New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-15

the best medical care but for child which these
relieve, twenty can be benefited at the cheaper
place The number of little ones in such santa
RUINS this Summer is but an infnItesimal proper
ton of those who are left to suffer from the heat and
foul air in the alleys and tenement houses. VIII not
some good woman take this matter in handf Money
will be subscribed freely for such an establishment,
as soon as 1t is started people are always ready
and hearty in their response to such appeals espee-
tally when made for children; and it would take
very little more TO put it in permanent operation
than is needed to send out single gigantic free
excursion. Free excursions we'll enough Tor
children not already invalds; but babies who are
near death from exhaustion or Summer complaints
need quiet shelter as well as pure air, both OF
which this very practical and practicable charity
affords them.
The hint given by THE TRIBUNE last Summer
concerning the great number Of pleasant and cool
resorts in the MOUNTAIN districts of the Southern
States, has had marked effect Many Northerners
have already gone Southwark, not only to the we'll
known Virginia Springs, but to the quiet little
summering places in the Blue Ridge, to be reached
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Others are
exploring the recesses of the mountain ranges III
North Carolina, where the grandest scenery on the
Continent cast of the Yosemite may be found, but
which is accessible only on horse or mule-back. we
hear parties of enthusiastic trout fishers who have
already tramped thousand miles. coming down the
top of the watershed of the Alleghanies, wrangng
all the way about gray hac1es and yellow sales
As pie lsant way of spending a Summer vacation
would be to take the nearest railway route to
small village in the lower Alleghanies, there en-
gage an open wagon and driver and make leisurey
tours of the mountain counties IN the VHginIas,
North Carolina and Tennessee. The expense would
be small and the range of scenery and individual
character brought under inspection would be OF IN
finite variety
There will be a chance for the exhibition of the
fayorite Democratic virtue of economy when the
expenses Of the various travelling committees come
to be audited. Mr.. Potter, General Butler and
their associates have removed their place OF meet
ing TO Atlantic City. where hops and sea-bathlng
will pleasantly relieve the tedum Of examining
Louisiana Supervisors; ; we only regret that the
removal was not made little earlier, so that
the fashionable Jersey watering-place might
have enjoyed the company of Mrs. jerks. The COM
mittee on the reorganization Of the Army pro-
poses to make tour of the Summer resorts ana TO
labor alternately at the Virginia Springs, West
Point, Saratoga, and Niagara Falls. trip to the
coast of Labrador Will perhaps afford pleasant d.
version If the hot weather continues; camping IL
the Adirondacks may give the gentlemen some IDEA
of soldiers life there is good society at Newport
and excellent clans are to be found at Coney Island
The member of Congress who franked his solled
linen bone to the wash is fairly outdOne by the
committees which compel the United States to pay
their Summer hotel bills.