of which
the white SLAYER takes advantage. A
story like this is by no means rare in
the experience Of our workers. A Po-
lish girl landing at Ellis Island was
met by a man who was declared to be
her brother. In reality she had been
induced to come TO this country be-
cause this fellow had promised to
marry her. lie was not her brother at
ali. Life in America had made him
feel superior 20 the girl, and he was
about to desert her. though she was
soon to become a mother. One OF our
visitors. knowing of the circumstance,
ut once threatened deportation unless
he Immediately secured a license and
went through a marriage ceremony.
This was done.
"An Italian girl was found by our
visitor happy in the belief that she was
married, and she proudly displayed a
marriage license as proof. She did not
know that ceremony was also neces-
sary. Threats of publicity made by the
visitor made the man at once consent
TO a marriage.
Another young girl confused our
naturalization laws with our marriage
laws, and had been led to believe by
the young villain who lived with her
that a five-year trial marriage was
permitted without ceremony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

parties to museums, concerts, eXnlol-
tions, vacations at summer camps, pic
MICS to celebrate public holidays, as
we'll as dramatic and other clubs for
the more advanced girls. Every Sun
day afternoon our rooms are open, and
once a month instructive talks and
music are provided"
Greater than the barrier Of language
and her own personal fears loom the
prejudices of her people. The different
nationalities vary only in degree. The
medieval attitude toward woman. that
she actually is an inferior sort of being
and must be ruled by the head Of the
household, whether husband, father
uncle, brother or cousin, is held by all.
The men believe it and the women be-
lieve it. A woman need not seek 10 at
tain to anything but a husband and her
children. Therefore, why train her for
a better job?"
why don't some Of the disappointed
ones go back home?" the listener cried
impulsively.
1--WE asked the same question" she
replied. "'Why don't you go home
when you want to so much?' asked a
Polish girl, whose cheeks looked as il
they must have been fresh and rosy not
such very long time ago. She was
scrubbing footprints off the threshold
of New York restaurant.
Home, OF country, is work, is mud
der is cows, is gress, is sky. New
Yerk, no mudder, no COW. werk All
the peoples tell Merica is much money.
Get gran success. No! Merica, scrub,
scrub. Mudder-se sink gran sue
cess Then, with her head turned
away: No go home-shamed'
Using New York as a working
model, we are organizing and starting
like a clock similar work in other cities
as we study their needs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
To CHFCK Flow OF "LPL' GREENHONS" FROM EOFOPE
Work Done to Aid
This Glass Reveals
Difficulty of the
Problem.

Think Of girl who never has a good
time.
The girls Of the small cities 40 have
some amusements. They look forward
10 Saturday nights and the moving pic
lures. The girls Of the large cities
haven't even these GASES In the desert
Of loneliness to look forward TO. They
dare not 90 alone. Until she learns
some English she is afraid to go about.
Even then our customs are unknown To-
her. She sees a sign, Ladies en-
trance. over a saloon door. Remem
herring that the roadhouse Of her own
hamlet Is perfectly responsible, she
ventures in. Surely this is proper.
Jps. such mistakes as this, as well As
that of patronizIng the cheap dance
hall. are being prevented By the inter
national association.
Because Of their sedentary occupa-
tions and because they live In such
crowded quarters immigrant girls are
especially in need OF wholesome recrea-
ton. This we provide by means Of
physical exercises. singing, folk dane
ing. outings to country and seashore,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

sympathies. They know just how to
make thorough Investigations in the
most friendly way and get the conf
dence Of the foreign girls, thus being
able to help them manage their diffi-
culties. These visitors are able to
speak Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arme-
MAN, German, French, Swedish, Turk
ish, Syrian, Finnish, Russian, Hungar-
ian, Polish, Slovak, Bohemian, Ruthen-
ian and Lithuanian, as we'll as other
tongues. Because Of this they are able
to warn the girls and protect them at
once from many Of the worst snares
that are set for them.
The worthless employment agency
is one Of the first of these snares that
she Is likely to meet. Many and many
girl has been duped by these agen-
cies, whose runners used to assure the
girls work at good wages. Until re-
Gently these men used TO hang about
the streets near the agency and fairly
drag girls in. A law now prohibits this.
lIllS IS SUN ciNNblilPilSiiSh W
ruse similar to this, adopted by a
so-called employment agency repre-
sentative who stops at an East Side
doorway:
"Is Anna Semkovitch, eighteen
years old, in your tenement"
'Semkoyitch Anna? Yea. I got
III greenho'n by my woman. Sc ben
Amerik-a ire days. Sc wanta job
Semkovitch Anna
Anna hastens to the agency and is
whisked away-often to be exploited at
a summer resort, often no one knows
where.
Not long ago three girls who failed
to return to their boarding house, and
who were reported to us, we found at a
doubtful resort in the Green Mountains
having been sent there by an agency
Doubtless there are many Annas OF
whom no one ever hears. Naturally
many of the girls first seek work
among their own race in the factories
and small shops of the foreign districts
where conditions are the worst.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
DIFFICULTIES IN DEALING WITH
YOUNG WOMEN.

