The Newtown bee., 1897-08-06
The Fresh Air Children Arrive.
NEwrowN TURNS OUT IN FORCE TO GREET
ONE WOULD WISH TO SEE.

The Athenians, we are told, spent their
time in nothing else but either to hear or
to tell some new thing. 1t is certainty
that the Athenian spirit could have been
thoroughly satisfied in Newtown on Tues
day, for the arrival of q large party of
Fresh Air children was, for this place, a
wholly new thing. New things ever at
tract, and so 1t was not matter of sur
prise to see the space about the depot
almost blocked with carriages some time
before the sos p. m. train came rolling
in. The young people were there to see
and the older ones, many of them, were
there to help in supplying refreshments
to the children and asserting them for
their various hosts.
There were exactly 80 children in the
party. They occupied the last Car Of the
train, and, as they alighted, many ex-
pressions of surprise came because of
their neat dress and very presentable APP
pearance. They were evidently children
who had seen few of the real comforts of
life, and certainly none of its luxuries;
and yet they came from homes where care
Of the person is not one of the lost arts.
The physician's certificate as to the chill
dren's health can be asserted not to be
matter of mere form. Mrs l.. A. Rich
ardsOn had thOughtfully made arrange
ments to have sandwiches and milk on
hand at the depot, thinking that the long
ride might not make these things go a.
begging, and, no doubt, too, prompted by
the thought that the turnpike road even
to children's hearts is through their
mouths. Mrs OTIS w. Barker, Mrs w.
NJ. Reynolds, Mrs c. N. Worthen and 9TH
crs assisted Mrs Richardson in satisfying
the appetites of the children, and soon
after they were given over to their hosts
ard were merrily on their way to their
two weeks home.
The following are the names of those
who have received these children into
their homes, with the number of children
each has received: Mrs George r. Will
son, Taunton, s; Mrs Albert Barnum,
Dodgingtown, 4; Mrs E. l.. johnson,
South Center, 3; Mrs Albert McGregor,
Boulevard, 2; Mrs r. A. Young, Taun-
ton, 4; Mrs John Burr G ,odsell, Hope
well, 2; Mrs I'll. z. Boyson, Palestine, 6;
Mrs M. s. Otis, 2; Mrs /. b. Goodsell,
Palestine, 2; Mrs FL. w. Wright, South
Center, 2; Mrs Harlow Benedict, Pales-
tine, 2; Mrs George W. Hoyt, Dodging-
town, A.; Mrs Frederick Andrews, Taun.
ton, 2; Rev Patrick Fox, 2; Miss Mary
A. Bradley, Hanover, Q; Mrs Oscar Pitz-
schiller, Middle, 2; Mrs Thalia M. Bailey,
South Britain, 2.
Some of The children, as was quite nat
ural, were somewhat homesick as the
shadows of the first evening gathered
round them and their thoughts stole
away to their Brooklyn homes but the
experience of one little fellow will illus
trate well nigh all. He wept some bitter
tears the first night, and his host was
much distressed as to what she would do.
The next morning broke, and the heavy
cloud of inconsistencies still hung dark
and low. IAN introduction to the delights
of the hay field, however, began to dissi-
pate the shadow, and an hour or so later
this whilom homesick boy was seen with
with pants rolled up high, wading in
brook after the croaking frog, and happy
as clam at high water.