New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-26

~. ofRcs of the Five Polrn Mieaon House pre-
..rted q busy appearance Yesterday norA'ns
O'clock. TWENTY-FIVE children were ga'"o'e1
th.ro making tboir last preparations lot 'u'o
from one of the most squahd portions OF '"o ''.S
1p,pr,xr Fresh Air vacation of two weeks IN
Ulster County. Three fourths Of Ine party
~ Girls and the average of their ages was ra'ner
.ha, :. nsnal in these parties. being about
-, vaor. The Youngest child was only three
aarso old Nearly all of the children were se'ecIeu
en- the immediate neighbOrh0od OF the rive
points. Raxter-sf furnished half the NUMBER anu
Henry. Hester Pearl Cherry, Christie ana D'-
tavia-sts contributed the REMAINDER WIN
execution OF two children who came lo"' t,roI
st Rr,oklyn The names of the chI'oI
chs very cosmopolitan character oil inc -
- fa;rlv indicative also o. the neishDor"""u :"
which most of them belonged. liner" WIZ
ond Eliza Marilla, Mary Resio. Louise No'''
CaI.sti,s Laval Ia John Celia Lewis CszzAssa'
D. Cpanari. Aueia Masoni, Rosa Gardeila hoS'
Colpmbo. Rosa and Charles Montisr1n' Anh''c'
and Florence Prinrose, Gertrude Prescott A""io
lies Rose and Jane Costlgan, john. Mary anu
.pot.vr Flvrn Charles Russell, Edward DlgneN'
and Mary Brag lon--ths latter ht'Ie giI WIN
missed the tram when the party before .u'' o"'
left The city and who made the twenty-hi'n nioNH'
Der of this party. D.. ,.or
NON
their ordinary lives. most OF the children ma. s,"oi
tooes Som. of them had a tlr-d. istieSs looE 'ha'
,o,d too MAINLY VIII 1t their short lives had oeeh'
o.bers were excited their prospective Journe''
and did not know whether to langn OF cry "u'
there were two OF three Who had been ID 'l7 cou'
trv before and their faces we're iuh 81 "le anu
bght As they told of the splendid times 70 DC en-
,oved among the trees and flowers aud biruS; "H'Io
there would be plenty Of grass to run over '"'
flg air
fresher and the sky W. mucn bluer than II Is
here II thc little creatures exaggerated somewhat
occasionally they did not appear 10 do 50 lnseH''o'
ol,v. their enthusiasm was SIMPLY stronger thth
+beir recollection and they looked back over ther
mast e1 periences If through mental lehseS "'nch
NOT only magnlied but cOlored Nth p:SmA1'
hines. And as they talked they kmGied sp'!Ks
of interest IN many OF the uu"
faces so that the shy, sober little creatures WI"
hing back at first. came forward I" AK 4ueH1'hS'
.Dd the tired worn faces Of Others began to Tighten
with the promise that the marks OF care ana saner
inc might he efsced after all under pro er infiu-
ences and kindlier fortunes Most o. the children
were dressed very poorly but neatly. Each one
had small black muslin baS, with hl' OF her
name marked upon II, containing the extra cloth'he
necessary for tn vacation. These bags are great
ynnrovernent over the miscellaneous bundles ard
naper-eoverel packages that u.et to hgnre AZ Dag
rare Some of the children came to tie MlSslon
having on little more than single garment anc
their costumes had TO be completed from the con-
tpt of their travelling bags in the haste of leav
ing the Mission one child walked to the ferry-boa
IN bare feet. carrying shoes and stockings in It,
hand 1t would not run the risk OF beng lett oe-
hind by waiting to put them on In the MlSslon
House
At twenty minutes past o'clock the little pro-
cesson left the Mission House and started mp PARK
st.. the foremost boy carrying Il 'g. AS the GILL
dren marched along. many Of the poor people VINO
live IN the neghhorhOOd turned out 10 see liem
pass by and more IL an one mother slshcl tua
some of her OwD children we're mol OF tlie parry.
