In New York a Committee on Amusement and Vacation Resources of Working Girls has for its president a social worker of many years, Mrs.Charles M.Israels.Associated with the committee are many other well-known social economists,--women of wealth and influence who have given years to the service of working girls.

The committee began its work by a scientific investigation into the dance halls of New York, the summer parks and picnic grounds in the outlying districts, and of the summer excursion boats which ply up and down the Hudson River and Long Island Sound.

The revelations made by this investigation, carried on under the supervision of Miss Julia Schoenfeld, were terrible enough.

They were made to appear still more terrible when it was known that men of the highest social and commercial standing were profiting hugely from the most vicious forms of amusement.

A state senator is one of the largest stockholders in Coney Island resorts of bad character.