New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-01
NEW FRESH AIR CAMP
Boys Above Age Formerly Set
to Have Outing.
NEED OF PLAY OUTLET
Big League Will Have It's Inn
ing on the Diamonds
at Denville.

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund has opened
for the season a new camp for boys at
Denville. y. ]. The first group of boys
was sent to the camp yesterday after
noon There We're two hundred in the
group, and this number will b. kept at
the place throughout the season, new
groups being sent about every twelve
days.
, The new camp is to be devoted to boys
who have passed the usual Fresh Air age.
and will supply long felt need. For
many years there has been an increasing
demand for Fresh Air outings for lads
between twelve and sixteen years of age.
This demand has no doubt grown out Of
the great amount of attention which
students of child life in the great cities
have been devoting to this class of boy
for several years past. The study Of
boys of this age has resulted in the trac-
ing of a very definite relation between the
amount of crime among such boys in any
given locality ard the opportunities af-
forded in that locality for letting of
steam" by means OF play.
Recognition of the absolute need Of
physical exercise by such boys has led
TO the demand for Fresh Air outings for
them as the best means of supplying op-
portunities which the crowded cities cam
not at present, afford. The age limits at
Denvile have, therefore, been set at
nine and fifteen years.
This is to be real camp. At all other
of the Tribune Fund institutions the chill
dren live in cottages and dormitories. At
Denvlle the boys will live in tents, and
everything will be run in camp style-a
sort OF life which has an added charm
for lads Of this age.
The camp has been pitched on the banks
I of the Rockaway River about a mile and
a half from the town. and is ideally To-
Gated for its purpose. Just across the
highway from the camp site is q good
sized lake. which. with the river, will sf-
ford ample opportunities for boating and
bathing. Just to the north of the tentinS
ground is great stretch of woodland,
which has been thrown open TO the use
OF the campers. On the open land which
stretches in front OF the tents three ball
fields have been laid out, and big
league" had been formed last night before
! the bugle sounded lights out"
The management of the camp has been
intrusted to George +. Eddy, a pro-
fessor OF geology from Rochester To
assist him has been assigned staff of
nine young men. drawn from the ranks OF
the undergraduates of as many different
Eastern colleges. all of them chosen for
, their ability to be big brothers to younger
boys.
While the capacity OF the camp has been
/ nxed for the present at two hundred. 1t
would be possible TO increase this If the
need should develop and the funds could
be procured for the purpose. Living in
tents, as the boys do. il would be possible
TO expand the capacity OF the place in
definitely by simply increasing the num-
Der of tents.
To-day there will be two parties OF
Tribune Fresh Airs sent away for outings
This morning a crowd of sixty will be
sent 10 the country surrounding Utica, y.
Y. while tonight a party OF eighty Will
start on a long journey to Auburn. y. Y.