New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-06
SUMNER REST FOR SICK CHILDREN.
HOSPITALS AND HOMES AT A DISTANCE FROM THE
CITY.

CITY.
To the Editor OF The Tribune
SIR; Several weeks ago it was announced that
subscriptions to a considerable amount had already
been made to the fund for providing excursions
during the coming Summer for those children who
otherwise, all the season long, could breathe only
the air of close city streets and crowded tenement
houses Il is none too early to think of making
such provision, for, despite the wntry weather that
is still with us, Summer will be here almost before
aware. The excursions of last Summer
doubtless saved many lives, and aleviated the suf
feruSs of many more whom they could not save.
May it not DO we'll also to provide i'll time for many
who need something more and something different
from these eXcursions-the crippled or diseased
children to whom one, two three weeks OF seaside
country air, wholesome food and kindly care would
restore health and impart new vigOrf la Philadel-
phia there is well-appointed aud well-conducted
Children's Hospital, the success of which inspired
certain ladies and gentlemen interested in it with
the idea that sunIlar institution at Atlantic City
would be one of tho best possible charities Losing
no time they subscribed three OF four thousand dol
lars. obtained a charter put up a comfortable, com
modious, well-ventilatod building, secured good
and medical attendance and for the last two
Summers their Seaside Hospital has been III active
and benefcent operation and it is now in contempa
non 10 enlarge III. 1NeTc certainly pldctS
New-York where such hospital could be built and
carried o. with greater outlay than i'll the case of
the Atlantic City charity. Is there no one with
interest enough in the matter to take effective
measures for securing its exisencei
But in addition to the excursions and TO hosNital0
which can provide only for the more extreme cases
of suffering there is wide field here open for phi
waite charity. Let us remind some of your readers
who are questioning with themselves how they can
best help some one else this coming Summer, that 1t
will take only small SUN to secure home through
the July and August heats for some ailing child or
for a mother aud child to whom country air and
plain, wholesome food will bring renewed life. At
distance from the city. among the hills there are
many small farmers or labOIers houses where such
Injuries can he had at comparatively triiiing cost.
for those who need them most. Those houses are
not such as furnish accOmm DdatlOis Tor TIC OIdi-
nary class of city guests nor would the jewellers III
them know what TO do with such guests. But they
would supply kindly greeting and sympathy to
those whom with to have sent 10 them. and to
whom such sympathy, III conjunction with Natures
kindly influences, would be the most elective
restoTers of health and hope. There are Others be-
sides children whom sucn Il summer rest. though
only brief would preserve fOr lie no less use
full that il is hunlbie and obscure. Ii might add n
zcst to the enjoyment of Il Summer at the springs.
IN The mountains, by the sea- to know that we had
secured TIE same greater benefits to one VINO
needed them more. And then there is the g mas
much spoken more than eighteen hundred years
by Ono VINO claimed the least and the poorest az
His brethren. X. Il. Il.
Aeac- York.. April g. 1875.