New-York tribune., 1885-07-22
OFF FOR GREEN PASTURES
NEARLY A THOUSAND CHILDREN SENT.
rHs LARGEST PARTY or THE FRESH AIR FUND.
THEIR DESTINATION

oAAAIy oIucoi OkluuydtleSs" Wa0 tha
monotonous chant OF double column of persprnp but
happy children that filed out Of the waiting room O, ,ha
Ncw-York Central read little before O'Clock last
evening" There were 500 OF thcm benehcaries Of Tan
TRIBUNE Fresh Air Fund. and all were bound for sum-
mer homes In the town of skaneatelcs whose pictur
esque name their childish tongues had twisted into
Sknnyatiles" Before them stretched other lines OF
youthful travellers all clothed In their Sunday best 40
to make good an impression possible on tho kind
friends who waiting to receive them In the towns
along the Central road while behind them the waiting
room crowded. and tho latest arrivals filed the
doorway and the sidewalk.
1t the largest party sent into the country at
time at the expense Of the Fresh Air Fund.- and the
task of bringing order out OF this Juvenile chaos by
no easy The gathering OF the clans bogan
before o'clock, and within hour 700 chdrephad
| come by all sorts Of coDveyances and on >. feat.
Even hospital ambulances were pressed, into
| service. Forty mission schools were represented
and the apportionment the different towns waSas fol-
| lows: Chapinve, 2; Leroy, ; xskoneatcley, %;
Phelps 8; Geneva, 33; Clifton Springs, 103,; weet
| Bloomfield SO; Mers Corners, g.; waterloo,l4s;
Camillus. o. shortsville, 81 Canandagua, ESQ., East
Bloomfield 50; Marcellous, %; total 634. Many
who came to fll possible vacancies were sent homo
again. At these and other towns H. A. Parsons Of the
Fresh Air Fund.- has been laboring for several weeks
arousng the sympathes Of the people, getting them to
offer their hospitality to the children and generally
making straight the way for just such exodus that
| OF last evening
train Of a dozen cars backed down into the
station and the children being arranged accordingto
their destinations that each could be cut of at
| the right station, were marched down the walk
and told to Chamber in They trooped along like
copy of the Children of Israel bound for the prom
ised land OF fresh air and heathu food Like the He.
brews. they had evidently not forgotten to spoil tho
Egyptians by borro wing jewels and ramcnt fof 1t was
small child that had9't three or four bundles to lug
handbags and bundles OF every shape there were and
' "Good.bye. FranSei Goodbye, Frankiei" was the
exultant chorus OF knot of little ones as they passed
deptiy heightened by tnre Of selfish rejoicing in tho
thought that others were shut out from it. FRANKIE"
farewell but there help for It, he under
excursions. After much dashing TO and fro the
attendants arranged the 634 children in the IN
could sit and hold Georges hand and none OF the etsr
nal unities were volae ed. The numberlcss bundles
ann Sneh wsrc mass to show the stun that was in
them and the ice-water tank gave forth steady
stream. .
In the rear car were slowed " the miscellaneous"
the little waits who We're to MI IN the cracks .ar, and
in It's quota through the o. children,
isneous" to make good the deficiency. Just before
the train started widow In deep mourning brought
the miscellaneous class but as they were passed
through the door into the vast emptiness Of the outer
ont her mother was too much for the smaller and
she cried s to be taken back There fn ,s wa Whit no %s
elder anxious to s sss Saa Double tsareST
enacted. Their mother said that she had three still
smaller children at home.
with his arms full of tickets the big engine. No. 35s.
slow hauled the long train out Of the station. with
ing every window, ard another freshair party was
fairly on It's way @ TO the eoantry . ,,s
s nne wsii sSrcu osd Ts nrs w,h squad
full OF bundles and their faces wreathed In smiles
two weeks visit On account Of their neat dress aud
cleanliness the children give many people an impression
Cant these children afford to pay their own ex-
penses ." was asked.
children live with large family IN two or three and
only $ S1s room Tat . little re. 0ne there S
house Her mother has just died aud her father
No. no. 1T is much as they eando to leave work long
enough to go into the country"
struck youths subsidized into gentle thought Attic
first splash OF the paddle-wheels, enthusiasm overcame
dfidence and the big steamer moved slowly from the
pier sxtynne tbroats aud many handksrchiefs
simultaneously brough. into lively use: ,. As the
Brooklyn Bridge the children caught sight OF the tower
THE TRIBUNE Building and again their Inngs came
into play vigorously pedestrians 40 feet
above them TO peer down In wonder
Mrs Estey, the wife of the weknown manufact
urer said that she would entertain twenty girls and for
two weeks she devoted her thine aud energies TO their
happiness and comfort Her own children she sent to
the seashore 50 that the visitors should have full swing
In the city guests and money raised among them 10
buy clothes for the children and each child came back
fit that she wore Last week A. NJ Ingham. the seere.
Colonel Estey president sent order for sixtynne
children With the request thar twenty-five OF them
twenty were to Be the girls that she entertained last
year any of them had become too old to be included
In the provisions of the Fund 1.-THE generous host asked
that they be sent, at her expense The other enter
snsr. At this village Sar a1s I s,r
Mrs. Edward Clark. II. NJ. Hscock: W. X Giddis. 7:
Ses Mrs 6rcme who ss sent for fort twenty-five Children
The wsiting-room Of the Erie depot. Chambersst
ast evening. The 200 boys and girls bound for
Elmira and its vicinity gathered in group. about
orderly as though they were IN church Nearly all Of
them came from the mission schools and were the chill
Twenty from Jersey City under Dr. Carkss lag care Joined
tion reported One case in psr1tcasT Of ltsl:
s%y II ccHny they Wanted to Keep
then. but his parents would not consent His father
asd rsesn E; and on his mother Of %Ss
he Vas taken last night to his new bone; The exact
Association has conducted neatly AL the correspondence
relating the entire party. After securing all the
eard eaes on wSicS Was the following srinted notice
"The Fresh Air children from New York viii arrive In
july o. Lunch will be served the depot betwcsne
and o'clock after which the ehdren will be delivered
You requested to be present and take charge OF
those assigned to YOU"
Among the preferences expressed by some OF the peo
pie in country "A little girl not over four,
fight hair child to remain II satsfactory Brown
hair ard eyes-to remain II satisfactory" Two Get.
man-speakng girls fourteen years ola-wouid IKE 70
keep one"
The entertainers at the various places are:
ELNIRA-,irs. John Morehonse. Mrs Hannah Haven,
James Gibbe, Andrew Miller, George Maby, Mrs Daniel
Dubois Mrs Llza Strader, John Stoo, Dr. Adele Gea-
SON Mrs J. r.. Brockway, A. A. Price, Mrs. Iiarfiee
Pratt william Phillips Mrs. j. c. Dyatt Mrs. Hannah
Vorhees, Mrs Clayton Griswold. J. X. smith Mrs. W.
Cleveland Mrs. Edward Loomis Mrs. J. l. Gregg Mrs
I. Bower. Mrs. Robert Simmons. william Cnrran.
Thomas Curran Bernard Henry, Mrs Jacob Newer
j. v Ackerman Mrs +. Bentley, Mrs. 5: Fancher. Dr.
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