New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-14
ENJOYING COUNTRY LIFE.
c,rv cuupREN MADE HAPPY.

DOOR CHI OukLD<s~~~'
-, yeFsH-Am PARTY IN AND ABOUND hl''AN
ShA nrpe-aScIpzxTs IN A NOVEL LIFE.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF rae TRIBUNE
p.s,yprRf;. Clinton County, n. IL July l..
= ,mpoSsjble TO speak IN terms 700 nigh u sno
s:.s,,,ess of the people OF Eienourg 10 Inc
rn,o,,xr Fresh Air children ana tneir en'n'''a''
- sher efiorts TO make them happy. ina, seems ,
~ - am, ef everybody In the place and on IA
we On. "a xnoken of save the children, and not
s'o's - = 10 he heard not full OF warmth and
ono - Naturally the children are somewhat
s.s;;,,, tonic. for there are no fewer tnan io'
az, xvho left New-York on Monday put Gown
" 'a ,, 57 boys and girls make very consiuera-
-" difference in the juvenile population OF 'he
nelghborhood -. ssrorats vii,
r1,a,horg ,,s.lf IS in reality three separate VIZ
-. pIla,buruh Depot, Ellenburg corners $50
.a,led beeanse ii is in the very mioaie VI e'e,S
.h;ac, ami Ellenburg Centre, so-caheo oc-
4, IA on the extreme OUTSIDE,
so,,e 81. miles further up the Champaign river
.h.n ,ha Corners which place is about the same
s,s,o.ce from the depot. Each village mas p'pu-
- Of ab,ut 800 but the ground in between Is
All r,or or less populated, and the entire people OF
v,enbnrp number themselves about 4.OoO.
rne pro.,sct on arriving at Ellenburg last night
Ala nat look very promising. There were fourteen
80. children ON hand than had been arranged for
rnt tss din entity was at overcome by the IN
,eu kindness of the people The idea OF having any
children at all here entirely owing TO the Rev.
n II. Smith, of the Ellepburg Methodist Episco-
nj t,hurch He took up the labor Of
fading places for as many as possible
= nj, "eireut.n and he worked at it
40 ,ov,ucly that between this place and Forest
Al, next statiop-he found local habitations for
aver 143. AIR. Smith met the train at Forest and.
having sen TO the disposition of IL children there.
c,,ne ON TO Enenburg and set himself to make
ror for the IA extra ones well as the las he had
already arranged for.
An onsTRgPRRoUs UR HIx's ADVENTURES.
II was well alter 10 o'clock last night before the
children were all disposed Of Before that time ar
rived many of the little people very weary and
forlorn and one or two began to wbimper One boy
was left over. Not from any lack of applicants
bat because when any body wanted to take HIM TO
his home he simply sat down on the iioor OF the
xaiting-roon and squeaied. He wanted to be with
The lady who had come from home with him-Miss
Hull-and with Mr. Dooly, and with them ne would
be. He was particularly obstinate and can squeai
particularly loud and before night his fame and his
voice were all over the village So Freddy" had
10 be taken to the hotel for the night and arrange
pents were made for his billetting next day.
at o'clock he was sitting the floor of the hotel
fqueaing just as be had sat squealing on the moor
of the waitinc-room over night. At length be made
bolt for the doorway across the road and on what
he considered was Decline for New-York. He
had however, sill some considerable way to get
there. when he was captured by half the
village at opee and brought back, and
eventually coaxed away to his new home.
where his sister had preceded him the
night before As soon as he got there he was recon-
ciled by discovering that the ryer ran close 10 the
hoosP. and shortly proceeded to signify his Spgro-
val by tumbling into the water. And now FREDDY
Is the hero Of the place immensely proud OF himself
and as happy as boy can b..
HOW THz CHILDREN AMUsg THEMSELVES
All the children indeed seem supremely happy
spd. what is even better, the people all seem de-
lighted with them and spend their leisure in inter
changing experiences OF their new friends and
chucklipg with good-natured delight over their
ignorance of country ways In EIlenburg the
children themselves are to be met at
every turn and they are easily distinguishable
from the round-faeed. ros checked natives
The houses through which they are distributed are
scattered ali over the country between here ana
Forest and New-York children crop up like mill
stones all along the road between the two places
HARD DAY FOR CHICKENS AND TURKEYS.
There were only seventeen children left at Forest,
but they make themselves very Ubiquitous and do
a. well as twice the number. 1t is small garrison.
but sufficient to overawe tie inhabitants, aud the
inhabitants seem to delight in being overawed. Tie
same intense kindness is in every Dodys words and
looks and actions at Ellenburg; all business
must certainly go To ruin II they insist much longer
in giving up Their attention to their little proftgts
q entirely as they have done to-day.
The chickens have bad rather an exhaustiug day
of il IN evadng the small girls will try 10 catch
them ano the turkeys and all the animals say they
pever haG much attention paid them IN their
lives In fact the children recognize the fact that
they are the eoun try only for short space, and
they have got to make the most OF il and be a.
eoUntrisied as they can while here. Their hosts,
too all combine to help them. and all alike speak
Ia tones OF praise aud pity OF toe children and
heartily glad they took them. No complaint OF any
kind-from one side or the other-has been made.
and to-day telegram has come from Cnazy saying
that il there are any superduous children here they
would like them there-tboug they have already
eighty on their hands.
THE HOSTS OF THE FRESH-AIR CHILDREN.
WHO ARE ENTERTAINING THEM IN CLINTON COUNTY