New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
WANT EN- BY CARLOADS
Carlisle, Penn, Wires Fresh Air
Fund for Assorted" Children.
TO GET THEM THIS MONTH
Three Parties, in All, ITO Boys
and Girls, Leave Tenement
Homes for the Country.

They are calling for en- in carload lots
now
Even tho Western Union operator. accus-
toned by years Of service to all sorts OF
weird messages felt 4, Jolt yesterday when
her instrument licked off the following
message.
Can you furnish carload OF children, as
sorted sizes? Wire Immediately"
For moment visions Of Bluebeard, the
Great Ogrc and Cannlbal chicftains nut
tered before her lima gination, and she won
dercd II she ought not to turn the telegram
over 10 the Central Office. Just then. how
ever her eye lighted on the address, THE
Tribune Fresh Air Fund New York" and
she saw a great light and smiled 20 her
self
Having seen the light. she was not at ali
startled when. half IN hour later, the reply
raised through her hands: "As many car
loads as you want. For what date
Carlisle. PENN is the place so hungry for
children. II the scared operator had noted
this fact i'm her moment Of trepidation she
might have thought that some of the de-
sc,udants Of Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-
Face i'm the United States Indian School
there had reverted 10 the ways Of their
ancestors and were ordering material for a
scslping bee. But IL was only the Carlisle
Fresh Air Committee following its annual
custom and hanging out the flag of vel
como TO a hundred or 30 Of the needy chill
dren Of the metropolis
Because Carlisle orders Fresh Airs" by
tho carload n does not follow that II gives
them carload treatment. II orders them in
mass. nut cares for them As individual
apests Ask any hoy who was down there
last year and YOU will get the impression
from his sccount Of his visit that every
body in Carlisle spent the greater part Of
TWO weeks seeing 70 n that he individually
had a pleasant time
Nor does the promptness with which the
jnvitation was accepted mean that hun
dreds If children are sent out indiscrim
rately 70 any place or any person that asks
for them Carlisle had long since proved
its vorthiness as Fresh Air host, but had
lhe request for children come from a place
or person unknown 70 the management of
The fund no children would have been sent
rnti It's ability and intention 70 give them
the best If care and treatment had been
ascertaired,
The date Of shipment for the Carlisle
carload has not Yet been determined upon,
hut il VIII probably 10 some time before the
end Of July
Twenty-one girls-any one who saw the
larty would probably say twenty and a
hall for one was such tiny mite-set off
for Stepnev yesterday afternoon-not Step
uey Of the dirty wharyes and crooked
streets on the Thames side, London but
Stepney Of the green hills and flower Dor
dered lanes. Connecticut. one Of them was
asked by an interested bystanGer if she had
ever been there before.
Sure. she replied; its like home TO me
i've been to Mrs. Nelson's for seven years
ever since / was five years old"
She had, too. and had found il such a
good place 10 be that this year she was
taking along a very small sister, aged
four to enjoy Mrs. Nelson's bounty The
entire twenty-One. i'm fact. are TO be the
guests Of the same hostess. Several among
them not so fortunate as the little woman
Of the seven times, had never been outside
the city.
going 10 do when she reached the country
replied with a CULVER Of the lip:
81 think I'm goner cry for my mother
But when the fun begins at Stepney her
lomesickness doubtless will vanish and she
viii be IS gay as the gayest.
There were altogether 10 children sent
away Yesterday I'm three parties. To-day
there will be only one party. numbering
ffty-one for Utica. y. Y.