The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-20

Application for a cook at Us n month. Our
girls 60 into e.csilspt families; In fact,
As SAID. sf last we have our laundry.
We also have q bookbindery where We
employ about fifteen girls. That is In our
Industrial Home in West Thirteenth stree'
piece At the regular rates paid In other book
binderes and they are AT liberty ~ find a
better position when they can. Other girls
are taught sewing. They make the uni
forms We wear. Other girls are taught
stenography. Ayeung woman Photographed
gives US her services two evenings every
week. That IL her way Of doing good In the
worlI. ] think It's a pretty good way.
q course all th" girls In the home here
are taught h~ousework " they don't already
understand II. They take care 81 the house
and learn the proper way Of doing every
While most Of our girls have been Of the
class known M disorlcrly, We have some
WHOSE trouble II drinking. IL IL a little
easier to find places for them than for the
Others. but we can always get employment
Tor any OF them What we need most and
what | am believing hard that we shall get
II another house where we can take girls
10 board.
DO you know what paw many girls get
FOR then work? We have one tail. beautiful
FEATURE who received the yrincely salary
81 S.25 n week Tor working In a store. Now
" anytody will explain 10 tue how n girl In
EEAAst ~ y - AiAAA 4 NtAAlA ~ WY kAaA'
tul. This girl has mo- home. She therefore.
has 20 hire a room somewhere. and for that
sh' must pay AZ least o. a week. That
l"avcs her 1925 n week To buy her meals.
her clothes; her PLEASURE I'd like TO
know how she's going 10 do II. ] know 81
plenty 81 cases like that. plenty Of them
u want To start a boarding house for
those girls. want to give them a clean
room. plain but wholesome food, a parlOr
where they can receive. their friends and
have some lnnnfaUf aUtfesUUenl want IN
be- ALL" Ia do II Tor a. "a week. The good
Lori know that thov will have hand work
making their extra 81 % a week pay for their
cloih". and other expenses. hut the problem
won't l." 50 hopeless ~ II IL now want
That boarding houSe. I'm believing hard
| shall get IL. but | ne-sd il right now.
-Of cour~e that would not b. n home
like thi- one Herr VIZ take girls and women
who have no alternative 90 the life ~ the
streets II they really want to eScaTr from
IL. they can come here and stay with ~
until We can give them a chance outsid"
with u r'a=onahi' assurance that they
will NO, g. bacf 10 their odd way~
But do they want To rrformi"
Oh. thatr arp 50 many Of them that
do. We need twica A. lar e. a home n this
-. but "" ar" 20 Crampsi Tor money We
go m allowance 81 the Army funds. hut II
DOESN'T begin To- meet our needs. and the
r-t comc- only 10y voluntary gifts. We
ought To hnve much more In order 20 carry
on our work
Blu, do the girls really reform' DO they
stay reformed''
Yes
what proportion ~ themi-
i don't often talk about that hut ] be-
lieve-my experience proves to me that
IS PER cent u them can be reformed
That - n remarkable statement
Il know II j.. but ! do no make It rashlv
You must admit that eight years Of eS-
T~nrionc' gives me N" right 10 speak with
some assurance ! only can Judg' "A wider
rang Of cus,s from my "xIrri"ncs with
'h0@e ~" have had. but ] think am justified
IN doing that.
A. a second paruled girl had come 10
make her report the visitor took leave OF
the captain and went around to the Isaac
Hopper Hnm" m SECOND avenue. THIS IL
an institution ESPECIALLY for womeu who
have ls-n =rnt 10 the Island for drunken
ness. IL has been IN eNlsi"ncr for years.
When ia" matrun was asked n she could
find employment for the women who came
10 the home she had the same report To
make.
Without any difficulty she said. The
same families have h-cn coming TO us for
servants for the past twenty years. why
do they come For several reasons. One
II thai they know the worst OF n girl, IN
stead 81 having Ia find Il out for thsm-elvcs'
Another thing Is that when they take a
girl from herr they know that she CONES %
them clean and well II they get n servant
al some Intelligence ofice they do not know
frpm Whaf dirty uuWhDle~pfne surrounds
ings ,bev NAV h., taxing her. nor what con-
,asions ;i.e.sa he may have
NJ, ~ nur giTl. % out of town into IN,
.,L,',t. a., All, rlacas la, N. s..nd som.
81 them To- families living IN the city. We
beyo one servant who has l-cu engaged
whep.y"r sha VAS sol.r Iv one family Tor
tho mast five wears. she gets excellent
w. and !. a sn,endiJ cook Nor one fauIt !.
JrsLin. las, ,H,,ying tbnse i've ycnru there
49,, o. years s,n,igb, when she ken,
,.rt.c,iy -, shc 49,, ~ ON ons Of her
'%s,.ils' n while ago AID ,f,er serving her
sen,.nce AT the Island earn. 10 us.
self again and then, a. this same family