New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-03
FRESH AIR FUND Low.
TWO EXCELLENT DAYS WORK. BUT NO
MORE LARGE PARTIES AFTER TO-
MORROW. FOR LACK OF MOEEY


The Tribune Fresh Air Fund did good gay
work Yesterday i. viii do n good days "ork to-
day As far as sending children to the country
goes good IL done in this way almost every any
of the summer but yesterday and to-day are es-
pecially gratifying. Over three hundred niue .'''
dren have left the city during the last twehtyiou'
hours and seven parties. aggregating 33i children
booked for a flight TO the country to-day mat
will make more than three hundred OF New-iorh
poorest sickest and neediest children VINO nave
In two days time obtained what Will 90 them the
most good. The two weeks or fresh ar, "hoiesome
food and clean. airy sleeping-rooms' VIII MAKE o'i-
ferent children Of them. Some OF the city MISSION
aries who have sent children to the country through
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund have found their HI
tie friends so changed and improved by the outing
that they have actually been unable TO recognize
them on their return. This has been strictly true
In many cases
1t IL hard to conceive of the amount OF real ben
eft which comes from these two happy weeks 10
the little mfortunates who know no homo but the
tenement. no country but the city park. who know
nothing of life but suffering and misery II is hard
realize their ordinary condition and surroundings
and still harder to comprehend what tremendous
change the health and purity OF the country bring
and the extent OF the wonders which this change
works But facts remain facts. II one wished VS.
ual proof he should observe party OF children on
their departure. and then go TO the same depot
and take n look at them on their return. 1t would
open his eyes as columns Of writing filled with
The strongest adjectives could not. II the bene-
fit 10 each little child be- multiplied by 6U the
product of good for two days work might be said
to be almost without limit On Wednesday OF this
week the multiplier will 10 about 1850 and 1t Is a
sad fact but true that at this point the big figures
stop.
There have been invitations from hundreds OF
kind people in the country for city children There
are thousands of poor children of the most deserv-
ing sort waiting and longing for such invitations,
ard suffering for the lack of them. and yet these
kind efforts Of country residents have for several
DAYS been regretfuy declined and the invitations
have been pigeonhoed. In consequence, there VIII
be- hosts OF little tenement house prisoners at the
end of the summer who have not drawn breath
of fresh air. when friends We're asking and places
waiting for them. The for this is that there
il absolutely no more money with which to pay
carfares for these children There have been many
mer, but they have not Kept pace With the nvi
tatons from the country. Hence. after Wednes-
to the country After Wednesday the big figures
beoe t0 to send ct Ghd e
weeks. The average sum last summer was 81 30
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund is open to contrlbu-
To-day's parties are bound for Hummelstown.
Oneida. \. Y, Glens Falls, n. y. Caverack. n.
Y. and Newtown Conn.
ball rolling to-day. One hundred and eleven of them
will go by the Pennsylvania road early this morn
The following are the kind hosts who have invited
them: Mrs. G. F. GreenawaIt. Mrs; Mqsser. Mrs.
"t ysy Ef ls " Mrs. H. sp Mrs Eq5y Mrs. Mrs
George Fox, Mrs. ,McKechnie, Mrs Landes' Mrs.
Aidus Iotfer, Mrs David skenk. Mrs. Adam skenk.
Mr. Agnes Thomas Mrs simon ! Garrett Albert
MIR Mr. Allen wa2 fS SnP Re- z Mr Mr
Miss Maize Koehler Mrs. George Bomgar,ner, Mrs.
caufman, Mrs Rudy, Mrs. iide, Mrs charles Ger Ter
TOh
Holngsr. Miss Ida Fausna % Mrs Mrs, George kep-
Cassel. Mrs. Shoop d. r. Brighton Josiah Foreman.
a. Boyer: George II. LciIer, George Foreman. Harry
john Keener' isaac HOFFMAN. Aaron Longnecker.
Mrs Samuel Gingirch, Mrs. John Walmer Mrs. John
K Kan Ms zI rs Ghn a mrs 9oa Mr. r NIT
fair Mrs Joseph Snavely, Mrs. A. 5. Lands. Dan
lei shafrner S. f. Brehin and s. Engle;
children. and its destination is Oneida, n. Y. The
invitations from there have been many and gener-
Gus and those who have sent them are Mrs G.
nour, Mrs. A. Lloyd, Mrs. Giles Harrington, Mrs
G. sseR Mrs M carpens Mrs. Mrs f.
ton. Mrs. William Brough Mrs. N. l.. Todd. Mrs
Omer Brown. Mrs H.. Rickard Mrs. Ella Brown.
way, Mrs Ashby. Mrs Suits Mrs W j. Hinman.
Mrs. William Schubert, Mrs. George Esch:: Mrs.
Mrs, Dickson. A. a. Gaping and Thomas Gordon:
Fifty children have been invited to Newtown.
Conn. and places are waiting for them at the
ay Parck PoX Mrs Waiter Glover Mrs
Boyson. Mrs. l. Il. Goodsell. Mrs Edmund Lyon.
Mrs. J. b. Goodsell. Mrs. F. A. Young, George r.
Wilson. Mrs. Herbert W. Wright. Mrs. f. l.. John
and Frederick Andrews.
In addition to these parties Of children. all OF
day excursion for poor mothers and children to-
day up the Hudson to Excelsior Grove.