New-York tribune., 1909-06-27
FRESH AIR CHILDREN OFF
Fifty-fUe ConUalescents Sent to the
COuntrY bu Tribune Fund.

Fifty-fve little convalescents from the hospitals
Of this city in search of green fields and renewed
health started yesterday morning for the Paul
Devereux Memorial Home, Deposit, n. y where
they will be guests of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
for two weeks. There were eight boys and four
girls from the Presbyterian Hospital, three from
Hope Chapel, ten from the Brooklyn Childrens Aid
Society, from Bellevue Hospital, eleven from
Mount Sinai Hospital and nine from st. Mary's
Hospital.
Strange to say. many of these little people were
suffering from heart trouble brought on by pneu-
monia, typhoid fever, scarlet fever or measles All
of them the road to recovery and were
about to be back TO their homes the East
or West Side, swelter in overCrowded tenements
and to partake of food inadequate to their needs.
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund came TO their rescue
and invited them to spend a fortnight in Deposit.
Broome County, the banks Cf the Delaware
River, hundred and seventy miles from this city.
The little people, under escort of nurses and
parents, gathered at the 2d street ferry Of the Erie
Railroad at s o'clock yesterday morning. They had
under their little bundles Of clothing supposed
to be sufficient for the two weeks outing. The ex-
preston their faces was one of joyous eXpecta-
tion for they knew that they were going where II
would be cool, where they could play in the grass
and go barefoot whore they could see sheep and
COWS and drink fresh milk and pick wild straw
berries. Some OF them had never been TO the cOun-
try before, and their hearts were exceeding glad.
So much care had been taken for their comfort
that they travelled like fairy folk. The Erie Rail
road officials provided a special at reduced
rates and gave instruction that the children receive
special attention at all points.
Almost the last to board the train was a
little girl from Bellevue Hospital Her leg had
been fractured, and the plaster cast had only re-
Gently been removed. She had to be lifted aboard
the car and she cried with pain. She Will be spe-
cial guest at the DevereuX Home, and viii be
allowed to remain until she is fully recovered As
the train pulled out bright smiles played over the
paIe faces of the children They waved their hand
kerchefs and sang out "GOodby." grateful
mother brushed away tear as she turned away
These little Fresh Air people Will be guests at
Devereux-they will not be boarders. They will be
under the care of Miss A. NJ. Burns, trained
nurse and her trained assistants. They will play
games under the guidance of a kindergarten
teacher. They will sit cool verandas swing in
a grove OF beeches, battle in the Delaware River
and drive In the wooded roads of BrOOme County.
They will have plenty of rich milk to drink, they
will have fresh vegetables TO eat and they Will
sleep in spotless white beds. The two weeks viii
pass all too soon.
The Devereux Home erected a memorial
by Paul Devereux, friend of the Rev. Willard
Parsons, who founded the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
in 1871 For a number of years it lay idle. owing
to lack of funds for equipment 1t has been leased
rv the Tribune Fresh Air Fund for period of five
wears and has been furnished by relatives of Paul
DeVpreuX