New-York tribune., 1906-07-05
PRAISE FRESH AIR FUND.
Church and Hospital Worbers Tell
Of Its Benefits.
The Bystander.

There is no better way Of finding out just what
the work OF the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is accom-
pishing than to inquire of the missionaries scat
tered through the city who come in contact with
the fresh air children. These missionaries and
settlement workers for the most part connected
with the various churches and settlements to which
the children come. They visit the homes OF those
who so to the country and see the actual conditions
with which the little ones have to contend in the
struggle fer life.
Without exception they express their gratitude
for the work that the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is
doing. Such statements this made by worker
in Harlem, common:
THE two weeks trip to the country which the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund makes possible means
health to a great many of my children. l do not
know how we would set along without it.''
A Brooklyn minister who works among poor
people said the other day:
without exception the children last year came
back in better health than when they went away"
Another worker on the East Side said:
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund is doing much for
the children among whom work. Some lives have
been revolutionized through the trips to the coun-
try. Three years ago I visited a little girl whose
father and mother were both drunkards. The family
lived in the ordinary tWO-rOom tenement house.
and with no one TO care for her, the child seemed
likely to grow up into a miserable. unhealthy
woman At last the Tribune Fresh Air Fund made
1t possible to send the girl to the country. She
had little touch Of pleasant family life the first
year The next year she was invited back When
the family in the country heard of the conditions
that surrounded the child at home, they at once
asked if they might adopt her. The parents con-
sented and the child has now grown up into a
beautiful young woman"
Many other missionaries in speaking of the work
of the fund have stories similar to these TO tell
Visiting nurses and physicians have much to say
about the health side of the question. nurse con-
nected with the Presbyterian Hospital said the
other day:
that It is doing an immense amount Of good to
hundreds of children. know Of number Of
has certainly saved the lives of children. In many
other eases winter in the hospital has been made
OF girl who was completely run down from over
and as the mother had to support the family II
was necessary for the girl to act nurse She did
81 ths term she had e az sPseiai york foF tha
pieteiy worn out, and as ST. vitus's dance was be
ginning M sent r her to the country m for tWo weeks
back we'll. and was able to 90 to school again. IN
s cy and Whs they mae & to a5' Eat away @ s " 's
Brooklyn physician was asked what he thought
Of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund He replied:
1T is a great work"
From the mothers come testimony of the good
that the fund is doing Many of them inquir-
ing now whether their children can go to the
country this year. Last year one woman decided
while her son was away that he should never go
again On the day that her boy was to return the
train was late. and. much worried she was heard
20 say to a friend:
III never send him away again. never"
But she announced that she had changed her
mind as her bounded from the train.
He had gone away thin pale, and nervous from
overwOrk He returned to her ruddy, healthful and
full of spirits
Binghamton n. y, was the only town to
ceive children sent out by the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund Tuesday Thirteen boys in the party
which left New York for that place on Tuesday
morning where they will be entertained by S Mills
Ely Mr. Ely is interested in boys that few other
people reach. and consequently sent for thirteen
truants. who went away expecting to have the time
of their lives Mr. Ely entertains them at The
Tower The Tower is erected on a mountain near
Binghamton and commands broad view of the
surrounding country
Besides taking this party, Mr.. Ely also does
great deal of work toward finding homes where the
general party that gees to Binghamton every
mer can be entertained In addition to this Mr.. Ely
is a contributor the Tribune Fresh Air Fund.