New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
I'll CHILDREN DEPART
Guests of Fresh Air Fund Go to
Hills Near Binghamton.
OCCUPY FOUR COACHES
Merry Beginning of Two Weeks
Vacation for Little Folk
from the Tenements.

scandinavia The word has a pleasant
and alluring sound on this the second DAY
before the tdes OF July-a sound like TO the
blowing OF refreshing breezes and the dash
OF cooling waves. How IT conjures up
visions Of The land of the midnight sun. OF
icebergs drifting cold and green through
the silent Arctic seas and OF men speed
ing across icy stretches behind spanking
teams OF rsinS>er. and makes the CRATE
full shivers run up and down your back and
but what's the use? II will sill be hot
IN New York, for all the visions.
This time. however, Scandinavia is the
name OF hoat-even that commonplace
word hasn't a bad sound these days-not
sister ship 10 the Olympic: rather, about
! fortyleventh cousin; first cabin passage
three cents ore way. CT even round trip
II YOU are clever enough 10 elude the uni
formed individual ar the other end. VINO
wanders about trying ~ persuade people
WHO have Just seen friends off on the
trains 10 pay their fare back 10 New York.
The Scandinavia left her mooring at
about $50 O'Clock Yesterday norning-at
several other times both earlier and later.
too, but the story concerns this time only
and pointed her nose west-nor' west. just
as II she were setting out 20 try once more
for that northwest passage which proved
the undoinC OF so many daring navigator
of DAYS gone by.
But she didn't get very far, this gallant
ship. for before she had gone league q
league but barely ane," the Jersey SIDE
with Hoboken. doomed M over the port
bow. and she ran tho aforesaid nose plump
into the Delaware Lackawanna & West
ern ferry slip.
Oh YES. quite intentionally! Would the
Olympic be sure 70 do everything accord
ing 70 plan and let nothing occur acct
dentaIly II she had King George and Queen
Mary for passengers? Well, now, bst-
mate the care. then. that must have been
used I'm this case when on the passenger
list there were King George and King
John and King Morris and other kings Up
10 the number cf one hundred: and. be-
sizes. Queen Mary and Empress Josephine
and Princess Rosie. with scores more
queens and processes up 10 the magnifi-
cent total OF III II Is not reported what
became OF the other seventy-one kings and
princes cOnsort.
There are two kinds Of royalty-that
which boasts OF divine right and that
which wins homage by the glad smile and
the ringing laugh and 1isproves the old
adare: Uneasy lies the head that wears
crown" The I'll passengers on the
Scandinavia were Of the srile-laugh brand
their blood wasn't blue, and it wasn't IS
red as II ought to be-but that's what 1t
was all about.
The cargo Of the Scandinavia-you'v seen
her making regular trips between Barclay
street and the Delaware Lackawanna q
Western terminal at Hoboken-consisted
mainly Of 27l Tribune Fresh Air kings and
Queens on their way to redden their olooi
and tan their cheeks In The fresh air
among the hills around Binghamton, y. \.
You should have seen them as they took
possession Of the upper deck OF the ferry
boat or as they waved farewell with mana.
kerchiefs and caps from the windows OF
the four coaches they nllcd on the tram
You would have believed IN a moment "
the efficacy q the work the Tribune iunu
is doing. al least 20 make the httIe CiHi-
dren of the tenements happy tor "HlIt.
IL vou need proof of its efficacy 70 MAKE
them we'll and strong 20 over ana WatcH
these children when they return fforn lheII
vacation. two weeks from to-day.