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immmmmmmmmmmmmm r stores, however, it would appear that they ought to "be located in the levee district. Wednesday The Day Book published extracts from the vice report concerning' temptations to which salesgirls in the department stores were subjected. Today we quote additional extracts that fol lowed those of Wednesday in the repo'rt. These extracts will give the people of Chicago further informa tion tending to show the necessity-for an aroused public conscience. These extracts from the vice report follow : "IV. MEN EMPLOYERS, SALESMEN AND WOMEN. A CERTAIN FLOOR WALKER HAD BEEN IN THE HABIT OF TAKING GIRLS "OUT. HE WAS CONTINUALLY HARASSING THE GIRLS WHO DID NOT ACCEPT HIS IN VITATIONS. A HOUSE DETECTIVE FINALLY SUC CEEDED IN HAVING HIM DISCHARGED. "SOME SALESGIRLS WILL TESTIFY THEIR DOWN FALL WAS CAUSED BY THEIR EMPLOYERS, AND THEY ACTUALLY WORE DIAMONDS BELONGING TO THESE EMPLOYERS. "TWO jGIRLS WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN A DEPART MENT STORE (X985a) CAME TO WORK ONE DAY IN AN INTOXICATED CONDITION. THEY WENT TO THE OF FICE OF ONE OF THE PARTNERS, SAT DOWN IN CHAIRS, AND PUT THEIR FEET ON HIS DESK. AN EMPLOYE OF THE STORE TRIED TO PERSUADE THEM TO LEAVE. THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT, AND DARED HIM TO PUT THEM OUT. HE DID NOT DO SO. "AN EMPLOYE OF (X985b) STORE SAID SHE ACTUAL LY HEARD A SUPERINTENDENT ASK A GIRL WHO HAD COMPLAINED THAT SHE COULD NOT WORK FOR $6.00 PER WEEK, IF THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY SHE HAD OF EARNING MONEY. SHE ANSWERED THAT IT WAS. HE THEN TOLD HER THAT THE HOUSE COULD NOT PAY HER ANY MORE. "A MAN A (X985c), A LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE, HAD CHARGE OF INSPECTORS. ONE DAY HE WENT SO FAR AS TO TAKE ONE OF THE GIRLS TO HIS HOME WHEN HIS WIFE WAS AWAY. THE GIRL GOT INTO TROUBLE AND HE LEFT THE CITY. THE FIRM CAU TIONED ALL THE EMPLOYES NOT TO SPEAK OF THE INCIDENT. "THE HEAD OF (X985d) DEPARTMENT STORE TOLD AN EMPLOYE HE DID NOT CARE WHAT THE GIRLS DID OUTSIDE OF WORKING HOURS, SO LONG AS THEY DID NOT BRING DISGRACE ON THE NAME OF THE STORE. ,ciiiJ' ;A JuUi (f jbl'U'j Ul A OKI no