New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-21
NOW TO INVADE AUBURN
Folk There Throw Open Doors
to "Fresh Air" Children.
DESIRE PARTY OF SIXTY
Central New York the Great
Objective Point for Little
Ones This Year.

Swes, Auburn loveliest vl,Iag. Of tire plain
Vher. health and plenty chesrei the lahorinS
swain,
Whore smiling spring It's earliest visit paid
AMI parting summers lingering blooms DELAYED.
That's where they are going soon. II
sounds like an ideal Fresh Ar place,
doesn't it, Health and plenty" With lots
OF smiling spring and fields upon fields
OF summer blooms" thrown in. are ex-
actly what the little people Of the Streets
need
The good folk ~ the namesake Of Cold
smiths sweet. smiling village" Auburn.
y. Y. have written a letter 70 the Trib-
une Fresh Air Fund TO say thar they have
opened wide their doors and their hearts
TO sixty girls and boys from New York :
tenement houses They have set sixty more
places Al their tables. turned down the
cCvcrlids Of sixty snowwhite beds. ard be-
Spoken two weeks OF bright sunshine and
cooling breezes IN preparation :or their an
ra1l party OF Tribune children.
Auburn has long been most widely known
as the seat Of one Of the states prisons
fact which may cause some OF rs fresh
Air guests 10 walk on tiptoe FOR a few
minutes after their arrival. The place
ought IN he known, however Js one OF the
oldest friends Of the Fresh Air movement.
From almost as far back IS rho time
when the residents Of the Cayuga county
city used 70 say they lived at Harden
burgh's Corners. and hadn't vet thought OF
Auburn as name. the place has oenn
receiving an annual contingent of young
1. e.
many wears the Rev A \. McCav was the
chairman of the Auburn Fresh Air Com
mittee and the heart and soul II the wC-H
there This year, however H. mas TO-
signed his pastorate, and the Rev Leon
s. Losey his successor in the church. has
assumed the responsibilities Il his Fresh
Air work along with those II his pulpit
This years party will set ont for Auburn
On July II. and after an all nights ride
will wake up on the morning ~ August
a the scene ~ their activities for the sic
ceeding TWO weeks Then will begin Tho
busy season for picnics 70 Owls"o Lake
and bathing and boating parties on the
Owasco River
II is safe 10 say that wh.ln tho Young
stors will be charmed With the beauties
that led the people Of the city - consider
II worthy namesake Of the "loveliest
village Of the plain lit was named AUburn
with direct reference 70 Goldsmith idylilc
hamlet-there will be one Of the famous
characters Of that former Auburn whom
they will be glad 70 find missing. They
will have no use on this occasion for the
schoolmaster.
Central New York Is a great Fresh Air
field this year. BY the time Auburn re-
ceives its party hundreds Of children VIII
already have invaded the region. Toby
Utica receives the last detachment u S2J
Youngsters: a few DAYS ago 27s wers cor
daily welcomed at BinghamtoY Norwich
has had one party Of fifty and has asked
for another: several parties Of varying SIZE
have gone 10 Corning Owego, Cohocton,
savona and neighboring towns. AMI Alfred
is 10 get 4 party in a day or TWO.
Yesterday was sort Of old nome day
among the Tribune Fund children. About
two hundred and seventy-fve o. them re-
turned from their vacation homes TO their
old homes" In the city They had only
on. adjective 70 describe the sort Of time
they mad had-"Finel" While thev were on
their wav back over three hundred with
tho glad two weeks before Them were
boarding the boats and trains. most or
then, for the places left vacant by the
homecomers.