New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-22
FRESH AIR FUND WORK
MORE CHILDREN SENT OUT FROM TN,
sWELTERING CITY.

swELTERTNG CITY.
Two old friends who had not seen each o.h., =.
years met on Broadway yesterday. There was o.,
medatey a grasping OF hands
Hello, Bill. old man! How are your
"Why, hello jim! Where earth did You co,.
FROM?
Haven't seen you In an age. Say. Isn't hi. :.
scorchery"
81 should say So Never so hot in my lf.-
In restaurant a walter was greeting norma.
guest.
Good mornin', sah-hot day, sab"
well, don't you suppose I know Il? Go yet y.
some coffee and rolls. and be quick about vr
And the choleric old man who had been hunts.
for n cool spot kicked his chair y.ciousy.
The height OF tho mercury was OF more nts,ss,
than the war about town. Broadway lltsrsnv
"scorched" in yesterdays heat and the huulsI,,
added It's share to the general discomfort
But Broadway was cool In comparison with son.
OF the streets in the tenement-house districts Hs,.
was where the heat caused not only discomfort
but actual suffering; where there was no cooln.,,
no relief ard no money with which 10 escars
Here the tenement houses are close and oys.
crowded in winter. In summer they are des.
traps TO those who stay inside, and those who spr
the day on the streets must face the blazing 81,
and the foul air OF thckly populated quarters n.
night IS worse than the daytime. and no, him
In n crowded tenement-house IL productive o. Misery
that defes description. Only those who have eyer
enced It can know what suffering s, entails Ia
people who live in the tenement-houses do pe,.
force because they have no money 20 live sss.
where II those persons who live uptown or IA
suburb and think that they are really suren.e
when @ hot wave strikes the city, would stop ana
reflect a minute upon the condition Of the Door
who drag out their existence in the artificial fur
naces called tenement-houses. they would see what
their own discomfort really amounted TO-
The children suffer the most, and theF grow ",
pale and sickly, with few pleasures Of childhood
TO look back upon. Some seventy OF the neei..s,
weeks Yesterday by The Tribune Fresh AIR Fund
and this was as prd atica and wholesale a reid
of suffering az was accomplished IN the Nay.
The first party TO start consisted % forty-thres
children, bound for Mcveytown, Penn. They hsys
been arranged for by the Rev. J. X. Hartzer. snI
they other places near by as well as 10 No.
Veytown Itself The people who have so generous
" offered to entertain them are;
William F.. Rhodes: John Byler charles WybA
Milton C. Swigart, Mrs. S. W; stine' y; Kirk
yer F. B. Harshbarger. J. X. Hartz.er, Mrs. VIII
lam r. Bratton Mrs. Rebecca C. Slime. Mrs Serena
Myers and s B. Hartzler. :. sw,oar,
Mattawana, Penn.-samuel K; Yoder. Levi Hert,.
Ter. Mrs Thaddeus Brattcn., Mrs RENE Swsat
David II. Hertzler, Mrs r. C. smith William
Shank's Run Penn.-Charles Bratton
The other two parties both went IN the evening
and one did not get on vn ma ' w ra da' u cs
noon Of to-day. The children have been arranged
for by the Rev. J. NJ. Ashton The nrst party was
made up of specials VINO weTe ' yea 20 so amer
those who have been so hospitable 10 their lite
fresh-ar guests of former years are:
Machass; \. Mrs; F. B. shafer'
s sta5y 4 M YNM HsM May B. Murra ray"