==================================================================== | PER CENT | |PER CENT BOYS | OF | GIRLS | OF | TOTAL | | TOTAL Industry or Occupation |DELINQUENT|Industry or Occupation|DELINQUENT | BOYS | | GIRLS -----------------------+----------+----------------------+---------- Newsboys | 21.83 | Domestic service: | Errand boys | 17.80 | Servant in private | Drivers and helpers, | | house | 32.18 wagon | 7.30 | In hotel, restaurant | Stores and markets | 4.23 | or boarding house | 5.44 Messengers, telegraph | 2.59 | Home workers | 16.33 Iron and steel | | Total in domestic |---------- Iron and steel | 1.84 | service | 53.95 Textiles, hosiery and | | | knit goods | 1.84 | Textiles, hosiery and| Bootblacks | 1.77 | knit goods | 12.36 Peddlers | 1.71 | Stores and markets | 5.44 Building trades | 1.64 | Clothing makers | 4.95 Theater | 1.57 | Candy and | Office boys | 1.43 | confectionery | 4.45 Glass | 1.30 | Laundry | 1.98 ==================================================================== The offenses with which the boys were charged are divided in the report into sixteen classes. The messenger service furnishes the largest proportionate number of offenders charged with "assault and battery" and "immoral conduct"; the delivery service those charged with "burglary"; bootblacking those charged with "craps and gambling," "incorrigibility and truancy"; peddling those with "larceny and runaway," and "vagrancy or runaway." The report calls attention to the greater tendency of messengers to immorality, and remarks that it is easy to see a connection between bootblacking and the offenses in which bootblacks lead. The report continues: "It is worthy to note that neither the newsboys nor errand boys, both following pursuits looked upon with disfavor, are found as contributing a _leading_ proportion of any one offense. They seem to maintain what might be called a high general level of delinquency rather than to lead in any particular direction, errand boys being found in fourteen and newsboys in fifteen of the sixteen separate offense groups."[119]