New-York tribune., 1906-08-13

4 FRESH AIR .1RMY.
More than 1000 Children Trans
ported to and from Country.

Fffty-eight different towns, scattered through
five different states received the children sent out
last week by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. Alto
Eether these children would have formed small
army of l.176. Scattered they are. they are not
only filling themselves with the health and strength
which come to them in the country. but they
acting the part of missionaries for the good of
Fresh Air work in the future. In towns the
interest in Fresh Air work is kept up entirely by
the children themselves. who give entertainments
and bring the work before the people in other
ways.
In MiddletOwn and Goshen. where the people pro-
vide for the entertainment OF twenty-five GONZALES
cent children for the summer. the boys and girls
gave an entertainment last week that netted more
than $50 II at first proposed to give IL only in
the afternoon, but. by special request IL was
peated in the evening, and the hall crowded.
Those places to which the 1.l7S children sent out
last week went are: Interlaken. Mass. Shokan,
Arkvile and Ardsley, n. y; Milton. Conn; Sche-
nectady. ~ Y. Chapel Hill, n j.; Fairfield. Conn:
Tenafy, y. j.; Union Springs. Skaneateles. Fulton.
Newark. Port Leyden, Collinsville. Lyons Falls,
Glenfield. Lowvile. Turin. Heuvelton. Rensselaer,
Fails. Carthage. Deer River. Mammsvllle. Franklin.
Oneonta and Bainbridge ~ Y; Beeville. Aliens
vile and Mattewanna. Penn: Hadlyme Conn; Lord
vile and Stroudsburg, Penn; Mamakalon. Clayton,
Middlesex. Rochester, Boonville. New Windsor.
Warwick and Chatham n. Y; Noga. Mansfield
and Covington Penn: shongo ". Y: Allentown,
N j.; Olean, y. Y; Nelson and Lawrence. Penn;
Eso4ihAAhNille EneEfliX, WeeQSpOrt Union springs,
Sennett Cato. Pennellville and Auburn, n. Y.
Besides these there were thirty-seven other
places that returned children to the city after a
two weeks visit The children returned the
city numbered 1919. This makes ninety-hve places
that were concerned in the movement of Tribune
Fresh Air children last week while the total
Der Of children which the railroads carried comes
up TO the large total of 2,495.
Two weeks of country air had worked wonder
IuI transformation in of the thirteen hundred
children who came back A Brooklyn missionary
told the following:
Would you believe that in that party which came
pack from Bradford there child who
so changed that her own mother did not know her?
When sent her out found her p!tifully weak and
thin and dressed in such rags that had to fix her
ford the country air seemed TO be just what she
needed and she gained in flesh rapidly. Before
she returned the woman with whom she stayed
gave her pretty new dress. which she wore home
and fixed her hair up prettier than il had been
before. When the children reached the station the
mother looked over the group and said:
Il don't see Anna Where is she? Didn't they
send her home?"
Just then little, white clad ruddy faced ature
Anna though she looked like another girl.
Another missionary told OF a girl of who
returned from her vacation looking like another
child. Small as she was, before going away she
had been acting janitOr of the house in which
she lived, and completely worn out. She came
back fairly transformed, both in body and spirit.