New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-16
FRESH AIR TRIPS
WILL START TO-DAY
Little Invalids Open Trib-
une's 1915 Season by
Health Quest.

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The Tribune Fresh Air Fund begins
to-day for the season Of 1918 the &C
tual work Of sending the children OF
the tenements to the country. Inc
nresent season is the thirty-ninth OF
the funds existence.
To-dav's party will number forty
five children-ffteen boys and thirty
girls between the ages Of five ana
twelve. They go to the Home for Con-
valescents near Middietown. y. Y.
As the name of the home indicates
the Youngsters TO be sent away to-day
all have been laid up with illness or
injuries and now are on the road to
recovery. To aid them to regain tulI
health and strength they are to De
permitted 20 spend two wc~'s where
the air is fresh, where FOOD IS piehu-
full and fun is king. r
At the end Of the two weeks II some
of them are still too weak TO De sent
hack TO their city homes, they Will De
kept for an additional fortnight or as
much longer as is necessary TO prih9
the color back to their cheeks ana the
spring back to their muscles.
The party Of to-day is the nrst OF
six TO be sent to the Home Tor Con,
valescents during the summer. IN ali
II is planned to give almost three nun
bred convalescent children a start tow
nrd health between now and oeptem-
Der TO-
The boys and girls who go away to-
day have been selected for the tribune
Fund By hospitals and clinics IN al.
ferent parts Of the city. Twelve OF
them come from the Fordham Hospi-
tai ten from the New York Hospital
twelve from Corlears Clinic I'VE from
the Vanderbilt Clinic. three from the
Division Of Child Hygiene OF the De-
partment Of Health and three from the
Ninth Avenue Department or Heath
Station. IT.
Most Of the children for whom The
Tribune Fund provides outings each
wear are boys and girls OF school age
Consequently the greater part Of the
Funds work cannot legally begin 0nui
the public schools close for the year
II is possible TO send away the pres
ent group at this time because the
children included in it are united Tor
attendance at school by illness.
one other Of The Tribune homes IS
IN be opened, however, before the
school vacation begins. Happy Land
the home at Tenafy, \. j., VIII wei
come its first crowd of small girls on
June 25. -,
In this case the school law will not
be broken, because the permission OF
the Board Of Education has been Cd
tanned TO transplant the entire kinder
garten of one of the East Side schools
from the schoolroOm TO Happy Land
Here for one week the regular kinder
rarten work will be continued amid
new surroundings. Then for another
week the tots will be given a chance
to play without restraint.
The other homes maintained IN con-
nection with The Tribune FUNDS WORK
will be opened for the season on June
80, July / and July 2. There are nine
Of these, in addition to the two al
ready mentioned. That there Will be
no lack Of children to fiji them all is
indicated by the fact that the Fund
already has been asked to find places
for 1888 boys and girls.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
The Tribune Fund will cooperate with
the Keansburg Boat Company IN pro-
viding day outings for about htteen
hundred mothers and children, 300 on
each day. The parties will sail from
the Battery TO Kesnsburg in the morn,
ing, spend the day at Keansburg and
return to the ity at night.