New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-30
Of Interest ~
" TO Wome11.
FOR GIRLS ARRESTED
Probation Association Has Large
Home for Its Charges.

r,. ,,.+,..+ infant In Nav York City is the home
which Miss Maude E Miner, probation oiice' a.
the night court. opened last FEBRUARY a. W. -
West 10th street for women released from inc
courts IN nnohation Only two floors Of the house
were leased at first and the assets were not WI III
mentioning On May the entire house, cofnpfis-
ing four floors was leased. and Is no" htteu up %
that twenty girls or more can be accorhiiiou
once Also an association has been formed "hlch
has for its object not only the maintenance oi l,o
homo but the development Of probation "ofh'
Miss Miner thinks that home OF that sof' 20
essential to the development OF the propauoh sS'
tenn.
There must be a place." she said to Tribune
renorter Yesterday, where a woman released III
th. care of a probation oficer-f. as often nap
pens she has no home but the streets, VI SUMO
room where she has been living with eVn coiipdi
tons-there must be some place where sne can 10
rec.ved and studied a bit We have TO gam her
confidence Then she will tell the truth ABOUT ne
.e,r which generally she isn't willing TO do at mrs
And then we can decide whether she can De heipsu
or whether she is a woman for "honl H'.lo CaAi
done and who must be sent to some lnstitu'loh'
don't saw that 90 per cent be helped or even ~
nor cent but some can be helped-and tnat "oiti
while >
The name Of the new organization IS inc -
York Probation Association The oncers a'
President Judge Charles S. Whitman; nrs1 vice
president Mrs. William H. Baldwin J'' eeo .',
vice prestdent Edward T. Devine; treasurer Milton
r,rs+atn and secretary Miss Maude E. Miner the
hoard is not complete yet, but as far as named tie
other members are Mrs. William B. Rice. Mrs " u
sin,kovi.ch Miss Stella A Miner, Judge Charies T
MacLean, Judge Frederic Kernochan. Judge Joseph
p Corrigan Homer Folks and John NJ Gleni
Mr. Einstein is the who just came 1or"alu
with money for the rent-s50O. Andrew Carnegie
pledged $50 naore-when It was decided that Hlole
room was needed-and Mrs. Russell Sage gave >o"'
There are times when the homes financial horizon
looks doubtful. but. money not, Miss Miner goes
he al
Miss Stella Miner is the sister of the founder OF
the homo and has worked with her all along. one
of them always sleeps there. 1t is Miss Stella
Miner who has hunted around in secondhand SHOPS
and succeeded on remarkably small sum- III
making the house look really homelike and pretty
All the woodwork is freshly painted and the walls
are newly painted or papered. On each floor IS
sitting ROOM where the girls can read or sew
Downstairs is laundry, where they can do ID
their own clothes. The home has even acquired
cat-no mere kitten. but comfortable, motherly
cat baby lived there for while, but IS gone
now The babys mother was arrested for making
disturbance in the place where the babys rather
| works She had provocation, for she had gone
! there to ask him to support the child. and ne re
| fused The MAGISTRATE before whom she was takeT
released her in Miss Miners charge, and she wa'
! taken to the home, and her baby there pelng III
other place for it. was taken there, too.
| I'VE try to get rid Of the girls as fast as W.
| can" said Miss Miner. When they have home
| and parents try to get them back with thei
parents That is another source of expense. Las
| month paid the fares OF ten girls back to thei
homes in the country. There was one little CIR
who worked in mill in Connecticut town Sh
| thought she'd like TO New York and she came
| here. and very soon got into trouble Yet sh
wasn't bad, and when we got her with US an(
gained her confidence found she was glaC
| enough to go back to her mother in Connecticut
| For girls who have one belonging TO then
we try to get housewcrk in the country-"hei
| they are girls feel that we can ask peopl
to take into their homes. We take every pre-
canton to make sure that they fit 10 go into
families One of girls went two months age
to work in a Quaker family in New Jersey SIT
is there still. giving good satisfaction ana per
| fectly happy to be in the country. Yet when sh'
| first came to us she was simply 1ncorrlg1ole- Sh
I told one Of us who visited her the other day tina
| If It hadn't been for the time she spent here sh
wouldn't have been contented TO go to work ina
| sort of made a break with my old life she SAID
Next week there is to be wedding at the nome
| The bride-tobe, round faced, wholesome LOOKING
girl of twenty lived with the parents OF TN
| man she is going to marry, and for Sood "hl
they and every thought the young people Wer
married so think the best thing Is Tor then
to be married. said Miss Miner, and the pres
| Is coming here to do II.
| These are the hopeful cases; others are quit
| different Some of the girls VINO go there ar
lust like other girs-clear eyed honest faces The-
| are the ones who are found in time; others ar
| Urecks-ruined by the life they have lived II
| order that the girls might If at any time /
| seemed necessary, be separated, one group iron
| another, Miss Miner has kitchen arrangement
| on the fourth floor we'll as in the basement
| There is no compulsion about going TO the home
| women are not committed there. Most of them g
| gladly enough. Those who are placed elsewher
| ike to 90 back sometimes. too, for an evening o
for meal
| Ten thousand dollars is the sum needed 70
the expenses of the first year and 1888 OF that ha
been pledged on condition that the full sum /
| raised.