New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-13
HEEDS CH|LDREN'S CALL
Man Adds $500 to His Fresh Air
Fund Contribution.
TAN COVERS WHITE GUARDS
Return from Connecticut Hills
Minus City Pallor-Thirty
Boys Fill Their Places.

Among the contributions TO rhe Tribune
Fresh Air Fund Acknowledged IN to-day's
Tribune appears one of $500 from a friend
who has long been supporter 81 the &C
tivities of this organization.
Earlier In the Fresh Air season he sent
the fund a check for s250 which sum he
has for several years contributed annually
to this work. But feeling that after the
two weeks OF terrific heat which the city
has endured there would be need OF in
creased activity in the Fresh Air campaign
he has doubled his original contribution by
this second gift TO the fund.
IL requires no great thought to see that
this friend OF the children has read the
situation Alright. There are always in the
congested sections children enough whose
impoverished bodies need soil for upbuld-
ing that they can get only in the country.
After a period OF enervating and debilitat-
ing heat such as New York has lust been
trying to endure there are scores whose
only chance OF weatherlng the summer lies
in getting away from the death-dealing
atmosphere of the tenement districts
Close to two thousand have been rescued
from the terrors of the last two weeks
These are the ones who have been living
in the comparative cool and comfort of
the different Fresh Air homes or nave been
enjoying the hospitality Of hosts who have
taken them into their own families.
But two thousand is only small part OF
the army that has been struggling against
the intense heat i'm. the narrow streets and
crowded homes Of the tenements. Thou
sands must be taken away for a breathing
spell II death and disease are TO he averted.
The other day, when the Tribune Funds
examining officer went to the Richmond Hill
House in Macdougal street. TO make ii
preliminary examination of children who
were To be sent from there to the coun-
try, such a crowd of anxious Youngsters
had gathered that 1t was necessary for
the police to clear a passage through the
street
1t was pitiful to see the efforts OF the
candidates 10 squeeze in near the head of
the line, so that the places on ;he country
list would not be all gone before their
turn came There would be turns for all
If every one were as thoughtful Of condi
lions and needs as ne contributor who
this morning multiplies by three his an
nual Fresh Air subscription.
The White Guards came marching home
yesterday. Down from the hills OF Connec-
ticut. around Bethany, they came in loose
marching order They We're not such white
guards as they were when they went away
two weeks ago. Tan and freckles had COW
cred the city pallor to such an extent that
they might appropriately rename their club
the Brown Guards.
They were just returned from TWO weeks
Of baseball and swimming and green apple
fights at the Tribune Funds Bethany cot
tage. The place they left had proved
land CT hearts desire and they didn't want
to leave it, but another party had TO have
its chance. one boy wrote to :he mission
airy who had sent him away asking if she
could not in some way nix it up so that
he could stay four weeks, instead Of two
The guards, who by the way, are a
boys club with rooms IN 18th street, as
they returned to the city. passed a party
of thirty boys bound for Bethany to fill
the places they had left vacant. There was
also party sent to Warwick. N. Y, yes
terday.