New-York tribune., 1909-06-28
FRESH AIR FOR MANY
The Tribune Fund VIII Send 200
Children AzCay This Week.

This week will be a busy for the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund Nearly twelve hundred children
in fifteen different parties will into the country
for two weeks outing. Following close upon the
hot weather of last week the benefit OF these ex-
cursions will be hard to estimate.
On Tuesday one hundred boys and girls will go
TO the new Home for Urdernourished Children
which has been established at Shokan, y. l.
Through the assistance of John A. Bensel. chair
of the Board of Water Supply. the tribune
Fresh Air Fund was able to secure lease Of this
property of one hundred acres. which is to De con-
demned by the city for the Ashokan reservoir
The home will be used for children of tuberculous
parentage. but who not yet been infected with
the disease The idea is TO fortffy the blood
of these children that they will be able 70 resist
further exposure. The needs of this institution
exclusively for the of such children, have long
been felt and further contribution for its main
tenance earnestly solicited
On Wednesday three parties will go TO the coun-
try for a fortnIght's holiday One party of forty
five boys and girls will go 10 home in Mechan-
icstown N. Y, supported in part by the churches
of Goshen and NIiddetown. between which IT Is
located The party will be made up of convalescent
children who have been out Of the hospital for some
time.
A second party. of two hundred, will go to Ards
ley on the Putnam division of the New York Cen
trail They will be entertained at the Ashford Hill
Home. All the members of the party have oeeh
visited by workers Of the Association for Improv-
ing Condition of the Poor, the party includes
only the poorest children and in greatest need
of such an outing
The third party, Of one hundred, viii on We1nes-
day go to Chapel HILL y. J.. Just back Of Atlantic
Highlands The home was erected by the graduates
of Miss Reeds school. in this city. 1t IL devoted
exclusively girls from twelve 10 sixteen years of
During the summer six hundred girls Of this
important age will be entertained.
On Thursday SECOND party. consisting Of eighty
five children. will go to the Ashford Hill House, in
Ardsley, and hundred girls will go to the
Shepard KNAPP Home. Litchheld Conn The
capacity of this house has recently been doubled
through the generosity of Mr. Knapps children, so
that twelve hundred guests will be accommodated
during the summer.
Fifty girls will go to Interlaken. near Lenox,
Mass. on Thursday. to be the guests of John E
Parsons, and eghty-ive children will go TO Pitts
field. to be the house guests of members of the
Berkshire fresh air committee. party Of seventy
seven will go TO Utica. n. Y, the day. to
be the guests Of families in Oneida County. Sew
eral WIFI be entertained at Clinton. the home Of
Senator Root Thirty-six others will go to Water
town. to be entertained in homes where they were
guests last year. A party of twelve VIII 10
Hyde Park, N. Y. at the invitation of Mrs Rapel-
yea.
On Friday a company Of sixty children recon-
mended by the Church Of the Holy Communion
Sixth and 10Th street will go to Ashford
Hill to a house owned by the church and leased to
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund One hundred others
will go to the Shepard Knapp Home. fifty will go
10 st. Helen's Home. in Interlaken, Mass, and
seventy-two others will go to Utica.
On Wednesday the Rev Ut. John Bancroft
Devins, manager of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund,
will meet in conference the members of his staT
which includes sixty graduates and students Of
Yale Princeton, University OF Pennsylvania. Johns
Hopkins. Oberlin. New York University, Smith,
Vassar. Wellesley. Mount Holyoke. the Emma
Willard School for Girls teachers kindergartners
and medical students.
A trip through the crowded East Side during the
past week revealed the intense suffering which ac-
companied the hot spell. and suggested the need
of relief such is furnished by the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund. Mothers with babies in arms have had
to leave their tenements and relief
that comes from sitting the stoops the
curb. There they met hundreds Of others from
whose bodies radated heat intense their
own. They fiocked to the flowing hydrants and the
water carts in effort to get relief. Some went
to the roof and others to the parks.
"Oh. for breath or country air!' more than
one poor mother said. But don't much
for myself as for poor Mary Johnny. who Is
just after coming home from the hospital"
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund secures a two
weeks outing for thousands of these children
every year. Last year 9.5n children enter
taned, at expense of $40, 500
The Rev. Juett n. Mcdonald and the Rev Wal
ter L. Hughes, the representatives Of the fund
this summer. authorized 10 invitations
for the children. 10 aid in forming committees.
whose charmen will arrange with the manager
concerning the details OF the parties. Both OF
these advance agents thoroughly convarsant as
TO the needs of the little people and cornpe-
tent to speak helpfuy upon the subject The New
York schools close June 20. and party can be
arranged for any date between that time and the
end OF August The closes with the end
OF the school vacation. September II. The fund
pays the expenses OF travel sends escorts with
the children both ways
Contributions for transportation. ETC. should be
sent TO the treasurer Of the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund, The Tribune New York, and they will be
acknowledged in The Tribune. Every dollar thus
given helps to send child to the country. the
office expenses met by private gifts: the fund
employs no canvassers or solicitors for money.
Important as is the money 10 send the children
to the country. the need of suitable invitations
from the country is the pressing at present
The personal touch Is the hardest to secure, but
II is the more blessed part of the work The chill
dren should be taken. guests. not boarders
THE Vision Of Sir Launfal' which Lowell records
is ever true
Who gives himself with his aims feeds three.
All communica tons with reference to the chill
dren~ the class desired the and size parties
etc, should be addressed TO the Rev. DIR. John |
Bancroft Devins, the manager OF the Tribune |
Fresh Air Fund. The Tribune. New York
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.