New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-29
RESTORE FRESH AIR SKY
Gloom of Friday Succeeded by
Wealth of Sunshine.
RECEIVE $1,000 IN 3 DAYS
money Will Give 143 Gonzales
cent Children Chance to
Visit Country

Last Friday the sky feIl-ca,,. 49, .,.,,,
a bang Yesterday, however. Il me-. -,
up again with a whoop. During all the In
term it had been down-shattered in frag-
ments-and the sun had refused to shine
There's no need 10 worry however. for the
empyrean has been restored to it's normal
position, and Old Sol may unveil his face
again whenever he pleases-a thing which.
by the way. he seems in no great hurry
to do
great many New Workers. were not
aware Of the terrible catastrophe that had
befallen. There were two hundred and
forty, on the other hand, who were. and
two hundred and forty are great many
when every one Of them feels an event as
deeply as though it were a national ca
lamity.
That's the way IL was in this case. The
disappointment of Napoleon at Waterloo
was not marker TO the concentrated de-
preston which shrouded the souls Of the
twelve score. Had they lived two thou
sand years ago they would have had re
course to sackcloth and ashes, but being
men and women of the more restrained
twentieth century they simply filled their
eyes with more or less grimy fists and
wept as they sadly trudged away from the
place where the armament had strewn its
fragments at their feet.
The fall was not the result Of a renewed
attempt on the part of the Titans to scale
the heavens. As far as is known they still
inhabit the limbo to which they were long
ago consigned. There was nothing at all
titanic about the only persons concerned.
In fact, they ran TO quite the other eX-
treme in size. being most of them under
four feet in height.
The whole tale. which might well have
been entitled Paradise Lost" was told
in the Fresh Air column Of the Saturday
issue Of The Tribune. To change the met
aphor bit the bottom had dropped out
Of plan to send 240 conva lescent young
ters from the hospitals of the city to the
country II was all due to the fact that
the supporters Of the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund had not contributed enough money to
pay the railroad fares and other expenses
Of such a vacation.
When some of them found, however, that
the one chance of some of these disappoint-
cd children for life, health and happiness
lay in a change to fresh air and country
life they Immediately came forward with
generous contributions. The result was the
receipt Of 81 500 in three days at the Trib-
une Fund treasury, a sum large enough to
put the sky back in place again and regain
paradise-for some. but not for al.
Yesterday twenty-five Of the disappointed
youngsters all boys-went mp TO Ashford
Hill the Tribune home at Ardsley, y. y
where they will be several hundred feet
nearer the sky and can ascertain whether
or not II shows any effects of It's recent
drop To-day IFS more Of the boys and
girls who thought that the vacation sun
had gone down behind the horizon Of their
narrow little lives, for this season at least
will set forth for vantage points from which
to make their observations on the stale
of the restored armament and other Things
which can be judged of properly only in the
rural districts OF this number fifty VIII go
10 the Eunice Home, at Chapel Hill, y. J.,
fifty more TO the Paul Devereux Home
al Deposit. n Y, and eighteen Will set out
on an al-night ride to Westheld, y. y.
There are thus left of the 2io whose va
cations were cancelled so abruptly the
other day mnety-seven whose cry cannot
vet be needed. Just al present most OF
them probably feel that it is an unjust fate
which, cares for their fellows but not for
them OF course, this $40 includes only
small portion of those who are longing TO
be sent away and who need to be, as well.
For them there are still vacant places in
many Of the Tribune homes which could
be filed al a moments notice were the
funds in sight to warrant such action.