The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-22
THE FRESH AIR FUND.
Now Is a Good Time to Contribute
 It

are now passing might be considered enough Of itself to remind your readers that there is need of helping others in summer as well as in colder weather. It may help to emphasize this need if I refer briefly to the method made use of by the City Missionary Association to meet it.
 For the past twelveaor fifteen years it has been our custom to undertake as extra work, but, nevertheless, a very pleasant work, the making of the sum- mer heat a little more endurable to those who cannot escape 1t by vacation trips elsewhere. In some cases we have sent to the country those in spec ial need of continued care. Our usual method, however, is to arrange for lar ger or smaller parties of those who cannot well leave home for any length of time, but would greatly enjoy trip to the shore or country for an entire day. to be repeated in some instances several times during the summer.
 With a steamer on the Sound and the trolley cars on land, we have taken large parties of several hundreds on these refreshing trips, and one year the number of tickets used was over 5000. Dealing with thousands of people, old and young, men and women boys and girls, we have never had an accident of any kind, due, no doubt, to the good or der observed by the people themselves, as much as to skill in management.
 During recent years we have endeav- ored to give weekly excursions during all or part of the months of July and August, according as funds were con tributed. This year we have already arranged for five excursions commen- cing the last week in June, and nearly a thousand people have been included in those that have already taken place. There are at least thousand more who should be given this opportunity for the Irefreshment of body and soul. But like all other good things, it takes money as well as time and strength to bring this about, and so far this year sub scriptions to our Fresh Air Fund" have not been as abundant as usual. On one of the City Mission excursions this summer the cost of the trolley cars alone was over one hundred dol- lars. Moreover, we have to plan our trips and invite the people who are to go before we know what funds we are to have to do 1t with. but have always found that when our needs are known they have always been supplied, and no indebtedness has ever been left unpro- .vided for.
 | Before taking my own vacation in August would like to be able not only to give the children of the County Home their usual trip to the shore at Savin Rock, where everybody seems to be glad to give them nearly everything there is there without money and without price;" and to send to Spring side Home easy carriages enough. with careful drivers, tc take all the old peo- pie there wherever they care to go, East Rock, West Rock. to the country, or to the shore fo' a whole afternoons ride; but also tc leave, as in pre- vious years, on or more hun dred fare trolley ,ooks at the hos pitals for the use oi the nurses as well as for the sick peoEle who are getting | strong enough to be out in the sunlight and air again; at tie Medical Dispen- sary also for the women and children who can hardly hopeto get well as fast as they ought to on medicine only; and lat the Day Nurseries, at the Lowell House, at the Organized Charities, where many are known who are known nowhere else; and it would certainly please me as much as 1t would the tele- graph messenger boys at the '.Wes- tern Unionf' and the Postal if can leave trolley tickets for them, as I did I last year. with an invitation to a free trip to "The White City, whenever they can be off duty long enough to go I wish I might hope to distribute fresh-air trip tickets in some of tho Ilaundries where see women and young girls at work in over- heated rooms from |morning until night, and in some of oul many manufactures also among tht workingnen who can never spare ever half a day for our ordinary excursions with the loss of wages that would fol. low, but who might be induced to takt an evening trolley trip occasionally There are sick people, too, iI theil homes about the city who ought tt sIhave a carriage ride or two, but can. not unless some one better able vii lgive me the privilege of ordering it fol Ethese weak people in their behalf. Ant there are mothers with little sick chil Idren who sit in the door-Ways or at tht windows of closely built up houses, wht should have handful of trolley ticket! to change into the fresh-air and new life that will otherwise be just a littlt beyond their reach.
 Perhaps it would be too much lik the millennium to have all these desir fable things done all at once, but canno we, without waiting for some time Q future blessedness, make this world Q l ours little more. comfortable now fo others as well as for ourselves. Ant will not you, who are not only well able but, I believe, are quite willing also, le me help you answer this question fo New Haven, and all the more if you ar not here in the summer to answer 1t fo yourselves?
 Respectfully Yours,
 W. D. MOSSMAN,
 Missionary Pastor. I City Mission House, No. 201 Orang tStreaf New Hnvaya Conn Tlly 20 1901