New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-15
of toughs and loafers who want to witness
prize-fghting, the sluggers will migrate to more
convenient shores.
MORE MONEY NEEDED.

"THE TRIBUNE Fresh-Air Fund" is self
sustaining and popular charity, with wide
range of activities and sympathes. II depends
for successful operation upon two classes OF gen
erous patrons-open handed contributors who
furnish the money needed for the travelling ex-
penses of the children and warm-hearted house
holders in the country who entertain the little
w,syfarers from the tenements THE TRIBUNEs
function during the summer season is to stimu-
late the impulses of both these classes, and to
warn sometimes one and sometimes the other
that their own lavish generosity has been out
rivaIled and outdone. One season the sub
scriptions will be largely in excess of the invi-
tations from the farming villages, and then it
becomes necessary to make special appeal for
greater measure of hospitality. Another year
there will be hundreds of offers from the coun-
try, and not money enough in the treasury to
send out the children to those who are anxious
70 entertain them for fortnight; and then
without importantly and without complaint
for there never was more generous and sympa-
thetic public than THE TRTBUNE'S circle of
readers-it is our duty. and pleasure to remind
the contributors that the country is ahead of the
town, and that the receipts must be greatly in
creased before an equilibrium can be established
between these rival classes of charitable
almoners.
1t is in this spirit that we direct the attention
of the financial supporters of this simplest and
most beautiful of charities to the great enter
prise shown by the househoders this season.
Invitations have come in with such rush and
arrangements for placing the children have
been made so readily that within fortnight
3. 600 have been sent out Of the overheated city
to green fields and pastures new. Last week
thirty-five companies were dispatched to vii
lagos in New York, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
Connecticut, and smaller groups were put on the
road for sixty-two other places. Homes have
been opened in ninety-seven villages and small
towns for this army of pale-faced little travel
lers from hot and dusty tenement land. For
this week between thirty and forty companies
have been booked for another series of journeys,
and the manager has only begun to draw upon
the hospitality of the country patrons. Mean
while the treasury has been nearly emptied.
There is not money enough in reserve to meet
the expenditures Of this week. and the season
has barely opened. MOfO CnlIurtH nave Deen
sent out than at corresponding period in any
previous year and the facilities for finding
homes for thousands of eager applicants were
never better; and there is only one thing that
stands in the way Of an immensely successful
season. That is the empty treasury.
1t is hardly necessary to emphasize this APP
peal. THE TRIBUNE's circle of warm-hearted
readers have only to be reminded that the coun-
try is outdong the town in this most excellent
gift of charity, and the money will come in, we
are well assured, at the rate of $1,000 day
What other agency is there on the face of the
earth that accomplishes as much good for as
little money? For every three dollars received
at our counting-rOom poor child who can have
no other vacation or resting time in this season
Of inclement heat is entertained for two weeks
in a cheerful farm house in some quiet valley
hundreds of miles away, where the air is pure
and the home influences are sweet and whole
some. This simple statement of fact is enough
to inspire the most hardened and mercenary
Scrooge with benevolent impulses for the Tiny
Tins of the tenement world. We are not, how
ever, addressing the Scrooges, but those who
have given generously many times before and
will do so again.