New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-11
TO INVADE b|NCHAMTON
Fresh Air Children Start for Up
state City To-day.
NUMBER BREAKS RECORD
Two Hundred and Sixty seven
Little Tots Will Be Turned Over
to Local Committee.

| Binghamton. y. Y, would be a good place
10 go to during these dog days II evil
| IDENTIFY has more fresh air than any other
place within a radius OF five hundred miles
of New York-at least ii has more to spare.
II you want proof of this betake your
self over to the Delaware Lackawanna &
Western terminal, at Hoboken. this morn
! ing in time TO see the 10 O'Clock" pull out
Of the yards. There will be no difficulty
about finding H. You won't have to ask
the yardmaster which it is or anxiously
scan the signs at the entrance to the
tracks in order to pick it out.
| II will beckon to you with 5S4 arms and
call to you with PSI voices. and that ought
TO be enough 10 attract attention TO any
train. There will be half a thousand legs
about the train. too, only, Of course. even
| Fresh Air youngsters do not hang their
/ legs out of train windows. Though doubt
less this is due in great part to the fact
/ that they want their heads out and can I
very well manage with both at once.
But to 20 back to the proof These legs,
arms and voices and the bodies that go
with them are the evidence Of the album
dance Of fresh air in and around Bingham
/ t'Als IL ltSlutlllS oL INdI CITY nave so
much of # that they have invited up to
| help them use 1t 87 of the Tribune Fresh
| Air Fund children-the largest number that
any one place has extended its hospitality
\ 70 this year.
/, Fresh air parties have become a sort OF
summer habit with this place Fifteen
/ years ago its citizens first gave the liberty
/ Of their city TO the Fresh Airs, and with
/ each succeeding year they have renewed
! the privilege. At first the party was a
comparatively small one. but each year its
+ size has been increased. In 1910 ii was be-
/ lieved the high water mark had been
/ reached with a party OF PSI. but this sea
sons contingent surpassed that by sixteen.
! The work ar .Binghamton is carried on
/ by a local Fresh Air committee Of which
/ Charles Mckinney Is president and George
/ j. Michelhach secretary and treasurer
/ Since Binghamton is a city Of some size. il
/ does not keep its visitors within it's own
/ borders. The committee solicits suhscrip-
/ tons among the Binghamtonians through
/ the press. the pulpit and personal canvass.
| The funds obtained are then used 10 pay
| the board Of the Citys guests in country
/ homes near by.
/ Inc huiIes are very CaTeflllp selected.
and during the two weeks stay of the
/ children the committee keeps up a con-
| slant visitation 10 see that its young
| proteges are being well treated and are
! having good time. Mr. Michelbach. who
| is the active leader in the work Of provid-
| ing for these New York children. and three
| Binghamton women came 10 New York
/ Yesterday for the purpose Of escortng the
party on It's journey.
The Fresh Air visit is an event in the
/ upstate city. When the party arrives
there is always crowd present to vel
/ come II. To-day special preparations have
been made TO make the reception a cordial
! one
Realizing that the children will he. tired
and hungry upon their arrival, a commit
tee of the Home Department, city Union
/ will take them in charge as they leave the
train and serve them a refreshing lunch
con. Then the youngsters will be distrib-
uted among about forty persons. with
whom they are 10 stay. and will be carried
away eager and happy to their new homes