New-York tribune., 1902-08-14
iuUSING FRESH AIR STORIES.
IMPRESSIONS NEW SCENES MAKE On THE
CHILDREN OF THE sLUMs.

CHILDREN OF THE sLUIs.
They .scalded the piss. and then they stabbed
them and then they had pork eat. said a TTio-
uae Fresh Air child the other day. after returning
from the outing. Anyhow she continued. coln-
try people amt Ike US They don't buy three
pounds and half OF sugar. they have whole
barrel Of il An they have white things spread on
the beds, and every ore has bed 10 thenaselyes
What she said may seem ludicrOus but 1t Illus
trates unrnistakably how little the child o. the
surns knows OF the comforts and even OF the
needs. Of present day life Every one Of the 55'
children that The Tribune sent to the country yes
terday will be benefited almost beyond calculation
Some amusing incidents in connection with these
Tribune journeys were told yesterday oy Ahore"
Norgan Of the Camp Memorial Congregational
Church who left the Grand Central Station IN
charge Of IS Tribune children. bound for Pittsheld
Mass.
..Freouertlv' he said the little ones want the
train stopped so they can pick the wild flowers
- the side of the tracks They wonder al the
abundance Of green things along the route. AT
home green is color they see little Of Ihey usual
II have a penny or Two spend for candy whlie
on the train few being lucky enough 10 have fve
or eight cents. and they make rush for the canoy
man one day had { decidedly mixed crowo OF
Catholics Jews and Protestants, and a tiny rlot
seemed imminent, but stopped II IN second "AeI
told them was going 10 buy them all lozenses-
..At first however. they are awestrichen oy the
trains But in my experience, the railroad men
have always been extremely courteous 10 freSh
Air parties and have made distinction between
those who wore The Tribune Fresh Air r uho out-
tons and other passengers Another in.eIesl-ts
thing is the way the children curl up on the cnsh
toned seats and 20 TO sleep Few OF them nave
ever struck anything so comfortable
con,e of +he children whom Mr.. Morgan took 70
the country asked il the plums on the piuIn iieeS
vera eggs Yesterday the boys IN his party were
r-ns+lv rlsased with the Grand Central station.
Wed oughter came at o'clock stead OF g
said one
Similar anecdotes were related by the Kew. a 4
Warren of East Strouds5urg. Penn who cohouc'-
al = marty of nineteen children to that place yes
terday making total Of seventy live that ne mas
taken there this season -
.on the way out a week two ago" ne said
..one little girl looked OUT 0f the car window and
f5 n me Is this the country? l told her ii was,
and she said oh thought the country was way
high IN She had confused the country win Lle
mountains Some other children, being looked loI
one night by the farmers with whom they were
s,avfng were found in the dairy watching the
milking II was the most interesting feature OF
the visit 10 them, and they didn't miss slhg4e
milking At first they we're very curious 10 hho"
whv the COWS should have such long tails. out one
morning when it very sultry, they came run
ming UP TO their hosts. 5eaming with the pleasure
of discovery. We know what his tails for. Ihey
cried; It's TO keep the flies away East 0uou0S-
burz is z pretty place. about four mics I'oli
Delaware Water Gap. and the chloren are aI"e.
extremely eager to stay after their two weeks are
y, six-vear-old Charley Snyder last week want
=
ed TO stay three years
7Fe rar+v that left for the Middletown-Goshen
ronvalescents' Home yesterday was the h1th re-
r.v that institution has taken this season Nam
+s,ned b local contributions. this home IS particu-
,arIv vel equipped. and even trolley parties anc
straw rides are regularly arranged Tor the ntue @
ones benefit In small tributary Of the WaliklH
Eiver near the home. the bathing Is excellent and
-. .oo "a -esularlv entoved. There has been no
sickness there whatever this summer OF the
twenty children that started for the Middleto"n-
Goshen home yesterday afternoon ten were broushI
from the St Giles Home for Crippled Children, at
No 41e Clinton-st.. Brooklyn, and happy indeed
-rev seemed at the prospect OF the outing one o
ire bovs bright eyed ten-year-old. is IN a pre-
oarious condition from heart disease. Ohe OF ue
workers with this party. while waiting for the
Tin IN the Erie station Jersey City. told Of
- she had recently taken with Fresh -ai- child
an the Fourth-ave. su~faee cars. Looking down
into the subway excavation. the child exclaimed;
..Oh I saw the devil down there,
A little later yesterday afternoon, from the same
+a,,o, 7 z shuart. of Windsor, y. Y, left
With party of twenty girls. the fifth party Of that
,,,,ter be has taken The children are kept at the
New S Ieea1lL- and parties Of twenty bows
srs twenty girls are taken alternately for TWO
W7s The party OF fifty cri?oed children. from the
New-York Ortho2aeolc fosp Ial, a o.. -" D. ~ 90
Frie train received much kind attention from t2=
were c2Trie9 20 tngrr 10 ageaee tie u7eI!
80 ra~esearv that they should have careful treat
,.e-+ FOR though bright and cheerful in appe-r-
srre -hey REPRESENTED many serious phVslcal MS
one child subject 70 rachlts, ana was "toLy
unable 20 stand. ---..-.7 ~.
children hound that nlaCe scoke - SaTrr ff'Tfs
last right Of the work The Tribune Fresh Air Fi1d
h~5 done that had come under his personal opser-
III Is certainly worth while TO watch the Fresh
rav their pale faces change 10 healthy.
hearty cres They behave well out at N'ndh|r
ard r~anv of those who last year. which was
the first tiu-e enrer*ai~ed them, VIII go TINS
season 20 the same bones.
one of the missionaries who brought some chill
Grated what he said of the chl7ren's model be-
hav1or and ted IN illustrator a1ecdote Of 4
ren-vear-oI5 Fresh Atr boy who rwo Of his
playcates whose homes were in tn country. n 4
7ght. He separated them, though they were hoth
I his size.
a-co5 don't want vouse 70 scrap" he said.
The last children started from Jersey City 81 S:l3
o'clock for TioEa Penn One Of the workers who
went wtrh that party was speaking in he s-affon
OF children's i1erest in domestic animals Some
of them. she said were ignorant at first OF the
names OF animals. and little girl mis-
took q cow for 2 chicken. hut after they get 20
knoV the different they he0ome greatly IL
terested IN them all and usually had particular
pefs Several boss have brought roostars hoTI.e
with then. Margaret Ha0dferd Of Red Hook, has
a tribune Fresh Air outing. and YESTERDAY she
sbsrred the by e>-0reSs to Huebslton. y. Y.
where sEe had been staying
III viii get fat there" she exclaimed. like
Ore of the Tribune workers said YESTERDAY that
e. was getting hsrd just to fuldl spe officially
for children made. Early in the summer the
reopie who wanted ''eight-yeaT-od girls with light