New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-26
END Of SCHOOL YEAR
MEANS LITTLE TO MANY
Streets Are Summer Playground
for Thousands of New
York Children.
FUND THEIR ONLY CHANGE
Tribune Will Send First Party
of Boys and Girls on Fri
day and Others Are
to Go Soon.

The great day comes tomorrow Six
hundred thousand useful minds have been
focused on Friday, June p. for weeks.
Tomorrow the city schools close. What
then? What then for the mighty army
OF the trudgers along the toisome road
toward knowledge?
For many Of them-John Andrews
smythc, 3D., for instance, or Margaret
Higgenbotham Jones-the coming OF va
cation opens up vistas Of a summer spent
in the country John. Sd. and Margaret
II. in fancy are already bathing in cool
shadows. picnicking in woodland glades
or rompng on breeze swept heights. And
in day or two the fancy will have be-
come a reality.
Hats off 10 them. May Tie happiest and
best OF vacations bee theirs, But how
about Johnny" Smith or, as his very
best friends call him. "Smitty' How
about grave faced Maggie Jones? What
are the summer vistas that stretch before
them? Instead of tree clad hillsides, the
narrow dehlcs OF the city streets, with
house fronts draped I'm bedding. Instead
Of streams of limpid GOODNESS puddles left
by the rain IN refuse choked cutters. In
81 cad OF shady woodland glades, the glar-
Ing pavements where the heat burns down
from the skies above and radiates up
from the scorching stones below with
equal fervOr.
A great day is tomorrow for the -Four
Hundred OF the schools. for the four thou
sand. too. doubtless. Perhaps by wild
fight OF Imagination one might include
the 10000 in the list % the lucky 10 whom
the country will let down the bars this
summer
There are left yet. however the 5000
But tomorrow is a great day. il IS the
day when the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
begins 90 attack in earnest the problem
OF providing country outings for these
10000. For weeks past plans have been
making In preparation for this great hrst
day OF vacation.
As result so boys and girls viii set
out By boat and train on Friday for d
glorious fortnight iu the Kingdom oi
Fresh Air. Five hundred others VIII iol-
low them on SATURDAY. stN others o"
Monday. and every day next week-and
every day all summer. for that matter.
By tho Fourth OF July about two thou
sand youngsters VIII hay, been started Oh
their vacations.
The "a rp-aud there are really many
more than that number iu Sew York who
have no chance OF any country Ndeai!o"
except a Fresh AIT outns-pTesent
STAGGERING problem To solve u would
mean the sending away OF 20" children
each day ~ the public school vacation.
Last year the Tribune Fund took ear" OF
about i.oJ OF the great army ~ needy
children How far ou the road toward
the $1,000 70 can 20 this season the public
is to say-you. your nclghhor your friend.
Tho Tribune Fresh AIT work Us the pun
lies work. supported entirely ty the pub
lies voluntary contributions.
Five dollars will bring 10 one boy or
one glr.-some poor. fricndlcss little lad
or lass-thc inestmable boon OF two
weeks Tn the country. can you picture
the bliss OF the tot whose travels have
been confined 20 East Side streets when
ne or she is transported % the land OF
the great green out-of-doors? This bliss
II Is your 20 give. Will you DO u; No"
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