New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-11
YOUNG FRESH AIRS WILT
Latest Party to Leave the City
Shows Effects of Heat.
APPEALS NOW POUR IN
This Is the Time When Little
Tenement House Dwellers
Yearn for Country.

There we're one hundred and fifty girls
sent to the country by the Tribune Fresh
| Air Fund yesterday, most Of them to Ash
| ford Hill, the Tribune home at Ardsley,
Ny
Ihey were not such a shouting, tumult-
uous lot as usual General Fresh Air par
ties are boisterous and active. These chill
dren were eXpectant but quiet The rea-
son for the difference was not far TO seek.
The last three days Of excessive heat had
been too much for them
Days Ike Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
day are terrible drain upon the vitality
or all people, but such days are hardest on
the little children OF the poor. These are
young and have not the resisting power
that comes with years They are puny
and have not the vitality of other chill
dren They live continually amid condi-
lions that sap strength, they are under
nourished, they do not get a chance to
I'll their lungs with pure air once in the
course Of month
The girls who went to Ardsley yester-
day were Of this class. Consequently they
were pallid and wan, and though children,
willing 10 sit quiet and wait for things to
happen instead Of setting out to make
them happen, after the fashion Of child
hood
Tomorrow they will not be the same
children. To-day may be warm at Ash
ford Hill. but the air will be pure and the
soil under foot clean. and when darkness
falls with II will come the refreshing
cooiness OF the hills. Through the night
the children will sleep In clean beds,
with the sweet pure air of the woodland
In their nostrils and around them the
quiet OF the great omen country. One day
Of this life reYitalizes the pallid, tagged
out youngsters and makes them over into
new beings. These girls are 70 have two
weeks OF II
From all over the city on days like the
last three appeals rain in upon the officers
Of the Tribune fund. Through the mails,
by telephone in person. they are made In
hundreds
First II IS p missionary from one Of the
downtown mission churches II know Of
mother-a widow-wth three small chill
drcn. They haven't a cent to bless them
selves with. They are sick and all but
starved And now this heat-can't you
send them away at once"
iHsN " is nurse from some hoSDtal
or clinic. i've little fellow on my list.
He's been sick long time and doesn't
seem 10 improve. It's the country h.
needs He hasn't chance TO live the sum
mer through II YOU won't send him away
now-now. not August or September. He
must 20 at once
Next IS a mother, perhaps widow, per
haps d>G.rted by a ne'er-do well husband,
perhaps just poor: Cant you send away
my little boy and girl? They're dear little
children, but we're poor and | can't afford
70 send them 70 the country Won't you
please find a place for them? It's terrible
on our street these days
These are only samples Of the appeals
that are made Thousands OF others, some
similar 20 these some very different from
them, but all alike IN that they arc pleas
from aching hearts. have been and are be-
ing received at the Tribune Fund Office
DAILY. There are, moreover, thousands OF
sufferers whose pleas are never made and
whose need IS never known
Th" work Of relief is being carried on as
rapidly az the resources AZ the disposal OF
the Tribune Fresh AR Fund will allow