New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-26
1885 MERRY TOTS
SEE REAL SUMMER
Fresh Air Boys and Girls
Forget Sun-Baked City
for Few Days.
TRIBUNE FUND AIDS
HOST OF YOUNGSTERS
Plenty OF Time Remains TO Send
More Children TO the
Genial Country.

Yesterday 1885 boys and CIR. from
tine crowded districts OF New York
spent the day at play in the country.
They were all youngsters who had been
sent 20 the places where they uiu inc
playing by the Tribune Fresh Mr.
Fund.
There has been 40 tmo since the
first daye OF July when there were not
fifteen hundred or more children H
various places on Tribune outings.
There have been periods no the midst
OF their fortnight vacations when moro
than twice the number stated above
were out.
Those included la The 1885 were
scattered over a wide area. About two
thirds Of the whole number were being
entertained ~ different Fresh Air
homes. The other five hundred were
the guests OF families iu the country.
o. these latter. by far the largest
number were with good friends oi the
Fresh Air cause in Vermont. ON Tues
day and Thursday OF last week 30
sons and daughters OF the city street.
were distributed among the people ol
those Western Vernon, towns 'f"tch-
ing north and south between and inn
Guiding Rutland and FerrIsburg. TINS
brings the total number OF children in-
yited 20 Western Vermont this year up
10 nearly nine hundred.
The remainder Of the children out
among country families were distrb-
uted in smaller numbers at Norwich.
Warwick. Schenectady and Ousyille, ~.
Y, and Conway. Mass.
In Fresh Air homes" there were,
among others. two groups Of negro
children-one OF forty boys at Verona,
y. j., and ono OF fifteen girls at White
Plains. y. !.
Al the Tribune Funds Shepherd
Knapp Home. at Litchield. Conn. there
was a small army OF $50 boys ranging
in age from five to twelve years. This
crowd is not due at home until Septem-
Der and 3. and so has fully half OF
its outing still before il.
The largest group at Tribune Fund
home was. and still is. At Ashford Hill.
A. this Westchester County vacation
centre three hundred boys and girls
escaped the hot day. OF last week and
will escape any that may happen along
between to-day and September I. After
that there will still be time for another
party. If funds warrant the sending
Of IL.
At three other Tribune homes there
were groups Of one hundred children
each one hundred little mothers a.
Eunice Cottage Chapel H!ll. y. j.;
che hundred under nOurished' girls at
Paul DevereuX Home Deposit. y. ".
and fifty boys and fifty girls at ST.
Helen's Home. lnteriaken. Mass.
At the mathematician 'Ouva-
descent Home there were fifty BOYS and
girls from the sick beds Of the tene-
ments and the city hospitals. A.
Happy Land-that appropriately named
portion Of Tenafy. y. J. there were
fifty feminine. but typical. Happy
Landers, who had just arrived at the
scene OF their happiness the day be-
fore.
Then there were three groups Of
little sisters az those three best Of all
little sister rendezvous Beneway
Home. North Shore Holiday House and
Elm Cottage. OF these there were
twenty-five in each group. In two
cases at Holiday House and Elm Cot
tage the sisters had just arrived yes
terday. other groups having left during
the day 10 make room for them.
Last Of all. there was the Bee Hive.
with its twelve boys. the smallest. but
al the same time one Of the hsppiest.
Of the Tribune Funds homes.
I'm addition 70 al these groups Of
children there were yesterday and
there are to-day. large number Of
boys and girls in he country who were
sent out during the summer, and whom
heir hosts asked permission TO keep
for the rest of the season. II is inn
possible 20 state the exact number Of
these. but 10 must reach into the hun
dreds. Most Of these lads and lass.cs
will not return 10 :heir city homes
until the claug Of the school bell calls
them on September II.