New-York tribune., 1907-06-21
CHARITY COOPERATION.
Public School Principals to Work
Seith Fresh dir Fund.

Cooperation has been one of the essential feat
ures of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund since it's
ganization. thirty years ago. From the first city
missionaries hospital and dispensary physicians.
trained nurses and charitable visitors. and later
Settlement and Christian association workers. have
sought out poor and needy children. the orphans
and the convalescents. and helped to give them the
best time possible in the Countrywide event OF
their childhood days
With the development of the work form
OF cooperation is announced. The old ties have
been strengthened through personal and official
lations with the leading religious and philan-
thropc workers who have been using the fund for
generation. In addition to these closer relations
working plan of cooperation has been estab-
lshed between The Tribune fund, the New York
Association for Improving the Condition of the
Poor and the Board OF Education. The aim OF the
fund from the first has been TO send into the coun-
try, so far as IT has been possible to find them,
those children most in need of an outing Through
tle eo-operauon or the three agencies named II is
believed that the most deserving children in the
city can be added TO those whose need is certified
TO by missionaries and nurses.
The manager of the fund early in the spring
nounced his intention of obtaining from medical
inspectors ana nurses OF the public schools the
names of individual children whose need ap-
parent but who might not have the advantage of
Sunday school SETTLEMENT. He also got the
operation of the relief department of the Assoca-
ton for Improving the Condition of the Poor to
ascertain the ability of the families to give the
! children an outing. however simple: TO learn the
income of the family and the number OF children
| of school age whose physical condition warranted
The Tribune in appealing for a home for them and
money for transportation. Every city child would
be benefited by fortnight a farm. but only
few Of the many thousands of poor children
be entertained. judicious selection is imperative
The committee on physical welfare of school chill
oren OF the association subsequently enlisted the
support OF Superintendent Maxwell OF the Board OF
Education, who addressed a letter to every school
principal IN the CITY asking for a selected list OF
the poorest children IN the several casses-children
/ from the poorest homes, where the father is dead
or Ill, or earning small wages and children who
through Illness defects of the throat OF eyes or
mental condition have been put IN the ungraded
classes. Already some two thousand names have
been received by the committee Many OF the
names have notes attached by the teacher or the
| principal showing the special need of the child
as distinguished from the general need Of all those
on the list. Pathetic indeed some of these COM
ments' and most X not all Of the children would
/ have been overlooked but for this new movement
framed workers or the relief department OF the
| association visiting the homes of the children
named on these lists and carefully ascertaning
need Of the family combining the Judgment of
their experience with the sympathy of the teacher
| or principal Some sifted out, and
others are referred to charitable agencies mis-
sons settlements with which they are affiliated
| to prevent duplication The remainder, probably
| two thousand will be to The Tribune, and IL
the friends of the poor will consider the least OF
/ these my brethren to quote the text used by
| Willard Parsons In the sermon which started the
Fresh Air movement in America, happy days await
them Ten thousand dollars will insure fortnight
/ in the country for these two regiments of Gods
poor for whom no plea by other agencies will be
made
! The thorough examination by the association
visitor Will be supplemented by another Of a diff
fereut but no less needful kind. Having been salts
fed by the Board OF Health that there is no con-
tagious disease in Of the families in the house
in which the children i've a physician will place
depressor on every tongueap individual depressor,
by tho way-to settle questions OF throat trouble.
Every eye Will be examined lest little fire start
a great fame The BARRIERS will rejoice in the
! nounCement that every male head will be cropped
and druggists will be glad to know that liberal
supply Of white precpitate ointment will be used
as tonic for the girls hair before Dr. Vinton viii
sign the blank certifying that they suitable
children 10 share another's holiday Joy.
| The manager has decided TO set aside the largest
OF the five homes controlled by the fund for these
| children many OF whom are ansemic. underfed and
understood convalescent, others are
slightly defective physically-all poor. The
perintendent Of the home. Burton c. Austin, an
! attendance officer OF the Board OF Education. is
enthusiastic over the prospect OF being able to
brighten these sad faces with cheer and sunshine
! and to fill these frail bodies With pure milk and
other wholesome articles OF food, prepared by
Sassa, the Japanese cook, and his assistant. On
the staff of sixteen workers trained nurse,
physician several students from Amherst, Dickin-
| son, Wooster and other colleges; teacher from
the Emma Willard School. in Troy; several public
school teachers and Settlement workers. all Of
whom feel enthusiastic interest in the work
| 1t is hoped that larger number than usual OF
the contributors to The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
others interested in children will call at Ash
ford HILL two miles from Ardsey and very near
| the ST. Andrews Golf Club grounds and the
happiness that It is possible for children get
OF fourteen days OF country life amid wellnigh
ideal conditions. Five dollars will insure this hap
pness for of these little ones who pass the
inspection of teacher principal visitor, barber,
druggist and physician. Three hundred OF them
| can spend the last Sunday of June together at
Ashford Hill IL $3.50 for this special purpose is
| forthcoming within the next week 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected by the manager that not only that
sum, but the entire amount for this special pur-
pose. $4,000, will be guaranteed by that time, IN
addition the other thousands needed for the gen.
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