, and 17 from one
year to one year and eleven months, while 25 were in one place for
more than two years. Special mention may be made of the five following
cases: One of them remained five years, one seven years, one six
years, one eight years, and one ten or eleven years, with the same
employer.

For the females, the percentages will apply well to all who are
wage-earners in domestic and personal service. Here, also, the largest
percentage, 24.1 per cent, remained in one place from six to eleven
months; 21.3 per cent remained three to five months; 16.7 per cent
remained one year to one year and eleven months, and fair percentages
obtain for the longer terms of service: namely, 5.2 per cent two years
to two years and eleven months, and 9 per cent three years or more. Of
those in one place of service for three or more years, five remained
four years; two, four years and a half; nine, five years; three, six
years; four, seven years; two, eight years; one, twelve years; three,
fifteen years, and one, "eighteen years off and on;" in all, a total
of thirty in 802 cases that were in one place of employment more than
three years.

When the shifting life of such a great city and the mobile character
of modern wage-earners, especially in domestic and personal service,
are considered, and when it is remembered that the Negro population
because of unusual need of adjustment to city life feels particularly
this unstable current of influence, this showing of lengthy service
for occupations which have weak tenures of service in all countries
can be interpreted in no other way than favorable for the reputation
of Negro domestic help.

The table, next following, gives the detailed length of service for
the cases covered by the 902 testimonials:

TABLE XIX. SHOWING LENGTH OF SERVICE FOR 902 WAGE-EARNERS IN SELECTED
OCCUPATIONS OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC SERVICE, NEW YORK CITY,
1906-1909.

-------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
| Male. | Female. | Total.
+-----+-------+-----+-------+-----+---------
| No. |Percent| No. |Percent| No. |Percent
-------------------------+-----+-------+-----+-------+-----+---------
Under 3 months | 19 | 19 | 149 | 18.6 | 168 | 18.6
From 3 to 5 months | 11 | 12 | 171 | 21.3 | 182 | 20.2
From 6 to 11 months | 24 | 24 | 193 | 24.1 | 217 | 24.1
1 yr. t