New-York tribune., 1890-07-14

srocY OF THE BEGINNING OF TIE IND W.
sprc1,1. CHARITABLE woRK-INsTANcES OF
no,,rrrv AMONG TIE BENEFICIAEIES.
The third week in July has for years been ma
18th red letters in the calendar oi Inc lr'O""o
AIR Fund. The present week Is no 'po'' ~
10 To-day and tomorrow fifteen Excursions VI
i.,,o cbdron leave the city for towns in Ne"-iof"'
IrI,arIo Massachusetts, and Vermont. Ihe'c
- -. will he received at the following points
irorrnan Penn. Pine Valley, y. Y; Warren feh'''
OXFORD n Y. Busti y y; WelisViiie " L.
X y: Friendship, y y. south D"F'oh' ~ 49,
pangor ~ y: Mddlebury VT Hyue Id'h' w.,
West Cornwall Vt; Amherst Mass. hI'"olU' '''
south Royalton. Vt, and many other places
o .ho farms near one OF these towns, Shcr-
.D pam inst fourteen years ago last mohN'
The Tribunes beautiful charity had ITS brth' Inv
story has been told and retold in many VliaEs, au
towns throughout New-Eneand and the Nuu"
states but for the edhcaton of thousands oi ieuo'
who may not have heard it. here follows a SNORT
sketch of the beginning OF the pioneer Vi '' '
air funds in existence today.
Late in the summer of 1876, CONGREGATIONAL
clercvran. the Rev Willard Parsons. was d1NmE
over the hills of his parish in Wayne County, ro""
The sun was setting, and the santmE I"S
lighting mp the hills covered with UnON''' IL"
elinring vines. Twilight OvcTshalo"Vu '"o -
whence came the song Of distant OlIN' Wv 0,lS ~,
cOuud that broke inc uNluS ""''
horse. Mr. Parsons paused moment 10 ENJOY INC
a,,iot ,oa,tv Of the scene and ' he gazed there
cope over him the longing that Others less lor
inmate than he might also see ana ENJOY H-"'"'
The DOOR and especially the children OF the RN"'
city, might be brought among such scenes - Io
afterward expressed it. at was iloHv-'
when thought and purpose were twinbofh' NO
turning 10 his parsonage that evening" nc U'"''"'
The scheme to a few of his parshoners. some at
once dismissed the idea being visionary "m'o
others gave him hope with the words eve nust 50"
the tiny seed next summcr-itS roots VIII sI4N0
decpff than one can possibly forcSee'
Tho first Sunday Of the following June MI Iar
SONS preached to his people from the text Iha'i"'
AZ We have done It unto the least Of these my brethren
GO have done II unto Me- lie made his project of bring
nc ont 10 the neicborinc farms of the walls ana
outcasts Of New-Yori and Brooklyn the pricuea ap
plicatioa OF his text There only nine IN the s'
party-al weak from want or disease, perhaps rom
both-cOnsumptive, crippled thin and prcha'UrcIy oiu
both BOYS and girls The experiment of a two weeks
stsv in tie country great success. During the
summer the hosptablc people Of the parish took two
other companies, sixty In all. and thus the frcsiair
enterprise was fairly launched. The following year
Mr.. Parsons gave up his charge and coming to the
city carried on The work under the auspices Of TIE
Ney.York Evening Post In 1--2 it was transferred
10 The Tribune under whose management il has grown
beyond all expectations, fact. however, which Is
given the work by the public
over 10000 children have enjOycd q fortnisms
vacation in the country through The Tribune Fund
Prompted by the example Of the NewYork fund.
fcsh air charities have been organized In Troy, Albany.
Buffalo Phliadcphiu. Baltimore, san Fran cisco, BoS-
ton. Chicago -. Lodi, and Lond Jn, England over
l7,OOO poor children being taken ont Of the London
sUnS last year for their country week"
OF ali SORROWS. frW appCa! strongly u the sym
pathetic those OF youth. The cares and ills Of
nih' children. tf' punv arms and legs. the ch"ck~
hanchcd by poverty and neglect, viii more often move
% pitN tn3u Tn" elpIUouC" Of tpn.,u" Jr pen. Ihc
Eri' follows ,cnt 20 tnc couu;rr by TIE Tribune ia
these two daN>' parties wee selected primarily on
account of their poverty Their homes are among tie
cherries places of The earth crowded poorly furnished
bady ventilated. aud not .rfrGucntly damp. going %
can Of tld, city that "yon cannot teach child In
tenement AcU-e 'hat ucd IS love.
There is a l-le gin! gonc +" Vermont today who"
ro;v is enough ~ r~u!Nr Mr.. Nr'wuiucS "Cry OF ~"
hldioD.H Her lathe" is ,tCEiy a'd h'.. IDt Zone ay
Nrk in ycara. TN" mother finishes cO1tS. ewing on
ge buttons. working the LjtjOnhol"- cfc fr W.ccleA
lrWs Of ihe East sid. rhl> Hrjlc SRI carries tho
gaUcnt- 10 ard from the shop. -lc e Lot permitted
~ - vi i."i ~ aug 'N'H e. f'IfjN ~'""'I,
4lee arc three oh"r children iu fh' family one ~
Thm il an idiot. The child had no hat to 20 10 the
'omiTy, hu h.r SUNDAY school teacher VIII zee that
Do docs mo-, mis-, h"r vacation co. tha' account.
There arc two u'tlc sisters going to Western New
'o-5. q worthy case. 1hc fgtAe. I> dying with con
mmEucn, hc mother "o,.,", ci-h"~ in an uptown
& give cril. De. father. AVID thus enable older
asier 10 the little f0UrN "trHd 80 tl" country.
Such is Gimp" af 'ho condition % the b"ucdcar" Of
tl~ Charlty. aId What o." c.irct~'" yOu
Imagine Yourself il yoU C,u. for iEo iI~t time IN ifr
beyond the igu + WALL and paved Streets huGtnr for
VIII flowers dai,c- and clover blossoms IN The dep
you Wonder them the reply of the little g Who.
teinc asked what Heaven looked Ike. ~qid with far
away expression in hrr eyes - she remembered The
PARADISE II he preceding summer " IT must look lRe
tie country '