New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-11
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Fresk Air Children.

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station at Ballston Spa, y. Y. Were It not for the
sIopns gray roof and q few senaphores. the ideu-
tity Of a station would have been lost. for every
available box and platform about the station was
covered with hosts OF interested spectators. Ven
/ cradle toRnsr1en who had welcomed The Tribune
Fresh Air Fund children for many summers. chill
dren who there for the first time greet their
little New-York guests, gayly attired girls and
women, professional men and business men. all took
q half hour off 10 welcome the poor children TO
BaIIston spa. II seemed II business had nearly
been suspended
What a contrast 10 the Fresh Air children's eyes
were the green hills the amber colored roads the
cloudIess sky and the smiling faces Of the genial
people Of BaHston compared to the murky atInos-
phere of the cougested struggling tenement house
district which they had that day left behind! -
= wish I could stay here for year" said one
boy. He expressed wish that could be read on
the face of every child.
In about three minutes the two special cars that
took the children from New-York were emptied.
All tried to get out at once. By few kindly words
from the Rev DR.. Milford Fl. Smith. who escorted
the children from New-York. and the assistance OF
the train conductor a line formed and the
children with their bundles filed orderly the sta
tion baggage room. DIR. Smith has been handling The
Tribune Fresh Air parties in his section LOT twenty
years and has q rapid and systematic way OF dis
trbuting the children their hosts. The one nun
dred and six children were IN the hands OF their
respective hosts in quarter Of an hour.
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund children did not
need their buttons TO distinguish them from their
little tanned and rosy checked friends OF BalIston
Spa. Their pale and careworn faces. despite tleIr
happy smiles. served as a sufficient badge to tell
whence they came.
You should see them little critters when they go
back" said n hale old man OF seventy, TO trav-
cling man at the station. Never know em when
they 20 back, Spry 'es rabbits and jump bout as
high live bout eight mikes yonder. 1 had a
fresh air boy some years ago, and he played all
the time he wake. Reckon he played in his
dreams too. cause used to go in and look at
him when he slept. He'd laugh and grab at the
pliers and say suthin couldn't well make out I
used to laugh till my sides panied Nuthin'd wake
him up till daylight. Then he'd play agin till sun
down. I don't believe a twelve inch gun'd make
him turn an eyelash He did hate TO go hum, too!
Cried all the way TO the depot wanted to keep
that boy for all time. but naturally his folk had
fust call. They poor, but they loved him even
though they wuz'
The children are the guests Of the people OF Balls
ton Spa and Will remain there for two weeks
Many are entertained in the homes of their hosts.
Others are boarded at farms near Balston where
their board is paid from fund raised by the peo-
Pic of Rallston.
BaIIston Spa Is ideal place for summer out
ing II is the Delaware and Hudson Railway
about twenty five miles north of Albany. The
country is high and rolling and the air is fresh ana
| invigorating An abundance Of bright and Varle-
gated foliage seems TO cover everything but the
roads Brooks and larger streams are numerous
and geysers bubbling forth their heaIthful waters
are within easy reach of The Tribune Fresh Air
children
The Fresh Air work has been going on IN Ballston
Sua for many years This year il was brought be-
fore the Church Federation and a committee COM
posed Of the Rev Milford II Smith. OF the Method
st Church, and the Rev. Arthur c. Baldwin. or the
Baptist church, appointed 70 carry out the
work An appeal in behalf OF The Tribune Fresh
AIR Fund work published in the daily papers or
BalIston Spa collectors appointed IN the vart-
Gus churches and through this means fund was
raised and free homes were found for boarding the
children.
On Friday 4 party Of twenty-five children went
10 Argyle " Y. where they are the guests OF the
parishIoners OF the Rev. II. II. Crawford. OF the
United Presbyterian CHURCH Argyle is good
farming region. and the children are entertained on
the various farms or two IN a home, They ara
from the lower West Side. and the change from
the dismal life in that quarter 70 the fields and
hills of Argyle will have It's usual beneficial result
The hosts met their little guests at Fort Edward
station several miles from the village.
The hosts AT Argyle :. \. Maharey. Wesley
McMAan. samuel Graham. Mrs ora McF-acnreaI11'
R Ted5 f29o A. 5b5 Barke2 and H craW
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by an evening train a party OF forty-one made
up OF unusually small children. started on an all
J night journey 10 Brasie Corners y Y. They are
b. F. CiegIer The children were met by their
hosts at Gouverneur Station, ten miles away from
dren at their homes. the people OF Brase Corners
make dr.ye ~ I25tg H.5 20 gScoPI t9e'r 6ISsrs
is Farming hamlet surrounded by woods. and the
o 5h cool nr"ezss Of the Adirondack region VIII
bring 6 tint Of health TO the pald little cheeks of
-Ths hosts at BalIstoq spa; y Y. are Mrs. Bush,
Mrs. Elton Green. Mrs Kingsley, Mrs. Burton
Goons, Mrs = Il G5TTose: Mrs II,, Lee. Mrs. o T.
George Bradley Mrs. SPRINGER Mrs. Sylvia Fuller,
Mrs. Higgin5. Mrs " VILLAIN Hall. Mrs New59rn.
chant. Mrs. Iackrow, Mrs Eugene seaman. Mrs.
J. \: Booth Mrs George smith, the Rev. VI H.
Charles Streever Mrs. Albert Johnson Mrs, Burn
Wrt ! " Be9ch Mr. and Mrs Mather Vassar
Hasht. Miss Esterbro0k. Miss Horton. Theodore
arai7 Tsbcdck Mr. George c Beecher Nj Wis
wall, Or Samuel smith. Mrs. Moore Mrs. Walter
Mrs. Nellie Ieggejt Miss Lou Fr!sbie Miss Eliza
beth Dye Mrs Cornell. Mrs. Walter Wiley. Or. T.
Ms r = u Roval Miss Mar Lee. Mrs Nathan
Fecuey. Mrs. Frederick Morehouse Mrs Albert
Mrs Edward sRerftr Mrs WIN Burdick ". j.
Hodseii H. p Newton Robert Frear Peter
frederick Rooney Miss Jennie clement Mrs III
Zach DR. Thaver Miss Jennie SpieT Mrs Rerta-
min Isaac and J \ Rayond.
A. Round Lake IN n Y. F. C. Farwen -
Raven, Xury Finlay, Lee Fishbeck james seaker
Wassbura. Patrck Whalen, Mrs McCioud Nj Mr.
Mrs peek Mrs Crawford, Mrs Drummond Cl1r-
James Mitchell Mrs. Wesley Reed and Benjamin
At Rigelow n. Y. the hosts are Mrs. George
Lawrence: at Gfouyerneur. n, y; Eull NJ Lscom'
and sprasueviile, Mrs. Irene Buckus.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Mrs 9 L L. Waite Plains. 80
Mrs L R KNAPP, Midland Park. y -. 100