New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-11
CHILDREN ON VACATION.
NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND LITTLE ONES
HAVE HAD TWO WEEKS IN
THE COUNTRY.

AIR FUND-UNHAPrY HOMES FROM WHICH
THEY ESCAPE FOR TIME-TuE
OUTING MAKES THEN STRONG
ER AND EETTTR.
The Tribune Frcsh-Air Fund Is enjoying its annual
boom. To speak in mercantile parlance, Business
is brisk Up date il has the country for
two weeks vacation ont OF the crowded tenement
districts. 3.5G5 little girls and boys. The larger
parties Of children were welcomed at the following
places Ridgewood, y. J.; Ihon. " y; Wilton. Conn.
Branchve. Conn. Warren. Penn. Greenwich Conn.,
and Johnstown, y. Y There twenty foul parties
In all. In addition there three day excursions
Excelsior and Alpine Grove. opposite Yonkers. The
total on the day excursions was over 1900 men,
women and children
To give an Idea Of the poverty Of many Of these
children, mention, briefly the circumstances Of "A
few Of the families from Which they come Two
little ones live In I'm tho basement OF a rear
tenement house. They desperately poor their
flther is dead. Tie stcpfsther IS a loagshoreman
and has been out OF work for some time. There are
lot Of other small children in the family The
missionaries clothed these before sending them TO
the country. Two little girls who 60 to-day never
saw the country. Trey lived formerly in the slums
OF London. They have been in this country two
years, and their total enjoyment for the two wears
Of flowers. trees and grass that gained BY a
gle visit Z Central Park. Their father Is scvedOre
working now substitute. There are Eve Children
In the family and the oldest only eight years Of age
IN one Of the parties last week were two little colOrcd
girls The mis- sion teacher who brought them 10 the
train said d" 1 am glad &c them. They will
appreciate their visit 50 much tcy i've wretched
place In the city. Never ray OF sun gets into their
quarters Can the average man or woman ina dine
what home must be like when SUI peeps into IL
Another family Of four children viii send two
representatives to-day. The Oldest boy In the family
fc IL IL
and do work Tie mother is widow. She
washes and PAYS her by caring for tie halls and
passageways Of the tenement In which she lives.
The rooms o; this family in the rear and the bed
has outside window. Another family Of
English nationality will send four children. The
father is q godbeater lie is ont Of work at present.
The mother helped along by washing and scrubbing
but her physician has forbidden Ger t. more OF IT,
This family pays g pei month for it, quarters.
Two Others will come from q family OF ten. They
live In an attic. The father Is light pOrer. IL i,
poor that he canno. afford give rs children
milk Probably The most pitcous story Of AL Is ;.ae
Of three little tot, whose father is n drunkaid The
father periodically deserts the family. STAYS for
time, then gets big debauch home and takea
vengeance FOR hi own sins OF the innocent mother
and children. lie has been repeatedly arrested bur
each time he Is released the same scene + enacted
over again. Tie mother washes ana scrubs but SIR
wages apparently losing baltic against fate. Time
and again she has been tanned Of doors because
Of hcr inability 20 pay the rent and each succeed
ing occasion In" workers Of the missionary chapel
have placed Ccmselves between The workhouse and
the poor pluan. thus giving her q now hold Oh Iio.
This list o. details might be multiplied Indefinite :.
Eacl child that -ocS Tho Tribune FUND has Il siors
homcy and pathetic. II IS the ambition Of Tn"
Tribune ID hurry these nocent little children OF t.
Tho country fast possible. Thousands are
waiting Their anc, 10 90, and the manager hopes
lsrf ncue uuv he Isnui Cd
boon OF Their lives, suppressed by poverty IGNORANCE
and misfortune. 10 spend two weeI.a IA The country
once They get into the country they divney hap
py. They return 70 the city, At the end Of The fort
night, brown berries from a physical point OF
view greatly benefited IN every way.
Equally important the great physical gain, which
Is immediate and easily noticeable IN FroSnAit chill
dren is the moral benefit TO b. derived by two w"cs'
outing In the country. Even men and women 81
going away from home for time II they new
idea which strikes them being good will
adopt the and Try 10 enGraft IL into their own
lives. so il Is with the little Tribune Frcsh-Ar
girls and boys. They come from homes OF poverty,
sq,alor and vice, the classes OF society wch They
belong i've to certain eNcent. by th.lf wits - IN
the elements their environment drunk"nBcis is
common. theft frequent. and profanity ain 1st uri-
versal. iassine from such surroundings 10 the cool
cheerful inyiIng Ctr,tisn hom6s OF the c9Sn'Fy
many lesson, Of parity. sweet temper, md Doblc
rlaohs, II 20 80 n' Dc o'aet" l n }c t tne
year, Of age. and children OF that nge most sus
cepblc 70 external gnuenccs. ihc children r'tlm
brine ard naturally ny 70 initiate and repeat what
ilcy scr and hear in the country some o The CITY
-i,naries who engaged in the work o. gathcrn~
children the tenement diStcts for transportation -
the c.uorv d. nOt hesitate b. Tint they caa
generally tell When children have been out for Frc'h
Air b. the evidences thy II tho homes = tn.
children. after t.eir rom tho country. IN"
Tribuncs charity. keeping tho foregoing thought IN
MIND ie blessed one. II r. omiucntly prIctcai
Tho children mat" great physical cnins. A. ;hcr
mothers say. They ere fed Up. an1 stand tnc
Wintcr f'rNuEh without huA apcioNnE. inrN rl'f
:. orally as vel ara the gains, both physical and
moral, are visible. great and unqu"-tonabie.