New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-26
READY FOR FRESH.AIR WORK.
SOME CHILDREN ALREADY OUT OF TOWN.
THE TRIBUyE's FUND swELLrYG-MoRE OFFERS
Epou THE COUNTRY NEEDED.

FROM THE COUNTRY NEEDED.
The preliminary arrangements for busy season Tor
all connected with The Tribune FreshAir Fund have
now been nearly all made. Usually tho children arc
not sent into the country until after the Fourth Oh
July but tho ferce heat of the last fow days has
made 1t advisable to send many possible out
town without delay. A considerable number are al
ready enjoying their fortnlghts vacation. Many
children mako warm friends with their hosts and are
invited to como again and stay longer More thah
100 have already been sent for by the friends who
became interested in them, some to stay month
and others for even a longer period.
Mrs. s. A. Lindsay, Of Montrose, Penn, has been
greatly interested in this work for many years, and
always sends for larger number of children for
herself and her neghbofs. dozen or more have
already been sent for, and another larger company
fs booked for Montrose early IN July H. A. Parsons
has been travelling abont tho country for TWO
months, visiting as many towns as possible, and APP
pointing local committees In the various places to
take charge Of the country end OF tho work W. II.
Fuller, secretary OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
cation OF Brattleboro, VT, another enthusiastic
worker hopes to find places for 500 children in Yer
mont. Dr. G. c. vinton, one Of the board OF ex-
aiming physicians, has recently spent week In the
Catsklls stirring up the people to hospitality There
are hundreds Of places whore the manager is not able
to send any one TO organize the work Cooperation
is greatly desired in all towns within 300 miles OK
New-York where there are empty beds and food to
spare
One energetic person in community either minister
layman. with the interests Of suffering New-fork
children at heart can organize the work and appoint
a committee to find out how many children can DO
provided for for fortnight during July and August
and address manager Fresh-Air Fund.- Inc
Tribune, New-York City. Hundreds OF hospltable
people are ready to receive the children II they are
asked to- and the manager most earnestly desires their
cooperation. 1t safely be assumed that the money
Will be forthcoming to send every child into the coun-
try for whom O place can be found. No appeal for
money has been made this year, yet there is already
tho treasury S12724 32. Every dollar contributed
used directly for the children There arc no salaries
and no office expenses to be taken from this fuhd'
The transportation companies make generous reouc-
lions, so that small Of money goes great way
All country friends are urged to provide most gcner
ously for tho children There Is certainly no iach "a
poor children in the city needing inc ouuns' on
hour spent In tho tenementhouse region on DAY
like Yesterday would convince any one of the needs
OF the children II the country people could spcnd
but an hour in the average tenementhouse In summer
and SEQ the suffering the intense heat brings TO the
moor children, they would throw wide open their
hospable doors.
The children are selected by city missionaries and
others at work among the poor. Each child Is care
fully examined by physician before 1t Is allowed 10
on Thirteen physicians most generously give their
fine 10 this important work The following Is ist
Of the examining physicians and the districts they
cover:
Canalss, Broadway. Brooklyn Bridge, East River
North River; DR.. George Williamson No. 40 kingst'
Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl-st.. New.Bowery, Bowery'
Grandst Essex.st. Houstonst, East River; Dr. u u
vinton, No. 3O2 East Broadway
Houston st. Avenue A, East River; DR.. F. E. Hop
kins, No. 3I8 East Fourth-st
Bowery gourthave., Fourteenth st. Avenue A, Essex
mr. &
feminist
Broadway, Fourteenthst FOurth.ave, Bowery, New
Bowery Pearl.st, Brooklyn Bridge Dr. H. q. Lyttie'
No 84s Broome-st
Clinton place; DR.. John P. Poland. No. All Hudson-st
Broadway Clinton place, Chrstopher-st, North River
Twenty thrd-st John Dorning, No. 252 West Twen-
tynfth-st.
Broadway. Fourteenth.st, Avenue.A, East River,
Thirty fourth.st, Fifth-ave. DR.. f. b. Kiham, NO.
Livingston place. and DR.. q. b. Kelly, No. 61 Seventh
Ffth.ave Twenty. third.st. North River, Forty-sec-
ond DR.. Alfred T. Goodman, No. 127 East Sixteenth
Ffnh.ave Thirty fourthst East River, Seventy-sec-
onds; Dr. ~ S. Roberts, No. 149 East Sixtysecond-st
Ffh.aye Forty second.st, North River One hundred-
and tenth.s Dr. j. +. Terribeuy, No. 311 West Forty
eighth-st-
Seventy second.st Fifthaye, onehundred- and tenth
st. North River, Harlem River, East River; Dr. NJ. NJ
Arrangements have been made to start several
large companies next week. Mrs. Crowel, Of Brat
tleboro W.T. has sent for fifty workinS-grls to visit
her for fortnight, beginning July Q. This VIII be
tho first large party of the Mrs. Crowel had
fifty working girls at her place last SUMNER and after
their visit she sent for fifty children.
The thrty-fou annual report OF the New-York
lnfrmary says:
Tho Fresh-Air work. which is an important aid to
our people, has this year increased The impor-
Of this work sanitary measure cannot be over
estimated. We were enabled send 3i8 children and
% women each for weeks in the country We have
found that vacations invariably enable the recipients
10 pass more comfortable winter than they could have
done otherwise. Tho moral eec. upon the children is
remarkable. They return with new ideas Of life and
desire to attain something In their own homes little
moro like the farmers Three children have obtained per-
manent homes the country and family, consisting
six persons has emsrsted to the western part OF the
State the result Of visit OF OF the children last
year. Now after five months, they report themselves
as doing well. This family required a great deal Of as
sstanco during the whole OF last Through the kind
interest Of DR.. @. T. Conkey sent 120 children 10
WATERFOWL where the doctor obtained hosts for them
Our outdoor practice Is entirely among the poorest
of the tenement house people The houses are as rule
In very bad sanitary condition. Living continually in
wretched atmosphere, with insufficient clothing and food
we find that 1t is almost impossible to restore the people
to health The landlords aud refuse to alter the
conditions OF the houses Besides their homework, most
of the assist in the support Of the family by sew
Ing the neglect Of the children. Few OF the families
have known during the past six have materially
beered their condition. The hunger. cold and naked
tho increase rather than the decrease
and problem of what do with this enementhouse
system is further from solution than
Next week tho work Of sending the poor children
into the country will begin in earnest and It is hoped
that larger number may be provided for during tho
season