New-York tribune., 1900-08-11
COOL WORK FOR A HOT DAY.
FRESH AIR FUND WERE NUMBERED
BY THE THOUSAND YESTERDAY.

1t is really time to stop talking about the hot
weather. II time two days ago. but people
thought then that 1t going to turn cool. and
they wanted to fling a parting malediction after
the heat. That was two days ago. But it is still
calorihC. II has been so for a great many days.
and it is going to be for great many days more
at least that was what everybody in lower Broad
way seemed to think yesterday. And they didn't
want to hear anything about the hot weather 1t
too old story, it too much trouble, il
a pleasant subject anyhow. and it was
to be avoided That was what the expression of peo-
pies faces said more plainly than words. and the
who ventured to gasp 'Whew, but it's hotE'
received the cold shoulder.
And the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. suggestive
of GOODNESS in its very name. after wasting great
deal of lead pencil in saying what everybody knows
already has still another word on this most un-
speakabe subject. 1t has nothing hot TO say. how
ever. but something very different and that is the
only it ventures into print this morning At
least fourteen hundred people were COOL comfort
able and happy yesterday through the agency of
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. They were all. poor
people, the poorest o. all the needy population Of
New-Yorks tenement houses and they would have
suffered and sckened in their unhealthy homes il
some fresh air had not been thus given to them
over thousand of them were treated to a sail up
the Hudson, an hour two ashore at a grove
under the Palisades, and another sail down the river
In the cool of the early evening. These were moth
ers and children. In addition there were 1853 little
children who off to cool places in the
country yesterday for two whole weeks of fresh
air. AS a matter of fact. great many more than
fourteen hundred people had good time through
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund yesterday. for there
already in the country almost two thousand
children who had started earlier their fort
nights outings and were still enjoying them. When
one stops to consider what lot of GOODNESS given
to those who need 1t most these figures represent,
he must admit that the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
has something cool to say this morning. 1t was
extremely gratifying to be doing much good of
this such hot day, and the kind people
who made 1t possible have earned a deep debt Of
gratitude. They may not know just what II is 10
live in tenement house these days. but the people
who have TO live in them because they too
poor to live elsewhere know full we'll and these
latter appreciate the worth OF the charity.
The S69 children who went off for two weeks yes
terday left the city in eight parties which
bound for Marysvile, Penn; Curtisviue. Mass;
Ashford HILL n. Y: Fairfield. Conn: Tenahy.
n. j.; Conemaugh, Penn; Ltvonia, y. Y, and
nearby places and Tioga Penn. \ large number
of children especially invited to other places also
made their departure yesterday The people who
have invited to their homes the children in the
Tioga LAvonia Marysville and Conemaugh parties
follows:
Tioga. Penn.-Mrs E. A. Anderson. Mrs c. H.
Mrs Frank Havens Mrs Jerry Green Mrs E NJ
Peck, John II. Carlson, Mrs; Frederick Beers, Mrs.
Mowrey. Mrs: G. /. cole. Mrs: 4. G, HAMMOND,
G 4. cary Mrs. George Dribbie. ii. F. Wheeler.
Mrs. Frederick Cummings, Mrs, John Kentch, Miss
Nearing, Mrs G 4 Nearing Mrs A. Goi6urn. Mrs IS.
Horace l.. Stevens Mrs V. W. Lewis, Mrs w. r.
Brown, Mrs. II. l. Afford. Mrs. George Abrams,
Mrs. NJ NJ. Cannady and Mrs. Mat Lawrence
LivOna, n Y.-NIrs. Davis Mrs. Noah Adams.
Mrs. Charles Dryer. Mrs. Johns, Mrs. Briggs. Mrs
Derrickson Mrs. Alden Adams. Mrs; Ashley, Mrs,
William CrOnin and Mrs Mark Leash.
LakeVille y. Y.-MrS. Lester Boher.
Marysville, Penn.-Mrs William Dice. Mrs. Will
lam YARNS Mrs. John Ashenfelter. Mrs Philip
Heishley, Mrs. George Feickinger and Mrs. Houser.
Conemaugh. Penn.-John \. Strayer. James Fly
ock Andrew StTayer. John Wertz. Frank Wissin-
ger, Mrs. William Crum, Mrs Wright Mrs. Lizzie
HOFFMAN, Peter KEEPER Evan Roberts and George
LontZ.