New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-08
AID FOR NEGRO CHILDREN
Fresh Air Fund Sending Greater
Number than Ever to Camp.
BOYS WORK POLARIZATION"
Larger Lads, Who Live in Tents,
Are Instructed in Farming
Along with Their Fun.

George Washington Jackson and Thomas
Jefferson Johnson need fresh air as much
as Moe Levy or Tony Belmont. but until
recently their need has been largely over
looked For the last two years, however,
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund has included
them and many Of their negro brothers and
sisters IN its vacation lists.
In order to do this It was necessary to
establish a home especially for them.
Manorville. Long Island. was finally settled
upon as an ideal place for several reasons.
Chief among these was the fact that there
was already a large proportion OF negro
folk among the population OF Manorville.
and these were willing to assist TO some
extent in the carrying on OF the work
Last year about l25 children. in parties
of twenty-five. were kept at the camp for
two weeks each. This year the capacity
has been so greatly increased that II Is
now possible to entertain forty-fve at one
time, and last years total has already been
surpassed.
Manorvile is midway between the north
and south shores OF Long Island, and
few miles east OF the head Of Peconic Bay,
in a region where the characteristic central
Long Island landscape OF scrub oak plains
has given way TO a rolling country we'll
wooded with pine, oak and elm. The home
for the negro children stands in one OF the
finest groves in the vicinity.
Provision has been made for the care ~
two classes Of guests-children of regular
Fresh AIR age and boys between thirteen
and sixteen. The younger children are
sheltered in a farmhouse rented for the
h,t h. I'll mn IN tents
at the edge Of a piece OF timber land.
In the case OF the older boys an effort
is made 70 give them little industrial
training along with their fun A small
patch Of ground in the field az the edge OF
which the camp is pitched is in process
OF cultivation this season. Each morning
1.-THE BOYS all spend a little time hoeing,
wedding and cultivating the 'planta-
ton" as they call II. Nor would It be
difficult for a passerby to ina CINE for a
moment that he had suddenly been trans
ported far 70 the South as he caught sight
Of the barefooted lads patiently welding
their hoes amid the rows OF corn or among
the potato plants.
The girls and boys sent TO the Manorville
camp are chosen by the workers Of the
New York Colored Mission, at No. 225 West
Goth street. and the Negro Fresh Air Com
mittee OF New York. At the head OF the
Fresh Air work. al far as 1t concerns the
people Of his race, is the Rev. Horace
Miller. who escorts most of the parties to
and from the city and oversees the actual
work at Manorville.
Miss E. V. Emmett, the worker IN charge
of the S0th street mission, said yes
terday that she believed no more worthy
Fresh Air work was done than this among
the negro children. large proportion Of
the negroes in New York are poor. and ac-
cording to Miss Emmetts statement.
though there are charitable organizations
which look after every other nationality
and race. there are practically no negro
charities
Two small Fresh Air parties were sent
away Yesterday. one for Brewster y. Y,
and one TO be distributed among the people
of the towns OF Alton. Rose and Wolcott.
y Y To-day there viii be parties for
Highland Falls. Sloansville. Washington
and Gloversville, y. Y. and East crafts
burg, Vt.