New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-06
MANY GOING FOR FRESH AIR.
FOURTEEN PARTIES TO START TO-DAY.

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Kindred little children will leave the city this after
oon and evening under the auspices of The Tribune
y,sh-Air Fund These parties will be received In the
allowing towns Panama. n. Y: sherman. n. Y;
East Randolph, n. Y; jamestown, N. u; Randolph,
n " OH City. Penn; pleasantvtle, Penn; Coch
,.nton Penn. Peelxskin ~ Y. Hightstown. n j.
worrIstCwn, n. J.; New-windsoT, N. V; Summit,
\. j. and Portsmouth, n. II. The frst-named
s,rht parties OF the LIST will contain $50 boys and
girls all under twelve years Of age. one hundred
and sixty nine Of these will be entertained at
cochranton These eight companies will reach
their destinations by special Tribune Fresh-Afr"
train on the Erie Railroad which will leave the city
today at p. m. The children are to gather at the
Erie Ferry at Chambersst. this afternoon at O'Clock
so that there nav be plenty of time in VII oh 70
range the lists. tickets, etc. This special train OF
FIVE coaches will run jamestown, and there IN the
morning Il viii be divided the several cars going
in various directions. The party to HightstOwn
win be composed exclusively OF brooklyn children
The excursion TO Peekskin will spend two weeks
Mt the Willow Brook House. four miles back Of Peeks
kill on the road to Lake Mahopae. These fourteen
pa-tles together with the ten parties sent out last
week make total of twenty parties for the first
seven DAYS Of this Fresh-Air season.
Did the thought ever occur to you reader, how Sc
verely handicapped some people are In life You
doubtless have seen the runners in the CALIFORNIAN
games when the men Of muscle swept by 70 victory,
and the fastest Splinter Of the lot did not get place
for the simple that he too heavily handi-
capped. such handicaps, however, not a cireum-
stance to those which hold back in the Of life
thousands upon thousands Of little children Of this
great city. The official handicappers Of the cindcr-
path place their barriers in inches, feet and yards.
The neutrality-suspicious., Poverty Disease and Death
lay their handicaps in the form Of drunken fathers.
delicate mothers, starvation wages, and sometimes
wages at all, puny limbs, sickness rckety tenement
houses evil companions. foul air, dirty, crowded
nm nd ~ haf
Nor the heaviest handicaps given the strongest
the feetest 1t that the weaker contestants
are more often placed fuFthest from the goal. To
eaualize conditions and 20 remove of these handi
caps is the effort and aim of The Tribune Fresh-Ar
Fund That the Fund is succeeding in its purpose
you may judge for yourself after reading the following
stories about few OF its benefciaries who win be
of for the country this afternoon:
IN one OF the parties going to-day two children
Of swiss descent. There six children. the Oldest
being twelve, in the family, and the mother is a
widow. The seven live in two small rooms They
have no carpet on the floor Their stock OF furniture
consists Of a rough table Old broken, smoky stove
three chairs, one bed and lounge. The members Of
the family who cannot be accommodated at night on
the two articles Of furniture last named have 10 sleep
the floor. Last winter the mother Of these miser-
able little ones worked at dressmaking for 81 so per
week. Out OF her earnings she paid Ss a month rent
;hus leaving the pittance Of SO per month on
which to feed and clOthe herself and family
and that. too, here in hgh-priced New-YOrk.
This poor woman has fair education. but like thou
sands more in the world, she unfortunate in her
marital relations. Her husband when living was a
prominent caterer in the upper part of the city but
led double life. One day large girl stepped in
and accosted him Father" The wretch tried to
explain. but only entan gled himself the more. He
soon deserted the second wife and her little children
and for long time nothing heard Of him. Finally
he was discovered downtown living with wife No. 3,
and last winter lie died. the result dissOlute
habits.
In another party to Western New-YOrk will go four
little tots from one family. These four will all be
entertained by kind Christian in that sec
ton While they away, the mother viii be placed
IN a hospital. The father of these dear little things
is terror to his family. To say that he is devil
incarnate is not putting II too strongly. His favorte
pasme, when he Is not lOafng in the liquor store is
TO come home drunk and pull his wife around the room
By her hair One day last winter he home in
his accustomed state, seized his eightyear-od daugh-
ter threw her the and dslocated her hip
For this act he served three months in prison. The
poor child is still lame from the injury. The brute.
when his wife worked, used 10 beat her until she gave
up her hard earrings and then ne would 90 and spend
the money for drink. few days ago when officer
stepped to que one Of the crazy uprisngs of this
fellow, he found the mother and all the children under
the bed.
This home as the outgrowth Of the fathers intern
is about the most wretched on the East side The
mother is too feeble 10 wash and the family IS fed
altogether BY charity. They get tickets for provisions
at the corner grocery, but as this IS not sufficient to
keep soul and body together the Of the
mission school carry additional food 10 them. There
are only two rooms In the place. There is bed in
the kitchen. some Of the children have to sit on
the bed when they eat there are ONLY three chairs
In the house. Carpet and tableclOths are Injuries
never heard OF here. Two Of the children sleep on
a straw pallet the floor. The mother. who in |
her younger DAYS had a good musical education Is
tiInid and sensitive, making known her woes to few
and those her most intimate friends. she had good
sense enough however, 10 mortgage all the furniture
the missionary. The latter bought it at nominal
price and while the children are In the country and
the mother in the hospital it viii all he kept in !
the stOrehouse of the chapel 10 prevent 1t being
pawned by the drunken father Maybe these four little
children won't enjoy the country The change from
their own wretched home to the quiet green hillside
farm. with its roses and its milk, will to them
a transportation INTO heaven itself
On the special train this afternoon will be three !
little girls. sisters, and their story is a short /
but touching one. When the missionary went TO |
inform them the other day Of their invitation 70 visit
the country On the Trbunes Fund, she found them |
literally starving 70 death" Think Of it Here in |
New York. too where there mountains of provisions
and millions Of money The mother is Of English birth
and scrupulotslv honest The father deserted MS |
family months ago the preext Of going 70 Baltimore
% look for work. The family live on what the mis- |
siOnary gives them and the mother tries u keep the
rent paid up by her own earnings At the time she |
had her piece Of work she deposited fifty cents on the
rent uut Of every dollar she earned The landlord SAYS
taat she tries hard to do what is true and noble
thai he hasn't the heart 20 turn her into the street lie
recently made her present Of three months Of rent
The poet Hood, when inspired - write his famous |
Song If the Shirt must have just such sights as
ht,f Eh-Af
ago. Il was in a rear tenementhOusc IN the thicKly
populated East side The father has been out Of work
Tor eleven months The mother is the sole wage-earner
II tie family. Her business is 10 make trousers for
ak cents pair BY the closest application from /
oeiok in the morning until 10 O'Clock at night she Is
a1ie 70 finish seven eight pairs OF trowseTs Tie
strain Is to great for her She IS delicate woman,
Neghs onY LIZ nonnds and II Is merely a matter