New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-08
OUTINGS FOR CHILDREN.
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND SENDS
MANY POOR TO SUMNER HOMES
MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED LEAVE NEW
YORK-sCENEs AT THE STATION
NAMES OF BENEFACTORs


laughing. chatterng boys and girls. all eagerly an
ucpating the realization of promised pleasure.
| the exact nature and extent Of which was mat
| ter of conjecture with them. but upon which they
/ have founded high hopes7 Have you seen
such throng of three hundred and more. held
/ under temporary restraint and conscientiousy. but
J restvely, endeavoring 10 be very, very good, Ike
the little hoy have ali read about in our juvenile
/ literature? II you have not you have missed
! experience which would have caused your heart TO
/ beat faster and the blood TO course quickly
/ through your veins In very sympathy with the i'm
| patience and excitement of the children. And II II
happened that the hundreds Of gleeful youngsters
/ had been gathered from the crowded. unheathfu
tenements Of the poor. and were being taken for
time from their squalid home environment and
were TO receive the health giving freedom Of green
fields. pure air good and plentiful food and other
features OF country life. you would find. maybe.
had you them. that your eyes bit
| misty and that there decided lump in your
throat There would be nothing for you he
ashamed Of in this for 1T would simply show that
unselhsh human sympathy was not dead In you
and II might inspire you 10 more practical aid OF
your less fortunate fellow beings than you had
thought about in the hurry and hustle Of your
/ everyday life
There was such scene Yesterday az the Hobo
ken ferryhouse at Barclay-st. for half hour or
so before the departure for a two weeks stay In
the country If S1s children out by The Tribune
Fresh Air Fund. They had besn gathered from
e,even different missions IN Monhatta1 and Br )ok-
Ign boroughs, and being taken 10 Kings:oh.
Penn. and other places the Wyoming Valley,
where they will be the guests Of various families
which have voluntarily offered 70 receive them.
An ong the towns and villages where the children
Will be entertained during their outing are Dallas.
Forty-Fort. Carverton, Wilkesbarre. Plains. Dor
ranceton Orange. Plymouth Luzerne. Wyoming,
HUnlock. Berwick and Cruckerville. ana church
workers from each Of these places az the
Hoboken station OF the Delaware. Lackawaana and
Western Railroad yesterday 10 receive the childr IN
from the missionaries who took them from this
city and had charge Of them until they reached
their respective destinations
LITTLE ONES AT THE STATION.
II had been announced that -he children 10
leeNe thi. city about 2.9O o'clock so as % reach
the special tain provided for them by o'clock.
and before parties Of boys and girls in charge
Of missionaries began to arrive at the Barclayst-
ferry. The arrivals continued from then on. and
when the time for departure all were on
hand. Nearly every OF the children carried 1T
tie bundles or satchels containing clothing and
every provided with lunches brought from
home
The appearance Of every Of those Sls chill
dren though they came from among the poorest
classes in the city showed the care and pride that
had been taken by loving mothers In attring them
for the occasion we'll and tastefully as their
circumstances would permit, and much selt-denial
evidenced in the neat and pretty costumes Of the
girls and boys. So well were they dressed as a
rule, and so bright and Intelligent looking were
they that, seeing them together there waiting
haTe reazcG That P poverty and deprivation were
the conditions surrounding their every day lives.
houses and hot and narrow streets TO the fresh
air and green fields OF the beautiful Wyoming
fullest delights Of which they could scarcely com
prehend OF all the things they were going TO do
and SO earnest were they in discussing all this
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well behaved as the girls
BOARDING THE TRAIN
The party was taken to Hoboken in several sec
lions. but finally all gathered together in the
railroad station. There the children attracted
and sy Kept Pp very quiet until
doors were opened 70 admit them to the train
broke forth and THE the boys gave shout that
rivalled in volume the most vociferous college yell
There was the train, don't you see They had
thought about 1t and drawn mentsl plctursss 81
away TO mysterious places fun OF everything good
But that had been al 81 bo Tbs was Esa
beckoning. to the party 70 get aboard ,..s
other great shout through the noise OF which the
voices OF girls could be heard singing songs Of
had often amused themselves while playing in the
threatened sets but few words from their guardians
qeed The youngsters and all were soon and Tea beG
comfortably accommodated the party.
Then the big engine. with much puffng and
train and the yoanas,ers Smo,, shouted the roofs
of the ~ It was 7nss wha ths Should n hos
boys do to while away that awful length or time?
There wouldn't be anything TO see until they got
I'm going to eat my lunch and get rid Of this
blamed box exclaimed an urchin' II PIoNeu
popular suggestion
YOUNGSTERS EAT LUNCHEON.
Let's eat now and then won't be bothered
about II till we get there" the sentiment which
IN some manner spread from car TO car, whereupon
there began such hasty boiling OF food by the
boys as would give 10 a dyspeptc the horrors
The girls were more gentee about IL. but there
was little food left in that train when It pulled
out There was another series Of hurrahs at the
by many Of the uroh5s as dd not ,b haze
to prevent them from Main ma Iosd any any hoss R
had begun sing their merry childish songs
This party, sent TO the Wyoming VALLEY was the
.aigest sent out this season and two other parties
went to the country TnT Rs s9cs
seventy-six children, who shook the dust OF me
city from nTi oy theT the Sss Central to reenwch
" Y Almost all Of these children were IN me
!argT par Their hosts and hostesses Of scar
liked them SO well that they were InEitee agsnJ
70 20 another fortnight Of fun with old friends The
pleasure which awaits GoT5 TINS w6 PadTy q stnWch is in
the most beautiful open country ina Unable ana
tie people Of b sh sSv e'f uniformly
iva ~ their little guests that the place has been
seventh heaven to these children OF ne tty Ine
11icb besneaks the continued generosity or ms
town and their charity will be vel repaid by me
ee,,nnnt OF good n does The arrangements IN
Sersenv,lch have been made this year, as last by
the Rev NJ H Smith. OF Greenwich
NAMES OF THE ENTERTAINERS.
Those who have invited children to their homes
this year are follows;
Greenwich y Y.-Mrs. W L. Robinson. the Rev
y, ~ Srnith Mrs oscar Tobin. Mrs. Arthur Pet
~. 81 Mrs. c5ustavus Goodrich. Thomas Williamson
NJ 'Durhan the Rev F. {. Scoville. Mrs. {. Hay,
NJ n During Mrs. Gill Frank Wheden John
Barber Mrs George Barns. Mrs James NhIrtsker.
~. McfIougall Clarence Wilcox Mrs. william