New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-28
And a WondrouS Wheel Of
Fortune Spins There
Merrily.
GREENBACKS IN A PILE
Make Lads and Lassies Smile
and Incidentally Pave the
Way to Give Twenty
seven a Holiday.

Well there may be other places, but
those where they do it with better effect
than up at Hastings-on-Lak Sunapee.
y H.. are few. Up there not long ago
they not only joined hands. but they also
put their shoulders to the wheel together
and their united efforts made the old
wheel hum.
II must have been sort Of wheel Of
fortune-of good fortune, in factor
when the wheel stopped spinning, there
Law a pile Of crisp greenbacks alongside
It Strange to say. too. none of those who
had had d hand or shoulder in the spin
ming Of the wheel seemed at all greedy
FOR the money. So. left to themselves. the
creenbacks Just transformed themselves
into check for sl25. and this check soon
found its way TO the office Of the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund.
The occasion of the united effort was
sale" given by the members Of the sum-
mer colony which gathers each year ct
Hastings. Among the colonists there was
a tiny girl of four years and a kindly old
lady in her eighty-eighth year. Between
these two extremes there were college boys
and girls young married couples. people
Of middle age-in short. folk at all stages
OF life-and all joined together TO make
the sale" a success.
The little boys and girls went out and
G; thered balsam for pillows and birch
bark for napkin rings and baskets Some
OF the older people popped corn and made
sorts OF fancy work.
Before the day set for the sale some OF
the more artistic members of the ColonI
drew or painted posters, and these were
put UP In all the hotels, clubs and boat
houses and on all the landings up and
down both sides of the lake. BY the time
the appointed day came around there was
lot a person on all Sunapee who did not
know where he could 90 that afternoon
End evening and spend some of his saw
ines 10 the advantage both OF himself and
some child in New York.
When the sale was over the coionists
accounted il a success. but it was not un-
iii after the proceeds reached the Tribune
Fund that its success really began On
the very day that the $l?5 was received
group Of twenty-seven girls was sent 10
The Tribunes Fresh Air home at AshloIu
Hill 10 be entertained as the guests OF
the friends at Hastings-on-l Lake SuhapeS
who had planned and carried through inc
sale.
The twenty-seven girls returned TO inc
city yesterday after their fortnishts OUT
jng. Among them they brought back
sixtv-four pounds Of flesh and blood whlch
fresh air. good food and plenty OF fun
had added 10 their meagre bodies. II the
persons who MADE possible their vacation
could have heard the tales they mad 10
tell If the good tunes they had enjoyed
and the wonders they had seen NOT one
OF them put would have felt more IMAM
repaid. -,
The sale al Lake Sunapee is an ahhu"
event. this being the fifth affair oil inc
kind held IL successive years.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Realized at an entertainment gwen a.
IRE house Of William : NAM
santa Monice. Cal. b, the ionioNlr1
rIgrep: Kathleen and l'lchdII
Maxwell. Neral Arkush. Helen an'
Doris Drcsher sara j. ietcne,'
Marjorie and Dorothy Evans, RON
storrs. Melville Dudley MargaIe
Noef. Dorothy ana hu'" "VO' SO N
Henry Eaton earta Ana cal 70 %
contributed by hve ladies Al the nm
Hasungs-Lyma 10Th D'"~"' 100
J. Morninsstar ''''''''''''''''' 10 o.
Adena .......: .:.... 80. ''''''' 100
Sarsb Rail Brooklyn. ....,,'..'
J. s. " Ulrich. Hasbrouck HeishS' 500
= .iarklir. L. : 4 retiredl. Los IN
Angeles ............... zee 90 90 a. f. 10
Mrs George y. Upton. Dublin, y. H. 90
J. r. R.......'...'..''-'''- .. 5cO
pelfo ............. 90 go 90 ---'''
Margaret solley. East Hampton Long o.
Island ..........-... D.. ....'''' '''' $3.50
Mrs Joseph W Freeman 100
Highlands. X. l....''''''''''''' o.
?. Oppcr.... ....-- -. '' 10
Friend from ihc co1a.,if ''''' ... g.. SO 81
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