New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-12
OFF FOR THE COUNTRY.
1r16une's Fresh dir Fund Begins
Week of Work.

y party OF happy children. enveloped in the damp
DdZe OF the early morning, was promptly on hand
yS'ei-ay at the Barclay-st. ferryhoUse OF the
Oela|are Lackawanna and Western Railway.
They were the first party sent ont This week ~ ne
country by The Tribune Fresh Air Fund They
went to Cincinnatus y Y
1AIFty children were provided for at Cincinnatus
DUt only tWenty-eight went, two having failed 10
appear at the station The children ara from the
Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church and
are entertained by the people OF the Cincinnatus
HapUst church, OF which the Rev. H. S. R3ghtmire
Is pastor Through Mr.. Rightuire's effort the ac-
conlfnooaton for the fresh air children was &C
complished. With the children at Cincinnatus went
party OF nine for McGraw. ". Y. a station twenty
miles this side Of Cincnnatus. This small party
came from Brooklyn and is cared for by the
parishioners of the Rev f ". HUFF OF the First
Baptist Church OF McGraw
with the larger party. a girl OF ten years. with
one arm around a baby brother and the other sup
porting her weary little head, sat gazing thought
fully at a bundle Of clothes at her feet
She's as tired child could be-" said one Of
the workers. she gently stroked the girls fore
head and adjusted her hat. She has been I'D half
the night and early this morning, getting her
three younger brothers ready for this trip. Her
mother died two years ago. and since that time
the child has been a mother to the younger ones
1t seems almost beyond reason that a girl OF her
years could do what she does. Necessity compelled
her at the age OF eight to assume the mothers
place and after two years OF experience she does
the homework with the dispatch and precision be-
coming woman Of forty
! visited the home one evening and found the
little mother preparing the evening meal II was a
plain supper, but the food was well prepared and
there was cleanness about the table that IS often
lacking in homes where grown women nres1da
She Is going away now with the younger chill
dren' 10 a place of rest The two weeks vacation
VIII enable her to with her GoIeful task of
housekeeping but wish she could stay longer than
two weeks"
Another party Of twenty-five Tribune Fresh All
Fund children left the city at p m by the Penn
syiVania Railroad for Port Auesany, Penn.
NHghts Penn and Heating Summit. Penn. The
+'eF- H. A Reed has found fortn!ghts hospitality
tor the children among the people of these towns
: wish We were going in the daytime" said q
bright looking boy, rs the Port AIegany party was
boarding its train: I'd like to how things look
along the road" A similar remark was made by a
boy who went away this with a Tribune
Fresh Air Fund party. The caretaker who over
heard him smiled and said:
The majority Of tho children are anxious to see
the country through which they pass and when
tae return we are kept busy listening 70 their long
o. fTasb ions Of 69e trip As vel as getting plenty
cren store away in their little brains many lasting
and instructive impressions. : know one boy who
T away THIS year with party that learned
little OF the Bible stories
The boys hand few in tho air ana iuttered i'm
lie replied The Saviour was born IN PeEnsyl-
few more questions / learned chat the boy had
been 70 Bethlehem, Penn. with 4 party OF Fresh
Air children thar summer.
The hosts IT Cincinratus, y. Y. are r. NJ Curtis,
Joseph Tier. Nellie Warren. Mrs. Ab8ie Totnan
5. 5. Be2kwith. Dean Harrington. the Rev. II. 5
RightTnlre. J. NJ Burnap. 3. 3. Ellsworth Frank
Cook. Frank Howard Mrs. Henry Smith. Frank
Grtswold. Merritt Duval. Dell Duval, =. Il. Eli
wood and Frank Marvin; at McCIraw. y. Y. Mrs.
/. Parsons, Mrs. T. A Purchase. Mrs. Willis Smith.
Mrs. T. D. Goodell, Miss Sarah Phelps and NJ
Frank Gates; AZ Port ALegany, Penn Mr. and
Mrs WILDER LLibrdge Mrs. John Anderson Mr.
and Mrs. /. J. Gallup. Nj. and Mrs Willis Sher-
wood. Miss Beckley, Miss J. T. Sheriff. and Mrs
Russler; al Wrights, Penn. Mrs. W. r Wetmore.
Mrs. w. F.. Sawyer and Mrs. D. D. Nelson; and a
Mrs. A. S. Hoffman.