New-York tribune., 1913-06-27
500 CHILDREN START
TODAY FOR COUNTRY
First to Benefit by Tribune
Fresh Air Fund Are from
Guardian Society Schools.
FROM THE POOREST HOMES
Little Ones to Spend Two Weeks
in the Sunshine-Mothers
Now Eager to Have
Them Go Away.

| Five hundred children begin thcil
Tribune Fresh Air Fund vacations to-day
Practically the whole number have beer
selected from the eleven ndustria
schools maintained by the American Fe
male Guardian Society I'm different sec
tions OF the city. The industrial schoo
children have been given places in tn,
first Tribune parties because the task o
getting them cleaned up devolves upor
the teachers. and after tho schools close
il is difficult for the teachers to contro
| this matter
| The five thousand children who make ar
| the average attendance OF the industrial
| schools come from the poorest families
| in the poorest sections OF the city. In a
! large number Of cases the mother sends
her child 10 the industrial instead of the
| public school because she cannot procure
tho clothing necessary to enable IT Il
| gain admission TO the latter. Both
| clothes and luncheon are provided. when
necessary, at the Industrial schools.
The principal Of School No II. in East
! lo3d street. In telling OF tho children who
are to hc sent away from her school said
work is carried on for starvation wages
Even tho wee nve-vcar-old children arc
found AT work trying to help along the
! familys income. In other homes the
mothers 20 out to work by the day or
tend pushcarts. which they hire by the
| day
THE children Of such homes have "a
| be watched very closely 90 keep them I'm
| school. Tho moment the watch IS re-
laXed they arc kept from school and sent
out 10 gather wood or de- similar work"
These observations are hy an eye-
witness. for teachers In tho industrial
schools visit tho homes Of their pupil,
| frequently to keep In touch with condi-
tions there
a teacher in th" Same school told THIS
story a. three children who are 10 boz sent
away from her class:
"Catharinc Vas absent from school ON
visiting her I found that tho mother and
children had been turned out by the
father an habltual drunkard kindly
neghhor had sheltered them The mother
/ f. sufferer from asthma. The children
arc poorly clad. look piuchcd and fright
encd They have little 10 cat but tea and
bread and hardly enough of this But
they VIII bc au right now for the two
( weeks they are On the county
Another story told hy the same teacher
had 10 oo with tho family of a man who
| is .n tho Metropolitan Hospital ON Black
wells lsland-a tuberculosis patient
THE mother works 10 cigar factory
and siN children depend on her The
home is composed OF two small rooms
which are never over clean. Hut tho little
housckccpcr who cares for the miserable
home Is only ten years old. SO one can
overlook some OF the shortcomings To
this Little mother We are trying 20 give a
breath ~ fresh afr What q glorious
/ privilege for the tired. ov.rburdcned little
one
The Tribune Fund has been taking fve
hundred Il the Industrial school children
IN It's FIRST parties for several years The
gr-t year u was tried the mothers Of the
children we're dls'rustful of the idoa and
ln many cases refused 10 allow tho chill
dr,n 10 tc taken away. This was due 10
tho fact that most ~ them were foreign
ers vho could understand little English
and to whom n was difficult 10 explain
what was 10 be- done. Now. these moth
crs have seen tho results 81 the outings
and are eager 10 have their children go.
Some Of to-day's I'VE hundred will 20 TO
the Tribune Funds Ashford Hill Home.
some 10 St Hclon's and others 90 Eunice
Hcmc.