New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
5000 IN 4 WEEKS,
FRESH AIR RECORD
Five Regiments of New
York Children Sent to
Country in a Month.
MANY STATES VIE
IN TAKING GUESTS
Cities and Towns in New Eng
land. New York and Penn
Sylvania Entertain.

In four weeks $3.50 lads and lassles
ave gone out TO Fresh Air Land. sent
by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
soodly number OF them are still sun
ming themselves N the seven states
that make up that pleasant country.
Where is Fresh Air Land
Well. in the first place it's IN New
York state. not city. Just at present
il spreads over most sections Of The
state in fifteen or twenty directors.
There Is clearly marked area in the
neighbOrhood Of Auburn. where there
are about one hundred and fifteen bows
and girls. more than thirty OF whom
have been permitted 20 stretch for
night vacations into four week vaca-
lions.
There is an even more clearly
marked area IN the vicinity OF bnC-
hamton. where 500 urchins from New
York began to make the welkin ring
last Wednesday,. Another section ! lit
tie more strongly marked still ina1
binghamton lies Just to the north OF
he city az Ardsicy. where there are
always, during the months Of July ana
August. $50 boys. girls and mothers.
A. Deposit one hundred girls marx
the country as their own. At ClayeI-
ack. Schenectady and Huntington small
bands Of twenty-five fresh airs eacl
roam the regions and claim them as
vacation territory. Near Utica there
are sixty boys and girls; at Ousvil.e
about twenty-five mothers, with thirty
five OF their children.
Two hundred and fifteen youngsters
IN search OF fresh air and fun invaded
and conquered the region including the
towns of Norwich. Oxford. Sherbrrne
and Cortland on Friday OF last wees
and now hold the land
To-nigh. Auburn strengthens It's
claim 10 importance as part OF Fresh
Air Land By receiving its third part
Of the season. about fifty strong. In
a few days Lyons Falls and Richf"id
Springs are TO cast in their lot Win
this summer "land.'
New Jersey u not far behind New
\ ork in rs loyal allegiance TO the Fresh
Air standard. Down az Chapel Hi
throughout the summer garrison o.
one hundred girls IS maintained. while
al Tenafy one just half as large Is con
tinually on duty or more accurately,
en- pleasure.
At Verona. TOO. there IL constant
guard OF forty negro boys. During the
month lust ending there has been a
camp OF twenty-five boys al Fleming
ton. In addition 20 all these places,
New Fresh AIT territory has been
opened up this year AT Washington and
Hacke.tstown, where more than one
hundred boys and girls are now wind
ing I'D a glorious two weeks. and at Be.
videre ard Blairstown, where total Of
nearly one hundred youngsters were
received early last week.
Another new section Of New Jersey
ia 10 be opened up 20 Fresh AIT next
Saturday. when one hundred chAdreh
will find vacation homes waiting Tor
them a. Newton. Branchville and And
over. o-o
Then there is Connecticut. with $50
Fresh Airs at Litchheld and twenty
fve a. Fairfield. all through the sum
Der season each year. Just at present
TOO there is crowd Of small girls
turning fresh air into echoes al step
new. a place. by the way, when mas not
missed taking its Fresh Air party lot
thirty years.
Vermont. always a cordial adnerent
Of Fresh AIT, Is this year outdolhg l's
rast record All through the south
iyce-ern mart of the state homes nave
nqCn thrown Us lut OltlA ~ 't'N 800
Fund proteges. About 800 nave oeen
crtertained 80 far. exclusive OF the
nartIes Of boys received every two
1eeks al the Bee Hive in North Ben
nington. r.b A.
-tronghold at St. Helen's Home IN IN
tcrlaken. where at any time during Ten
veets Of the summer fifty boys ana
ftty girls may be found making merry
This vear several villages Of the state
baye indicated their intention o. get
ting IN the Fresh Air movement oy en-
t@rtajning small parties OF children.
pennsylvania has always been warm va
friend of the Fresh AIT cause. ms
year i has done its part as IN the pas.
Already two large parties OF children
h@re been scattered through the nor1n-
stern part Of the state, and to-mo'-
80, .b,rd will be received there.
Tastlv. there is New Hampshire,
,;., ESQ 100 far away 10 do much for the
a LIMA Of New York. but still snow
mo lis Willingness each year oy IAN IN.
nc in at least one group SEM Da' ~
.be Tribune Fund. This year me one
n n so far has been entertainer a.
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