Delinquent girls under sixteen are now considered, in all enlightened communities, subjects for the Juvenile Court.

They are hardly ever associated with older delinquents.
But a girl over sixteen is likely to be committed to prison, and may be locked in cells with criminal and abandoned women of the lowest order.
Waverley House is the first practical protest against this stupid and evil-encouraging policy.
The house, which stands a few blocks distant from the Night Court, was established and is maintained by the Probation Association of New York, consisting of the probation officers in many of the city courts, and of men and women interested in philanthropy and social reform.

The District Attorney of New York County, Charles S.Whitman, is president of the Association, Maude E.Miner is its secretary, Mrs.Russell Sage, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss Mary Dreier, president of the New York Women's Trade Union League, Mrs.Richard Aldrich, formerly president of the Women's Municipal League, Andrew Carnegie, Edward T.Devine, head of New York's organized charities, Homer Folks, and Fulton Cutting are among the supporters of Waverley House.

Miss Stella Miner is the capable and sympathetic superintendent of the house.
The place is in no sense a reformatory.

It is an experiment station, a laboratory where the gravest and most baffling of all the diseases which beset society is being studied.