New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-16
FRESH AIR FOR 300 TOTS.
-Four Parties of Tribune Fresh dir
Children LeaUe City.

Men may come and men may go. but the Tris-
une Fresh Air Fund children TO go on
forever!'
This was the greeting of the genial gateman at
one Of the railway stations yesterday. as a party
OF children lined up to board afternoon train.
u sort OF look for you folk every day" he
continued IF don't see you imagine something
has gone wrong somewhere"
The remarks OF the gateman show how accus-
toned the trainmen have become to receiving daily
parties OF Fresh Air children.
Yesterday three hundred children were sent
away IN four parties by the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund In the morning the second instalment of
boys were started for Interlaken. Mass. They were
followed in the afternoon by the second instaIment
for Chapel Hill. y. J.. Fairfield. Conn. and Ash
ford Hill n. Y
The parties for Chapel Hill always leave the
city on the boat for Atlantic Highlands. When the
party assembled yesterday the pier IT found
that there were more boys present than the list
called for 1t discovered later that three boys
who failed to pass the physical examination. had
followed the party TO the boat with the hope OF
getting aboard unnoticed
Il awfully glad going" said a little
girl with the Fairfield party. II am glad I am
going and am sorry. too cause wish my broth
could come.
The girl comes from poor family OF Ave. and
the brother referred TO is the only support OF the
family He works on a milk wagon from a. m.
until noon each day, and studies diligently when
not too exhausted After arrangements had been
made last week for the boy 10 accompany his sis
tiers to Fairfield. the father suddenly disappeared
He left the house in the morning saying he would
lcok for work That afternoon he was found hang
ing in the woOdShed a suicide. The girls will
be cared for at Fairfield until the mother ind
employment
What shows perhaps one OF the most striking
instances of poverty in the lower West Side is q
home from which two girls were sent yesterday
20 Fairfield. The home consists OF two dark
back rooms in basement, originally intended for
a cellar. One room is occupied by widower and
his six children. and the other by a widow and her
four children. The mother OF the six children
Died two months ago. and SINCE her death the
husband has tried bravely to keep his children
together by providing for ten. Said one OF the
settlement workers yesterday:
THE Tribune Fresh Air Fund came 10 the rescue
OF this family when they were on the verge OF
starvation II has sent six OF that family to Corn
ing, N Y, and is now sending two more TO Fair
field II means not only a fortnight OF fresh air
and good food for the children. but opportunity
for the parents 10 take heart and go with their
heroic struggle for existence"
large box containing 13i articles OF summer
clothing. sent by the Ladies' Sewing Society, OF
yesterday by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Penn. Thursday. Mrs Bartholomew. Will
lam Blake, Mrs. j. Mains. Mrs. Rimel, Samuel
FlOry. the Rev ]. NJ. Beaver. William J. ROtzel.
Mrs 5. Britain. Mrs. Davis. Mrs. John Voorhees,.
Mrs. Z. T.. snyder Mrs a. Eyer Mrs C. W. Sher-
rer. Mrs. b. Kibble. Mrs Barstow Mrs. / Kress-
The hosts at Honeoye Falls. N Y. are Mrs
Charles f. Boult. Mrs. j. Bowerman, Mrs n. G.
Marlotte. Mrs Bertha Brooks. Mrs. &. r. MarbsI.
Mrs Byron Beach, the Rev. Mr. Croker, Mrs
Udderbach, Mrs. X HOldridge, f. NJ Beote and
Edward Tragaw.