New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
FRESH AIR FUND, $4,000
Ten Thousand Children Taken to
Country This Season.
LOCAL COMMITTEES WORK
Valuable Help Of Out of Town
Communities Important
Part of the Charity.

Contributors amounting to almost s35.-
/ 600 have been received by the Tribune
/ Fresh Air Fund to date this season. This
sum. large as it may seem. has practical
( y all been expended for the transportation
of children TO country homes. II repre-
sents for the most part the railroad fares
of more than ten thousand children. Most
/ Of the other expenses connected with the
/ running of this great hot weather activity
are taken care Of in other ways and from
! other sources.
Obviously the contributors 10 the Fresh
Air Fund constitute only one of the fac
/ tors which work together to provide sum-
/ nler outings for the children OF the New
York poor The other factors are no less
] important and deserve mention and com
mendation-
Local Fresh Air committees are a sec
ond important agency Without their co
/ operation the efficiency of the fund would
/ be almost cut in two. These organiza-
! tions exist in many places and represent
! the same sort of desire to do good on the
/ part of their supporters that foreign mis-
sionary societies. temperance bands and
the like do. except that they appeal 10
wider range Of people.
In some localities. because Of the sort OF
section they represent. these committees
are large and are able 70 provide for many
! children At Binghamton. y Y there Is
A committee headed by George !. Michel
bach and Charles Mckinney that cared
for two hundred and ffty this year. Az
/ Utica another. headed by the Rev Dana
. W. BigeIow. found places for considerably
more than one hundred children NsTreh,
Penn. and Watertovn- y Y. also Iooheo
/ after large parties. In other places OF
smaller popuIa ton smaller numbers, in the
nature of the case, get homes
Valuable Help Out of Town
The work of these committees. which
are entirely voluntary organizations, Is 70
obtain homes where the Fresh Air Young
I sters may be entertained They appeal 10
/ the people of the communities which they
represent through the churches societies
/ and newspapers. and also by means OF per-
sonaI Canvasses either TO board little
guests from the city themselves or 70 paY
the board of one or more In the smaller
cities the movement is generally one 70
collect enough money 10 pay for the keen
/ of as MANY children as possible in the sur
rounding rural districts That these tresh
Air volunteers have done yeoman service
during the current season is shown by the
large increase in the number Of children
sent out
The following is an extract from re-
port submitted by the Waterfowl y y
committee. Of which the Rev George II
FeItus is the moving spirit, to the man
ager of the Tribune fund,
AT WatertoVu the number of children
taken vas far in excess Of previous years
Formerly the committee has rested us
efforts with solicitation in the city
churches and local daily papers In re
sponse there have always been goodly
number taken in the suburban homes pul
for the most part money has been con-
rributed 10 provide boarding places IN the
country. Each year. however, there nave
been few voluntary requests from the
outlving districts. on this account the
committee thought well TO extend the can
yass on trial one season
At first il seemed that the rural sec
tion would make no response but after
rounIe OF weeks had elapsed and as the
day for closing the lists drew near the
Invitations began to multiply with each
mail until AZ last there were requests for
15U children
These we're sent from New York in TWO
large coaches and we're destined for twenty
different points in jefferson County The
central committee had worked out d sched-
uIA Of arrivals and sent several days IN
advance TO each hostess a postal nouce
OF the hour when her visitor would De
due at the station