The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
THE FRESH AIR HOME.
The Work of One of Savannah's
Most Deserving Charities.

Most Deserving Charities.
The Fresh Air Home at Tybee will
receive it's first installment of children
on the first Monday in June. when the
home will be regularly opened for the
summer. Miss Ada Hull. as matron
and trained nurse, will be in charge,
and the services of two assistants will
enable her to keep excellent watch and
ward over her little charges.
Last year Miss Hull filled only the
position of trained nurse, but this year
she is to combine with that post the
equally important one of matron. In
stead of one assistant, there will be
two. From twenty to twenty-five chill
dren will be cared for at the home
every week.
The home has just undergone extern
sive repairs. New foundations, making
the building absolutely safe, were put
in, and the roof was painted. The re-
pairs cost about $780, and this means
that $1,000 will be required by the
Froebel Circle of Kings Daughters,
which conducts the charity, to meet all
the expense. The conduct of the home
one summer costs about $780,
Next Saturday night at the Casino
ings" will be put on for the benefit of
the Fresh Air Fund. An excellent cast
has been secured, and it is said that
the play will prove one of the most
attractive presented by amateurs in Sa-
vannah in years. The cost for ticket
will be so cents, which will include car
fare and entrance to the Casino. DAN
cling will follow the performance.
on May 8, at the First Regiments
Armory, the May pole dance will be
given. This is an annual event that
is anticipated most pleasurably. Little
boys and girls engage in the dance,
and there is a voting contest to deter
mine who shall be Queen of the May"
The proceeds from the May pole dances
usually amount to between $50 and 500.
The last annual report of the presi-
dent, Miss Nina Pape, gives an excel
lent idea of the growth of the Fresh
Air Home.
THE Froebel Circle of the Kings
Daughters was organized in April
1S97-five years ago. The following
winter it was decided that the work
of this Circle Gas the name Froebel in
dicates) should be for children. A
Fresh Air Home in the summer, and
a Christmas tree in the winter for the
children of the city being the work
undertaken.
I'm 1898. we rented a floor in a cot
tage at Tubee, and fifty little children
were each given a weeks outing. In
1900 our work had so grown that we
bought home, consisting of a main
building and two cottages. In the
main building there are a Matrons
room, two large dornAntories, with
dressing rooms attached; dining hall,
kitchen and servants rooms. There is
a broad piazza in front where ham,
mocks hang. One cottage is used for
sick children and the nurse. while the
other cottage is for mothers with
young children. To one side of the
house are large sand hills, which it is
the children's especial delight to slide
and roll down, playing in the clean
white sand, while many happy hours
are spent gathering shells by the shore
and wading in the ocean.
'In five years we have grown from
a rented floor to home, owned by the
circle and free of debt. for in August
of 1901, the last remaining debt of
1886 81 was paid; from a matron to
a trained nurse, matron, assistant ma
tron, cook and errand boy; from fifty
children during the season to two hun
dred and seventy.
1--WE, the Froebel Circle, feel that
our success is largely due to the many
kind friends, who have by the gener-
GUS donations, subscriptions and great
interest made the Fresh Air Home a
place of health and happiness to many
little ones of whom it is said in our
motto: Inasmuch as We have done it
unto the least of these, my brethren,
We have done it unto me-"
Donations to Day Nursery.
The Kings daughters Union.
through its secretary, Miss Viola Ken
nedy, wishes to thank the following
gentlemen and firms for contributions
to the Day Nursery; Dr. John j.
Kirby, $40; the Stevens Bros Pottery
Company of Macon, IS, and Messrs. A
w. Solomons Company IS yearly.
Graduated with Maximum Standing.
Among the graduates from the
Southern Dental College at Atlanta