New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-08
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Newest Fresh Air Fund
Home in CatSkills.
FIRST DELEGATION
OF FIFTY ARRIVES
rarnersyille Retreat Made Pos
sible for City Youngsters by
Mrs. Ann Henry'S Gift.

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund opened
new vacation camp yesterday near
Tannersville, y. Y. in the heart OF the
Catskills.
The House-in-the-Woods, as the new
-, ;s % be known, was offered just
week ago BY its owner, Mrs. Ann
u,,rv who had heard that the fund
vas having difficulty in finding a SUI
ecient number Of accommodations Tor
children this summer.
brief inspection OF the place
.hoved II 20 be ideal for a Fresh AIT
csmp. and the offer was accepted I'M
uedia.ely. Yesterday was set as the
4o.e for the arrival Of The first party
~ bovs and girls. For time, how
ov,r i. looked as though the opening
vould have 70 be postponed.
The place had to be newly equipped
throughout Beds and bedding, dishes
and cooking utensils had to be OBJ
tanned; supplies of groceries, veseta-
he. meat. milk and bread had to be
,,rapqed for. a staff of caretakers
and servants had TO be employed. A
,boussnd details had to be worked out.
Difficulties Encountered.
To begin with, there was no dealer in
New York who had fifty beds in stock;
and thew couldn't be made-so the
dealers said-in less than ten days.
Then the dealers in dishes declared
that the war had shut off the supply
Of camp dishes Of the white enamel
variety. The farmers in the country
said they couldn't spare the necessary
seventy quarts of milk daily-the sum
mer hotels had requisitioned their en-
tire supply.
So il went. For a day or so no
body seemed TO have anything. Then
the sun began 20 break through the
clouds. A bed manufacturer said he'd
hold I'D everything else and turn out
the beds in two days and he did.
A canny dealer was found who had
foreseen the shortage in the kind of
dishes wanted and had stocked up
against IL. Next along came a farmer
who said: 81 calculate them kids need
my milk more n them rich folks. and
III let 'em have II till you can get
some somewhere else anyway"
About last Thursday the freight
depot at Tannersville began to pile up
with the things that were to make the
campers comfortable. Another prob
lem presented itself then. Help was
needed 90 get the place 10 rights. but
none was 70 be had. Everybody near
the home was very busy-like every
body else in the United States nova
days.
Boarders Take Hand.
On Sunday not a bed had been un-
lmbered or made up, and the children
were due Monday afternoon. What
was 10 be done? The summer board
ers answered. Some one whispered TO
one OF them a hint of the difficulty
The whisper spread, and in five min
utes the difficulty had been solved
The boarders had determined TO hold
q getting TO rights" bee.
And Yesterday morning they went al
IL bright and early. The men set W
beds and the women made them up;
the men unpacked barrels and the
women stored away the contents; the
men did this and the women that, un-
I'll finally things began to look home
like and comfortable. When the time
came for the arrival Of the children
one might have thought the place had
been a year IN preparation.
The party Of children which went to
the House-in-the- Woods yesterday al
ternoon numbered fifty, but it IS prob
able that room will be found before
many days for an additional fifteen.
This party will remain at the camp for
two weeks, when It will be succeeded
by another one. If possible, the camp
will be continued through August and
September.