New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-22
2O,447 CHILDREN
NEED COUNTRY AIR
145 Hospitals and Schools
Plead for Boys and
Girls Under ~.
HUMANITY SHOWN IN
DOLLARS AND CENTS
Fresh Air Fund Passes Plea to
Public-Cases All Found
Worthy of Relief.
What shall the answer be?

What shall the answer be!
Here is the question in the words Of
the askers. But before you read the
questions you must know that on the
answer depends the happiness Of 2O'f47
boys and girls.
Roosevelt Hospital asks: Our Blu
reau of Home Welfare and Conva-
lescence was opened last July. This
summer we are anxious TO provide
fresh air outings for as many Of our
hospital and dispensary families as
possible. May we ask your co-opera-
tion?"
The New York Dispensary asks:
I Last year you were good enough TO
allow US thirty-five vacancies for boys
and girls, and this year | am writing TO
ask if you will please allow Us seventy
five vacancies-fort girls and thirty
five boys-if possible. The children
(last year. enjoyed their stay in the
country very much and returned great
ly improved"
st. Luke's Hospital asks; May We
have the opportunity of sending our
children TO the Tribune Fresh Air
homes?"
Sometimes the question comes from
public chool.
Public School AZ, Manhattan, axis:
"Will it be possible for any handi-
I capped children deaf, blind, crippled,
| anaemic or delinquent TO be sent TO
! the country for a vacation next sum-
mer through the kindness of the Trib-
une Fresh Air Fund.-"
/ Public School Of. Manhattan, asks:
Would it be possible 70 send the in
/ closed named children to the country
/ this summer? They are all children
who are delicate and who come from
/ families deserving of help"
/ Sometimes it is a neighborhood as
ISOLATION which raises the question.
/ The Yorkville Neighborhood asks;
Last summer you very kindly sent
away TO the country 304 children for
! the Yorkville Neighborhood Associa-
/ ton. We are planning very extensive
work again this year, with the careful
/ cooperation of the teachers of the dis
/ trict, making every effort 70 see that
only the most needy children Of York
vile shall be sent away and that no
really deserving child shall be over.
, looked. May We count on your help,
and would it be possible for you TO in
| crease the number this year, as in so
many cases the children are in a frail
condition, due to the hard winter, dur
ing which hardly a factory in the
neighborhood has been running full
time?"
Sometimes-very frequently, in fact
the query comes from a social set
| Element.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Settle
ment asks: MAY | ask you to please
! give fifty children from our settlement
a summer outing? Our children are
very poor and mostly Italians in dire
need of fresh air."
And sometimes it is church that
asks for help for its children-any kind
of church.
/ The Rutgers Presbyterian Church
/ asks: Would it be possible for you 70
| send twelve girls to some farm for two
! weeks this SUMNER
| One hundred and eleven different
| charitable and social welfare organica-
| tions in Manhattan and The Bronx and
! about one-third as many in Brooklyn
/ have asked this question this summer
| of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
! At the request of the Fund, each of
| these organizations has reduced its
! questions 10 figures. These figures
/ show that there have been found in the
city 2C,447 boys and girls-for the most
| part between five and twelve years OF
| age-that need Fresh Air outings, and
who must depend upon the Tribune
! Fresh Air Fund TO provide them.
! The Tribune Fund passes the ques-
ton on TO the public, for the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund is the public. Shall
! the boys and girls go? It's a question
! of dollars, cents and the love Of hu-
/ manity.
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