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Show S HIGHER PAY I FOR GIRLS I As a Result of the Vice Investigation in City of Chicago , j Chicago. March 8. The work of the Illinois senate vice commission boro fruit today when a letter was received re-ceived by Chairman Barratt O'Hara ' lrom E. F. Mandcll, president of Man dell Brothers, who was a witness yesterday, yes-terday, stating that he had raised the minimum wage of juveniles to 54. The juveniles are girls between the ages of 13 and 15 years who are em-I em-I ployed on small errands I Wherever possible, bj reason of r the aptness or general fitness of the . I girl, the wage will Oe over $4. In I addition. Mandell stated, that follow -J ing a suggestion of the committee, he will employ an Investigator to look into the statements made by appll-$ appll-$ cants to ascertain if they can live on the wages they are to receive. ; Edward Hillinann of Hillman's. j big department store, was a Jovial and frank witness of the forenoon, who greeted the proposition of an iu- vestlgator with enthusiasm and prom ised to hire one or more at once. Chairman O'Hara expressed (ratification (ratifi-cation at the attitude of ihe cmploy- I j era. i "We asked for their co-operation because we feel that they as public spirited citizens are as much Inter ested in correcting social conditioua as we are," said O'Hara. Much time was consumed with a personal matter between O'Hara and John M Glenn, secretarv of the Illinois Illi-nois Manufacturers' association aud owner of the Manufacturers' News, organ or-gan of the association. O'Hara had threatened to go into the courts auent an editorial in the Manufacturers' or-. or-. q storing that It was Ihe nl.iih-judgment nl.iih-judgment that the vice inquiry wan due largely to a desire to force" ' the great retailers of the city to give a newspaper on which O'Hara was former! t mployed greater quantity oi adj erl Isln 1 Glenn Insisted that the editorial re- Sj fleeted his judgment aud O'Hara read a sweeping denial Into the record. Only one girl wHiicbs was heard. She was 25 years of age and was known as "L. W." only, as the names of women witnesses are not madc-public. madc-public. I. W ," who wore a crocheted cap with a red bow, and who looked much less than her age, was a servant at Oregon City, 111., she said. A male trlond brouRht her to Chicago, but on her first night, when she did not earn enough to satisfy nlm, he "beat me up and I shook him. "Where Is he now'," Inquired Senator Sen-ator Juul. He's serving six months In the Bridewell," came the replv vlndic-Uvely vlndic-Uvely The prisoner may be called as a witness later oo |