Mrs. Bremen finds that the "liP
greenho'n," as these girls are called
by their associates is in a class all by
herself. She is no longer child to be
reached by the truant law and to be
educated willy nihy, nor has she yet
the self confidence of the adult In the
majority Of cases she has no regular
home in which she can receive do
nestle education The night schools
reach her father and brothers, but they
seldom reach her. The problems Of
the labor camp are not hers. Yet each
year there come here through Ellis
Island 10000 unmarried girls. Fully
90. 900 Of these come here entirely alone,
without guardian or guide in the great
undertaking True, the law requires
that they shall be booked 10 relatives
as measure of protection. But in the
majority of cases this protection is
purely theoretical, provided simply to
meet the letter Of the law. The
friends" are almost nominal. and these
wards" often never see them after
they leave Ellis Island.
Utterly ignorant Of our language and
customs, with no definite knowledge Of
where she is going or of what she will
do when she arrives. it is mostly from
Southern Europe that she comes. And
as she comes ashore there follow on the
trail OF her poor little hesitant fee.
tales OF exploiting employment agen-
cies, corrupt boarding house keepers
and white slavers." Though she may
escape these perils, she may have the.
20 remain isolated for years
in some corner of the colony of her
TO which she drifted on ar
rival, unassimilated by the, new social
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

Library, the Children's Aid Society, and
such settlements as Hartley House,
Richmond Hill House, Wesley House,
Dynt House and Hudson Guild. Three
classes meet at our headquarters.
do you realize that the foreign
girl who cannot speak English is
, under the thumb of the women and
men where she boards? Often they
prefer to keep her dependent.
Don't you think Rosa had better
come to the English class?' an Inter-
national Institute visitor asked an Ital-
ian boarding house keeper.
Huh! Her? Cause why? She can't
unnerstan'. Cause why? Hers liz
greenho'n, was the discouraging reply.
Generally speaking, where men are
| illiterate the women are. OF course,
/ the illiterate woman, the girl wife, is
/ hedged in more than her fortunate sis
ter. The opinion prevails that she
knows enough to keep her happy, any
/ how, and any more might unsettle her.
my woman ain gotter learn Eng
lish. She ain got no sense. I say
English. She stay by house. a Rus
sian man explained to me once for his
seventeen-year-o bride.
THE immigrant girl, whose home is
boarding house often patronized by
rough men, is usually discouraged BY
their jeers and jibes when she begins
going to evening schools.
lone of our visitors, calling one even.
ing at boarding house, found nine
bOarders, four girls and five men
boarding with a man, wife and child
in three rooms crowded with beds
Cases of beer were being brought from
the saloon below, and there was muct
noise and rough behavior The men
jeered at the idea Of the girls learning
English. All you need is enough tC
eat and drink and husband said one
Those girls lived here because they die
not know where else to go. They wer,
not bad girls. They were simple peas
ants. After calling three times the Wis
itor influenced three of the girls to joir
the English classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

