New-York tribune., 1906-07-07
GOOD TIMES FOR TOTS.
Tribune Fresh Aw Movement IN
Full sSzuing.

Next week viii see the work OF the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund in fun blast. Hundreds OF children
throughout the city are anxiously awaiting the time
when they can take their boxes bags and bundles
and leave the dust of the street and the darkness
OF the crowded tenement house FOR the pure air.
sunlight and freedom of the country. Many invi-
tations coming in from those that have had
children from the Tribune Fresh Air Fund before
and want the same ones 20 come again. SIN Others
who have had no part in the work before. are send
Ing for one or two little ones 70 make them a two
weeks visit.
Getting these children ready Is no light task
Some have TO have Shoes dresses or stockings pro-
vided for them. If the mother has no money 20
buy them there is often some friend who sees that
the child has these necessary articles Often IL rs
the missionary. but this is OF the least OF her
duties She has to see that every child is thor
oughly clean. Then after the missionary has passed
him, the younsster has 70 pass physicians eN-
animation 70 see If he has any symptoms OF con-
tagious disease.
Yesterdays consignment consisted Of 3O1 children
all of whom left the city in the morning. Pitts
field, Mass, took the largest number as the result
Of the efforts Of contributors TO the Berkshire
Fresh Air Fund.
Mrs Charles w. Power is chairman of the COM
mittee doing this work. The other members are
Mrs. Alden Sampson. Mrs. w. II. Hale. Miss Annie
H. Ferrey, Miss Josephine Lee. Miss Mamie Pier
son, Miss Emma COggswell, Mrs. w. II. Rockwell
Miss Mary Jones, Mrs George Burnnan' MISS
Mildred Cimlch, Miss Elizabeth Costello, MISS
Mary Redding, Mrs Clarence Tompkins, Mrs. Jonas
Muhlfelder, Miss Clara Bridgman. Mrs. George I.
Plunkett Miss Buhler, Miss Mary E. Averill. Mrs.
George Church, Mrs. George T. Bourne MISS
Harriet Smith. Miss Lois Dean. Miss Emma j.
Tiilotson and Mrs. William Smart.
Those who received the children in Pittsheld were
Mrs. johnson, Mrs. Lloyd. Mrs Hume. Mrs. Baum
garten, Mrs. /. BOwerman and Mrs. E. H. Salter.
The people OF Utica. N. Y, are also engaged In
fresh air work. and took ninety children from the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund yesterday. ID. w. Bigelo~
IS at the head Of the work at that place. Six chill
6ren went to Rome, ~ Y. through the efforts OF
Mr.. Bigelow. Az Utica the children will be cared
for by the Mission School OF ST. Cornelius, by the
Sea and Land Church and the Bloomingdale Day
Nursery. Mrs. Margaretta Schneider, Of Water
town, n. Y. took child. and Mrs. j. Kienle,
Of Utica, one. Others near Utica were Mrs. George
L. Birdsey. Philemon Joslin, Mrs. Davis Mrs.
Quackenbush Mrs. 2. Joslin and d. Henry Duns-
lone. all Of Bonneville, N. Y.
Twenty-Five Of a third party were distributed
about Goldsboro. Penn: Baldwinsville. N Y. and
East Bangor Penn. Those who are the hosts OF
the children are Miss Lena Osterhoust, Dalton,
Penn; Fred Duolf. Charles West Fred Roth. Otto
Mrs r. w. Hall. William Geigle and the Rev. J.
NJ Smeltzer, of Goldsboro; John Amy, Mrs. John
B4reeisnoacn; 4e MIS-. FLOYD Johnson MIS-. Herman
Miss e: Brooks. Miss Minnie SOuthwick, Erwin
Baker, John Booy, George Menpert, G. L. Ford and
In the party that arrived at Mount Norris N Y
yesterday were five brothers and sisters the oldest
ef whom was ten. The mother Of the children is
dead The father was knocked down and blinded
wnile trying TO stop a runaway some time ago.
the family, doing the housework and LOOKING after
her brothers and sisters while the father whom
one OF the children led 20 work each day tried
the little family delighted over the prosnect o.
visit IN pleasant home.