[What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr]@TWC D-Link bookWhat eight million women want CHAPTER VIII 19/25
An ex-governor of the State controls a popular excursion boat, on which staterooms are rented by the hour, for immoral purposes no one can possibly doubt.
The women of the committee submitted the findings of their investigators to the managers of these amusement places and to the directors of the steamboat lines, and in many instances reforms have been promised.
The point is that a committee of women had to finance an investigation to show these business men the conditions which were adding to their wealth, and into which they had never even inquired. Another investigation made by the committee revealed the meagerness of the provision made by churches, settlements, and business establishments for working girls' vacations.
There are, in round numbers, four hundred thousand working women in Greater New York.
Of these, something like three hundred thousand are unmarried girls between the ages of fourteen and thirty.
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