New-York tribune., 1901-07-13
HAPPY FRESH AIR BOYS.
SINGING AND JOLLY, THEY START FOR
A FORTNIGHTS OUTING.
Goodby, Dolly. I must leave you,
Though II breaks my heart to go,
Something tells me l am needed
AT the front to fight the foe.

Goodby Dolly. 1 must leave you.
Though 1t breaks my heart to go.
At the front fight the foe.
The arched roof of the Grand Central Station
echoed these words sung in unison by fifty boys
they marched. two by two. with regular step
along the cement platform between the cars on
their way to the Chatham train on the Harlem
Railroad yesterday morning They entered the spe-
cial provided for them. and then the attention
of the passengers hurrying along the platform
attracted toward the windows of the car by
this:
with bevi. with bowl with bevi. bowl. bum:
Bumi get rat trap. bigger than cat trap;
Buml get rat trap bigger than a cat trap;
Bum bum Curtisville hurrah for ST. Helen's
Home
A tiger followed this outburst. Then from the
inside of the came another cry:
Aye aye. aye. chicor bum
Fresh Air angels. st. Heen's Home st. Helen's
Home tiger"
This was followed by the rattle of individual
cheering and What's the matter with Mr.. -
Hos all right
There doubt after this display of noise
that the fifty boys fresh airs. and that most
OF them. least. had been ST. Helen's Home at
Curtisvlle. Mass, in previous year. They
the second instalment of the second party Of one
hundred 10 go there this year There doubt
in their minds $ the sort of time they would
have this year The boys were a manly lot. and
they governed their hilarity admirably. They
obeyed orders like soldiers, every mothers OF
them.
Each and clean. and the shoulder
of nearly every sung a striped dark blue
gingham bag. containing spare clothing The chill
dren have great times ST. Helens. and these
boys Were evidently primed for III sorts of good
fun II there were such a thing prize exhibit
tions of boys. these surely would be among those
10 receive at least second examination before
the prizes for collective manliness were awarded.
The boys evidently lad been together great deal
in the city. for they sang song after song in uni
son 10 pass the time they sat in their car wait
ing for the train to
This party was the only sent out yes
terday by The Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The
ond to 20 to the Fresh Air Home at Fairfield.
Conn. this season, the guests OF the people or
that typical old New England town. started in the
afternoon. There We're twenty girls in the latter
party.
The second nstalmeut OF the bi-weekly party of
2e0 to so to Ashford Hil at ArdsSy. left from
the One-hundred- and fifty ffth-st- station of the
Putnam Railroad two hours later. A large ma
lority of the Us comprising it were boys. They
thronged the elevated station at One-hundred- and
hfty-ffth-st., and when the gate opened TO
admit them 20 the train they sPrnted through at
n speed that made II necessary for the caretakers
for the country and the pent up days OF antici
patton end. That what the run
ming boys said Sometimes running legs
other things-cOwariice fear-hut this time they
make the legs stronger and better able TO
errands for the benefit OF mankind
a party of boys also went TO Carroll Camp. at
Barlow n. Y. spend two weeks camping
the guests of Lee hlahler. This is Mr.. MahlerS
second camping party of boys this season.