New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-27
WHY THEY LOOK SO NEAT.
Pains Taken zcith Fresh dir Chill
dren Before Sending Them Ont.

The poor children sent TO the country by the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund are always attraction
in the railroad stations. departure and arrival
Many comments favorable and otherwise are prof
fered regarding their behavior and appearance.
Often traveller, ignorant OF the circumstances
attending the preparation OF an outgoing party,
Will remark that the children look too swell
be deserving Of charity
The children Of the Tribune Fresh AIR Fund are
not picked out at random from the tenement dis
tr1cts Of this city and the sending OF them out
ings means than the mere buying of tickets
and provision of hosts. Each party that goes
away for its Fresh Air trip is the result OF long and
careful preparation.
When missionary undertakes to send children
away under the auspices of the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund she is compelled pledge herself in writing
that she will select only such children as she
believes to be suitable and needy. She also pledges
herself TO use all possible care and diligence in
making the children clean and free from vermn.
The work OF the missionary does not end with
her pledge. Many children have not proper and
sufficient clothing 10 go away with. The cast-oG
clothing of the rich is often used in many in
stances, and it is not surprising that in these
togs the children present appearance that he les
their poverty Mothers as well as missionaries
spend weary nights after hard days OF labor max
ing garments out OF cheap fabrics contributed
from various charitable sources.
Every child that leaves the city in a Fresh AT
party is carefully examined by a physician twenty
four hours before departure. This examination Is
held under strict rules that rigIdly enforced
The Board OF Health furnishes the examining
physicians daily with q list OF all houses wneTe
there is contagious disease. The address of each
child is carefully compared with the Board OF
Healths list. and children in dangerous proximity
to quarantine house are not permitted 70 go 10
the country.
party Of Tribune Fresh Air Fund children re-
turned recently from Perry. y. Y, where they
had been entertained for two weeks by the people
through the efforts of Carl C. Clark Editor OF The
Perry Record" They were escorted by a repre-
sentative of that paper. who visited the homes Of
the Perry guests. The Impressions of the repre-
sentative appeared in The Perry Record and are
in part follows:
| While endeavJring to find in our community
| people who would take into their homes for tive
/ little tenement dwellers Of New-fork CITY, was
/ sometimes met with tie reply that children are
! outing aid that people are taken advantage OF
! and asked to entertain those who are neither
In one party which came to Perry the children 67a
were neatly ana cnnlIorJa9ty o[esSeu 10 IA mr.
! ally expect One young man, IN whose home two
/ wished he might have had two children who were
more in need % help. Similar remarks were mao
b. others, and determined TO inyesugaJe ana see
! for myself how these children live. and whether
AccordtnElv- I wrote to the deaconess, and she
| arranged TO accompany me upon WISH To tAeIL
! one afternoon We started upon our round Of ten
enent visits. going hrst to the home OF one or me
up long dark fights OF stairs. We az last reached
! tie fifth floor. where found the family We
/ sought. So far as I could see, their abode con-
/ sisted Of three rooms. There are few houses n
this village wherein could be found q room. unless
! II be the bathroom, small as the average room
/ in a New. York tenement house. The next place
We visited was also the top floor and there were
/ no windows in the sleeping rooms We next visited
| q family who live n rear tenement. To reacn
! The place We entered the front tenement. passed
! through long, narrow hall running the entire
length OF the building. and emerged from the back
| door upon narrow strip Of pavement: GrosslnE
! This We entered the door Of the second building
The rooms were dark and close. the narrow space
between the two tall buildings being the only place
/ for light and air enter. The family we wished
10 visit ve on the ground floor. and the place was