New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-09
THE LARGEST PARTY OF THE SEASON.

HALF THOUSAND BOYS AND GIRLS BOUND FOX
TIE SHORES OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
The largest party of children sent to country
homes last year for two weeks vacation by HE
tribune Fresh Air Fund numbered 465, and
went to the ten towns the western shore OF
Lake Champlain One of the most energetic anu
enthusiastic OF the gentlemen engaged in obtaipihe
homes for the children and IN making and exc
cutting plans for their entertainment. Was the he'.
Thornton A. Mills, then preaching la the Town VI
Essex. His experience of the results of this Work
of benc6cenoe was snch thai, early in the present
season. he determined 10 repeat his effort IN his
new field of pastoral iabor-the town OF CHAM
plain. He met with ready cooperation on the part
of the clergymen in neighboring towns, ana more
than week ago every arrangement had been per
fected for the reception of 4G2 children In eight
towns in Clinton County. The clcrgymen who
have been active in this work. besides Mr. Mills
are the Rev. M. II. Smith and the Rev Henri /. st.
Claire, of Elenburg; the Rev. J. II. Myers, OF
Chazy; the Rev. J. b. Mckenzie Of Mooers, and
the Rev T.. l.. Arnold. OF West Chazy.
Work in thi. city kept pace with that in tho
country, and all preparations were completed IN
time for this party to start from New-York on the
same day of tho month rs that on which the prac-
teal work of tho Fresh Air Fund WAS begun last
wear There were causes which prevented this.
however; and It is hoped that the more careful
s,lection of children which tho additional four
DAYS permit may more than compensate for the
delay. The children will gather at the pier OF the
Troy Citizens Steamboat Line at the foot oil CHRIS
topher st at about pm. to-day under the guidance
of the missionaries and Industrial School teachers
who have selected them from among the many who
have applied for the privilege OF joining the party
These ladies' and gentlemen have been especially
In fl,o anil la N
struciion has been repeated this year-to select
fran among tho applicants ia echiluren of the
really Door whose homes In small and over
crowded rooms and in densely populated parts OF
the CITY; and ngniL from these children TO make
further selection of the most feeble and delicate.
1t believed that these instructions have been
very generally observed. and that the generosity oil
the persons who have contributed TO the Fresh All
Fund ana Of the people n the country who enter
tain the little strangers will not be misplaced
The children will embark OH an extra steamer OF
the Troy Line in charge Of competent gentlemen
and ladies' most OF whom have engaged IN the same
work under the special direction OF the Rev. Mr.
Parsons The steamboat will leave the pier as soon
"a the party is on board. and Is expected to arrive
at Troy by q a. 10 morrow. Here q hearty
breakfast will be given tile children by shepard
Tnppen whose greatest pleasure IA giving happiness
10 children and who for several years past has
fed all tue parties OF Fresh Air children who have
passed through his town. lie has engaged Two nails
Tor this OCCASION about live minutes walk from the
boat and only four blocks from tho depot OF tho
Delaware aud hudson Canal Company Railroad.
where the children after breakfast VIII take a
special train for the Chnmplain region
The train having few stops before reaching flatts-
burg will reach that town at $3.50. aud th"hesotth
will stop at frequent intervals to lot OF parties oil
children. Al fattsburg u deputation from Nor
rsonvc will take children TO their village near
by; nj Chazy 10 will disembark; at West Chnzy
. In - Mt 70
Mills 10 at Rouses Point 20. at Forest IL, aud 1T
Elenburg 1873.
WHERE THE CHILDREN COME FROM.
The majority Of the children from the East
aide Of tho city and from as far north as Ono
hnndredth-st.
Mrs Sarah Crovell sends twenty-onc children,
ten OF them boys who are membersof the Reformed
Episcopai Church, Madson-avo. and Fiity-hfth-st..
or of its mission IN Yorkvilie Their parents are
English, some having beenin this country only few
months. They exhibit degree Of refinement and
education rarely met with in the classes from which
the Fresh Air children arc taken. Some Of these
psople have to pay periodical instruments on
fnrniture. which consume the few dollars left
after obtaining the actual nee ,ssaries OF life.
The fathers are aborers conducnrs on street cars.
gatemen on the elevated roads, kalsominers and
earpcnters. The mothers take in washing or do
sewing From the Reformed Episcopal Church
there were sent into the country last summer nearly
''1 he Rev. Newton Perkins. of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation. IN East
Thirty.fourth-st sends twenty Of his Sunday
school scholars. The children belong to the tene-
mem. house district and the parents are IND istrou'
and though poor, not IN state OF utter destitntio
1hirtyiye OF the party. eighteen being giIls, are
CENT Inv the Rev j. fairfield, of ST. Peters Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in West rwenty-hrst-st
The Twenty-tirst Ward Is represented In
the party by eleven girls and nine nino boys
ali of German parcntagc. Ihey were
selected by Miss May Westeryelt. of the Knox
Memorial School. who during the last three years
carried on mission work in the Fourteenth ward
A number Of her children. including lew th2l are
10 90 In this party, were sent TO Sing sing Tor Two
weeks in the early part OF me summer, anu .noy
would have been pleased could they have been sen
fenced to serve much longer term IN that we'll
Mrs. McKennion, n reader OF the Bible
b bows, living cast OF Third-ave. and south
of Twenty -ilth-st. and belonging to various de-
nominations The families are very large and tneir
means very small, aud the children arc often III
want OF sufficient food Many OF tho mothers hlro
out by the day and do coarse sewing, house,cloah-
In g. and in fact any kind of labor that wilibfing
them in enough money TO drive away present want.
One of the girls Is a hunchback; another has oeoh
for long time afflicted with spinal trouble anu
neither can get proper medical attendance. .
st. John's Church. In Vauck-st., VIII spare
twenty of its 400 Sunday-sch0o children, all Ger,
mans. Most of the to1r boys are workne, t hua
have received leave of absence for two weeks from
their employers. The parents OF some OF the 'aIlck
st. children are disspated aud squander III drink
their own and their childrens earnings. The father
of three of these children has long been kept from
work by an ncurable INA lady and is now OH his
death-bed. c,,
The Rev II. +. McFwen, OF the Covenant Chapel,
Presbyterian, in East Forty-second-st, sends
twenty-one boys and girls, representing various
German, English. Scotch ana
American None OF these children has ever psen III
the country. ,,, a., D.,
Ont of his 2 Sunday -school children the key'
Charles H. Burr pastor of Bethany Cbnrcn' Iontn,
ave. and Thrty-sixih-st selected tho twenty WIN
are TO accompany he party to-day -, ,,
From Hops Chapel fifteen children VIII pe scli' sem.
They come from the Gro wded tenenents on the east
side between Grand and Fourteenth sis., nd are
mostly children of German parents. Two oil tho
number ARE sent mainly to give them TWO WEEKS
~ which they will have, enough 70 e Az