New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
MONEY NEEDED TO SEND TENEMENT
WAITS INTO THE COUNTRY.

MONEY NEEDED TO SEND TENEMENT
WAITS INTO THE COUNTRY.
7. does not look as though the Porto Rican hurri-
cane or the Cuban yellow fever would reach New
York and the Filplnos have so far confined their
operations to their native rice fields. Nor Is the
baeful kissing bug so much dreaded as OF yo'e
Yet in spite OF this seeming tranquility there a'e
several hundred poor children OF this city VINO
wake I'D every morning fearful OF what the osy
may bring forth. They are all tenement children OF
the poorest class and every one OF them Is htrad
that what has been promised them and IS most
needed by them is TO he taken away IL s d"
article which means almost as much 10 tnem ss
life and they in danger OF losing H. 4his ar
tice is a fortnight's outing In the country through
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund The friends OF tnis
charity know that several hundred chiidren na''
been promised such vacations. to begin next week.
and they know we'll the good that VIII result tFom
the fulfln1ent Of the promise. Tney 90 not KNOW
however that every one OF these Vacauohs III
danger. In a few words. The Tribune Fresh AIT
Fund has no money with which to pay for the out
inus NJ these children There need be no DIS
sembing about IT, There is not cent on nand ID
nav the bills for them 1t is this which Is making
anxious many little faces among the tenemehS VI
the city. A..
The public has been most generous to Fresh AT
children this summer, as It always Is, ana Gun
dreds upon hundreds OF them have romped III '"'
eelds as a result II is this we'll evidenced gen
erosity which has never before faied' 10 "n'C"
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund appeals Ihere mas
been a little overestimatng, little TOO nueu
optmism and so 1t happens that tnere III h.'
enough money to pay for parties ALREADY ar'ahse',
and the vacations OF several nuhoreo e"
thus hanging in the balance
If the public will step in and supply the renieo'
the children will go. II this does not happe" ~
Tribune Fresh Air Fund will be none the less graz
full for what It's friends have already enapieo "
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the children will stay at horne io'
next week is their last chance. The scnoois ops"
in few weeks. and then the chiidren n'u ~ now
in the city The need is immediate. and u - how
or never These children have been protllseu Thsv
vacations and are looking forward 10 them. InS
need them more than can be told In words: ~ 20
fitting time for an appeal ana snr nsi ne 1'''-
Fresh Air Fund asks its friends lot nelp r..
F,fty-two children were sent to the country yesS
terday and they went TO Port Jervs, y; T. atr
nearby places and Binghamton, y 4 Inc S .n
Christian Endeavor Union OF Blngnaihso pos,SSa1 IN
erousy provided the outings for the ten chnoe 49,
the latter party and they are staying az a tin.
house in Conklin Centre. which is only is" ''''''
from Binghamton. ,., o.. cha forty.
From Port Jervis the invitations iUr S Henry
two children asked there have come throusn LLtraiy
Strader and the names Of those who have so Nhoy
sent them are as follows: .,.u Ma
Port Jervis n. Y.-Mrs George Wesua. hinSs
Dunn, Mrs. William H. Cosner Mrs Wi ,ha. o. S
Palmer Mrs William Mackachine. MIS-, Av vs.roa
trander Mrs Alexander Woolsey ana Mrs' ""'s
Ross. -
Tri-States. n Y.-Mrs. Samuel Romer M a,,r
George Morris. Mrs. James Brown MIS- @S'N''
Cox and Mrs. Hette Ann Conking
sparrowbush y. Y.-Mrs. John Osterhout
Matsmoras' 4 Y.-Mrs William spiede and Mra
Ida c, Van Auken