New-York tribune., 1911-04-23

f., money even TO buy shoes. and had TO y
ragged. ] got disgusted with the whole
thing This girl didn't have any folks,
/ so she had furnished room. and whether
you're sick or well, when your week is vi
I you've got TO pay your rent, she told me
( so | started to go around. All the girl:
who don't have their folks go around
Sometimes they get suppers and theatres
sometimes they get money for room rent.
"In one tenement so-called home OF two
little dark rooms. from which girl whom
we had here came. the whole faml,
worked all day and until midnight making
artificial flowers. They make wreaths OF
rosebuds sxty-six buds in a wreath. and
are paid 10 cents wreath Even the
schoolgirl Of eleven years has 10 help anC
then from midnight until ! o'clock after
work is stopped she studies her lesson:
FOR the next day"
Many Of the girls who are cared for a,
Waverly House are girls who have run
away from their homes in smaller towns
Perhaps conditions at home were not pleas
ant. perhaps the lure OF the city was what
brought them to New York. Anyhow, here
they come and soon find il isn't all roses
they are arrested and brought into court
and turned over TO Miss Miner, who cares
for them until she can send them home
which she always does as promptly as pos
sible The association ha. fund out OF
which railway fares are paid
Here is letter that came to-day IRON
one girl of sixteen whom We sent to hel
home in a Massachusetts town Miss
Miner said. drawing it out Il show II
because ii proves how the girls that are
helped will try TO help others
In our shop" said the letter which was
written I'm pencil, in scrawling, childish
hand there is a girl. She is not exactly
a bad girl but she likes the fellows great
deal. When | went TO the shop no one
would speak 10 her. And ! told her why
they didn't speak to her. and she lston to
what l tell her. just Ike YOU told me,
Miss Miner And YOU can't believe what
q good girl she is getting 10 be-
There is a high standard Of morals in
that factory" said Miss Miner. laughing.
I'm afraid in most factories the sentiment
about fellows is quite the other way.
The girl who wrote this letter is nice,
pretty little thing. who ran away from
home because OF trouble there-trouDle
which is now smoothed over But because
she was picked up on the New YORK
streets as a runaway she was taken 10
Jefferson Market court and spent day
and a night in those dreadful cells. hearinS Z
unspeakable things from some OF the older
women prisoners the hardened offenders
| do wish" Miss Miner added that we
could get that new house of detention we
are talking about"
A new part of the work into which the
association hopes TO 60 more deeply is inc
protective or preventive work, Miss Miner
has divided the city into six districts-the
Waverly, the West Side. the Essex, the
Yorkville. the Harlem and The Bronx. and
in each of these hopes to have centre
and a paid worker 10 look after girls who
need looking after. The salaries of three
district workers are already guaranteed.
and one centre is established, little fiat
al No. l9l Division street Miss Florence
Katz is the worker there. Often in the
evening or Of an afternoon she meets girls
of the neighborhood and makes good time
for them. Girls who are Just starting TO
go wrong" girls who are wild, are re-
ported TO her by parents. by friends or
neighbors, by settlements and churches,