New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
THE FRESH AIR CORPS
Il Glimpse of Those in Charge Of
Tribune Relief York.

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OF the nfty or more men and who are
employed to look after the welfare OF the chill
dren the country by the Tribune fresh
Air Fund. there Is not hfted for the work
by education experience or both There are
twenty-two who are In college and are devoting
their vacations to this work The others are
teachers have been graduated from hiSh
schools colleges of whom are regular
mission workers.
There is one graduate from Smith College VINO
is teacher IN Missouri .owns but whose nome
is In westport Conn which she visited before
reporting for Fresh Air duty one young man
is from Hamilton College where ne gained ms
first experience in caring for tenement chidren
in camping party. which invited boys TO share
their camp in the summer vacation Tnere are
four students from Dickinson College. st Carlyle.
Penn. in the corps of workers; Columpla mas iar-
nished student: Packer Institute, OF brookiyn'
There three medical students IN the hs''
one from Cornell from the College or Physi-
clans and Surgeons and from Johns Hopkins.
Teachers College furnishes three the woman
College of Naryland two; Smith, one student. the
University of Pennsylvania one Princeton one'
Bowdoirl. one: Emma Willard School, or Troy one.
In in Shokan in the Catskills the Rev George
r. Montgomery. the assistant OF the rev. MI
Parkhurst Is the superintendent. and Mrs MONT
romery is matron In Burton c. Austin. who is
an attendance officer of the Board OF Eouca.io".
the Fresh Air Fund has worker with years Vi
exactin9 experience He is the superintendent OF
the home at Ardsley. on the Putnam The super
intendent of the home at Ltchfeld, Conn., Mor'l-
mer Shuford, is teacher in Trinity schooi- WI
liam NJ Dunn the superintendent at ST Helen
Home. is medical student at johns hophihs' anu
Richard Kieffer, superintendent OF the noiie al
Chapel Hill, is a teacher. So is MISS EiiiinH "
Tatum who is the matron at Ienafy, Happyiaho'
and Miss Carrie Rowan, in charge at Miouie'oh'
has had wide experience
1t is necessary. of course, that chose VINO furtet
the aims Of the Fresh Air Fund shouid De truSl-
worthy and experienced. The fund owes TINS 10
those who so generously contribute, 10 lhe
churches and missions that work many hours 10
gather the children who sent 20 the country
and to the parents of the children. Every de-
mand Of childhood must be met by these "orhets'
every problem that confronts parents ana teach
ers In the training of children must be solved cor
rectly.
If the purpose of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
were only to give the children two weeks breath-
ing spell IN the country such careful seiecuoh VI
assistants might not be necessary. But the Pun
pose extends beyond the fresh air blessing 1t Is
intended that the influence surrounding the chill
dren shall give them start for better thihsS-
They are handled pedagogicaly While away
nor are they ground down to rules and resuia-
tions that might take away the vacation chardctei
of the outing But with the freedom or the neios.
the gardens rivers and lakes, the "holesoihe iooo
and regular hours in sleeping and waking tnere Is
tns,nusted the influence of cleanliness, of clean
lives of correct thinking, good manners All ehe
advantages enjoyed by children In better clrcum-
.,ances and all the year round better surround
ings.
That this influence does count mas oeen Pfo'eo-
II is the Ieaven In the tenement house measure
that will elevate and improve good part OF INC
whole hmm It is an auxiliary Of the best that ls
be,np done by the devoted workers in the MISSIONS
although not conducted on mission iines-
AS worker the East Side said at one tihe'
ucder which the peOpiS
live: -,
..1t ,s hard to be good In the tenements All
.h forces of evil are at work there day and night
Could we only get the little ones away from their
srrroundingsi'' ~
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund gets the little ones
and takes them away from their surroundings tor
q period The period is short because the money
contributed limits the time. But they are TAKEN
arav They breathe new air. physically. mentally
and morally Teaching is rot necessary to bring
then, within touch of better things WholesoHe-
.r of life surrounds them day and night They
cannot escape 1t, and trey DON'T WANT 'o esoopo
:, Tbev cannot shake off the impression made.
That II lives With them is shown day py DAY to
,be workers by those who spending their sec
- ~ third season in the country There is the
=, o-.b while If the effort in addition 10 the
.,sfaction IN taking the children out of their
fe4id surroundings and giving them more 'hah d
glimpse OF original nature
Seven children were sent to RemsenburE Long Isl
end YESTERDAY from the Greenwich House, IN Jones
..reer They will be in home, with the super
,,,sion of those who sent fer them Ihs VIII nlea"
continuation of all the that educated per-
cons can give and the attention of loving cuiu-
waited home folks who know the neeos ol ohiuien
and will see that they satisfied