The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-19
City Mission House,
No. 2O1 Orange Street.

To Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Dear Sir: At the commencement of our fresh air work, a few weeks ago, there were more than a thousand per- sons of whom we knew as in need of this comfort, and who had a right to expect that, as in former years, we should not fail to remember, and also reach them during the sultry summer season.
 Through our weekly excursions scores and hundreds have already had one or more all-day outings in the country or at the ashore. But there are some of the sick people at the hos pitaIs who need this outside treatment for their quicker recovery. The doc tors at the Midical Dispensary, also, should be literally supplied with fresh air tickets, to be included in their prescriptions for the sick people un- der their daily care. And there are other feeble people, both men and wo- men, who need not go to the hospital or dispensary if they could be properly cared for at their homes, with the salt air of the Sound breathed into their lungs once or twice week for little while to freshen them up.
 Then there are working women who can do their daily work only by leav ing their little children at the day nurseries from morning until night. Miss Bush, the efficient matron in charge, asked me last evening if 1 had some fresh air tickets for the forty or fifty children they have at the Leila nursery nearly every day. Of course l told her Yes but why couldn't we give them a double truck trolley-car with room for one hundred, and so ask their mothers and some of the other children to go with them, on a breezy fifteen miles trip to the shore and back, with an all days outing also? The Consolidated railroad company have kindly made me a special rate for just such occasions, and it is in that way that I shall send a car up to the County Home tomorrow morning for SSuperintendent Liddell and his large family of children to make day of it at Lighthouse Point.
 Our next weeks excursion will be for the old people at springside Home, sometimes wrongly called the alms- house. Five or six easy carriages from McDonald's stables, with careful drivers, will take them for half a day wherever they wish to go But there is still the month of August, when so many of our New Haven people are away on their own vacations, and I am sure that many must feel as l do rnyself and wish before going to pro- wide as fully as possible for the many rwho must remain. have never yet taken a vacation without putting some one in my place while absent, and Mir. Arthur Jones, of the Yale Divinity school, my assistant during the coming month will visit daily in the homes al- ready known to us, and in others that he will himself discover in what are still the unknown parts of New Ha- ven. Several hundred-fare trolley books Boosting five dollars each) should be at his disposal,
 There are others, also, besides our selves who are doing faithful work throughout the city. Superintendent Preston, of the Organized Charities, has told me of the offer of country house on one of the trolley lines for the use of some of the many poor of the city under his care, and l have as- sured him of as liberal a use of car tickets as our fresh air fund will al- low. The doctors, who take care of others better than they sometimes take care of themselves; the faithful district nurse Miss Hills, now known and welcomed and helpful in so many homes of the poor; the deaconesses of the Methodist church. who are endeav- bring to reach into the regions beyond the church; these have no fresh air fund at their disposal, but will be well come to any strength there is to spare in ours.
 At one of our recent excursions to the shore, on looking over the people comfortably resting in family or friendly groups in the shade of the trees, or enjoying themselves in vari- ous ways, I saw several who seemed last days we were in this way trying to days we were in this way trying to make their best days; others who were just recovering from sickness and went home a little stronger than when they came: others who were wavering be- tween sickness and health, and others still who were suffering from acci- dents that had suddenly come upon them; old people and little people, mothers and babies, men and women, boys and girls, all happy and grateful for this gift from others for their en- joyment.
 May not we all of us, who are strong in body, mind or soul, make larger use of the material power at our disposal, for the sake of the weaker ones in this beautiful city where we have our homes, none of whom have I ever known to envy or speak hardly of those who proved their right to the wealth of this world by the way in which they use it. And is there any better way to gain happiness for our selves than by sharing it with those who have less?
 Respectfully yours,
 W. D. MOSSMAN,
 General Superintendent City Missiona-
 " Association.