New-York tribune., 1908-06-29
FRESH AIR SEASON ON
TWO PARTIES TO-MORROW
Tribune Fund Sends 99I Children to
COuntrY This Week.


the Fresh Air children that the time for tbs
yearly exodus 20 the green fields and shady hooks
has come. How it got out it would be hard to tell
for the children not old enough TO keep track
of time except by the seasons OF heat and cold
Some mus. have heard from the youngsters who
attend the many chiIdren's homes and other places
where devoted women and men work to polish the
future grown-ups to the brightness Of good citizen
ship. But the word is out. and the boys and girls
in the many chasmke streets OF the East Side
suspended their play at home base, diabOlo. hand
ball and baseball from time to time yesterday 70
recount the outings of last or the year before
boy playing Ieapfrog milk stopped
long enough to say another awaiting his turn
to polish the can top:
Got to be clean when you go2'
Sure. Hain't you been zamined2"
Nav; but guess better wash. SOS can pass"
The boy who knew had been a Fresh Air OUT
ing and there was something about him. Hnge--
ingIy present. that made him different from tie
other boy. The fact is that boys ard girls who
have been taken to the country retain the incl
dental lessons of cleanliness and good behavior
learned from those who with the parties and at
the homes where they are put up. And that is one
of the aims of the manager Of the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund The outing is a glorious thing for he
children. of course, ard they fairly revel in their
beautiful surroundings and get all the benefit possi-
BILE from them, but the requirements Of cleanliness,
good behavior, regular hours and as decent man
as possible, leave imprint on the children
that cannot quickly be removed
This Will be a busy day getting the children
ready for the first journey, which occurs tc-rnor-
row. The health of all those chosen to go has been
examined and it was only late last week that the
Health Department sent special word that IL could
be called upon for aid whenever necessary. The
medical inspector lad been using tongue depres-
sors of metal and china A present from the
Health Department Of large box Of wooden in
strunents that are used and then thrown
away was a welcome and health preserving sub
stitute.
Two parties will go out tomorrow. one OF eighty
children to Utica and one OF 175 to Ardsley on the
Putnam. The former will come from the Goodwill
Chapel BIoomingdaIe Day Nursery. Presbyterian
Hospital and from other places, and those going
to Ardsley will come from the Children's Aid Soc-
ETY., il Pike street, the Broome Street Ta5ernacle
and the Warren Goddard House, in East 3ith
street In the week there will be twelve parties
in all sent out In number 99f boys and girls To-
morrow the total number will be 255i Wednesday,
So: Thursday 80, and Friday, %
Wednesday viii be the big day There viii be
eight parties. numbering from to 10 There viii
be 80 for Utca-6O from the Church OF the Sea and
Land and 20 from the Church Of 81. Cornelius.
With the party of 50 sent the day before the
county OF Secretary Root and Mr. Sherman will
entertain 160 children. who VIII be as happy as if
suddenly translated 10 Paradise.
The most attractive party Will be that Of a hun
dred girls from twelve to sixteen years Of age.
coming from OIivet Chapel in % street, and
from Hope Chapel. in East 4th street. Adams
Memorial Church and Beekman Hill Methodist
Episcopal Church. They viii 60 to Shokan. in the
CatskilIs. There will be a hundred boys and girls
for the Shepherd Knapp Home in LitchfeId. Conn,
coming from the Madison Square Church House.
Bethlehem Chapel and Emmanuel Chapel. in 6th
street St He1ens Home. in Interlaken, Mass,
will get party OF 30, and on Thursday another
marty of the same number will go 10 the same
place as the guests of John E Parsons The par
ties will be from Christ Presbyterian Church, in
West 36th street 1t was there that the lnstruc-
tons TO the workers were given in the spring
These workers are just about as eager 70 get to
the country as are the children. They know the
children know the necessity for the greatest care
in piIotfns their charges through the cutting; but
they have learned to like il. They have learned
the reward of infinite patience, Of judicious see
ing of timely firmness and OF the unlimited n
fuence of real love of the work. of the children
and some of then-perhaps most OF thenl-have
found that this the children has lncreased
wisdom in the solution of the many problems tnar
come up in the days that are so strange ana ne"
to the children. Breaking away from memories OF
the narrow streets. high buildings. filthy pavlns'
crowded rooms. dirty stairs the noise and aI0o-
gether obtectionabIeness of the tenement district
1t is to be expected that the children shouid
renew life. should effervesce, and sometimes pV-
come almost uncomfortable But just at TINS stage
the workers exercise patience. and then love u'eS
the rest
A man familiar with the tenement districts Tor
wears walked up Madison street the other morn
ing From nearly every apartment, croWdlns 'n9
fire escapes buIged bedding. II looked Ike S'Ii'
of a giant quilt from near the corrice 10 near the
areaway with the bedding as the cotton 'll'S
M ling the crossing of the threads
THAT is the result of mission work mere us
man said That is the cropping of the sense oI
hygiene IL IS the evidence of the fruit OF eHorO
among the children and the mothers; and noI I''7
least of these teachings comes from the sll-ll'
outing the Fresh Air Fund work. of The Tribune
through which means the children get away 1TO'"
the old environment long enough 10 ger He"
perspective and associate with a new ordef o.
humans To ape is a chids preroEa'lVe, anu
nrac1fsad here after the summer of green vision II
yrOrkS for wholesome reform"