New-York tribune., 1910-09-05
LITTLE GIRL GIVES A PENNY.
Wants Others to Go on Fresh Air
Outings Such as She Enjoyed.
SOME $1,000 CONTRIBUTIONS
Work of Fund This Year Shows
Farreaching Interest in Chill
dren's Welfare.

Several rows of shoes left outside a
mosque door by the devout who have gone
within to pray form the centre Of interest
in a famous Oriental painting. If the
2 900 contri butors TO the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund for 1910 should put their shoes
from off their feet outside the door of the
Temple of Childhood the discarded foot
gear would form a complete social baron-
eter The rows would range from the
down-at-the-h heel TO the very high-up-at-
the-heel kind; from the little baby soft
sole to the sole armorclad with hobnails:
from the low summer sandal TO the high
cowhide boot and from style-at-any-price
TO comfort-at-any-size
Any crowd of 1000 persons is a good
place 70 find contrasts. It may be the
gallery at a Newport tennis match the
bleachers al newshoys' field day. the
contrasts will still be there though there
Is considerable homogeneity in the make
up Of the assenlblage. But the personnel
of the crowd Of Fresh Air contributors
includes persons whose ability TO give in
support of a good cause ranges all the
way from one cent 70 $1,000.
The eiver of the one cent was little
Fresh Air outing at one of the Tribune
homes There were several givers of
81 600. most of them too modest in their
philanthropy TO permit the publication Of
their names. 1t is a seven league" stride
from a cent to $1,000. but doubtless there
was something that went with the little
Fresh Airs mite that multiplied IL many
times
There was not only one contribution
which was inspired by q wish 10 help
somebody else to enjoy what the giver had
enjoyed All Of the children who were
sent away from the Hudson Guild in West
9th street, combined their mites TO make
UP Z purse and as an expression of their
gratitude The girls who were entertained
ar the Benaway Home, at CIaverack y. Y, |
did the same.
There would be other dirninutive foot
coverings at the temple door than the
down-at-heel and out-at-toe shoes of the
Fresh Airs" Among the contributors were
the members of several Sunday school
cradle rolls" who probably objected to
leaving their footwear outside on the
ground that it wasn't shoes" but only
"Vorsted socks" and then, to enforce the
argument. refused TO keep their feet still
long enough for their nurses 20 remove
the articles in question There were in ad-
dition Sunday school classes and organfza-
tions of all ages and sizes that did their
best 70 make the 1910 Fresh Air season a
success.
The Fresh Air work is evidently a great
common ground where all no matter how
divergent their beliefs and aims in life or
how far apart their stations can and do
meet for the common good of the nations
greatest asset-its children. First comes
the countrys greatest inancier. then a
woman whose philanthropies are world
wide in their influence. next former Vice
President of the United States. and after
him a former Governor OF the Empire
State. Along with these are found an
African missionary. a leader of metropoli-
tan society. g settlement worker and per-
to mention.
Corporations Give Literally.
Among the workers on this common
ground are many legal persons" corpora
tions whose business activities are on as
widely different fields as an advocate of
the universal brotherhood Of man could
wish. They range from two of the first
hotels of New York 10 q corporation the
white fronts of whose restaurants dot
streets of all the important cities of the
country; from a great brewery TO a giant
steamship company: from theatrical cor
poration TO an immense laundry; from an
advertising company whose name appears
above sign boards all over the East TO A
Chicago packing house: from diamond i'm
porters and cutters TO linen merchants, and |
last. but not least. from one of the fore
most legal firms of the city to a Presby- |
terian Session
Interest in the Tribune Fresh Air work |
is not confined TO New York City, as might |
be expected
From Greenland's lev mountains,
From India coral strand.
would scarcely be too broad for a descrip-
ton OF the region which sends its contribu-
tions 10 the Offices OF the Tribune Fund
The subscriptions OF the season of 1910
have come from points as widely separated
as Zurich. Switzerland, and the great baths
of Baden Baden. on the one hand. TO
Seattle on the other: from London, Eng
land. TO Galena. Ill; from Paris, France. to
Sugar Hill. n. Y; from Lake of Bays in
the Canadian woods. to Washington; from
Portland. Me, to New Orleans. and from
the quaint old Devonshre town of Torquay
TO very recent Canon City. Col.
Sometimes the givers simply went down
into their pockets. or pocketbooks and
gave from their own resources. ample or
slender as thew might be. In many cases,
however the money contributed was raised |
through various agencies, and these again
show wide variety as we'll as great ingenu-
ity
Many group OF little girls put their heads
together and planned fair. a cake sale,
rose fete or some other grlish enterprise |,
and sent in the proceeds 10 give vacations
10 those who needed them One man and
his wife saved. for the same purpose all l.
the bright money that came into their
hands during the whole year Several sub
scriptions were received that were the re-
suits OF sef-denia! in some respect One
man an upstate farmer. contributed the
money which was saved to him through the