New-York tribune., 1909-07-01
MANY TOGET FRESH AIR
Fund VIII Send Troops of Children
to COuntru TO-dau.

This will be banner day IN the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund party of eighty-fve children will go
to the Ashford Hill House. in ArdsIey; one hum
dred will go to the Shepherd Knapp Home near
Litchfeld Conn; fifty girls will go ST. Helens
Home at Interlaken. Mass, to be the guests Of
John E. Parsons; eighty-hve boys and girls will 90
TO Pittsfeid. Mass to be the guests Of members OF
the Berkshire fresh air committee; seventy-seven
Will go to towns in Oneida County, to be enter
tanned by private families. and a party Of twelve
VIII go to Hyde Park, N Y at the invitation OF
Mrs. Rapelyea
tomorrow party of sixty children recommend
ed by the Church Of the Holy Communion. Sixth
avenue 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 Shepherd Knapp Home fifty will go
81 Helen's Home. In Interlaken. Mass. and
enty-two others will go to Utica
yesterday. at II a. m, the Rev. DR.. John Ban
croft Devins met the sixty members OF his staff at
the Presbyterian Building. No. 15S Fifth avenue.
Dr' Devins impressed upon the college men and
women present that the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
did not represent an unorganized collection Of
nohes In the country where poor children were
taken Tor fortnights holiday He spoke Of the
Necessity OF conservation to duty the part OF
coworkers- The child he said must get a new
OUTLOOK on life in the short period Of two weeks
spent IN the country. The expenses he said must
De Kept down. or every dollar spent unnecessarily
meant another child left in the city The neces-
slty OF close cooperation and obedience OF rules
laws and contracts. he said. was most important.
Miss Georgia Gordan. matron Of St Heen's
home. at Interlaken. midway between Lenox and
Stockorfdge Mass. said that the life Of the Fresh
Air children must approach the family life as nearly
as possible 1t is necessary for the worker feel
as II the children his own she said She
spoke Of camping the lake. bathing and all the
other facilities at St Helens. and OF the gener-
oslty, kindness and wisdom of John E Parsons, at
whose expense the home is supported.
Miss Gordan said that it her custom TO take
the children up the Hill to see the sun rise
tell them TO close their eyes and then ask them II
they could see IT, Many of them would write to
her from the city in the winter she said and tell
her that they could still the sun rising over
Stockbridge Bowl
How I would Ike to live here she said many
of the children would say her. 'if only my papa
and mamma could be here, too
She spoke of the thoUghtfulness Of the children
and their consideration for the crippled and the
weak among them.
Burton c. Austin. superintendent of the Ashford
Hill House. at Ardsey. spoke OF the contrast be-
tween the city homes OF the children and the Fresh
Air homes in the country. Many of the children.
he said, introduced into their homes things learned
In the country. One little Hebrew boy. he said
wrote that his father was now saying grace at
table The nOn-sectarian aspect OF the movement.
he said. OF the best things about it,
Other speakers were Mortimer Shuford. supern-
tendent of the Shepherd Knapp Home. at LtchfieId:
Miss Olga Rike, matron of the Benaway Home, at
Claverack. y. Y: E S. Wells Kerr, OF the St
Helens Home, al Interlaken: Robert II. Kennedy
OF the Ashford Hill Home, at Ardsley. and Miss
Nellie Pagnam. matron Of the Ashford Hill Home
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND ACKNOwL-
EDGMENTS