New-York tribune., 1886-07-30
your lieh.s were bad" "Yes" said Artemus with thsA
sad faraway look he sometimes assumed, and my uve9
was little 0n too "-[Texas siftinga
POOR CHILDREN MADE HAPPY
KIND FRIENDS COME TO THEIR RELIEF.

A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY CARRIES THEM FREE
BECAUSE THE TREASURY IS EMPTY.
The manager of The TRIBUNE Fresh Air Fund
recently agreed to send twenty children to WarreD r.
on tho invitation Of Louis A. Pope OF that place. WIN
had secured temporary homes for that number of cbi
dren They invited for the las, week in July and
the frst week in August The children were selected
and had made all their preparations
OF trip. when suddenly tho treasury Of the Presb-Af
Fund WAS entirely empty; every dollar and more too
had been used just before the children to he in
formed that they could 90 the transportation CON-
pany sent word that would take tho children ree and
last night merry company started Tho company who
so generously came TO the rescue does not wish
It's name or line mentioned II chooses rather to do
kindly act In so quot way:hat may wiser
for IL The children whom IL enables to have fort
Places arc waiting for hundreds children but there
Is no money In the treasury with which pay tnslf
transportation The country people quite outsrp the
city 10 their efforts to help the poor chidrcn Tho CON-
trbutions have been most generous far excess Of
former years but not sufficient keep pace with the
Sometimes, the good people who take care OF tho chill
tonshcdat the tales OF wealth by the little
They fain to believe that they have entertsa
their charity and that Of THE TRIBUNE been wasted
people abo 10 take care OF themselves and their cn
dren. The recent invsstigation OF such proved
that the children who tell the largest stories generally
have tho least foundation for tho same and discovered
the pitiabe desttuton OF family once Ia good crcu
stanceA
Tho homo quarters consist OF three little apologies for
rooms In the attic OF house lower sXth-ave Tue
largest room Is practically unlightod. The other
under Q slOpihg roof. anu a grown person
scarcely stand upright In them. They were filled with
furniture that had botter days long long ago Tue
heavy mahogany framework was still there, scratched
and battered but the pershabe part-the flesh to this
skeeton-was In = sad state. Straightbacked chairs
had their horschair covering worn and the springs
exposed. An ancient piano, whose melodies wero
hushed beyond all help OF tuners stood In the corner
brussels carpet, to the backing with every vesgs
OF color trOdden out OF 1t, upon the hoor. oug
pier glass bound by frame OF battered gilt reflected
the nreatbare giories OF the except where the
quicksilver scaling of had left blotches OF vacuity in tie
picture The mahogany centre tablo was covered with
a cloth patched and stained beyond all recognition Of
tue original pattern, and the whole outnt told OF iS
owners rapid descent from alluence TO poverty.
InvestigatOn proved that when the furniture
young the house beneath the dDgy attic was owned By
the father Of the family. The nrst floor given up
to thriving business and the house was hllot
with tho comforts OF a well.tOto Workers. homo.
Gradually the husband took to drink and matters
worse. At last the wife WAS left alone with three or
four young chidrcn. Tho hOuss, mcrtgaged for moro
than IL worth, sold over her head With dii-
Guilty few articles OF furniture from the
wreck and returned TO the attic. Her small chdrea
were taken In at the Eighth Ward Mission while she
out 20 work by tho day Tho older ones I'D what
they could to help her. This summer tho youngest
child taken from under the burning roof IN Sixth
ard into the country whore her foolish talk
about the legendary gores Of the family led TO an in-
yesgaOn and the unearthng OF the above facts, names
being Withheld