New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-09
VERMONT CREETS
HOST OF CHILDREN
Fresh Air Fund Sends 35l
to Green Hills of
Border Towns.
PARTY LARGEST IN
SEVERAL SEASONS
Foster Mothers at Stations to
Receive Guests Weary
from Long Ride.

New York and Vermont joined hands
yesterday, or, more accurately speak
ing, twined arms about each other.
A delegation of SOL Tribune Fresh Air
vacationsts from this city swooped
down upon the Green Mountain State
during the afternoon and took 1t by
storm.
They hadn't any more than finished
the swoop and touched foot TO ground,
however, when down upon them in
turn swooped focks and focks Of
motherly persons, who soon held the
invaders captive. The youngsters
needed their motherly attentions, too
They had started out in the morning
clipper and gay, but seven hours on
the train had pretty we'll tired them
out.
"Oh. dear, look at that poor tired
little lamb" soft voice would say
as some little lass stumbled on the
train. And in minute the tot would
be whisked of its feet b. the owner
of the voice with Nov you just sit
here on lady's lap and rest until every
thing is Strengthened out"
The tots just smiled bashfully and
accepted the cuddling gratefully. The
towns were all agog for the arrival
of the children. when the train drew
into the stations where they were eX-
pected, the station yards were crowded
with people and the windows of nearby
buildings blossomed with heads. Every
body was bent on giving the girls and
boys from the city warm welcome.
The youngsters, on their part, greeted
each place with a shrill cheer of JOY
that walked the echoes OF the sur
rounding hills.
incidentally. there were number
OF deeply disappointed persons in the
have numbered $40 children, but, ow-
ing probably to the early morning
start, twenty-five failed TO appear at
train time, and the party went out
short Seemingly every host thus dis
appointed YVES as deeply grievcd as
thought friend Of long standing had
been the cause OF the disappointment.
Possibly those left over will be sent
out later in the week.
If the Vermonters were all that could
be desired, Vermont itself was dis
appointment in way TO the Fresh
Airs" They were expecting strange
things Of it. After the first hour OF
the trip had passed the constantly re-
curing question was, "Whcn do We git
20 Vermont" When finally one Of the
escorts answered We're there now"
the faces Of the questioner and his
ncighbors fell The spoke sman voiced
the general surprise when he said
Gee, il amt no different than New
York"
The trees didn't grow with their
roots toward the sky, the grass was
green and had familiar look, the sky
itself was blue. II hadn't been ncces-
sarv for the train TO take a flying leap
TO get from New York to Vermont.
Evidently something Of this sort had
been expccted, but as 2 matter OF fact
one didn't feel bit different when one
once got over the border. There's a
comfort in the thought, however, tina.
perhaps TWO weeks residence IN the
state will make them feel decidedly
different.
There was one lad aboard the train
who asked with great interest, no more
than ten minutes after the Harlem
River had been crossed, whether he
wasn't almost at Buffalo.
Just before the journeys end a small
girl was found weeping bitterly. She
wanted to 20 right home. WY
motherIl hit me if I DON'T she m
sisted.
This seeming not very valid excuse
she was pressed for further reason,
and finally wept out:
"Thcm boys says III get drowned IN
tho river IN Vermont And the boys
looked guilty enough to have been the
prophets that foretold the evil to come.
In reality this wasn't Vermont
party. any more than II was New
York one. The villages receiving the
children were Cambridge. Shushan,
salem. West Rupert. Rupert, Granville
Middlctown Springs and Poultney'
about half of which number arc Just
oyer the border in New York State.
This was the first effort OF TINS
region in Fresh Air work. The party
holds the record for numbers for sew
eral years past.