New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-12
THE CHJLDRFYS VACATTON

The last week has been q busy time Tor the
Fresh Air Fund. Parties Of children have been
sent out North, East and West by river, sound'
rail and stage, to the AdIiondacks anu the
White Mountains and to and beyond tue cats
kills. Tomorrow about 500 OF these little
travellers will set oul in five companies on their
halliday tourney, and other parties Will follow
in rand succession during the remainder oil
the month and the first fortnight of September.
At the opening of the season general appeal
WAS made to all families reading in the country
who had Interested themselves in this beautiful
charity in former years. For several weeks IL
WAS largely matter of conjecture how many
of these families would find 1t in their hearts 10
welcome the waits of the tenement world ID
their homes, and how many new friends ana
patrons the Fresh Air Fund would recruit In
other districts where the experiment had never
been tried. We are glad TO say that the iarm-
ers' families and rural residents in New-Eng-
land and New-York have made most gener-
ous response to the appeal. AS the season has
advanced the results of effective organization
and energetic canvassing in the villages have
become apparent. Requests Tor parties OF
children have been received from many quar-
ters where they nave not been entertained ne
fore. Communities which beStirred them
selves in July and made arrangements Tor the
earliest excursions, have perseyered IN we'll
doing, encouraged by the good conduct OF their
tenement guests and have succeeded In some
instances in organizing parties tor August as
I.ry. an the first that were sent out In this
way a great impulse has been given to the
work, and the difficulties met with at the outset
have been readily overcome.
The banner counties enlisted in this service
of Christian benevoience are Essex ana Clln-
ion. ON the west shore Of Lake Champlaln.
| The party of 1913 to be sent out Tomorrow Will
make the fourth which has been provided for
in those lovely villages lying at the east gates
| of the AdrOndacks. The enthusiasm for the
| work has become infectious in those local. ties,
and village vies with village IN extending hos
vitality to the little ones and ministerng to
| their com fort aud happiness. In st. Johnsbury,
Vermont, extraordinary zeal has been mani
| Tested A member of THE TRIBUNE stab,
| happening to spend bis own vacation in that
charming town, WAS asked to explain the OBJ
| iects of the Fresh Air Fund This he did in
| the course OF one or two brief addresses in
| churches request was Immediately made
| for thirty children, but before the day Of de-
parture the number had increased to one hun
| dred and ninety. Another week passed and
| there was a second call for ninety five children,
| aud arrangements are now making for third
party of fifty or more to be sent out late in the
month. The neighboring village OF Danville
has also taken forty five children. At this rate
the Adirondack counties will have to look to
their lanrels. Indeed one resident of ST.
4 M haf
Vermont ought to take il all the poor children
of the New-York tenements. and offers to
stump the State" next season in their behalf
IL seems almost invidious TO single out local
ities when hearty and generous responses have
been received from every quarter. Special
mention, however, ought to be made OF Waiver
lev, New-York, which took ninety children
early in July, and now that the little CUES 9
have departed asks for fifty more and will
probably provide for ninety in the end. The
Statewide party, consisting of eighty-four
children, was organized by one mar, DR.. Allen,
and the ChenangO Forks companies were alsc
due to individual cxortiOn, the Rev. Mr.. Doney
returning with the children and taking back 1
second party larger than the first. The family
of the late TrenOr w. Park have generously
opened their beautiful country seat near Ben.
nington to large company Of poor women ant
| sick children, and will entertain several other
parties before the season closes. The genial
!; Mr.. Happen insists this year, as in former sea
Sons, upon providing breakfasts or dinners for
all the children who pass through Troy, and al
New London similar arrangements have beef
made 10y committee Of residents. So this
noble work thrives and prospers stirring the
sympathies of generous souls in hillside ant
valley and opening n wide range for Christian
sympathy and practical benevolence.
These explicit references to the noble response
made by the rural communities to The TRIB-
uNR's anpeal in behalf of the children of Tn,