New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-26
GIRL DISCOVERIES
AT WONDERLAND
Trip from East Side to
Tenafly Fills Fifty
with Glee.
VACATION TO FORGET
BLACK CONTINENT
Huddled Houses, Huddled Trees,
Dark Streets, Sunny Fields
Other Fresh Airs Wait.

Fifty small girls burst into Happy
Land yesterday afternoon.
They found ii great contrast IN
deed to the part of the world they were
familiar with. Most Of the nifty were
born and had lived their few years of
life on the lower East Side-a place
nobody would for moment think OF
STYLING Happy Land.
You know the region. kind reader OF
this Fresh Air tale. You know it with
its tencmcnts huddled close the length
of the streets and with others crammed
in behind where the back yards ought
to be.
You know the streets-none too
clean-with their hordes of humanity
and me tangles of traffic amid whlch
children try to play and cannot
You know the houses. with their
dark, smelly halls and their tiny, Ill
ventilated rooms, the rooms in which
these little voysgers into Happy Land
of Yesterday first saw-not light
gloom.
You know the place, or. if you don't,
there's no use trying to describe 1t for
YOU. 1t must be seen TO be appreci-
ated.
From this place. this hotbed Of I'M
/ happiness. the fifty Jared into Happy
| Land.
Now. Happy Land proper is set upon
/ a hill over behind the Palisades. at
Tenafy, n. j., but yesterday it reached
out and shook hands with Manhat-
tan Island, so to speak, for the tots
| and they were the merest tots-be-
/ gan to wax happy Immediately they
got to the ferry at the foot of Cham
/ bers Street.
They dubbed over with glee at the
/ sight of the boats on the river and the
I gulls flying in circles above ii. They
/ wanted to dance with the waves and
/ laugh with the sparkle Of the sun upon
/ them. They joyed over hundred
/ things which the blase traveller on
ferries never turns TO observe.
And so all along the route that led
to Tenafy everything was new, most
/ things looked as though they might
have been designed to make the world
happy land. The dingy look Of the
world the children knew was changed
for a bright fresh dress of green. So
different was it all that every one OF
the fifty snubbed her nose against the
car window to see.
At Tenafy no tenements crowd one
another down long narrow streets
there were no hordes of humanity
there was no clutter of pushcarts and
trucks. The only things that crowd
there are the trees that shoulder one
another uphill and down dale and the
daisies and other wild flowers that kiss
one another in the fields. There are nc
i'll smelling, gloomy Railways and small
stuffy rooms. Instead the fragrance OF
flowers and moist earth spreads over
the vast sunlit spaces.
For two weeks these fifty little Trib
une Fresh Airs" are to live amid these
new wonders. What do you think? Will
it pay to keep them there? Does your
hard common sense approve this as a
good investment-this snatching OF
fifty tenement children from a depress-
ing environment and setting them down
for two weeks in Happy Land!
Do you say, eyes, and I'd like to pay
the expense of keeping one of those
youngsters there" Well you can't dc
it. A kind-hearted woman has already
provided for that, and for the expense
of keeping $50 others in the same place
as the summer goes on. But you may
pay the expense of sending Tribune
Fresh Air" to some other country
happy land.