New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-02
FRESH AIR FUND PAYS.
Contributions to 1t Gilt Edged In
restmeRt, Says One GiUer.

"A Gilt edged investment" This is what one of
she contributors to the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
labelled his Sift yesterday as he turned it over TO
the treasurer
I trust" he said, that am good enough
citizen 10 consider anything that benefits society
AS whole 4 good investment even though the i'm
mediate reward from It does not amount to much
If you look into the future. considering past ex-
periences. you will see why I consider that the
work Of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is benefting
society as whole To-day perhaps. I give s. to
the fund That money IS used IN picking up some
poor child from the unwholesome conditions of
New York streets and sending him away for two
weeks At home she chd's outlook for life is that
OF his father, perhaps a Grunkard or loafer; per-
hans a man Shaving for SO a week to support
family of nine or ten. What chance is there for
. child like this TO expect anything better? Per
haps 20 the sorad poverty by which he is bound
down may he added the burden of Ill health, due
solely 10 his unsaGitary surroundings.
nv s. sends this child away. and he comes back
with a new view Of life, his ambition aroused and
vith a buovancv and healthfulness that could have
been gained IN no other way. He has seen some
thing OF the other side Of life. He starts out de-
terrined to see more of IT. and becomes n useful
member OF society believe my money has been
well invested.
Here is just one instance that, shows how the
thing works: Last summer Mamie girl OF ten
accustomed 10 do work-was sent out from a
miserable home the East Side 10 a farmer $
home in the country. At the end Of two weeks
she returned.
% WHY can't we do things like other folks? she
asked her mother the first morning after her re
turn. Mrs. washes her Dishes after breakfast
and doesn't leave them setting around.
The dishes we're soon washed. 4 little later II
was:
Mrs - makes her beds in the morning and
airs them first
Mrs IS ways also adopted here. Soon
the Girl had found something else Those win
dovs look 6rtier than Mrs. $ And so il went.
and anv one who visited that home year ago
and again to-day would marvel at the transforma-
Not 50 very long ago the Rev Willard Parsons.
for many years manager Of the fund. in
bank when Wei dressed young fellow came up
10 him and said:
Y suppose you don't know ne: but Henry
C"
Why" said Mr.. Parsons. you must be the boy
that Mrs y spanked and fitted out with
plete suit Of holpespun with the jacket sleeves Of
q different color
YES. / the identical boy. I can't tell whether
Il due 20 the spanking 10 the Josephine
coat but that two weeks changed my whole life.
7 went work when l came back. and have been
with the same firm since. See here" said he.
and he opened his handbook. showing several thou
fand dollars he was about to deposit for the firm,
don't that look as though the firm had confidence
IN ne2 ! literally up out Of the very lowest
Sums. and my present prosperous condition is due
10 the interest that family in the country has
taken 81 me-
Thirty more children will have a chance this
afternoon when the convalescent home at Middle
town. y Y. viii receive its second consignment of
thirty.