New-York tribune., 1905-07-26
SAVED FROM SQUALOR.
SidehghtS on the Lives of Fresh dir
Fund Children.

When two Tribune Fresh Air Fund little girls
arrived in this city yesterday. after two weeks
vacation in Binghamton. they found that their
mother had undergone an operation in their
absence, and is well the road to recovery.
The woman was warned by doctor last January
that unless she was operated upon she would
live. As the family was extremely poor. 1t
necessary for the mother to look after the children
and the operation was put off time after time
Settlement worker learned Of the case and
Immediately saw solution Of the problem The
two girls were placed in the party for Bngharnton
and the woman was taken to a hospital, where the
long needed operation was performed
Three little Italian children in this same Bing-
haInton party were particularly loathe to leave
their country home yesterday. There are six in
this family which lives in two of the drtiest and
most miserable tenement rooms imaginable The
father and mother both drink and the father
beats his wife and children numerically in his
drunken fury. These three little children live In
constant terror for their lives. They begged the
missionary not to take them home, for they said
Papa viii beat US" II is a sad case but the
missionaries meet with similar nearly every
A Settlement worker on the East Side told the
IouoWlng story about one of the little girls she
sent 10 the country in a Tribune Fresh Air Fund
, Ruth comes from family which is. without
come to me and begged to BE- t summers m t sne mas
Now t6a+ - is .7sT-e Siit 20 tLe countIy
ABOUT What am going to do with her next year,
Ior no one has ever invited her the second time
Ihis year she came TO me with a rubber on one
LooC and a broken down shoe the other. Her
hair had grown to respectable length since last
summer, but short examination showed that it
would have TO come of. told her have 1t
clipped short
The child dernurred because she was too old TO
nave her hair cut. When told her that she
couldn't go unless she did, she finally consented
and came back the first time with four or five
inches taken on. That wouldn't do, and so the
second time her head was shaved clean an
onion we then furnished her with Clothes but
made her mother supply the shoes. Her mother
agreed, but she pawned the child's hat buy
hat, which was equivalent to buying the shoes"
Besides the BnghaInton party. two other parties
returned Yesterday, from Auburn, N Y and
the other from Hyde Park, y. 7. In all
about four hundred children returned to the city
after two weeks outing. The Binghamton com
pany formed the largest single party that has en-
Joyed the country air under the auspices OF the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund this season
BY the 9;15 p. m. train over the Erie Railroad, q
party OF thIrty-fve children began fourteen hour
Journey to Tioga, Penn. last night. The Rev
j. W. Harrington OF Tioga- procured the enter
tsinmenr for the children and accompanied them
on their trip TO TiOga last night
The hosts at T1oga Mrs. NJ Laurence
Mrs. A Harrington, Mrs. E Gee. Mrs. o. Burtch.
Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. W. Archer. Mrs. J. Carlson,
Mrs G. G. Stevens Mrs. J. Whitney. Mrs. c.
Mowery, Mrs. o. Loveless, Mrs. p. RaIhbone Mrs
S. COegrOve and Mrs Hill.
At Mansfield Penn. they George Brace, Miss
Alice Jones, Mrs a. B. Smith, Mrs. c. H Sherman
Mrs. Charles Howe, Mrs N. E Brace, Mrs.
Thomas Chamberlain and Mrs. J. S. Lewis At
Covtngton. Penn, Miss Pearl Estes Dyke