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Show NILUOSOP -YOUTH WORK . . i i WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. The ex-tent ex-tent to which child labor, is employed in the United States is set forth in a bulletin issued bv the census bureau today. to-day. The statistics presented sre for 1900 and relate to the employment of children as breadwinners, of whom 1,750,000 in round 'numbers, between the ages of 10 and 16, were so employed. em-ployed. By fsr the most important occupation oc-cupation for children is that of agricultural agricul-tural laborers, the number of children 10 to 15 yesrs old so employed beirjtf 1,054,000. Next in importance comes domestic service or the occupation of servant and Waiters or waitresses, in which 138,065 children were employed. About one-third of tb children em . ployed in gainful occupstion were 15 years old, and more than one half were 14 or 15 rears old. The number under 14 was T'90.623. Of the total number of child bread-winners bread-winners from 10 to 15 years old, 72.2 per cent were boys and 27. S per cent girls. Of rhe 71.622 messmjrers. and errand and office hoys in the I nifc.l Stat"":, 6'' per rent were district unci t'jl('rn'l) tnesrtier and errand ros. 2.V1 pet-cent pet-cent wore (TfTii p hoys and 14 7 per cent, were bundle mid ' ii-di hoys or girls. TLe pH-eentHge of school children in the total population ."i to S years of jie was 53. s. which is only a little higher than the percentage, .Id. 6, shown for the selected families included in this study. Of the number of children 10 to 14 years old in these families, only 31.9 per cent were at school, while the corresponding percentage for the total number of children of that age in the 1'nited States was 79. 1. Ktit after ( these children reach the age at which the opportunity for employment as WHge-earners begins, their school at tendance su(Ter Of the total number of children Id to 14 years of age in the 1'nited States, 7.1 were illiterate, as compared with 1 S per cent for the child breadwinners of the same age, included in this tab illation. For the messengers and erran I and office boys the per cent of illiter acv is comparatively small. liy far the greatest degree of illiter acy is that shown for the children in cotton mills. |