N unmarried girls Of Europe at
home and discourage their emil
grating TO this country is one Of the
chief proposals brought before the IN
ternationa conference of the Young
Women's Christian Association just
held June 10 to 49, in Stockholm.
The promoter Of this movement is Mrs.
Harry Mortimer Bremen. Of New York.
immigration secretary of the national
board of the. Young, Women's Christian
Association and who as one OF Amer
ica's four delegates to the conference
was selected to represent this country s
immigration interests.
Mrs. Bremen founded the Interna-
tional Institute for Young Women IN
1911. After three years Of work in at
tempting to solve the peculiar prop
lens Of the friendless immigrant girl
in America she has to come to the con-
cmsion that the only satisfactory So
lut,on is the Hibernian one OF pre-
venting her from becoming an immi-
grant at all.
In short. she believes that II these
girls received the right kind of infor-
nation about this country beforehand
many Of them would stay at home and
be much better off. AS it is now,
steamship companies and other inter-
ested agencies are Turing them with
glowing accounts of Americas oppor-
tunitics. which all too often lead TO
false hopes and bitter disappointment.
Mrs. Bremen believes in establishing
a systematic campaign of counter in
formation. Conditions as they really
exist should be portrayed. according
to her plan. on the other hand, for
those who are determined to come she
would have labor and living conditions
of the different sections Of this coun-
try carefully explained. so that these
girls need not come to this country
blindly. as they do now. 1t is kind
Of work different from any ever be-
fore attempted. but Mrs. Bremen be-
Iieves it will do more toward really
helping the immigrant girl than any
thing else that has been done for her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

Some of those who come here with
their families are as unfortunate as
those who come here alone. / remem-
Der the case of little Italian girl who
was abused most cruelty by her par
ents. She appealed to one of our
visitors for help and was eventually
put in our care. In time she was
placed in an excellent home.
Some Of these young women arc
broken down physically or otherwise in
need of medical care, and either do not
realize their condition or do not know
where to go for help. A young Syrian
woman had become a wreck from over
work incident to the struggle of her
| first few disappointing years in Amer
| lea. We sent her TO a camp in the
early spring and kept here there all
summer. When she left she said she
/ felt absolutely made over. Then we
found her a place as governess.
"A Hungarian girl whom we visited
| had a very bad case of blood poison
ing, the result of a pin prick in her
hand, and had been told that her hand
must be amputated. We interested a
specialist from Vienna who was visit
| ing here, and he used all the skill at
his command and saved the hand.
I'm protecting these defenceless girls
we stand ready at all times to care for
them in sickness by keeping them out
| of the hands OF quack doctors, to pre-
vent unjust treatment by employers or
boarding house keepers, to settle fam
| lily disputes, to see that they get proper
legal redress for injuries in many cases,
to act as an employment agency, and
In general TO advise as to all problems
that arise.
1.-THE best protection after all is a
knowledge Of the English language,
and this brings us TO our educational
work. Without this she is likely to
accept the poorest paid work. She can
not save anything, because she does
not know the values of what she buys.
A CAKE OF SOAP THAT CAME
HIGH.
81 remember one girl who told her
classmates Of a lovely cake Of soap she
had purchased, probably the first in her
life. Just like my lady's,' she an
nounced proudly. The teacher found
that the drug clerk had taken 81 90
for il. The lady got three cakes for
% cents. The teacher followed up that
drug clerk and made him refund the
money.
Even when the girl does know some
thing about how to spend her earnings
she doesn't know where TO deposit her
money safely. She is often persuaded
to sign papers at her own loss because
she is at the mercy of all purveyors on
her ignorance.
ITO clear up this ignorance we have
to-day down in the very heart of the
foreign colonies twenty-three English
classes. where we teach practical Eng
lish, care Of the health, saving, how tc
open a bank account, how TO send q
money order, economy in spending
laws concerning marriage, naturaliza.
ton and working hours. We teach
also little American history and som,
simple domestic science. We try to in
spire ideas of truth and honesty anC
purity. Our teachers are paid. but W,
have free classrooms through the Co
operation of the New York Public
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Mrs. H. N. Bremen, of This city
Told Worlds Y. w. c. A. Confer
ence That Fight Should Be
Made AgainStLuring oflmn1i-
grant Girls to America.

