The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-29
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 Over One Thousand Persons Benefited by Philanthropic Endeavor-Room for Much More Good Work of the Same Kind.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 Dear sir: I very much desire before taking vacation myself this summer to do something more for the little children and women, and some of the men of New Haven also, who cannot be away from home for month or even week perhaps, but who would gladly accept occasionally boat ticket for Pawson park or trolley car ticket for Lighthouse Point or Savin Rock.
 We have already sent put over 1000 persons once or more this summer for a days outing full of enjoyment and free from care. Four steamer trips have been made to and from Jawson park without accident of any kind, but with renewed strength end vigor fer all. have also arranged an excursion to Savin Rock this week for the little children of the County Home, the Win chester Avenue Railroad Co. kindly providing special cars for that purpose. What I wish to do addition is this: Make liberal use of the privilege have on both the steamer to Pawson park and the trolley cars to the shore of sending one person or a family or more at any time at excursion rates. When we send people only for q day at a time they should go again and several times during the summer. There are a number of feeble women 1 konW of who should go once A week or oftener all through the summer. One of them, now a widow, formerly a nenher of one of the New Haven churches, but now almost lost sight If in her little at- tic room, on being invited to take trip somewhere rather hesitaeinSly said she might go to the Rock, perhaps. I gave her two tickets instead of the one she expected, but I want to sive her half dozen more. could mention mothers with little children in their arms, who should every day or so set away from the hot houses not fitted for healthy growth of tender plants in summer time. Aged people, too, who should get out often into the open air to help make their last days their best days, but who are now too weak to walk very far aud back again.
 Our lady missionary, Miss Hume, has recently sent one of our Girls clubs for a week at the Madison Vacation Home;" another young woman for two weeks at the Working Girls Home at Shelton; a mother a mother in one of olyct rest with relatives in the country; little New Haven boy to the minister at North Madison, who had offered to take some one into his home for two weeks or more: and also hard work ing woman for country rest of week, which should be doubled and would be if any one would add s3 to the Fresh Air Fund eor that purpose All this takes money, but Miss Hume will use wisely all she can have on Fresh Air" account. Only to-day she paid the rail- road fare for young mother, herself a widow, so that she might go, with her little girl, to friends in the country for a rest after watching for two weeks with her sick baby, whom we buried this morning.
 
 at the Organized Charities, Beulah Mission and the Bethesda Home, but not hals as many as they ought to have. Every s2 will provide ten more tickets. Fifty or more should be given for the free use of women and children under the doctors care at the New Ha- ven dispensary; $10 will do it if any one who sends will so request. Besides which there are physicians with sick poor people throughout the city, who should always have In summer time a package of fresh air tickets in their pockets with their other medicines,
 I think this statement through your paper ought to be worth about a hum dred dollars to the Fresh Air Fund. which may be sent this week or any time in August. I have already paid one hundred dollars for steamboat transportation alone, and another hun dred dollars and more is now due on same account; $500 is little enough to expend for fresh air work this sum mer in New Haven, but so far not half, nor even a third, of that amount has been received. Its hard times" to be sure, but that is the very reason for helping those who feel it most. Let us provide for others as we'll as for ourselves, and so remove whatever force there otherwise might be against us in that statement This ought ye to have done, and not to leave the oth- CT undone."
 Respectfully yours,
 w. D. MOSSMAN, General Superintendent New Haven
 City Missions.
 New Haven, July 27 1s96