New-York tribune., 1905-07-24
THOUSANDS MADE HAPPY.
Fresh dir Fund Brings Jog to Hosts
of LttIe Children.

Within the last two weeks the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund has sent 2.sS2 children to the country
Fully two-thirds of this number have been
ceived in private families, while the remainder
went to various fresh air homes supported by the
fund and its friends This small army of children
went TO 1873 different places. in eight States.
In the last week 1349 children were transferred
from the city to the country under the auspices
of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The day excur-
sions up the Hudson to Excelsior Grove were taken
advantage of by 2O7S mothers and children. max
ing the total number handled during the week S,427
Last Monday the busiest day this season.
Six hundred children were sent their way TO
the country. They went to forty different places
in New-York and Pennsylvania and required rail-
road tickets for thirty-seven stations. one party
that left the Grand Central Station filled five
special cars
From present Indications. in the neighborhood Of
fourteen hundred children will be sent to the
country for fortnight in the present week
The work of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is at
its height at present. and calls from the country
for children ere being received daily.
The recent appeal for contributions TO the Trib-
une Fresh Air Fund responded to admirably
by the public. but considerable money is re-
quired. that the good work may continue at the
present rate Thousands of children will swelter
in the crowded tenement5 during the hot summer
unless funds obtainable to send them to the
country. Every 50 helps to make some child hap
pier and healthier
Four parties will leave the city to-day. More
than two hundred children will begin their two
weeks vacation in various points in New-York and
Pennsylvania.
The hosts of the children in to-day's parties are:
At Bradford Penn--Mrs Olive Johnson. Mrs.
Beckwth Mrs. A. w. Newell Mrs Stlllwason'
Mrs. Lillian Snyder. John Hanna Harry Brown Brown
Mrs Dickinson, James HoSe. Albert Chuckiey'
Haymaker. Mrs. David Phillips Mrs. Solt, Mrs
c. E. Hudson. Mrs. A F. Schroeder, Mrs. Wright.
Mrs. Neil. w. E. Berrige, Mrs. P1xley, Mrs. w w
Mcintyre. Mrs. Hansel Mrs Scott. Mrs. p j.
Gates, Mrs. ]. III. Barnes. Mrs Lyons, Mrs. Tester
Mrs. Huda Heldstrom. Mrs. Hammond. Dr. A g.
White. Mrs. A. ID. SlCne, Mrs. w. +. Enser. b. ;.
Beebe Harry Fox, Mrs. Lockwood Mrs. EdSett,
Mrs. E. ]. Davis Mrs. c. r Lense, Mrs Berg
wall. c. Porterfield. Mrs. J. w. Chapman, MIS-
Frank Johnson, Mrs. o. s. James, Mrs. ]: W. Nell
ley, Mrs. John Levy, ]. w. Babcock Miss Louise
Broughton. Mrs. Frank Duggan, Mrs. John Polley'
Mrs Cooper, Mrs. Woodstrom. Mrs WoodwSrd'
moor Mrs. Myra Corning Mrs. Kelley. Mrs II.
Chatley Mrs F. w. Pontiss and Miss Ida NJ stiles.
The hosts for twenty-three children in this party
were not received in time for pubhca ton
At Port AIlegany Penn.-Aiss Sheriff. Mrs ;IaI-
loway Mrs W. G.. Sebring, E. H Sherwood, L. j.
Gallup Mrs. d. II. Lewis, Mrs. Don Lndley ana
Mrs Coleman ~ ~
At Chocton N Y-Isaac Wheaton, Mrs II. c.
Bergman, Mrs. B. G. Mattice, Mrs. Addle Edmund'
Mrs Ida James, Mrs. Ernest Pierce, MIS- y. Il.
Coward, Mrs. Emma Ciruber, Mrs. Benjamin wise
Mrs Erastus Whitney, Mrs. John FRANK, Nlrs-
Stark Coward and Mrs. Ella Ketsh.
At Atlanta n. Y.-Mrs. John Weber MIS-. feter
Degan Isaac Baker and Henry F1ebel