New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-30
NOT GOING TO COUNTRY?
THEN SEND SUBSTITUTE
american Travel" Makes Plea
for Fresh Air Proteges
of The Tribune.
CHILDREN NEED CHANCE
Suggestion as to Sending Boys
and Girls in Ones Place Is
Adopted by Many, and the
Results Are Striking.

In A recent issue of American 4ravel"
8 plea was made for the little proteges
If the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The case
was put in part like this:
II you cannot go TO the country this
summer, send substitute.
There is due you personally your in
dividual share Of the enjoyment Of fresh
air. outdoor life. scenery and the JOY
health. vigor and strength that come Of a
fortnight in the country. II you cannot
20 for these yourself, It is your privilege
10 send a substitute.
There are willing boys and girls. wait
ing only for you 10 say the word, eager
10 take your place. They are the chill
dren OF the tenements the boys and girls
OF the close. dark rooms. the hot pave
ments the crowded streets.
MAY they be depended upon 10 serve
faithfully in your stead. 10 improve the
opportunity TO the full. TO get all the good
out OF IL, as you would have done for
yourself? Never q doubt Of it."
. A good many people have done as this
writer suggests and have sent substitutes.
Here are some bald facts about a few OF
the substitutes. The principle Of selec-
ton followed in choosing them will be
evident at once.
In the first place, there were James and
Joseph, two brothers, sons Of keeper OF
a fruit stand in Macdougal street. They
we're FIVE and six years old, respectively
and motherless. With another brother
and sister they lived with the father, FIVE
OF them, in q single room. The brother
and sister were employed during the day.
Who kept the house. who cooked the
meals. who cared for five and siX-year-old
James and Joseph nobody knows. They
were given two weeks at the Tribune's
Ashford Hill Home.
Then there was Placido. a nine-year-old
boy of East 18th street. His mother
was dead. too With his father, two
brothers and two sisters he lived. and
still lives in one room in the rear Of
tenement in the region indicated.
Fannie. another Of the substitutes, had
6 mother and a father. the latter, un-
fortunately, out of work. There were
also in the family Fannie's two brothers
and three sisters, eight persons in all.
and these eight lived in one room in
Third avenue. At the time Fannie was
selected as a substitute the family was
absolutely without income.
The case Of Elizabeth was. in general
like the others. There was no father in
her family, so the support of herself her
brother and her three sisters devolved
upon the mother and two OF the sisters
who were able 10 earn a little. This fam
lily Of six lived in one room.
Possibly the most pitiful case of all the
substitutes TO be mentioned here was that
Of another Elizabeth. a girl OF eleven
wears. She had neither mother nor broth
ers and sisters, but lived alone-in the one
room again-with her father. During the
time that he was at work she was left 70
her own devices. except as the neighbors
took pity on her.
ANY question that these are qualihed 70
take your place and get real benefit from
the vacation? Yet these are only few.
There are others without number. In
circumstances not so different from
these. who would jump at the chance 70
substitute for you or at least act as your
ambassador to the green fields and the
woods Of the country. The question is.
DO YOU want a substitute or represen-
tatve?