New-York tribune., 1899-07-26
GOOD DEEDS ON A BAD DAY.
INCLEMENT WEATHER IN NO WAY INTER-
FERED WITH THE EXODUS OF
EpESu AIR CHILDREN.


beautiful excuse for violating ones scrupies as "
| what should and should not be done on the SAP"
hath was never so completely contradicted as IL
was yesterday. No one has yet forgotten the per-
versity of yesterdays weather-a mixture OF orz-
zle mist heat and humidity that was trying 70 the
soul It was a bad day. and bad deeds should nave
run riot Yet half the city had not opened its eyes
before as merry and good deed was being done
as has happened In many day. Another one Oh
the same sort followed hard on the first, ana al
through the day more OF them kept coming INTO
being. The worse the weather grew the more these
good deeds multiplied No Filipino insurgents were
ever so swiftly put to rout was this old saying
Anv one who CHANGED to frequent the different
points OF exit from this city yesterday would not
have been kept long in the dark as to how the lie
was being given to such an ancient ana VeheraUle
saving He would have noticed, first, that In THESE
laces the children were thicker than coopiestohes
Broadway Then he would have seen that each
little child wore a white button bearing the IN
scription. Tribune Fresh Air Fund" And theh'
II he knew anything at all about what was goihs
on in the world he would have remembered that
these children part of the Famous Sixteen
Hundred" being sent to the country by Inc IT'D
une Fresh Air Fund this week. whose comlnss anu
goings will be tabled in song and story for ages 10
come The Sixteen Hundred" who were intro
duced 10 the world in yesterdays Tribune. have al
ready leaped boldly into the annals or history. anu
they are fast overshadowing THE six Hundreu
and any other hundreds" with pretensions 10
fame
The number OF children sent to the country oy
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund yesterday was 40
which with all due modesty, was a good DAY
work of we'll doing. They went IN do@eh or
more parties and kept refuting the saying spoken
Of above from early in the morning TIL late IN 'he
afternoon. OF these children 1863 went to the Wyo-
ming Valley In Pennsylvania and this region III
inviting and receiving these little guests from the
ranFa
tho wholesale generosity which 1t has aHeauy
shown TO fresh air children this summer. The hrst
party consisted of 125 children for Pittston, fehh
ACCOMPANIED by two children specially invited 10
Athens Penn and in the afternoon seven belateu
ones were sent hurrying on to Plttston, HidhlnS
the total number entertained by that place l5Z
The Rev J. J. Kilfe Fletcher has taken charge OF
the work in Pittston. The second party for the
wyoming Valley consisted of 229 children for Kings
ton Penn and nearby points The people OF these
places have already given a fortnights outing 10
31e children from this city. and those who are en-
tertaining this second party, and whose nvltauonS
came through the Rev. L. C. Murdoch. OF Kings
ton as did those for the first party, are as foows
Kingston. Penn.-Miss Ida smalley. Mrs w. Van
1Inrn Edvy;ard Powell Mrs J. p Mitchell Mrs
Waters 1Sra f? Mrs Holmes Mrs Masters Mrs Anna i
Jones Mrs W Reed Mrs. Elias Robbins MISS
Mabel Wright, John Pope, b. Hutchinson ana Ionh
shaverton, Penn.-w. c. Roushey, H.. g Brown Brown
the Rev P Houck, Penn Kirkendall and Mr. Bross
Manticoke Penn-WamH WI Ho%:b ); b0Mqsn Mrs schooley
Mrs Shepherd. Amos Gberson, May Cooper Ms Mss
Fannie Kitchen John LloYWd. Wr. r r Pbillns Mrs
VnolhSS Iaffres Mrs Geo@ee Bumbee. Mrs f. Rookie
fellow Mrs H II. Huehesa, Mrs Sarah MhaTtIhm, Toh,,
Fans ~ Mrs George BronneiI Mrs Alexander, Mrs.
Driesbach w H. Jones Mrs Dayd r earee Rays; gT RqT
tram Mrs. Thomas Barnett Mrs. Conne, Mrs
Frederick Enderson, Mrs Thomas L2uson T n MTi MTT.
iams Mrs William Hughes, Mrs. William Gutaly,
MIS- GaTOpse Dayd Nd JePSns GIose Mr RQTfGt Mrs
Ira Shoemaker. Mrs D. D Durand. George Davis, Davis
Mrs Edward stoGker, Mrs. Andrew Van Campen
a Lehman, Penn.--MTs; Jerome Mather, Mrs: p ,5 E.
Hustled Mrs s. Ids Mr a W9J{snf0n Mrs amcs s fd
Mrs Mutton. William Brown. Mrs. Ransom, Mrs.
W Cease Mrs. D. Case, E. r; Parrish Mrs Z Ills Ellis
EdWaTdsye PennMrs Edward Roberts 9rg nsH5 MTs
Evans. Mrs Baldwin Edwards Mrs Morris
M MPTy PTyy5Or Rehard Evans
William R. Thomas, Mrs W. S. Evans. Abram Bel
ioSf Mount amt Munock Hun i Penn-John D. Williams and
M F4s5faR R Rodss 5Gn's Mrs. Mf %lR
Williams, Mrs. John D. Edwards; MIS- 9d DNEsa Mrs
LGiritt TarRsvilie, Penn.-Nlss Sadie, Cashmere.
Wilkes Wikesbarre. Penn.--Frederiek Smith, Mrs, r ..
Boyle Mrs William Knelly Mrs Warourton' T. d.
Uarvey's Lake. Penn.-Mrs. W. +. Con;
Carverton Penn.-George Daley and the Rev
Clark Calendar.
Orange, Penn.-D. o. Culver.
TAYLOR Penn.--Aliss Daisy Casweu.
Askam, Penn.-R. r. Metcalf.
Dorranceton, Penn.-Mrs. J. W. Renshard and
Miss Belle Roberts. . -
Iocksviie Penn.-Miss Julia Cadden.
Plainsyille Penn.-Mrs. Robert Mitchell.
HunIock' Creek Penn.-Mss Fannie Hatten.
Dallas Penn.-C. D. Gregory, O. L. Roushey and
siIkwor1h Penn.-Willam c. Conover.
Two other parties OF yesterday went TO Oberlln'
Penn and Hanover and New w-Oxford, Penn. The
Invitations from these places have come through
Mrs + w Gingrch and p. E Heimer, respect
iveIy kind people who have invited chill
dren to their homes as follows:
Obarlin Penn.-Mrs. John Peck. Mrs. John Dun
can John Etrenoyer Mrs Lavonteur Mrs. F. w.
Gingrich, Mrs Wise, Mrs. Levi Fawber and Mrs.
New-oxford. Penn-Mrs Helen Hendricks and
Mrs. Henry Swartz. ~
Hanover. Penn.-Mrs. George Bender. Mrs Eliza
beth Johns, Mrs. Charles Bair and Mrs. William
Brown.
A party OF fourteen children went to Bainbridge.
Penn Yesterday. accompanied by nine children for
Mount Joy Penn, and ten children went to Mrs.
Norman w DOdge's fresh air home at Simsbury.
Conn accompanied by twelve children specially
invited to Northampton Mass, and places near By.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.