The evening world., 1917-07-19
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College Gov. whitman appointed her
n probation officer In the Night Court
for Women Her work there with
girls arraIgnod ON charges Of immo-
rallty led 10 the foundation ~ Waiver
ley House AT No iGj West Tenth
street, 10 which any glrl in Now YORK
who wants TO get back into the day
light Of work and worth and self-rc-
spcct may 20 at any hour Of the day
or night and ask for help
THROUGH tho influence Of Waiver
L ley House thousands OF girls
who thought the future had been
abolished for them have found happi-
ness and work. Many have married.
There arc girls now happily knitting
mufflers for the soldiers in the shad-
owed GOODNESS OF that old fashioned
brick house who "A few weeks ago
were central figures In the greatest
tragedy Of city life the tragedy "
the Night Court for Women. At Hi
crest Farm, In New Jersey, the sum
NOR home maintained by the Now
York Probation ana Protective AS
s%ociation, other girls are doing volun-
tary farm work, and their efforts have
been so successful this year that thoy
have been able to supply all tho vcge-
tables for their own table and for
Waverley House and TO put up sup
plies for the winter.
Girls at Waverley House have made
dresses for Belgian children, rolled
bandages for the Red Cross-in every
way they have come to feel that II
Is what a girl Is going TO do, not what
she has done, that counts. And Miss
Miner told me yesterday that hun
dreds of girls, having made this dis.
covory, shut the door forever on the
errors that brought them to her for
help and have become good and use
full and happy m
81 A GIRL came to Waverley House
"A who had been brought to New
York from a small town I'm Illinois,"
Miss Miner said, "Sho worked in a
store, and tho man who cOurtcd her
met her legltimately, called on her az
her home, vas accepted by her fam
lily. She had every reason to believe
that he was honorable. lie was called
by telegram to Chicago and asked her
to accompany him and be married at
tho house OF his sister. She went. In
Chicago another fake telegram met
them, sumAoning him at once e.
New York. II" explained the situa,
ton and urged her to be married al
tho home of his parents, supposedly
in New York city.
1.-THE home OF his parents turnct
out to be a disrcputablc apartment
run by another man, who had son
the fake telegram. A third man USE
20 stand down in the street to adj
vertiso tho place. This poor gin
managed to tell OF her p]rcdlcamcu
TO a patron OF the place. He notineO
us, and through the District Attur
ncy's office we rescued the girl, an,
am happy TO say We put all three O
those monsters behind the bars. Tn
girl went back to n Western city
back to her family and her work. Sh
saved her money, II little AT a tim,
10 go to school, hut each time sh
had $40 or $50 tho illness Of he
mother would eat II up.
"Whcu | went West last year
saw her. She was 50 brilliant, :
eager to improve her education, tina
was able, through friends in Ne,
York, TO arrange for her to 20 I
school. She works part Of the tim
10 pay OFF her debts. She IS going I
college, and Il future Of hope an
usefulness has opened to her, not
w"ithstanding, her terrible experienc,
IIEOR n case like hers there ar
1 thousands whore preventlv
work Is effective Miss Miner addcC
at Is In such work that a Pole
Protective Bureau would he mos