I have dwelt mainly upon the grosser vices associated with street employment, as with employment in factories and mines, because it is a phase of the subject about which too little is known. I need scarcely say, however, that these vices are not the only ones to which serious attention should be given. Crime naturally results from such conditions. Of 600 boys committed to the New York Juvenile Asylum by the courts, 125 were newsboys who had been committed for various offences ranging from ungovernableness and disorderly conduct to grand larceny.[138] Mr. Nibecker, Superintendent of the House of Refuge at Glen Mills, near Philadelphia, was asked, “Have you, in disproportionate numbers, boys who formerly were engaged in some one particular occupation?” He replied promptly, “Yes, district messengers.”[139] It seems to be the almost unanimous opinion of probation officers and other competent authorities in our large cities that messenger boys and newsboys furnish an exceedingly large proportion of cases of juvenile delinquency. I wrote to six probation officers in as many large cities asking them to give me their opinions as to the classes of occupation which seem to have the largest number of juvenile delinquents. Their replies are summarized in the following schedule:— OCCUPATIONS OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS IN SIX LARGE CITIES, SHOWING THE RELATIVE NUMBER OF EACH OCCUPATION ═══════╤═══════════════╤═══════════════╤═══════════════╤═══════════════ REPORT │ A │ B │ C │ D ───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────── 1 │Messenger boys │Newsboys │Factory boys │Miscellaneous 2 │Newsboys │Messenger boys │Factory boys │Truants 3 │Newsboys │Messenger boys │Truants │Factory boys 4 │Messenger boys │Factory boys │Newsboys │Miscellaneous 5 │Messenger boys │Newsboys │Truants │Miscellaneous 6 │Factory boys │Truants │Messenger boys │Newsboys ═══════╧═══════════════╧═══════════════╧═══════════════╧═══════════════ In six smaller cities, where the number of factory workers is much larger in proportion than in the great cities, and the number of newsboys and messengers is much smaller, the results were somewhat different. The following schedule is interesting as a summary of the replies received from these towns:— OCCUPATIONS OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS IN SIX TOWNS OF LESS THAN 100,000 INHABITANTS, SHOWING THE RELATIVE NUMBER OF EACH OCCUPATION[E]