New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-15
eco CHILDREN IN
FRESH AIR FROLIC
Many Parties to Start To-
day on Long Outings
in the Country.
HELP WAGE FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Boys and Girls from Afflicted
Families to Receive Special
Attention.

Six hundred and sixty children Will
begin Fresh Air outings to-day. Three
hundred and eight went yesterday, and
are getting their first real taste OF the
country.
or to-day's number 100 are girls
who are TO be entertained at the Pau
Devereux Home, at Deposit, NJ Y
These girls have been selected for the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund by the AS.
ISOLATION Of Tuberculosis Clinics. All
of them are undcrnourished children
who come from families in which there
is tuberculosis.
None Of the children has the dis.
ease, but they show a predispostlon
toward It. Because OF their special
need of physical upbuilding, the girls
in this party will be kept in the coun-
try three weeks, instead of two, which
is the length Of the usual Fresh Ali
outing.
Other precautions will also be taken
in order that these girls may come
back to the city and their dangerous
surroundings with the health and vi
tality that will make it possible for
them to withstand the infection to
which they are, to some extent, ex-
posed.
They will be put on special diet
and will be expected to sleep much
During the day periods OF rest will
be arranged for them, so that nature
may work undisturbed in adding flesh
and blood to their meagre frames.
An effort will also be made to have
them play less strenuously than Fresh
Airs usually do-without making them
feel that they are having a dull time
The average city child finds life so in
teresting in the country that he or she
doesn't find time to rest while avoirdu'
pois accumulates.
The children in this party have been
selected by the clinics connected with
Bellevue, Mount Sinai, st. Luke's and
Gouverneur hospitals. Another grouI
Of 100 girls Of this same class will
be sent to Devereux Home on the re-
turn of this one. Two groups Of boys
1875 in each, will be sent to the Shep
herd Knapp Home later in the season
These parties will contain children rec
commended by all the clinics of the
city.
In to-day's parties will be another
selected from families into which tn
berculosis has brought sorrow. This
is one made up Of mothers and chill.
dren, who are going to Otisville. n. \
In each case the husband and father
of the family is a patient in the city
sanatorium at the same place. There
will be twcnty-siX mothers and forty
two children in the party.
The seasons second party Of little
mothers" will go to Chapel Hill this
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Early in the
morning the second group Of boys fol-
this summer will set out for the Trib
une farm at Litchfield, Conn.
The other parties of the day are al
to be distributed as guests in private
families in various regions. The
largest of these parties will be one
for the regicn lying between Scranton
and Shickshinny, Penn. This viii
number about $50 children. One Grove
has already been sent into this region
In Shickshinny the first lot made such
deep impression on their hosts thai
another lot, three times as large, wa:
Immediately invited. This place is
by the way, new to Fresh Air worl
this year.
Another new centre of Fresh All
hospitality is the region extending
from Hackettstown TO Port Murray
and Washington, N. j. To these town:
104 boys and girls are to be sent this
afternoon. There will also be a party
of twenty boys for Warwick, n. Y.
this afternoon.