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Show IMMIGRANT GIRLS QUICKLY DISAPPEAR Startllnn Statement Made at Convention of Younn Women's Christian Association. i INDIANAPOLIS. April 21 "Eighteen hundred Immigrant girls were lost track of, after having been received at Ellis Island and put aboard trains for Chicago and other points in tho west. In the last year mid a half." said Miss Grace Abbot of Hull house. Chicago, today at the biennial convention of the Young Women's Wom-en's Christian Association of America. Miss Abbot advocated a federal Immigration Immi-gration bureau In Chicago "as a check on the work of the while slavers." Immigrant Immi-grant girls desertiid the quaint shnwls and aprons of their native lands for the hobble skirt all too quickly. Miss Abbftt continued. Tito convention dclermlned that local associations should conltibutc 5(1 percent of the national budget and that the standard of contributions by each local association should be 1 per cent of Its budget. |