The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-20
BOYS CLUB SUCCESSFUL.

Funds Urgently Needed, However-A
 Summer Outing for the Employed.
 The enrolment of five hundred and twenty boys in the Edwin Bancroft Foote Boys club during the three short monthes it has been in operation has proven that the club meets decided want.
 The subscriptions for the clubs cur rent expenses have not kept pace with the numerical growth. Some time ago the joint committee in charge of the club, and composed of Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr, Charles P. Walls, James H. Webb, Charles Kleiner, B. B. Saw age, Isaac P. Smith, W. L. Taylor, K. F. Elney. Ashley L. Willis. W. G. Lotze and H. L. Smith, held meeting and decided to appeal to the public for funds to meet the club needs.
 Subscriptions were requested Tor three definite things. First, for the current expenses; second, for manual training equipment, and third, to re- duce the expense of the working days summer camp to such figure as to make it possible for fifty employed boys to spend week apiece on the is- land.
 People who live in any well kept homes little realize what it means to a boy cooped up in store or factory for fifty-one weeks in a year, and with ms evenings spent in close, crowded tehe> ment sections of the city, to get away for a whole week to boys summer camp.
 Last year camping experience was
 wonderful thing for many a boy, ana
 when forty healthy, hearty youngsters
 returned to the city the tales they told
 aroused the keenest interest on the part
 of boys who had never been so fortu- nate as to have a real vacation. In consequence of this no one inquiry has been so often made of the Edwin Ban croft Foote Boys club officials as, Gan , go to camp next summer?"
 The following extracts from letters 1 written by the club campers while at the island last summer gives an idea or how they regard camp life: Very kind of you for picking me out
 of a crowd of boys to send to Camp
 Tuxis I am enjoying the best of IlGdllH anu 9ON eal lSs W V SN W ~ANN' ing nice times rowing, sailing, fishing
 and basehall-playing; so you see we are not lonesome"
 q appreciate the good turn you have done for me. The sports of the day are
 swimming, rowing, ping-pong and oth- CT games. I return best thanks, hop ing you are we'll"
 T write you this letter thanking you for your kindness in paying my camp fee. I am getting along in fine shape
 and hope to be as strong and healthy
 as any boy of my age"
 Being aware of your interest in ! Camp Tuxis, beg to inform you that l and all the rest of the fellows are hav- ing cart Loads of fun with MT. Smith as driver and Messrs. Wells, Meserve, Stanley, Taylor and Beardsley dump ing off the loads. We measure our fun the same as you measure your coal. Hoping to hear from you and thanking you, I remain"
 Its about four days that have been
 on Camp Tuxis Island. I am sure I have made more progress in these four 1 days in certain lines than I have made l Tn NeW tdVe0 III luuT years. Ctll
 now row, swim and play basket ball | and quoits. We are well fed by our
 cook. He is an expert in playing | quoits."
 On Thursday the club members will meet in their gymnasium to see ster- | eopticon set of views of Tuxis and oth- CT camps. These views will arouse an intense longing in the hearts of these boys to enjoy the delights and whole
 some pleasures of their more fortunate
 brothers Probably dfty boys out of the rye hundred who have been en- | rolled in the club books could go to I camp if money enough could be raised ! to reduce the $4.5O per week, the sum I which it cost to run the camp, 60 per 1 cent.
 If this money cannot be raised 1t l means that many jacket will be but | toned up over studry but aching
 heart, and many boy who has no | father and no mother will look forward to another years toll unrelieved by the 1 wholesome recreation and good living | nf aoYon