New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-05
WHAT TENEMENT LIFE Is
OBSERVATIONS MADE BY woRxID
AMONG THE POOR
THE CLASS OF WORK BEING DONE ~ IN
TRIBUNE FREsH-AIR FUND.

THE CLASS OF WORK BEING DONE ~ IN
TRIBUNE FREsH-AIR FUND.
The Tribune Fresh-Air Fund sent three parties
OF children 70 the country yesterday. whose ~
spective destinations we're Conk:n Centre. ". T.:
Sherburne " T.. and DansvilIe. y. Y. The party
for Conkln Centre was invited and viii be enter.
taincd by the City Union Of Christian Endeavor. OF
Bnghamton. y. Y. These people have given tansi-
bic evidence in former years OF their appreciation
OF the good accomplished by fresh-sir work This
year they again prove their generosity. The chill
drcn will stay for two weeks at large farm
house In Conklin Centre. which Is very near 70
Binghamton.
The party for sherburne " Y. IL the latest Of
many annual parties o: poor children that have
enjoyed the pleasure OF this place. Every year
the wholesale invitation comes from Shcrburne.
and every year the needy little benehcares thereof
report two weeks OF klndest treatment from their
kind hosts and hostesses.
PICTURE OF TENEMENT LIFE.
The following observations OF a woman who has
much OF life among the poor OF the tenement
districts should be Interesting those who know
is just this class OF children that is reaches
by The Tribune Fresh-Air Fund:
4 short walk throush the tenemens,ho On,
apathetc realization o. the great need Tor FRESH
air Work among the poor -.
The average apartment so-eaiicd, IN ,ne py ss
quarters OF the eity consists OF one. or pelhaps
OF two. rooms. family In opulert circumstances
may have three. The rooms are small, crampso
to a degree that Is quite unknown In the more
favored suburban towns. tenement mouse VIII
have at the most windows opening upon TAG
street. This building shelters, II may De. twenty
families, each with its quota o. chi dren IN me
rear OF this house there Is another. its walls rising
not three feet away: and the rear structure mas OF
course, no front windows AT all Here there may
be hudded perhaps thirty families. with their chu-
dren, Cor the rents little cheaper me 9cce.
pants poorer and less space can be aHoroed tot
each Thus 1t sl be found In many cas.s ,n nso
two hundred and nifty children are crowded INTO
buildings that occupy ground space o. no, more
than twenty feet by hundred. sometimes L.
whole family squeezed into one small room, wal
take a boarder. The boarders place Is marked on
by a chalk line the floor. All day children swarm
the sidewalks but there Is some limit 10 tneu
number The parents out at work. the streeu
are more or less illed with cart trafhc ana the
little ones play within the halls or on the sAiI.
ways are kept IN their rooms oy some ,s oSs
child But after o'clock the streets are tneiIs.
They come out OF the houses In crowds the sronsss
ones 10 play the weaker to lie on the footpath OF
on their mothers knee, too tired 10 play, 100
wre,ched to sleep. faint even to cry ABOVE the
women each with a sickly infant In her arms isan
Tar out-too far FOR safety often-in vain enor!
10 give the baby breath o. fresh air Midnsn
comes and By one the children fah aseey
from exhaustion. They are then carried inooon
10 endure the rest OF the night as best they ny
Who can say that the poor do not care Tor tne"
children?