New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-04
HEAT IN TENENENTS
Fresh Air Possible Only on Roof
and Fire Escapes.
WHERE THOUSANDS SUFFER
Blanched Faces Turn Pleadingly
Toward Gods Countrywide
Will Invite Them?

dwe!ler lives can be appreciated only nv
/ those living In the tenement houses. Schools
) for the training of social workers have
large purpose. and they fulfil that purpose
/ well. But the difference between learning
about the poor and living among them IS
/ the difference between studying a timetable
and going down the ST Lawrence. the diff
/ ference between reading a bill Of fare and
enjoying a hotel dinner
Take yesterday as an illustration. What
could a man living in Tuxedo or Seal Har-
/ Dor. LenOX or Murray Bay know about the
sitting, prostrating. death dealing tenement
/ homes of Manhattan or Brooklyn? He may
not be blamed for his lack Of knowledge
concerning those who are obliged TO live or
die in the terrible. blstering, killing heat;
he certainly cannot understand what those
We're obliged 70 undergo VINO could not
reach mountain or sea or lake or river
One is tempted to tell the truth. or try
/ to do so. in speaking Of tenement house con
ditions yesterday. but how can he, for
neither pen nor camera is sufficient. one
! cannot photograph an odor he can scarce
! y describe the weary. wited frames which
/ contain the souls and nteleCts Of little
/ children. One would scarcely dare ~ take
| photographs Of many Of the children and
some mothers as. grouped on the shady
/ side Of the streets. with the scorching pave
mont a menace 10 bare feet. they sat or
/ stood around dressed in as little as a keen
sense Of modesty would allow For they
| are modest. children and parents an eX-
| posure that might shock a visitor from an
/ other city or another part Of New York
! eNcites no coarse jest from these people Of
nature. who are obliged 70 live and eat and
sleep and bathe and dress in less space the
/ year around than that occupied by the av-
! elage drawing room on the avenue. now
| deserted by its owner who has crossed the
sea or fed 10 the country 20 escape the ter
/ rors Of such day as yesterday.
The little girl may have on only a sin
! gle garment. and that not a tube as
/ they call il; and the little boy may not be
more fully dressed, and the thoughtless
| cherub seen in Mott street wearing only
her birthday suit-all Of this one witnesses
as he goes east and west Of the Bowery
/ and Broadway in quest of local color for a
fresh air story, but never once Will he see
a manifestation Of immodesty on the part
Of the children who have not yet learned
to be ashamed" The nursing child on his
shame than is the mother herself. who is
caring for her child as she thinks a true
mother should. and one is no more immod-
est than the other. for is it not written:
ITO the pure all things are pure?'
The children out Of school and into the
/ streets, The man or woman who can stroll
| through these streets unmoved by the sight
on day like yesterday needs TO consult
D
! into a single home with its bedding on
/ chairs or on the floor. or see the children
| on tho roofs or IRE escapes, or near the
means and involuntary cries Of sick and
weary chidren-if one can witness the
sights on streets and stoops and I'm the
small parks and Fairgrounds and not feel
/ sick a. heart, he needs 10 90 10 a priest
or a missionary, make a confession and
seek pardon, for he needs a kind OF help
which is rot taught in the medical schools.
/ For the fathers. and especially the moth
ers living in a tenement house, such
one as d L. Moody, OF Mortified. declared
/ he would not keep his dogs IN. much less
4 ask the people I'm them 10 come 10 Jesus
while compelled by a Christian civilization
to 1--we in it-for the parents one feels an
/ intense sympathy. but not so great as for
the ohildren-the children whose angels
are IN close touch with the Good Father
above. according 10 Scripture the chill
dren. who have never had . chance, who
did not even have an opportunity to he
well born.
| II is for these children whom Words
worth saw trailing clouds u glory" that
| plea is made this screening day. It is
| 10 make M 70 these who have come from
/ heaven their home 70 quote again the
/ great English poet. that this plea IS writ
ten More than one realizes. will he ind
true these words Of the lover OF children.
Not that the clouds are always visible;
nor are there perpetual reminders Of the
celestial residence. but that the children
create a bit Of heaven IN the homes which
are opened to them is the testimony OF
those who care for them
! A thousand invitations for children in the
homes east Of Buffalo and Harrisburg and
west Of the Connecticut River would be
gratefully welcomed by Dr. John Bancroft
/ Deyins. the manager OF the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund. Ten thousand dollars TO pay
csrfares and meat bills. and bread bills
and milk bills. and In one II the dozen
/ Fresh Air homes the bill for lenuls' the
very, kind Of food which caused Esau
trouble in ,he long ago. a thousand chl-
dron in the country over sunday ana
hundred and fifty added Yesterday IN en-
io, "a sane Fourth would cause feeling
/ If satisfaction If it We're known that ten
! .,o,,sa,d bIeached and nlanched little
60 turn so pleadingly 10 this fund as
,,cir only means Of seems the country
enc Of them have had "a glimpse ~ IT D."
/ .-... l.tb.rs have had the expert