New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-01

dPARTIEs SENT TO PLACES IN NEW-JERsEf
PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE. MAssA-
CHusETTs AND THIS STATE.
Ont Of the narrow streets and alleys. where
scarcely a breath of air is stirring; out OF the ta
tenement buildings. broiling under the not ma
summer sun: out Of the slums OF poverty "heie
the liauor-shop is the finest house on the biocK
the children come. Day after day. from spring &c
fall. The Tribune Fresh-Air Fund officers gather
them I'D and send them into the hedges ana the
byways of the country to enjoy fortnghts con-
tact with Mother Nature.
Every day of the week parties OF them may be
seen at one or more of the great railway stations
under care of some older person, bound for the
country. The children are collected from the
v,oorer quarters of New-York, Brooklyn and Jersey
'Cnty by city missionaries, teachers doctors anu
charitable organizations that have to DO win 'e
"submerged tenth" of the great cities. Wheh the
people of a town village inform The Tribune
that thew can receive so many children on such
q date the city workers for the poor are told that
each may select a certain number 10 DE sent u
the place. The children are chosen from those
who most need and most deserve an outing anu
after a BATH are collected at the railway stations
,by agents of the Fund. who take them TO thelr
destination and bring them back when the time Is
up.
Few who have not seen the results can imagine
the changes worked by even so short a stay as TWO
weeks in children dried up by the heat sunted py
the short rations, and poisoned by the eXhaia'oS
of the slums of a great city
Although parties leave every day OF the week.
II IA on Monday that the greatest NUMBER usually
Is sent out. Yesterday no exception 10 'he
rule No less than Oil children left the city pe-
tween s:45 a. IN. and $50 p. m OF these, oM De-
longed to parties. and the rest went snsly or III
twos and threes 10 revisit. special invltatloh'
people to whom they had been sent the year De
fore.
Eight Of the parties went TO places Ia fenhssi-
vania: Mount Pleasant, Hawley. New-Enterprise'
Carbondale Loysburg and Peasantville each re-
ceive its first consignment this year. oco''-
dale and Titusvne had each cared for one party
before the latter a large one of seventy OF eis"''
two weeks o..,
Six parties went to places in this state. VI .hese
Norwich Allegheny West Camp and Elton nave
had none before this season. Randolph received
its second detachment. Katonah' the summer
home of the College Settlement in Rivingtoh-st''
received its first party.
Rehoboth Beach Del. had a party OF forty
Fifty members of the Baptist Boys Brigade were
sent TO Stamford, Conn. Westheld y. d. mas
children's summer home, where 1t received us
third marty this season. and will entertain small
narties every two weeks. Pttsfeld Mass, al
though distant is the banner town SO far this
wear Four parties have been sent there already.
and three more will follow soon. -,
The eighty children not belonging 70 tne
PARTIES were distributed in twenty -eight di1erent
towns along the Erie Railroad. 49,.
six more parties of children will leave for diff
ferent country to-day. There was also
Fresh Air Fund excursion to Excelsior Grove, op-
posite Yonkers, yesterday.