New-York tribune., 1911-07-23
"A Melting Pot" Ono Answer.

"A Melting Pot" Ono Answer.
Tho question might be answered from
different point Of view. Unlike many an
other charity the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
- melting pot for all natonalities or
It's Young guests one is a native Of sunny
Italy another is bonnie Scot. = third
an Irish lad or lass. a fourth Greek. a
NTH Russian. sixth a jew. while 9TH
ers are yi,acious French tots. Germans.
Hungarians. Poles or Scandinavians. not
to omit gypsies and negroes Chizzolt",
McWherter. Doolan. Grecsek Ivanor.
Goldfarb. E1lsrdi. Winkl"r and syenson
arc typical names that appear not once.
but many times on Fresh Air lists.
Tho question who are the Fresh Air
children" might he answered in still an
other way. II naturally follows from the
variety of natonalltles that many cr"eds
and shades Of religious belief Will bc rep
resented To the different homes 20 chill
dren whose parents are Presbyterians.
Baptlsts Episcopalians and members OF
other Protestant sects. Roman Catholics.
adhcrents of the Greek church. az well az
Jews both liberal and orthodox.
In short, the Tribune fund makes no stip-
ulati az To race. color or previous con-
ditlon OF servitude Yesterday morning,
while two sisters OF the order NJ Jesus and
Mary were making arrangements at the
Tribune Fund of1ce for sending away some
of the girls from their school. negro cler-
evnan was waiting to see about getting
on some boys of his parish. Meanwhile one
Of the office stafr called I'm turn over the
telephone the matron of Kings Daugh-
I InQr nj q H.
odist Episcopal Church. Presbyterian
missionary and Bellevue Hospital nurse
10 arrange for Youngsters in whom they
were personally Interested.
The fund stands for the principle NJ "A
sound mind IN sound body" and 1t has
adopted as its province the production OF
the sound bodies. The only question is'
| Does the child need fresh air and the sort
OF life IL may have In the country III
Il docs, and is too poor to obtain these
things for itself, It Is welcomed as an APP
pIcant for the benefits which the Tribune
fund aims To bestow.
Nor does II make any difference from
what section of tho city the applicants
come. or course. they come In the largest
swarms from the lower East Side, but mo
upper East Side. the West Side. Harlem
and The Bronx send large contlngents.
! Even from Williamsbridge. Greenpoint
and brownsville, those regions With entic-
inplv rural names but with crowded tene-
ment conditions. the needy youngsters send
I'M their plaintlve cry for relief
Tho Fresh Air. Territory.
,nd uhere do they all goat least. all
FOR whom funds can be provided The
rresb Air country stretches far and wide.
Including within It's limits the greater part
n, the New England and Middle Atlantic
s,ates Any place that has air rlch In
oxyo.n and fields and hills covered with
green turf and besprinkled with flowers;
any place that has trees TO climb, streams
IN swim. birds and bees and animals; any
MACE that has shady groves roomy farm
bouses and people with kindly hearts-any
such place is Fresh Air Land"
Technically Fresh Air Land extends
ev. hundred miles I'm every direction from
New York City. Practically IL reaches 10
o,,ary nlace from which invitations for
Cr.sh Afr children come. This season Its
,ourdariea have taken In such garden
sno,. NJ earth as the White Mountains, the
gbanies. the Mohawk. Hudson and Genesee
yaIleys. the lakes and valleys OF Central
New York and the rolling country OF New
Iersey. II extends from Carlisle and Brad
ford. Penn. to Rutland and North Ben
rineton. VT. and from Watertown, y. "
TO Ramsey. n. j.
In keeping with the width Of It's inhu-
.nc. and the extent OF its territory are the
Number and variety Of its supporters. A
u,dow sends rs cents. wealthy man N'"o'
A woman at an East Orange hotel sells
lemonade and sends the proceeds to help
tho children. man wins prize In the
Tr,hupe Proyerb Contest and feels so happy
tho, he sends check to make others
| happy. -.
A glittering Broadway hotel scene or
,uxury and magniilcence such as little
fresh Airs" never even dreamed Of, sends
contribution, while in the same mail
comes n check for the proceeds OF Sunday
scbool infant class. another from an Italian
newsnaper and still another from bed
ridden cripple.
II is an old saying that "Ali the world