New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-31
TICKETS TO FRESH AIR
From Vermont's Mountains to
Jerseys Shores IS Are Used.
UPSTATE BOY HAS PLAN
Gives All He Earns in Two Weeks
to Help Send 2,400 More
Children to Country.

Forty-six more youngsters got tickets re-
| deemable In fresh air yesterday. The
tickets did not read This ticket entities
bearer 10 an unlimited quantity OF extra
fresh air" That is what they meant;
but instead of saying so right out they
read: This ticket entities the holder to
one continuous first class passage to the
country and return"
Not all the forty-six, however called for
the same brand OF country air. There was,
for instance the Windsor brand. a SUI
perative product, with a strong Green
Mountain flavor. 10 be had only in Yer
mont only two OF the fresh air connos-
seurs had elected 10 try this variety.
Then there was the New Windsor kind.
which, judging from the name, might seem
10 have been intended as a refinement on
plain Windsor stock u is said on good
authority, however, that the hackers OF
New Windsor had no thought Of rivallinS
the Vermont brand In quality or other
wise. but that the presence Of the prefix
in the name is due 70 determination not
TO be outdone by Newburg, a fresh air
centre, lying close by on the banks Of the
Hudson. IL is needless 10 say that this
WV " iuNNil dlI has just a HuE-F0Ai'lt VI
the Catskill tang Twenty-one children
were determined 20 try its effects.
Nine feminine investigators had decided,
on the strength Of Il sample submitted to
them last year. 10 stake their health and
happiness on the Chapel Hill variety, a
sea air fresh from the purifying influences
Of the Atlantic and the Jersey sands. This
last mentioned brand IS said TO have a
strong tonic effect upon juvenile appetites.
Last, but not least there was Arena
fresh air. a somewhat rarefed variety, to
be had only in the Western Catskills, and
warranted redolent Of those famous noun
tains. Fourteen had voted in the Arena
circle
A promoter for these and other brands
OF fresh air controlled by the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund has arisen. He Is Richard
3. Lawton, Of Oswego, y Y, and is Of
rather tender years for such profession.
His plan, however seems sound. An ex-
tract from the letter, IN which he submits
it to the consideration Of the public-espe-
tially the Juvenile public-is given below.
In taking his plan under Amusement iC
must be borne in mind that 400 Of last
years Fresh Airs" have thus Ear this
year had no sample Of any brand Of fresh
air. He says:
Summer is full Of picnics and country
rides for me. and when mother told me
Of the hundreds Of boys and girls in New
York who never see the country / wanted
20 help send one out. So I told mother
would give all the pennies 1 could earn for
two weeks TO the Fresh Air Fund. Here
they are. thirty-seven pennies. ] earned
them bringing i'm wood, sweeping the side
walk and doing errands. l sold all the
magazines / could collect to a junk man
for u cents. and got another l. cents for
old rubDers.
II one hundred boys would join me in
BOYS Fresh Air club. we might raise $50
for the fund in the next two weeks. Would
YOU start a list for boys club and see
who will be next 70 join it? The girls
could have a club, too. and we'd race to
see which gets the S35 first.
A-KN JUDGMENTS