“I do not employ any at present, as I have found all I have tried incapable or unreliable.” Forty-eight report paying from $2.00 to $3.00 a day, which always includes lunch, and often breakfast and carfare. The remainder paying $1.00, $1.50 and $1.75 a day. There is an opportunity in this field for a number—perhaps fifty—competent workers. The day is as a rule eight and a half hours long, beginning at eight in the morning and ending at five in the afternoon. No one nationality can be said to give more satisfactory service than another, although the Portuguese are by far the most numerous. The reports cover: 57 Portuguese 15 Hawaiians or part Hawaiians 2 Negresses 2 Norwegians 1 Russian 1 American — 78 Five dressmakers employ about 30 girls, whom they pay from $3.00 to $15.00 a week, the lower amount stated in each case as being paid to apprentices. The dressmakers report eight and one-half hours a day, and one states that she gives a half holiday on Saturday and extra pay for overtime. The majority of the dressmakers’ assistants are Portuguese, and these are considered the most efficient workers. A Japanese girl in one shop is also giving satisfaction, but Hawaiians and half-Chinese are not reported on favorably. Japanese maids are in some instances being trained by their mistresses as seamstresses, and several Japanese women are now going out by the day, but none were reported in the investigation and no definite information could be secured concerning them. Girls working in other establishments, however, report ten and eleven hours’ work, at low wages; and a shop manager who employs girls for alterations states he has had complaints from dressmakers’ employes that they did not receive their pay. In other instances they complained of not being paid promptly. This charge is a common one in the dressmaking business, the proprietors of certain New York establishments saying their bills were neglected for so long a period—some customers, usually women of wealth, paying their bills only once in six months—that their own capital became exhausted. Each of the department stores employs from one to three alteration hands, who are paid from $10 to $15 a week, the former being the amount paid two Hawaiian girls, who were considered by their employers to be slower and less energetic than the Portuguese woman who received $15 a week. In the millinery shops the girls in the work rooms would be considerably benefitted by a preliminary course in sewing. They now begin their apprenticeship with no salary at all in two shops; a salary of from $1.00 to $2.00 is paid where the apprentice also delivers parcels and runs errands.