New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-02
EVEN 'MATTY WILL FADE
AWAY ON FRESH AIR DAY
Trip to the Country May Make
Boys Forget Batting Aver
age of the "Chief."
LITTLE ENGLISH" MUSES.
Lad Who First Saw Outdoor
Land as Member of Tribune
Party Writes of Happy
Memories.

This is boys day. BY the time the
Giants and the cubs get their battle
royal well going this afternoon 4Sj boys
will be sent forward by the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund 10 the land OF the choke
cherry. the swimmin' hole and the fast
ripenlng apple. And they may even. in
the midst OF these delights. forget TO
wonder as the afternoon wanes whether
"Matty" is pitching and how many hits
the Chief made
It may be that two years from now one
OF these lads will write letter like the
following one. which arrived. after much
wandering, at the Tribune Fund Office
YESTERDAY II he does. the trip will have
paid for itself The letter IS addressed
to a former superintendent OF St Helen
Home at Interlsken. Mass.
Il guess YOU forget all about little Eng
lish. the boy what was up there in 1910 q
1911 / left Sunday School because ]
moved 10 a place near Coney Island and
II would cost me 90c 10 get 10 sun. Sch.
! am working in New York now near
Grand Central Railroad only blocks
away and this morning / saw crowd n
children getting of the car and J looked
for the old lady what takes US up there
and ] asked her II she was taking the
children I'D 10 St n. II. and she said
Yes SO that reminded me Of you.
81 love 10 be In the country SO l have
small tepee in the lot back Of us and !
sleep In IL all night now. / will send you
n picture OF me and the tent II find out
that you are up there still. II YOU are not
there / guess somebody will open this as
I will send il open and they can write 10
me a tell me YOU are not there. am
not English no more as I've been here .
wears now and I'm thinking about enlist
INK I'm the navy at nineteen. and see
some Of the world ] live in because that
will be the only chance ! VIII get
have a pretty good job now IA an All
Store. II Is very warm In the city
Il belong to the New YORK Library ana
I get books all about the woods IN the
New England States and they are me.
have a bow and some arrows and !
catch squirrels and skin them Tor M
bedroom. have A small rabbit skin no"
driving / guess | will close no" ana t''l
some ~ the girls that are now there thd'
the day they left II poured In torrents
In, growing a little bigger now. am
3 feet inches saw George peea. re-
member HIM the little suiky fellow what
always suIks when you call him down
I'D Ike 70 be mp there for children
dav this year 20 help 70 ct the creepers
and mines Remember me now? never
tasted any choke cherry since left there
but ] got hundreds Of the large ones then
Good by"
Biz John Bull may think that some
little nm feeling exists between him ana
Uncle sam over this matter Of Panama
tolls and the Panama exposition, b"t
Little English" knows that az bottom
he.s wrong. so az the end of his letter
lust underneath his Good by he has
drawn in red and blue two haes inter
tvired the American and the British
OF the four hundred eish,y-hve boys
aro 10 out to-day 20 the experience the
memory Of which vas called UP I'm Eng
Usb.sr mind by the sight Of the girls on
their way to the country. Two hundred
20 10 the Trihune's penyille camp one
hundred ffty-tvo 20 Ashford Hi.l, ana
one hundred thirty-thrcr 90 the Shepherd
Knapp Home.