New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-29
A NEW FIELD FOR THE WAYSIDE HOME.
CHANGES TO BE MADE IN THE oHARTER-PRo
VISIONS FOR YOUNGER UNFoRTUNATEs.

VISIONS FOR YOUNGER UNFoRTUNATEs.
70 the razor Of The Tribune.
Sir When the Wayside Home first organized
eight or nine years ago II tho aim and hope OF
tho founders to reach young women and help them.
The Christian women who visited the jail and
penitcntiary frequently found girls from sixteen TO
twenty years of age who had no home to go to- and
who professed desire 10 return 10 their former
surroundings and temptations. ID was out OF the
need OF such these that the home was organized
and opened The statement OF its object was broad,
because it was desired that who needed help
should be shut out, but ID hoped that the young,
after longer or shorter stay in jail penItentary
they had no homo waiting for them when they should
come from those places would go to this home, and
under the happy influences there exerted be won
to new and better beginning in life.
But experience has proved that Of those who have
filled the home since its opening only small proper
ton ara young, and the efforts exerted there 10
reform and help have been necessarily limited to the
older homeless women, while the young girls who APP
neal 60 loudly to us ALL who might be saved at the
beginning Of their deviation from right, under proper
reformato influences, left TO take their sure
march from station house 10 jail or penltentiaIy over
and over again. and the need Of such place at such
uncture in the life of young girls has been again
and again attested by Judge Moore and the various
magistrates in the courts as we'll by all who have
to do with them.
The Wayslde Homo under its present Incorporation
cannot have prisoners committed to It. All who are
inmates there are so voluntarily. This is another
ex PLANTATION Of the fact that the young Will not give up
their liberty and go 10 be reformed For TWO years
the ladies who are Interested IN this work have been
trying 10 devise plan by which This class of beginners
in wrongong could be reached and brought INTO such
Influences as would give them an impulse toward the
r,cbt before the bands Of habit and appetite should
be too firmly secured. There is now in the city II Is
Inn, inst ~ .tae All Institution where Roman Catholic
girls of the class referred 10 are cared for Dut thoSe
doors are not open Protestans, and there Is no moro
CRYING need I'm city, fun OF the blossomings OF
Christian philanthropc thought than an unsectaran
reformatory where girls may be committed for MS,
offences
Ias, YEAR the management OF the Wayside Homo,
Incoming IMPRESSED by the facts above stated, TOOK
steps toward the Introduction OF Dill az Albany winch
proylded for the establishment OF such an inSuuoh
for Kings County well as for It's government anu
MANAGEMENT The names OF prominent clergytnen anu
Iavmen I'm the city appended to pettion 10 inc
senator's and the members OF tho Assembly, ASKING
for their efforts and influence to secure us passage
Following close upon that mOvement-'n fact con'ehl-
rorarcous with u-came Governor HIPS veto OF inc
Inn introduced by the New-Iork Prison Association
cr woman,s Reformatory Prison. and it did not seem
viso 10 push the matter further, after reading tie
Governors veto message. But the reasons ior tio
veto were entirely apart from the need or the necessity
of II,
state appropriation for any such P"P''e' an" ~
need remained and still remains a.,
Tho managers of tho Waysido Home, however, u"
t feel justified in assuming any greater ouiuons
han they we're already carrying, ana leluc'an'!
dronned this matter far as action was cocgiou,
IN lbe while keeping up active thinking ana nov
as result OF the thinking committee mas rcJei,,dS
neen appointed to take the necessary s'Gps ~ rcnt
ITO character of the work OF the nome III te P.of
quarters. The idea is to have It's Acd , III R com
70 changed that young women ana BiIls Cdl 10 ra
In tip
ntnn may I'm the future do more encctud WORN 10
to no,nd Of cure has IN the past sum- moWcNcr'
lo t The form of a private charity inns i no, "a
~ hould he for such persons as II Is cohi"nPldou ~
helm are so many of them a. have rGce' ,L ,o,var1
m,iIIc wards and reformatory Whch ioOno -" ar
puyIi,' -"nrort and reformation should rccNe dP
tlnn Of public moneys. ms lOI wv o oro
apnareny cannot be. and a me WINE VIZ ""'' W. wv
ncrea sing the list of old Offenders. - ~ ,ho,
"nTnmnenfs thought will convince any one that
such work will be more extensive tna me pi'Ic ee
pm n, o And while now the laundry connected with
% Home paws a goodly part OF It's expenses III ,nS
,hal-'" oontributinns We are told that ms VIII
icon that fuller sympathy and larger TIN @
mi come o the work from the many VINO nav p,I I
Lcntlcal as to what has been acconpllSuom ,her
shoi t ord who will nov give the management .hU nv,
nas,,i.t eunnort The press has bcch espfcldn9
riiai IN any suggestion we have mahe ABOUT tonru
INK this particular need ms'1oo can reIy mon it
r,fforma tory. and We are sure we can rely "Po' "
in Tho future. -, A.. wovstda Home do not
III 20 he Understood believing mat ther w3 i
wan :" ts trend has been toward class OF 0der
inmates than was wished, is lost work LOT NV, nn ivy
bccn saved. money has bceh sdnp" T have heen
rtp11 have been prevented, mOdihed ana heId III
a ,I n has not been without much hesitaton mat
toraI a change has been decided upon Du, theS
80 ma hear tbe burden OF both works and 1t has
come 10 DO " f' EMMA +. PETTENGlLlr
President Wayside Home
p.ool,irr Nov 16. 1880.