New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-06
HUNDREDS OFF FOR TIE COUNTRY
TEN PARTIES TO BE SENT OUT TO-DAY BIZ
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND.

To-day seoing to be a red-ietter day in the his
tory OF The Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The good
work OF sending children OF TO the country Will
continue with hardly a pause. from $50 In the
! morning until o'clock In the evening. All day
long there will be many busy workers arranging
for many more happy children. In WORD. ten
parties OF children will go TO the country to-day.
aggregating i37 children. a summary OF the WORK
OF yesterday and to-day shows that In these Two
days alone fourteen parties aggresating w
children will have left this hot city for the cool
and open country.
The following list Of parties for to-day shows
what Will have been done for sickly and needy
ones before nghtfall: Fourteen children start Tor
Uawley. Mass at 7:5O a. m; 100 for Mount Gretna.
Penn. at . a. M; So for Palmyra, Penn AT sio
A. m; II for Selins Grove. Penn. at s:io a. M: .
for Fulonville n. Y, at 10 a. M. 20 for Claverack
w at liza a M: 50 for cambridge. Penn, at
noon; "a for Mount Joy. Penn. at y. m; 30 for
Ashford Hill, ". y, at y. m, ana W for west
erly. Il. l.. at p. m.
The one hundred boys who go to Mount Gretna
will have the most glorious two weeks they ever
dreamed or Buildings which are surrounded oy
acres Of beautiful woodland. and which wiz Amply
accommodate one hundred boys at time nave
for the month Of July been put at the disposal OF
those who have become Interested in the Fresh AT
work here The expense Is involved IN the ieed-
ing OF the boys and the necessary money ior TINS
was nuicklv raised by "The Lebanon Daily News
There will be another party similar 10 TINS 'or
the last part Of July and large fraction OF inc
needed money has already been raised through tho
efforts OF Joseph n. Light. Editor OF THE Leo-
anon Daily News" and OF A. D. Smith. VINO 10
superintendent of the Lebanon and Cornwall Rail-
road.
The party for Palmyra, Penn. Is also large one.
The ARRANGEMENTS have been conducted by the Kew.
NJ H. Jones' and the invitations for eighty-three
children showed that many people nave dohe 'he'r
Dart for the good Of city children.
AT Selins Grove, Penn. the childrens visit has
been planned for by a. f. Cooper president OK ths
local Young Peoples, Society OF Christian In
deavor and to the following hosts are many thanks
extended: Mrs. VI. O. Snyder. Mrs. a. H. wilmer
the Rev. W. A. Haas, Mrs. Aaron Conrad. Miss
Annie OFT Miss Sadie Eyer and Mrs FRANKLIN
Good
The following residents Of Fultonville " Y.' nave
invited city children 10 stay with them Tor TWO
weeks: Mrs n. J. Morford, Mrs. Charles stener
Mrs. T. j. Hunter. Mrs. s. Reynolds 'of fohda,
These kind invitations have been ior"afueu
through Thomas j. Hunter.
At Mount JOY Penn, this summers party Is INC
direct result OF large party of children which
visited there last summer. There were many MOUNT
Joy people who became fond Of their httle guests
from the CITY, and so invitations have peen eA'
tended again this summer TO thirty-four OF theHl
The Rev. II. +. McNally has arranged Tor theF
visit
The marty of forty-n.ne which starts for West
erlv p l. by the boat this evening Is composed
partly Of children who having been TO westerly
before have rcinvited. and partly OF chiidren
who have been invited for the first time Mrs j. e.
Farnsworth has been the prime mover IN the "oIM
here and the results are gratifying There Will be
many good word spoken for the following peo-
pie who have thrown open their homes TO the SUI
ferng children of a hot city: Simeon Perry. Mrs
f. Howard Clark Mrs. S. Spencer. Mrs. Albert
Bcknell Mrs George &. Foster. Elmer richmond
Mrs George Blake. Mrs. Collinson John Clark
Everett Saunders Mrs. Langdon. Mrs h L. BullocH'
Mrs John Kennedy Mrs. Robert Flint Mrs William
Clark Mrs. Thomas Potter, Mrs. j +. FarnsworthJ y
Farnsworth Mrs. G. A. Brightman, Miss Hatte l.
Kenyon Mrs Albert Pilling. Mrs Kate Jolly, Mrs
Fred Coon Mrs. c. f. Brightman, Mrs T. j.
Farnsworth Mrs stephen Farnham. Mrs o. ~
Whitford Mrs Charles a. Maxson. Mrs George
Ioomis Albert Clark Edward Dunn. MISS Hatia"
Crardall d. r. Porter. Mrs j. A. Babcock, Mrs.
David Stafford, Mrs. John StIllman and Mrs John
Warrington.