New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-25
Shop Girls Needing Rest viii
Find It at Sea Breeze.
HOME OPENS NEXT MONDAY
Three Hundred Mothers and
Small Children Will Be First to
Have Day at the Shore.

Because Sea Breeze. the summer home OF
the Association for Improving the Condi-
ton of the Poor, will open for the season
on May z. three hundred persons. more or
less. will wake next Monday morning with
A sense of pleasurable excitement quite
the ouposite of the traditional blue Mon
day" feeling. The party OF three hundred
who will spend tho day at the shore will
be made up of mothers and small children.
Trips for the school children Will come
later, when their books can be left behihd
and forgotten.
Since Sea Breeze first opened many hum
dreds of persons have enjoyed It's hospl-
tally. Children and women who were free
from shop or factory could more easily ar
range for the trip. Factory workers ana
salesgirls have been entertained when a
lonC-awaited vacation brought the oppor-
tunlty. This year a new plan VIII he tried
William p. Capes, the assistant agent OF
the association, says:
The special feature will be weekend
parties for shop and factory girls eNclu-
sivey. This Is an innovation IN l!esIi ar
work Heretofore, all organizations nave
waited until vacation time TO send these
girls to the country or the s'as.loIt' put
we have reached the conclusion thdt Just
as other people need Weekend rests 10
make them able To keep on with thelr
work so does the Shopgirl need them. only
most shopCirls can't AFFORD inc rtsulhI
summer vacation outing ana a "eth-ehu
trip, too.
The girls We send on these Weekend
visits will not have 10 pay any thlls ,i 10,
them We select those 10 SEND acCoIuIiIS
to their physical condition, and some VINO
need the relaxation most VIII nave MOI g
than one eek END al the Seashore, N
special cases where the salt air WouId not
be so beneficial. We are going 10 SEM tle
girls 70 farms in the country. -.
Another new feature this wear is that
We arc 10 have the cooperation OF the Guy.
SO far as | know, there has never uS 5,
any cooperation between the CITY anu III
association i'm fresh all work, ana uoupl
II II has ever existed between any otntI
organization and the city. PRESIDENT ~
Auenv has consented 10 let us use w
iarrr waiting room Of the 23d street paths
frr assembling our Sea Breeze guests ana
The phvscal examinations Will be heiu
there. our quarters In the Chariuts bl ~.
ing have always been uh''in''' 'aO''
cramped for such crown.
The neighborhood around Sea Breeze
has changed greatly since the HON" Was
built Mr. Capes says
vast meadow and the children 'ouIn go o..
rsmbies and gather flowers Now me
na,, count Themselves lucky II they gatnoI
a smear OF grass The only trees ~ -
80 are those directly in 'front.' or 80
Ryeeze The number OF guests VT ~
hor,a has grown. as we'll as the nuinpe
Of nelghbors and now there Is
buhbub along with the en'roa'hineH' W
commerCiallsm.
Tbis wear. Mr.. canes says. they VIII "!
20 make n more quiet. 80 that guests III
,ha homo will have a genuine rest The
nonu,aritv OF the place IS attested n th'
fact that the first applications from
families anxious to go began 70 reach the
association in February. "hlle '"e'
s,ul busy sending out appeals FOR coal
one Of the most picturesque "t an wv
associations experiments - 10 he DISCO"
,irued this summer after six years o.
,,.af,,,ress not because II has failed. hu'
because II succeeded so we'll IN proving l'S
usefulness that the city has gone mo INC
work Junior Sea Breeze conslsted " '''
Gid Scbermerhorn mansion standlhg OF.
,bo corner Of the estate partly "'cuP1eu
-. a., Rockefeller Institute "f NedlcdI
pase,rch ard shacks built, each 10 nc
.,,,,od.te twelve babies. and from TINS
,oadouarters visiting nurses have "orAeu
in the neighborhood during u" "o'
,,,onths. teaching mothers how I" Keep
their babies well. -..s
All our institutions says Nj. ''P'''
ARE planned to demonstrate our 'he'' "a =,
". were demonstrating ~ the CITY 81"
Gals the need for milk stations ana o,S-
nensaries. The city is taking over '''
nix stations nov and supporting ''S'e"-
sares'