New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-05
, Girls. , Boys. Either. Total.


The party will leave this city at o'clock this
afternoon. and by tomorrow night all the ehnoreh
will have reached their destination The party win
10 nrder the charge of the Rev. VIII
lard Parsons who will be assisted in the work
of taking care of the juvenile travellers by the
following voluntary helpers The Rev. j. III. " II
son. the Rev. Wilson Piseck. H. A. Parsons, Fred
erick Greek Mrs. VI. Mckinnon. Miss Sarah warren
and Miss Gennie Warren. The children have been
gathered from those quarters OF the city where le
respeeta5e poor drag out miserable HE III dealh-
breeding tenement houses, and they go OUT bearing
the sign manual of poverty, hunger ana sorrow
But. as has been the case IN former years, sorro"
will he blown away with the first breeze from
A., ,,otoiDs and bunger will dis
anpear and poverty be FORGOTTEN amid the
pjenItnd. of country life. The children who start
TODAY have been selected by the following missions
and chapels: st. AuguStine's Mission. Carmlne
Mission Lebanon Mission. Romeyn Mission, 81.
Thonas's Chapel Oivet Chapel. Chapel OF the
Atonement Brick Church Chapel Bohemian Mis-
sion. Zion Chapel, WILSON Mission, Alexander
Mission and Gotham Court. Some, also
have been selected by physicians and Bible
readers. They have been carefully chosen
the particular circumstances OF eacD
case beng carefully considered II Is safe TO say
that there is rot child that starts to-day for the
10 appreciate fully the need that the children OF
teneuent-ho house districts have Of spending short
time in the summer in the country, 1t is necessary
TO see the homes in which they live.
JRIBrNE reporter recently accompanied one OF
the ladies connected with city missionary
work who was making mp certain number OF
children TO send in to-day's party. The first place
visited vas a rear tenement house long narrow,
dark dirty hall led through the mouse FACING 90 me
ri llAl NM
bv such high buildings that the sun struggled
yaiulv To make anything ike respectable day
hight there, merely succeeding IN giving ehou2n
light TO enable one to see the heaps oi refuse anu
the groups OF dirty children tnat occupied nest
of the available space, four nghts oI
unsubstantial wooden stairs led up 10 the rooms
occupiel bv the woman, whose two boys 1t had
been proposed to sent INTO the country. On every
landing doors stood open and showed dlrty rGc'is
almost bare of furniture. IL when citekhg
lousew " scOlded and irowzy-h headed children
yelled, aud disorder and filth reigned supreme.
The woman VISITED nad iMo roO1S anu 'I fry
wears ago her husband was engaged
In a wellpaying business IN the country. he
was taken i'll with CONSUMPTION ana came Win
bis family to the ely. thinking that he could get
some light employment. 1t was. OF course tne same
old story-falnre 10 get work, poverty ana de4th;
His widow, a delicate looking woman, Supported
herself ana family by taking IN washing Inc rem
paid by her for the two miserable rooms Is Do %
a month. an exGIbitant sum Tor sneh apart
1nents This house is a good example OF tenement
houses o. It's class. aud II Is from s4cL MONIES thd
the manufactures OF HE 4 RlBUNE EIesii-AlT una
are taken The front or tis rear tenement-DOuse Is
not more than 10 feet from the house fronting on
the street. through which it is entered
the house at its back is SO near
that il can be- touched from the
windows There are twenty families living IN the
building each containing on an average hve per
sous Each family has two rooms, the bed
rooms being lighted by small win
dow leading INTO the hall. The rooms are all the
time 10 twlght for sunbeam ever gets so Iar ont
of its bearings 10 gid the dus! and dlrt In these
homes Words may give some idea of the NTH and
dirt Of These tenement houses but not all the Ian
guages living or dead. can convey any suggestion Oh
fbclr foul AR commngled With more nOxiOus smells
than Hunters Point produced III It's most abah-
doned moments. From hundreds OF such homes
children viii g to-day the Tree air OF the Adj
iroodac / and the blue waters of Lake Champlsl0.
Every arrangement has been made for the welfare
ard comfort Of The children while on their way 70
their destinations At Troy, shepard lappeh VIII
provide the party with breakfast and Dit. Parsons
Will see that the children not hungry OF uncOm-
Portable during the journey.