New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-22
~ ERGENT APpE4L.

The success of the Fresh-Air Fund this year
has been phenomenal The contributions have
been most generous, the receipts being IN excess
of those of last season at a corresponding date.
The offers from families in the country To re-
ceive and entertain the children have been
more numerous and pressing than ever before.
The season has barely opened, yet $500 chill
dren have already been sent INFO the country and
are no Y enioving the hospitality of kind friends
and generous hosts. At the same date last year
about 700 children had started on their annual
vacation. Four times rs much work has been
accomplish this year, and the expenditures
! have increased in a corresponding proportion.
| The treasury is now empty, and unless 1t Is
! speedily replcnishcd active operations Will nave
| to be suspended. This would be great public
| misfortune for the facilities for tranSplaniing
| the waits of the tenement world to green fields
and pastures new have never been so great rs
they are this season. Homes have been opened
east. west and north of the city, and parties can
be sent ont with great rlpidlty. Local commit
tees have been formed IN nearly all the old
| localities whore the children have been wei
coined in the past, and also in MANY new'sec-
lions. Then. too, there are Thousands OF ll!t'
ones i'm this city and Broc',lyu who stand I'D
most urycnt need of fgn h air and all the whole
! some influences OF this beautiful charity.
Only one thing is now lacking. It's money.
! VIII the patrons of the Frcah-Air Fund who
! have proved themselves so scnorDGs IN thr pas-.
suffer this popular charity to lauclish II rr-is
! with them TO decide whether thc work shall go
ON or ha suspended for want Of prunjap sup
port. The children are here, and many Thou
sand, to spare. Hundreds of families IN the
country stand ready to receive and ccrc for
them Al that il now required Ia The money
for ttdvcliugc1pcu.r, Forcyciy three dollars
contributed poor child VIII br sent mto tine
country for fortnight. Not ono dollar viii hc
used IN payn2 advertising bills. 90 aiir' or mis-.
ccllapcou, expenses. The FRESH \ir lurl
doe. not have any complies machinery The
money contributed i, expended directly ~
furnishing transportation 10 de" hundreds "i
tenement children who afc dependent upon thr
bounty Of 'IuE IHGr NLa rctdcr. for thrlr Itr-
giving summer holiday. Not one dollar ,s d.
vcrtcd ~ any other uar.
Ordinarily the receipts have been IN excess OF
the expenditure, at every stage oi the summers
work. If the surplus ha, been exhausted rarly
this season, it l. not. we repeat because There
has been auy falling of in the contributions,
but solely because IN" manager of the Fund has
been able 10 make use OF every dollar placed at
his disposal. Hundred, of applications for
places in the outgoing parties are now on file,
and there j. no lack of hospitality on the part of
the farmer 1t is for the public to decide how
few on how many children shall be rescued from
hot payemcnts, shiny CUTTERS and disease
breeding tencmcnt> to fragrant meadows shady
lanes and cheerful homes in what 10 them Is
still a blessed. il it has bcccmc through the
privileges Of former years a discovered country.