New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-13
ONE CENT IN THE FUND.
Bills for More than $4,000 for Fresh
dir York Ascaiting Payment.

There was a hopeful air about the office Of the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund yesterday morning due
TO some extent to the big pile OF mail on the man
ayers desk. To the imagination. contributions
seemed to be oozing out of the envelopes. In
enc part of the little where the great work
of sending the little tenement house children 10
the country is done is small table, upon winch
in painful order were stacked bills to be paid
and all ready for the checks that should speed
them back through the malls. In open space
where contributions might have been piled tnere
wasn't scrap of paper. But on the manager
desk was the big pile Of envelopes and the air
hopeful and fresh,
Please open these" said the manager to his
assistant, and the big bundle of mail changed
hands. While reading an account OF the e'i-
dence of advancement of children sent to one
of the home ten days ago. the telephone Oeii
tinkled.
Hello" called the manager. Short, ola you
say? Less than nothing in the treasury? no"
m,ch7" And when he had heard he turned to
his busy assistant. There neatly arranged
pile of papers at her right There was one sup
of paper at her left
'WelI?" and the voice showed no evidence of a
lack of hopefuness.
"One check only said the young woman ndih-
ing the amount.
But the manager smiled. 1t just little
more than necessary to square the account
with the treasury. Quickly taking the teiephOhe
receiver, he got the Office and said:
We have check this morning which VIII
send down That will leave a balance for the
fund of one cent?
1t was said in a triumphant voice. There was
longer a shortage, anyhow. With one cent on
the right side there plenty of room for nope
Then the manager turned to his assistant and
asked:
What is the total of the bills to be paid?
with the bills received this morning. just a
little more than $4,000, and there are still more
to come"
"Oh. weII,' and the manager, with the same
hope in his eyes, plunged into his routine work
again while the young woman who had never
been in the fresh air work before, wondered But
the manager felt that the friends of the children
would be heard from before all the bills were
due and with that faith, in other years. the
friends had never disappointed the man In charge
Several parties of children returned yesterday
With them attendants who will go back 10
their homes Thence many go to college rich In
the experience of personal contact with children
who have been looked upon by many as belong
ing TO another world The attendants who be-
heved this discovered their error early In the
season. Kindness went just far. and further
In most instances, than among children IN PETER
environments Sympathy found the little heart
of the tenement dweIler quickly as II from
a home in more favored sections of the city
Problems there many. and in the solution
Of these there was an education IN itself. Some
of the attendants met in Dr. Devins office In
the course of the day, and some of the problems
were thrashed AS rule those VINO hao
charge of the children in the homes were amazed
at the quick intelligence of the lily clad, enact
ated little ones But this was especially among
those who had come from other cities TO help
To them often the tenement jewellers were stunt
ed in body and in mind, before they were seen
There was not worker who laid stress on MS
opportunity to earn salary in the vacation but
there was unanimous gratitude for the opportu-
nifty of coming in contact with the little Ne"