New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-29
800 MORE KIDDIES
NEED FRESH AIR
Another Settlement ASKS
The Tribune to Help
Its Little Wards.
FUND INCREASES,
SO DO THE NEEDY
Social Worker Tells of Family
Typical of Those Who
Want the Country.

Fresh Air vacations? Are there chill
dren who need them? One Of the best
known social settlements in the city
has asked the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
TO provide vacations for 800 children
that have come under its notice.
One of the residents Of this settle
ment believes that if the people OF New
York can be made to understand now
great Is the need they will see 70 1t
that the vacations are provided. lie
tells in the following paragraphs OF
one family which. he says. is typical
of the families from which come the
800 children for whom his settlement
has asked Fresh Air FUND to help:
Have you ever seen a rear tenement
or warehouse on the East Side? There
are many Of these residences" in New
York. They are not exactly the most
desirable places to live in. They are
dark. i'll ventilated. depressing.
A family of Austrians lives in one
of these so-called homes in Ludlow
Street. The family came TO this coun-
try twenty years ago. The household.
consisting of the father. mother and
seven children, the eldest boy OF
eleven, occupies three small rooms on
the top floor. The father is able to
make about 81 week as laborer.
Last winter the family's case became
desperate. The husband was out Of
work; there was no money for food or
rent. and they were in danger of being
disposscssed Just in the nick of time
the friendly visitor" from a nearby
settlement found them. As she entered
the rooms the mother was feeding cold
tea out Of a nursing bottle to the
three months-old baby. because there
was no money to buy even milk that
day. The children were crying for
food.
At about this time one of the MUM
Opal workrooms for the unemployed
was opened in the University Settle.
ment nearby. Here the father found
five hours work a day at fifty cents
for the FIVE hours. The first day at
noon when he received his allowance
for lunch-seven cents-he went out
and bought loaf of bread; then hur'
riad home to share it with his family
At different times some of the chill
dren of the family have been placed In
one of the institutions that care fol
the children of the Destitute poor. But
( Sam and Tauba have never liked tc
| have them there, and always when the
/ family fortunes have mended a bit
/ they have taken them out of the Weis
| enhaus.
They are pitiful little specimens
with their little white, hungry face.
and great, wistful, pleading eyes. Chill
dren you may call them, but they simp
/ ~ never have had a chance to be chill
dren. They don't know the look o.
grass or the feel OF the brown eartt
/ beneath their feet.
The older boy and girl care for thu
Younger ones. There is no place fol-
| them to play except in the crowded
street, not even a courtyard; conse
! quently most of their young lives II
/ spent in the three little dark room:
of the yard-house.
/ Have you, who read this, children o
! your own? If not. you have been chill
/ dren yourselves. Remember that happ,
time and send your check to the Trib
une Fresh Air Fund to help its worl
for the little boys End girls of th'
! tenements.
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