New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-09
PROBLEM FACES FUND
Hard to Please Prospective
Hosts of Children. -
MANY STIPULATIONS MADE
One Applicant Wants a Girl, but
Specifies That She Must Be
Pretty and Nice.

For quarter of century, lacking ohiy
one year Miss NJ. A. Nelson. OF ne"
York, has entertained annually a party
of Fresh Air girls at her country nome III
Stepney, Conn. Each year she has gwen
up two weeks of her summer and the
quiet of her home to twenty-five chlioreh
from the poor families of the city. me
twenty-fourth party returned from IT'S
trip yesterday While those girls live, their
hostess will never lack friends
Miss Nelson keeps a record from year
to year of the girls sent 10 her. and those
whom she finds to profit by the vacation
are invited to return in succeeding years
This kindly woman has thus been able 20
do special work for the little New YORK
ers. which the mana cement of the Tribune
Fund greatly appreciates
To the tune of laughs and shouts made
by their own Iusty voices. $50 lads ana
asses of different sizes and compilations
marched aboard boat and train yesterday
on their way to the happy hunting grouhoS
where one aims for fun and frolic and III
cidentaily finds health and strength II
may seem strange. but sixty-two of them
were little Dale faCes-pale even for WINE
people, and no wonder, for they mao JUS
been released from hospital wards 1hey
were bound for the convaiescent home AT
Deposit, y. Y.
There were besides these 80 youngsters
for the Ashford Hill Home, lD TOT .the
Shepherd Knapp Home and a for CaTiisi'
Penn, where the good people nave ope"e"
their hearts and homes TO their httie cry
cousins. Tomorrow twenty children WIN
be sent to Cohocton and Atlanta. " T.
and seventy-five will be distributed aio"e
the line of the Erie Railroad III to"i'7
of Southern New York stretching l1oih
Owego to Clean.
Several days ago a letter, OF winch d
copy was printed In these coiunl"S' a.
sent out by the manager OF the fFeslt H''
Fund urging editors throughout the "
gion around New York to cooperate li'
obtaining homes among the country peop'e
for the Fresh Air children The letter was
very generally published by the EDITORS III
their papers. and as result MANY
sponses offering hospitality for inc cHii-
dren are coming in daily The foiioHlhs
letter will give some indication OF the tasA
put upon the shoulders of the FRESH Ail
staff by these responses:
Dear Sir: Saw in The Leader that you
were advertising about the Fresh AIT emil
dren. Now. If you could sehd US d GNU
between five and seven years, ana PreIt!
We would like her. Mamie King we took
for two years. and if her family nave d
nice girl we would like her. We want
pretty girl that is nice If they maven
aur little girl let US know at once We
expect TO take the child around to diherelt
places and want a pretty and cute little
girl for we would not want q homeiy s1rl
IN take witt, US So if you will send d
~ leave
if ia YOU to pick out nice girl. Please let
US know as soon as possible; ana Nheh
they come. if YOU can't find pretty and
cute girl We don't want any. Send US a
letter as soon as you can We feel so sorry
for the little children You know. if peo-
pIe go away they wish cute girl to take
with them. Please answer TO
This letter doubtless expresses a very
human desire. Most applicants. however.
are willing to take children as they come,
and make no stipulation as to face or fig
ure All letters from persons who are
strangers to the management of the Fund
are Immediately referred to some respon-
sible person in the locality from which they
come If the writer's are approved by this
authority as proper persons to whom TO
intrust the children, their invitations are
accepted
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
g. II Ui,,ev $500 90
J. H Livingston, Tivoli- Hudson,
y. Y 80
Reginald. Katharine and Elisabeth - ue
An A. zee WsendsiSs Ton@ Isfand' % 90
&C.,, 7, ro+berS 0-..... - 90
..T i,.ia Picbard', .......... - 90
Colonel l.. LORNA. New Rochelle, ~
Miss X O. Paulding, Cold Spring,
From the Village Of Quoeus.
through Miss l.. Van Boskerck- 10 90
i D Adam. East orange, y. J-..--. 30"
..r-t.L -. IsIapd' .--..---
II y n Observation-Disclosures. 10 90
w .; Iyinney- ............ 8 90
- - W., claim ....-.....-. = 90
r.; o,I.s p,,I inner MontcIair y j. 800
X.rtII;.r, p SchaIi Seneca Falls " Y = 90
Don't mention name q. V & 81 = 10
MARI w Sutton. Port Chester, N Y o 90
in memory of r. NJ. +. -.------ . 90
- r ,.............. 200
/. c. Denise, New Kensington Penn 90
Mrs ]. A. Huntington, New fio- 90
..-S,,-o 90 49, Observation-Disclosures. 800
Frederick NJ Peterson. --..--.... 90
r Sa.noCsa 70 anDaaI > 90
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