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I did feel somehow that I was one of them because I was so young, but I did run into a lot of older women. It's surprising the number of older women who were pegging away earning nothing at all, who had lived in that lodging house for ten or fifteen years.

With regard to the immigrants I made quite a nice study, which I can't find at all now. When the Philadelphia Research & Protective Association broke up, which it did three or four years after I went to New York, we deposited the report with the Woman's City Club, who had joined in paying for part of it. If I do say it, and shouldn't, it was a very interesting survey report on the immigrants in Philadelphia - who they were, what part of the city they lived in, how they lived, what organizations, if any, they belonged to, what their religious affiliations were, what their relations to other people were.

They lived very much compartmentalized. The Poles all lived in one place. The Bohemians lived in another. The Ukranians lived in another. The Swedes lived somewhere else--way up in Kensington. The Jews lived in two or three places, but they were quite well spotted more or less by nationalities. There weren't any German Jews because they were no longer poor in that town. The Fleishers were German Jews and they were very rich. Samuel Fleisher was already