New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-18
HUNGER FOR THE FIELDS.
Working Girls Fondest Dream
Is for Country Visit.
SUICIDE SHOWS LONGING
Pathetic Case of Slovenian Il
Illustrates How Urgently Toll
ers Need Outings.

All that is necessary TO make almost
any person a supporter Of the work OF
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund Is to have
him realize the actual conditions that ex-
ist among New York's poor. People say
you try to appeal to our sympathies,
but your stories are too highly colored
The conditions you paint do not really
exist You exaggerate the need and the
conditions" II is safe to say that the
person who would express such an opin-
ion never spent day among the tene-
ment houses.
1t is sometimes possible, however, 20
bring forward as evidence Of the dire need
Of such benefits a. the Fresh Air Fund
provides something that was never in
tended for the purpose. The fact that II
Is unbiased lends IL authority. The fol-
lowing pathetic story Is reprinted from
one Of the New York dailies. The Incl
dent occurred several weeks ago:
Anna Barovosky. ffteen-year- old Sla-
yonlan c!Sarmaker, committed suicide Ia
her home on the third moor OF the tenr-
ment mouse at No. 3il Last 18th street
Yesterday afternoon because she was
Urea Of tenement mouse and factory HE
ana saw lao way TO satisfy ner longing TOR
the country and the open air. Nnen ner
StrrmOther, also n CigaTmakcr. returned
from work she found the child's body
fallen from a chair TO the kitchen ioor.
gas tube was hanging loose from All
open gas ict.
Anna Barovosky's father died a year
ago. She had one brother, John, twenty
years old. He is a butchers helper. Tho
girls stepmother works in cigar fac
isla s.VaA IN
near he= home. Four months ago Mrs
BarovoSky told her stepdauBhter that she
would have TO give up school and go 10
work In the factory. The girl told her
mother she was afraid she would ruin
her health In the factory and that her
study Of physiology In school rad taught
her that she should live in the country
and De I'm the open air
However. Anna went 10 work In the
faCtprv. In spite OF the fact that her
bench was close TO n window opening or
the street she longed for the real out OF
doors until she became morbid ana began
to express the fear that she would develop
tuberculosis. As a matter OF fact. sh%
was a robust. well developed child. ara
gave no evidence OF any sort Of diseas"
She Contidcd her fears 10 her chuHi'
Rosie Diuda. OF No as East 5ith street.
ana was not Comforted by Rosie Dinda y
r!Girule OF the ldea that she vas III.
Three weeks ago the Girl gave UP her
place in the factory and told her step
mother that she would not work there
any more The stepmOther tried TO Get
Tho child to return, as Mrs. BarovoskN
aud her sOn aid not have too easy uIne
supporting the household even with
Anna help. The child refused ana
Tr,1rralIcl with her StopmOther. Since
that time Anna had been looking throuGh
tho help wanted advertisements "ach
dav for place which would take her out
ir the country -.
Z al la
tho rsal ready and Was reading a raj
road booklet about the Maine woods mo
mother went back 20 work and was called
ont AZ ? O'Clock hy Mrs. Margaret scat
t.rpgOd who lives Just over IN" lfaToNo-
sl.ys. Mrs. Scat'crrood had smelled ga,
srd MAD traced il 10 the Barovosky
rooms. The two women found the door
locked aud entered by wlnnoN IIp'!
G-n c,raDe The booklet telling or the
Nis,ro yrnods Law open on the table.
CIildrcu OF the ncighbOrhood were lah-
ing mn A collection last night TO buy
flowers for Auna's funeral
This Is an exceptional case so far az
Che, outcome IS concerned. but the Intense
Iongins Of the girl FOR the country Is not
..vc.,tlonal. There are thousands Of NJ
tecn-vear-old girls working for pittance
I'm the factories and. shops Of the city
whose fondest hope Is that week or
fortnight I'm the country may be theirs
before the summer IS over.
For this class Of girls and for mat
class which is burdened at fifteen with
,h. care of motherless homes, the niue
,,,,,io-..' the Tribune Fund maintains
vacation home at Chapel Iiill \. J. Five
dollars will pay FOR two weeks 'Sc"'
ton at this home