New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-15
A SUCCESSFUL WEEKS WORK.


THE TRIBUNE FREsH-AIR FUND SENDS OVER
FOUR THOUSAND MORE CHILDREN TO THE
CoUNTRY-THE DAY EXCURSION
The Tribune Fresh-Ar Fund last Saturday closed
q most successful week Of work. Children were
sent out from many different parts Of this city and
BROOKLYN They went in large and small detach-
u,ents and at almost all hours OF the day. and
when It was all over and the result was figured up
Il was found that S62 more youngsters mad
started on their annual outing In addition TO
the children sent out for two weeks, there were
three day excursions to Excelsior Grove, carrying
s2ss women and children. This makes the total
for the week 1885, and II to this number be added
the number of those who went before last week
the grand total is 5.2s5 persons who have been
benefited by The Tribune Fresh-Air Fund in little
more than two weeks work.
The coming week will furnish record even
better than this. Parties have already been sched-
uled which will provide two weeks outing TOT
COS children and 1t is likely that additions Will be
made which will bring the number TO more than
a thousand. There will be four day excursions TO
Excelsior Grove two of them being from this city.
one from Brooklyn and one from Jersey City.
Many Of the children who get vacation through
the Fresh-Ai Fund have sad histories. One pastor
writes Of a family he sent last week as follows;
In the party for Chapel Hill last Friday there
we're Eve members from one family ranging IN age
from thirteen years n 90 ony has the care Of the
eethsr four children but cooks for her father and
has charge of the home. The father was Ill for
long time two or three years ago, and Is not strong
now The mother. a robust-looking woman, was IN
need of an operation last fall but did not return
alive from the hospital where II was performed,
and the of the household since last Decemner
has fallen upon Annie. who is veritaoie Little ,e
Mother" OF the thousands OF children VINO VIII
20 TO the country this summer, II Is sa1e 10 FAY
that few II any, are in greater need OF an outing
than this brave girl and her little mock.
~Of course she does not consider hersell heroine
nor does she know how heroc are her EFFORTS 70
help her father keep the family together ~
Children and as the baby gets larger and Annie
becomes older there will be less necessity FOR sucn
action. In order to lessen the expenses Tor the
father whose wages are not large. Annie and her
brother continue to do the work OF the mother,
who was the housekeeper Of the tenement, mouse
in which they live. sweeping the lower haiI ana
sidewalk every morning. putting out the ash-paI-
work s. q month is allowed on the rent.
Another case reported by man who Is 10
send q party In August. This family also has fve
children. and the manager OF the Fresh-Air Fund
was requested to send two OF them. so that they
could return before the other three went away
The reason for the request was that the mother 10
blind and the children must go In detachments so
that some one will always be at home to care for
the blind mother. It Is needless to say that the
request was granted and that two OF the little
ones will have their two weeks before 1t Is time
for the other three to CO.
To-day's parties will be three In number larry
town. N. Y. will receive the second lot OF little