New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-26
MORE HAPPY CHILDREN.
CONTINUING THE FREsH-AIR" WORK.
ANOTHER LARGE PARTY SENT INTO THE COUNTRY
THEIR PATHETIC IGNORANCE.

| ANOTHER LARGE PARTY SENT INTO THE COUNTRY
THEIR PATHETIC IGNORANCE.
Cato n Y, July 25 Special. Nearly 200 Of
| THE TRIBUNE Fresh-Air Fund" children were
| assembled at 7 D. H. Monday in the Pennsylvania
| Railroad waiting-room at Jersey City. Their hap
| py smiling faces and eagerly expectant manner
| betokened that they also were to be the recipi-
ents OF those benefits. already conferred upon so
| many OF New-York's needy and deserving little
ones. This party, in addition TO the children
| four Of whom were neat understanding cOlored
girls, contained a half-dozcn married women, some
of them with infants, who were to be sent out
| by special request AS the reporter walked around
the room he heard many remarks indicative Of
the great boon a two weeks outing would be to
all; and all evidently were eager to start as
soon possible.
At last the signal was givcn-the longcd-for
time had come-the gates were thrown open, and
the excited, happy throng, graspng tightly in
their hands their bundles, baskets, baseball bats
dolls and other paraphernalia, rushed toward the
train, while the nations followed, almost as
much moved by the occasion as the little ones.
The children exclaimed on all sides, " I'm going
TO stay two wceks!7 I'm going TO play in the
grass I'm going to sec the country" Lehgh
Valley train was boarded goodbycs were said.
handkerchiefs were waved, and the cars began to
people could be found than those little ones were
at last on their way to the promised land.
The first thing on the programme was the par
taking OF REFRESHMENTS and after that all kinds
of amuscmcnts, with jokes, tricks, and the sing
ing Of The Red, White and Blue and " My
Bonnie whiled away the time mcrrly as the
train sped across Ncw-Jcrsey. Many of the chill
drcn were anxious to learn about the
objects of interest they Were passing; and
very amusing were the questions they prOpounded.
One of them wanted to know " if it wasn't so that
Pennsylvania named after Walter Scott and
another if ne wasn't going to sec Buffalo Bill
up in New-Yorll a little lame boy and d girl
with broken back seemed to forget for the time
the Affections which they Will have to carry
through life, and entered with good deal of zest
into the jollifcaton. This girl is twenty-threc
years old, and had never before the country.
tiny fve-year-old girl said that she was not
going to forget to write to mamma, and tell her
all about what she doing
While stopping at White Haven Junction, sta
ton near Wlkcsbarre, it was learned that thirty
six children had arrived there, safe and sound,
earlier in the evening and, in the words of one of
the employees about the station, every man
woman, and child in the village turned out TO well
come the little New Workers to their hearts and
homes
At last, after attempting in vain to keep wide
awake so that nothing should be missed, tired
nature asserted itself in the majority of cases. and
comparative quiet reigned until. at 80 a. m, the
village of Sayrc, near the New-YOrk line, was
reached. There the slecpcrs were aroused and the
first separation took place.
Scvcntyninc members Of the party. with care
taller. started, via the Geneva Ithaca and Sayre
and Northern CcDtral Railways for Canton, which
is charningly situated in the southwestern corner
~ ira Comfy Penn
Of fifteen and twelve respectively, were taken, VIA
the Geneva Ithaca and Sayre Railroad, to Fayette,
Park Ridge and Ithaca. At all of these places
those in charge say that the parties were very well
received, and will have q splendid time. The rest
then went, via the Alexandria and Thousand
Islands Railroad, to Ludlowvllc, eight miles east
of Ithaca to Geneva, in the same neghOorhood |
and to Cato and Meridian, which are lO4 miles
northeast OF Sayre and twelve miles east of Lake
Cayuga. Eighteen were taken to Genoa, thirty |
seven to LudOwvlllc, fOrty-tw0 TO Meridian. ana
thiry-thrcc to Cato. This division was in charge |
of Wilmot II. Thompson. of Orange, y. j., who was
manager OF the whole Lehigh Valley excursion.
Enthusiastic hosts greeted the arrivals at each |
place: ard ~ Cato, which the terminus, the |
Rev. Mr.. Macfed, who was managing the alot-
mcnt, said that more people could not nave turned
out than greeted the newcomers even III the FfeS |
dent OF the United States had arrived. Cato and |
Meridian in the centre Of Il rich farming dis
trict, where all kinds of grain and many varieties
of fruit raised in abundance. 1t Is an undu. |
lating country, with rolling hills and beautiful /
valleys, dotted here and there with lakes clear rs
crystal and srted with dense groves of forest |
trees 1t viii be paradise indeed for the little |
ones.
Some of the children were visited by the re-
porter in the homes where they are being enter
tanned. He found them variously engaged IN !
picking berries feeding horses and doing the thou
sand and one things for which life in the country
furnishes opportunities, and which are such pleas
ant novelties to the city boys and girls. Although
some of the very young ones were still suffering /
the pangs Of separation from home most OF them |
had an air Of perfect contentment.