New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-05
SENT TO PASTURES NEW
Fresh dir Fund Cares for More
ChIdren-Criticism Ans7Cered.

Two large parties sent away Wednesday
by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. One OF eighty
went to Plttsf1eld. where they being cared for
by the Berkshire Fresh Air Fund. Utica received
the other party OF seventy-three the result OF
the efforts of the Rev. D. w Bigelow.
No children sent TO the country yesterday.
There was let up, however. in the effort to get
homes where they can be sent. Round about Au-
ourn and Binghamton residents preparing to
entertain large parties.
Prejudice and misrepresentation are as busy az
usual In endeavorS to hamper the fresh air work
At place Long Island where a missionary
had preceded the Tribune Fresh Air representa-
i've the former spread report that the children
MED by the fund missionaries. A minister of the
Gospel who has worked for a long time among the
poor on the East Side said that there truth
IN the report He said that, despite their surround
ings, which were, Of course. not OF the best the
children were ct heart real children, with more
GOOD by far than bad in their moral composition.
Fresh Air Fund work. AS for gratitude the min
ister said that t would be hard to find It exhibited
10 greater extent than among children who have
been sent TO the country by the Tribune fund.
The very fact that IL is only picked children
cndfen who are selected by trained workers
VINO are sent 10 the country makes the Inherently
vicious who are sent few in number. The Rev Mr..
mckay who has charge OF the work in Auburn.
has recognized this fact and emphasized 1t IN his
1905 report of the fund work. which Is being dis
tributed in his city. He SAYS:
1T Is common but erroneous idea that the
management goes out in the poorer streets and
selects the children. but that is far from the case
Inc children come from every of the miserable
tenement districts. They were chosen from 126
missions rigid physical examination of every
child IS made twenty-four hours before it's de-
parture- If the child passes the examination
certlhcate signed by the physician declaring that
the child is clean and free from contagion ia sent
70 the host that is 10 receive the child To large
extent It Is on the word OF the workers in the mis-
sions that the proper children are selected
Every summer communications from hosts In
,he country are received stating that the children
they entertained were not deserving Of charity,
ana this season proved to be exception the
rule In this respect Every complaint is always
Immediately and carefully investigated. With
hardly an exception It is found that the child's
story was founded purely Imagination. No
matter how poor child may be, his pride and
boastfulness keenly developed, and the Fresh
Air workers have found through long experience
10 boast OF his home life
In his pamphlet he says:
you never can tell when you do an act tust
what the result will be; but with every deed you
are sowing seed though It's harvest you may not
see. Each kindly act is an acorn dropped IN Gods
productive soil"
a minister in Northern New York after having
entertained hundred children said:
They have left n rich blessing behind them, and
they actually gave more taan they received. They
have touched the hearts of the people and opened
the fountains of love. sympathy and charity. The
people have read about the Importance of benevo-
lence, and havo heard many sermons the beauty
OF charity; but these have been quickly forgotten.
The children have been object lesson that will
long 1.-Two in their hearts and minds