The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-23
THE FRESH AIR WORK.
Of the City Missions-Hot Weather
 Help Needed.


 Help Needed
 The sultry summer weather that is now upon us serves to emphasize the needs of those among us who are never noted in the papers as about to leave town on their summer vacations, for they never have any vacations of that kind. It is quite as much as many can do to keep the wolf from the door, without trying to hunt wild animals in some cation trip else where.
 It is the purpose of the City Mission Fresh Air fund" to give as many mod est outings as possible to as many peo- pie as possible during the hot months of July and August And this Is done not only by the steamer excursions out into the sound witt day of rest and refreshment at Pawson Park, but by trolley car trips to the seashore, east or west of New Haven bay, and by carriage rides to East or West Rock park, or to the country for some of the old or sick or feeble people
 Two steamer excursions have al- ready been carried through to a, suc- cessful completion. Another is already under way for next week and by the close of the present month more than thousand persons will have had the of the Fresh Air fund of the City Mis- sionary association. It is Rev MT. Mossmans intention to provide also for the hot August weather that is yet to come. He has therefore secured spec ial rates for the entire summer season on the Pawson park steamer and on the trolley lines to Savin Rock and Lighthouse Point, and two thousand trip tickets have been purchased and these and more will be used if d suffi- cient number of subscriptions are re- ceiyed. Offerings were made last year by several Sunday schools and Chris tian Endeavor societies A large num- Der of subscriptions, large and small, were also received without any solici- tation, some of which were from chill dren as well as others. This year, however, up to the present time, the amount received is only about one-half as much as usual, but the rest of the steamer excursions are no less than usual, about one hundred dollars day, and the expense of sending to the shore once or twice by the trolley lines, though a very small amount for one person, soon becomes $50 or $100 when fifty or one hundred families are to be included.
 Mir Mossman has for several years past placed fresh air tickets in the hands of the doctors on duty at the New Haven dispensary for the use of the sick and feeble men and women and children under treatment there. A package of boat and car tickets should also be left as usual with the Organ ized Charities. One or two hundred should be placed at the police station, as in other years, for distribution to some known better to the matron than to others, and to some of the officers in the homes within their patrol. Last year MT. Mossman distributed fifty tickets among the working women and girls in one of the laundries. He would like to reach working men also in some of our numerous manufactures in the same way. Funds for the mis- sion fresh air work may be sent to Rev. MT. Mossman or to Miss Hume or left at the City Mission hall, corner of Court and State streets, or at Mix's drug store, Chapel and Church streets, or at any of the city banks.