The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-08
MISSION FRESH AIR WORK.
Additional Funds Needed to Carry It on
 During August.

During August.
 TO the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Dear Sir-I do not feel like taking a vacation myself until we have done a little more for some of our neighbors in New Haven who are not yet as well provided for as they should be, and doubtless will be, when their needs are known; for I am sure there are many engaged in mission work who would do as much or more than we if they only knew of the need and the possibility of supplying it. I am especially grateful to the Journal and Courier for it's aid in this part of our efforts for others.
 In our fresh air work for the month of July we have already distributed over 4,000 round trip tickets for the ex- cursion steamer to Pawson park, or by trolley cars to Lighthouse Point, Lake Saltonstall or Savin Rock. Besides this the little children at the County home have been provided with an all day out ing at the shore, and next week the old people at the Springside home will have at their disposal five easy carriages for a ride to East Rock park, with as good horses and as careful drivers as Me- Donald & Ransom provide for any. one else The hospitals have already been cared for by others. But we must not forget the sick women and children, and sometimes men and boys, who are known to the doctors at the medical dispensary; nor the workingmen and workingwomen at the Organized Chari- ties; nor those who work in this sultry weather in our laundries and manufac- tories, or stand all day behind store counters and sometimes almost half the night besides.
 There are whole families, too, who should have two or three trips to the country or to the shore, instead of only one. have lately given tickets for two little girls in one of these families to go to the lighthouse once a week for six weeks to come. There are feeble peo- ple, too, and half sick men and women in some of our New Haven homes who are known only to some of our physi- clans, one of whom called to me last evening on the street for a few boat tickets for use among his patients. In one family the sick mother had to be lifted on to the car for Lighthouse Point on going down in the morning, but af- ter the day in the salt air breeZes she was able on coming home, to ges on and off the car for herself. l want to be able to offer every physician in town a handful of fresh air tickets as often as he can make use of them, as well as to try to reach as many people as pos sible myself beforehand and prevent the need of the doctors coming.
 And we can do all this, and more, with little more money than has so far been contributed. Usually there is quite enough sent for our City mission Fresh Air Fund.- without hardly ask ing for it. This year the demands of the war are upon us, and 1t is well that so much is being done for our soldiers at the front. But there are scores and hundreds, and thousands even, of work ingmen and workingwomen in this city who are also lat the front every day of their lives. And it takes courage to stay there. Let us reinforce them in every way we may. Let us shield them from fatal heart wounds by placing be- fore them proofs that we care for them.
 To do good work in the ways sug- gested we need about $100 more than we have already received. Through liberal arrangements by MT. Martin of the Pawson park route, MT. Kelsey of the Winchester Avenue Railroad company and MT. Dodge of the New Haven