New-York tribune., 1907-05-26
FRESH AIR YORK
Plans for Its Thirty-frst Season
the Coming Summer.

The summer of 1907 will be the thirty-frst
season of the work of the Tribune Fresh AIT
Fund. It now has facilities of its own for en-
tertaining for two weeks or more over three
thousand children. Last year its four homes
which are At Shokan. n. Y, Ardsey, n Y
Chapel Hill, n J., and Milton, Conn, gave out
fngs to exactly 3,l47 persons.
These homes are interesting places Last year
y was the fortune of the writer to visit Ashford
Hill the large home at Ardsley. where three
hundred and fifty boys and girls can be taken
at n time From the station at ArdsIey 1t was
, pleasant walk UP a country road past orchards
and country cottages, then turn to the south
,ver another road the loneliness Of which was
,nly interrupted by an occasional farmhouse
sudderlv rs the writer tramped along, he was
Sterrupted by the glad shouts of children VINO
tarne out of the woods that covered hill on the
left This gave him clew TO the place that he
was seeking and he entered the forest oy d pam
that slorcd up from the road snort cl''lo
brought him to Ashford Hill Scattered ABOUT III
the midst Of this bit of woodland were haIt
dozen old fashioned houses-the homes OF 'he
children Round about were several acres oil
playground upon which the three hundred emil
dren happeneI to be hunting Indians When ne
arrived The use Of this property Is gwen To
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund by the Church of
the Holy Communion
Soon after the writer got there the four Ind
hns. who turned out TO Toe four of the attendants
At the place. Let themselves he CAPTURED and
then lay quietly as al. dead Indians should. Will"
their conqu,rors filed past and buried them i'm
leaves and branches Tbs VAS uue II the games
that were PLAYED in the effort TO give the visitors
al Ashford Hill a good time. and good time
(hey certainly had. as was testified II 10y over
wo hundred letters that were received at the
,fice Of the fund. written ~ the small henc-
acaries.
up in the Catsl.lls near Shokan is kromW
Farm the free us. or uhi. d is given t. tho fund
by the estate uf tie late II. I.adev- Her" Is
4 roo,uy house admiralty hu'd up and adapted
for the work Exactly five hundred children
were entertained last summer and II Is expected
that at least as many viii he sent t" the place
this year. The Sheppard Knapp Home. at Mil
ton Conn. viii also be opened again 'l& sum
mer Halfway between Milton ana LII. Ah"ld is
. small farm with commodious buildings. Some
years ago Mrs Sheppard knapp gave this To the
fund as 4 memorial to her husband This place
has accommodations for hundred at "a time
Down III chapel fill y j. a short walk from
the Jersey coast is the fourth house Of th" fund,
which is known as Eunicc Home. This home
wa built as memorial to Mrs. Sylvanus Reed
Tor q long time the head or a woll known local
school for young women. The free use of the
home which accom- modatcs about eighty chill
dren at a time, is given II the fund by the Reed
Alurnae Association which keeps the buildings
In repair and well equipped for Fresh Air work
Besides these homes which it operates, the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund expects to send many
children to homes that are maintained by
rious friends of Fresh Air work. The largest Of
these is St Helen's Home at Interlaken, Mass.
which though it is managed directly by the
Fresh Air Fund is owned and supported by
John f.. Parsons. Mr.. Parsons has been inter-
ested in the work for several years. and has
entertained about five hundred children each
summer.
Several years ago Mrs. John S, Lyle of Tona-