New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-02
CHILDREN LIKE COUNTRY.
Nave Expressions Of Tribune Fresh
DIR Fund Youngsters.
"Are we most there, msster?"

Are we most there, mssfer?''
This is the question that Is asked most often by
the children whom the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
sends to the country. From the time that they
get on trolley go 20 the station until they
alght at their destination IL is their constant query.
Perched on a seat in Grand Central Station yes
terday morning waiting for the train which was 70
take him TO Utica, a boy OF seven. He had
"hen ne turned TO an attendant and asked:
Say. mister. we're pretty near there now.
aren't we?'
why. no. we haven't started yet" was the re-
ply
Amt this the train and haven't we been gong
all the timee""
mo. this is just the place where we wait for the
train"
II was explained TO him that while he thought
he had been in train moving in some unseen way
20 the country, he had really been in big building
right in the middle of New York.
Two parties left the Grand Central station within
twenty minutes Of each other yesterday. One went
to Westerly. r. T.. where d. r. Porter has ar
ranged for the entertainment OF party OF fifteen.
The other party went TO Utica and numbered
thirty-twO. This is the second company Utica,
where the Rev. d. w. Biglow is working. has
taken this summer. One OF the attendants asked
OF of the girls in the Utica party. "Why GO
you like TO go TO Utca?
"'Cause have so much fun. They have a ham
mock and a swing up there and a dog and chick
eat. And they eat a big table. with a big white
tablecloth. Mamma says it's too much trouble TO
have tablecloth. but when I grow up I'm going
10 have ONE
Ask nine children out Of ten what they like best
in the country and they will tell you some article
of food. So many OF them live at home on mo-
notonous and often unwholesome diet that when
they go to the country they notice the change in
this respect more than in any other.
In the Mddlesex party, which went last nlgnt;
one girl. who went out last year, was overheard
Ia n a ~.
had never been before.
And you have so much TO eat out there that
she said, and you nave real mink out OF u zeal
''But. don't you have real milk at homer some
one who overheard her asked
NO; nothing but condensed milk Then she
added: and can't have that, except in my tea
There were twenty-seyen in the company that
the Rev c. E. Frye. Mr.. Frye has had charge of
the fresh air work in the neighborhood OF Middle
and has found places OF entertainment for the
children at Middlesex, Dundee. Naples and Rush
Vile
The party that went 20 Westerly replaced another
parry of ten that returned the night before While
ton Tribune reporter asked the only boy IN the
crowd what he thought Of the country
TITS great was the reply. Even the trees can
do as they want 70. and don't have 70 grow IN 2
straight line, as they do in the city"
The names Of those who invited the children sent
cut yesterday follow:
Jones Miss Della Jones
MiddleseX. N. Y: Mrs. Ward, Mrs. J. %. Dayton
Mrs. Dora Jones Mrs Emma Stebbins, Mrs. LOttie
Rushvle, N Y. Mrs. ]. E. Eggleston. Frank
I5oomis. Miss Alice Whitman, Mrs. Munroe Fergu-
son, Mrs. j. H. AdamsOn. Mrs. L. ]. Beckett
ward, Mrs. Jason Clark. Mrs D.. A. Shay. Mrs.
Nellie French.