order, sadly disillusionized as to her
bright dreams Of prosperity, yet
ashamed to go back empty handed to
those who sent her forth with great
expectations from the old home cOun-
try.
Protection, education and recreation
are the three objects Mrs. Bremen had
in view in founding the institute. To
accomplish these a system was estab-
lished in New York City, the expert
mental ground, whereby all young
women entering this country alone are
reached before they are scattered and
lost A series of schools and social
centres were established around the
city. BY first approaching the girls in
their lodging places and winning their
confidence the workers Of the institute
induce the girls to come to the centres.
There they are taught the tongue and
customs of their new country. They
are helped in solving the many hard
problems that arise, and by friendly
watchfulness guided away from many
dangers.
While the New York experiment has
proved so much Of a success that steps
are being taken to extend the system
TO every community in the country
where the immigrant girl goes, Mrs.
Bremen believes that the applying oil
these same methods in a modified form
to the girls i'm their own country VIII
get closer to the root Of the problem.
Mrs. Bremen herself a fair-haired
young woman of vigorous body and
mind, is far removed in lineage from
the immigrant, but of family line rich
in traditions of patriotic service. She
is a direct descendant from Alexander
Hamilton on her mothers side, and nor
paternal great-grandfather was well
known pioneer of the West, the first
Judge of st. Paul.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
GlPlS EROM TnE,

CAMPAIGN to keep the young
unmarried girls Of Europe al
home and discourage their emf
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1914-01-01

Postales 'Trilogfa Patri6tica,
con los retratos de Hidalgo, Jua-
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1914-01-01

empiearse. Creo que los hay JUS
tos y efcaces, que producirfan ell
acrecentamiento de la buena
amistad entire este pals y las de-
mas repdblicas del continente en-
vez de tender a extinguirla, como
ha resultado de los planes de pro-
tectorado econ6mico y politico
oue Sc ha venido ensayando en-
Nicaragua. No eftro a tratar
este porque necesitaria darle de-
masiada extension a este reporte,
Dor los muchos detalles que Ell
asunto necesita'.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1914-01-01
PESOUIZAS.

Sc DESEA saber ell paraderO de Ur-
bana Dominguez, esposa de Jose Angel
Alfonso. Tiene IN hijo que Sc llama
Daniel. Hace ano Y medic estaban en-
Granieno, Texas. Sc gratifcara con
s.. C0la la persona que informe de ella,
dirigi6 ndose a: Sra. Rita Perez.-R. A.
Box ~9O.-Seguin, Texas.
(2v. 1926
Sc NECESITAN dos ~senOritas inte-
~ligentes para %aprender a coser y que
VIVIAN en- la casa donde trabajen. Cana
ran sueldo al mismo tempo que apren-
den a trabajar .-Tambien Sc necesita
sonora para criada.
Dirijanse a: 301 W. Russell st.
Sc desea saber el paradero de Manuel
Galvan, oriundo del Estado de Durango,
hiio de Victoriano Galvan. Ell aho pa
sado estuvo en- Las Vegas, New, yen
dose para Los Angeles, Cal. Sc rega-
lara la subscription de LA PRENSA por
un ano a la persona que de informes su-
yos, e~scribiendo a: Jose Galvan.-Green
Lake, Texas.
1m.-12-4-13.
Sc desea saber ell paradero de Agus
tin Hernandez, quien Sc encontraba en-
Eagle Pass, Texas, en- Septiembre ulti
mo. Sc agradecera cualquier informe
que de else envfe, dirigiendose a: Mar
garlic Hernandez. R. r. l. Box IS.
Lytton Springs, Texas.
1m.-12-4-13.
Sc desea saber ell paradero de Nicolas
Garcia, de quieu las 1ltimas uoticias
procedian de Uvalde, Texas. Mucho Sc
~agradecera cualquier informe acerca de
sa persona, %escribiendo a: Cirildo Garcia.
R. No. l. Box l2S. Delvalle, Texas.
~1m.-l2-4-l3.
Sc desea saber ell paradero de Jose
Daniel, quien en- JUNO del ano en- curao
Sc encontraba en- San Antonio. Sc obse
quiara n subscription de LA PRENSA
por un aho a la persona que informe de
el, dirigiendose a: Pedro Acosta. R.R-
l., Box So. Lytton Springs, Texas.
1m.-l2-4-13.
Deseo saber ell p~aradero de mi papa,
Sr. Brfgido Rangel, oriundo del Vale
de Santiago, Estado de Guanajuato. Sc
sabe que hace a meses estaba en- San
Antonio. Gratiicare o dos pesos a la
persona que me informe de 81, dirigien-
dose q: Pedro Rangel.-925 w. Houston
St.--San Antonio, Texas.
1m.-124-13.