New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-05
!SE1SONABLE.

About This time as the old aimanacs used TO
say look out for The Tribune Fresh Air una.
Day by day now there appear items or news OF
- dOings. There are DO items more timely ana
meme better worth the consideration OF those
who hold TO the principle of Terence-that what
ever concerns their fellow men concerns them.
10 some It may seem little early to begin the
fresh air work 1t is not. Everybody in this
city knows it IS not too early to suffer from the
Leaf and its accompanying evils. Everybody
knOws-as our railroad stations have shown Tor
the last fortnight-that il is not too early for
people to seek country homes and hotels for the
summer. Then ii is assuredly not too early Tor
the children OF the poor 70 be rescued from the
city's heat and to be sent TO such homes in the
country rs gentle munincence pro- des for them.
Such homes are provided. often more album
dainty than are the means to enable the chill
dren 10 be sent TO them. Hospltable houses are
opening freely all over this part of the country.
in order TO accept all the offers that are made,
it will be necessary to begin sending children
cut promptly, and TO keep up big procession
of them for many weeks to come. The more
promptly they are sent the better, and the
more promptly the managers of the fund are
assured OF the amount they will have for send
ing them the better; for it all depends upon
that latter point, There plenty OF children
" the city to be sent out to health and comfort
and happiness and general uplifting and there
plenty of places in the country waiting and
eager 10 welcome them. All that is needed is
the money TO pay for their transportation thither
and back again ut very low special rates. That
money is what the innumerable patrons Of the
fund, the generous hearted and open pOcketcd
public. may now prOvide-must, indeed, provide,
if the work IS TO be done. Nothing is asked for
any other purpose. Not one cent will be di-
vertcd from the purpose of pure charity. There
Nnre no salaries to be paid. no office rent. no adj
vertisnG bills, commissions. All such eX-
rcnses are otherwise and already provided for.
Every cent that is contributed by the public
90 the fund is used for the direct benefit of the
children.
The work is already begun. More than eleven
hundred children have been sent out. Another
party starts to-day. Tomorrow more than five
which went to = national convention or the
throngs that are going to the Worlds Fair. The
managers of the fund want to keep it up. They
want 10 send more than five hundred n day
and they want to send large parties every week
DAY from now on to the end of the season.
They can do il. and viii do it, on one condition
That is that the public provides The cost Of
transportation-s simply that and nothing more
In round numbers, it costs about 50 last year
the exact figures were s. S4-to send n child
Into the country for two weeks. For every
such sum contributed the fund will thus send n
child. II there is any more economical
benetcent charity than that to DO found. we
should like 10 know what it is. If there is not
and we feel sure there is not-thcn the appeal
of The Tribune Fresh Air Fund 10 the brnevo-
lcntly disposed must be strong and effective,