New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-10
A, GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.


The first week in July saw The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund full of business We have kept our
readers informed in our news columns of the
work 1t has been doing. which has been exceed
ingly active. For instance, ON Friday nearly
Ave hundred children were sent TO the country
from the body and soul destroying purlieus of
the city-a number SO great that special railroad
arrangements had to be made to provide for
them. Other parties were sent out earlier in the
week. There are at the present moment seven
teen hundred souls enjoying pure air. pure food
and peace and content of mind as a result of
The Tribune Fresh Air Funds work This
means we dare not attempt 10 say how much
good done 10 little bodies and minds not only
physical refreshment and stimulation. but re-
newed hope and cheer and q brighter outlook on
the world. That is the task The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund has before il. and we do not think any
OF our friends are likely TO quarrel with it for
any lack OF energy zeal or skill in getting the
greatest results out of the means at It's disposal
Long years of experience have perfected its or
ganiZation, ramiied its connections in town and
country cemented enduring friendships with
kind hearted and philanthrOpic people extended
TO their utmost limit the bonds of cO-operation
with such folk, and. in short, raised to the high
est power the efficiency Of Tho Tribune Fresh
Air Fund as an enlightened charitable agency
But The Tribune Fresh Air Fund In carrying
on its task. must depend on It's friends for the
means. II has organized the work and cares for
all it's detail of administration. so that not a
single penny Of the funds in:rusted to II is spent
for any other purpose than actually getting chill
dren TO the country. The work il Is doing now
so rapidly and expects to keep up through the
summer makes great inroads its resources.
Friends have contributed generously. but there
must be still wider opening OF the purse
strings II the pace already set is TO be main
tanned. Every dollar counts now for the benefit
Of the weak and unfortunate as il has never
counted before One hundred cents in every
dollar are spent on the little ones for whom II is
intended-not one penny goes for salaries Office
expenses, commissions or fees of any sort. The
path is absolutely straight from the donor TO the
beneficiary.
We submit that this is good business We
insist and dwell upon this fact because we
feel that II gives us a peculiar right TO
be urgent In our requests for liberal contribu-
lions. The money is going out In a steady
stream represented by trainloads and housefuls
Of joyous little people; II the trains are to be
kept loaded and the country houses filed the
stream must be kept generously flowing. We
have every confidence that 1t will be; but we
shall not desist from reminding our friends on
all occasions of The Tribune Fresh Air Funds
constant need of money during these summer
months Its activity and the good IL accom-
plIshes are exactly measured by the gauge Of It's
receipts There is an almost unlimited field for
its operation. How much Of that field 1t shall
traverse, what proportion OF the sickly blight on
New-York's tenement house children it shall re-
lIeve, depends on the generosity of our friends
We ask them to give, to give now. and to give
,nberally. confident Of the gracious response Of
indy hearts everywhere; and We ask them to