When Broadway was reached numbers OF 'eopIe
asked what partv this was ara WEI d c""cerDias
tie movement Whenever 1t was necessary 10 CIiSo
street the cartmeu and other drivers con', WV ~
ately waited to let the whole pro- ess'0h pas.
together The line of march led TO the CorIlahut
Street Ferry and after crossing over 10 ie" l'l"
ments the children were all safety ABOARD Ihe car
Thee was no confusion OF delay about checking
baggsce and no child seemed 10 remember any
thing left behind which 1t was most necessary 10
In tie tram TRIBUNE reporter spoke with
number of tire children Some OF them were rain!
bashful at 1r,t, but they soon were wlilns 70 eet
scnu,iuted Very few of them had ever been IL the
cars before. and several had never oel"Ie SIoeG'
one Of tie ferries Some aCtu lily had never Det III
the marks and hence had data upon which t.
construct an ideal OF the country oIeoi the larger
girls with dusky complexion ana hasnIng T T,"oI
eve. told how she had been Oh two form RI IN
Air vacations boil to the same place-fIe 'oh ilOl,
low back of Catsklil-" the very beau u5St
place IN the world" be Chd 1u,9t ,i' s,br iq
travelled both on the carr aha oil VHe a.
and once she bad sirpt on the eitdh""al-
which fact she seemed 10 regard as most iPoI' '.nt.
1he party left jersey CITY Al oclucA ~ .i9
New-lcrk. SusquehanLa ana Western l'dlH0d'
over which they went a. AddleiOwn. IHetr ih't
changed 10 the Aew-IOrk, DntariO and Western
Raj afterWurd taking the branch 10 EIenviic.
Prom Ellrnyille they were 10 be taken IL farm
IraJons 10 Grabamsvlle and Eureka, Ulo.eT
h. olrl .fpert IA
vile viii be- III, guests Of j. 4. Oilett, Mrs. L.
Brundage Israel >i4er John MoIey W. Il. Bar
den. NJ VI suer, Moses ShIley, Henry u. ShuIeY' u.
C.Grant, &. GasDren1er and john ia BOZ; n'sc
who 20 TO Eureka VIII be entertained 10y Washlis
ton SLuley. John Curly and Charles curry. Ine
htte siTl who was to have gone wIth iorh5i
party will stop al DeckertOwn y j., where she VIII
spend two weeks With Mrs Aver.
COMO TO CONNECTICUT AID MASSACHUSETTS.
Fifty-two children who had been brought from
cellar. gArrets and alleys where disease and death
luTk il the very ar, assembled yesterday morning
in the Grand Central Depot 10 take The $40 train
for Western Connecticut and Massachusetts. They
are many of them children OF pOver;y-strckeu
WashrrwomeD who scrub and toll from early morn
tDg till late al night for enough money to
buy little poor meal stale bread ana we
tea OF coffee. some of them had LO mothers Iher
fathers away most OF the time ana tuey are leIt
u themselves amid slghts and sOuhis thai no one
who has not seen SnG heard Them can possibly lIn-
agiLe Others have neither fathers nor lnOtucrs
and have never had enough 10 eat III theE h'es.
When not III the mission schools, Which alone stand
between them and the VICE thai Surrounds tnein on
al sides, they are either taking cafe o. slcky Va
bies u working IL DIRK tour rooms, Oh else are
piayIng bareiOoJcd, hatess ana hali-cEd Ia narrow
courts anu lanes that rcckng Win the iouest
OdUrs. No one seeing them ,eTUay morning, now
ever. would suspect whence tucy came, II lie wee
not tod their tsces hal been sciuDOed 90 clean,
thel. clOtes were 50 neat q luoll countcDauCcs
heaIucd nightly with anticipation vi tAo deugDts
which ia store ioT tBeID.
Many Of them mad been ~ the country before, and
they keut a COMMUNAL atLnI fLrlllsl..