New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
FUND BREAKS ITS RECORD
Has Already ExCeeded Last
Years Total.
OUTING FOR o,22o THUS FAR
al Handled Without Accident
and with Only Two Cases
of Serious Illness.

1t is a rare day in these troubious modern
times that does not see some record so by
the board one day it is a record for high
buildings. the next for high flying, then
the automobile speeders have inning
and after them the builders of Dread
noughts. The Objectionable feature of all
this effort to set new high water marks is
that it usually results in adding 70 the
daily toll of the dead and injured.
In order to balance things the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund has been striving all sum-
mer to do a little record breaking that
would have the opposite result Last year
9.211 children were sent to country homes
for a two weeks stay by the fund. AT
the beginning of the present season the
Rev. DR.. John Bancroft Devins, manager
of the fund, determined. il possible. TO sur
pass these figures. and he has succeeded.
When a New York Central train drew
out of the Grand Central terminal at SOP
o'clock last evening with a party of TWEEN
ty-two children for Westf1eId. n Y on
board the total to date for the season OF
1910 jumped to 9.2a children. This is
eighteen more than were sent during the
entire season in 1909 and 1.206 more than at
the corresponding date in that year.
AS there are stin several days left be-
fore the final party will be sent for this
season. and in that time all the Tribune
homes will he filed again. the grand total
for the year viii be at least 100 above
last years figures. These are figures that
represent smiles and good times and pounds
upon pounds of weight added to little bodies
that needed the additional flesh and blood
all too much
thousand 0i0
children who have been sent away had to
travel to and from his destination by boat
or train But, notwithstanding the diff
ffculty Of handling and controlling children
at a time when their spirits are at the
highest. not an accident has occurred to
mar one of the trips. and during the sum
mer. among this great throng Of children,
there were only two cases of sickness that
threatened to result seriously.
One of these was case of measles. but
despite the fact that the afflicted child was
in home where there were many other
children, so prompt we're the measures
taken that not another case developed in
the home. The other was a much more
serious case. A small boy was taken down
with diphtheTia soon after his arrival at
one of the homes. 4 trained nurse was
started for his bedside at o'clock in the
morning. AS soon a possible after the
discovery of the case antitoxir was ad-
ministered TO each of the children at the
pIace-not without considerable squirmng
and shrieking, but with such beneficial re-
suits that not a child showed symptoms
of the disease.
The little fellow himself was duarantined
and kept Under the care of the nurse for
weeks, until al the end of two months ne
was returned to his home in what con-
dition the following letter just received from
his mother by DR. Devins will serve TO
show:
Dear Sir: / write this note to thank you
for what the Tribune Fresh Air Fund has
done for my five children. They have re-
Ceived many hours of pleasure and benefit
through your good work while in Shpkan,
n. Y And I wish to thank you again for
the excellent care my little boy received
while down with the diphtheria- God bless
those who took care OF him in his long days
of sickness and brought him safe through,
l expected to find him weak and thin after
his sickness but instead he came home
looking better than when he went away.
Dear reverend sir all L can give in return
is a grateful heart. May God bless your
good work.