New-York tribune., 1897-07-24
FRESH AIR FUND WORK.
YESTERDAY WAS HAPPY DAY FOR 81
YOUNGSTERS.

YESTERDAY WAS HAPPY DAY FUN ''
YOUNGSTERS
The more active work of The Tribune Fresh AIT
Fund for the week closed yesterday Win tie uo
parture for the country Of nine parties aesies
ing 3l7 children. The weeks fresh air business
however did not end last night by any means
There are hundreds OF children who next week WIN
change the misery of East Side tenements ior III" ~
pleasures Of open fields and pure. cool ar anu al
these little people have to be arranged ior' Inv"
are other hundreds who are at this moment re'e'.
ling In country life and many OF them re'ui' IL
week, and they also must be planned LOT.
Yesterdays parties went to Utica, ~ ~ New
York Mills ~ " Pittshed. Mass; Rnineoec"'
~ Y: Poolve, n. Y; Cortlandt, y. " bi"sne
Falls, n. Y; Ashford Hill. n. Y, and Cur'issne'
Mass Along with some Of these parties "e,'' "
number of specials" or children who have peeh
to the country in previous summers and nave oe''
reinyited by their kind entertainers TO return
sometimes for two weeks. but oftener for as ols
as they liked The latter generally means all SUM
The circumstances which often come TO hght vi
children who are sent on fresh-air VACATIONS S"o"
what the change must mean to them Ihere "e' (
three youngsters who went to the county '"o
other day who are not likely to forget theH III 81
experience OF fresh air. Their father was ue"u,
and their mother a sickly woman VINO cou'u
do no work. The kindness Of neighbors aiohe N.Y.
them from starving. They often had nothihs "
part OF the story of suffering was the habitatoh
of these poor people. They did not live In the DAY
light above the ground. Their home was not even even
in the cellar. Ii in "A sub-cellar, with nothiiis
about but stone walls and foul, damp moor; III III
this place they existed and called II living. IheI
little children have been sent TO the countIy. -
needs little ina agnaon TO picture their trahslot ma
tion under the influence Of good food, clean Deus,
open air and all the other things so fainiIlar W
most people but little appreciated by them.
A six-year-od citizen of this city VINO vert ~
the country the other day showed that ne had az
ready imbibed one OF the traditional preJudices OF
his more mature fellow-citizens. He had crossed
the ferry with the rest Of the party, ana was
perched top of seat in the special car reserves @
for the children. enjoying himself as only a poy
with a harmonca can. Strains or My MowneI Mo.,n
Was n High-Born Lady" and other classics IIltu
the whole car. and the little musician seemed on
livious to everything but his beloved harmohic,l;;
please. Oh. Please" beginning, when an oii
gentleman. who evidently did not appreciate g9od
music. and had been twisting about, and growing
more and more impatient at each new tune, rose
from his seat and went to the little felow
Now nv boy" he said, cant you stop that tor
a while You'll do IT for that's got 10 stay
right here all summer. and isn't going to the couh-
try at ALL won't YOU? ~,
The little fellows aympathies were touched; ME re
remembered where he was. and In tones Whicn
spoke volumes slowly asked: An are you goin 70
stay all summer in Jersey City, He was
New-Yorker.