New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Charity Society Asks and
Gets Help at a Mo-
ment's Notice
Regular Work Goes On
129 Children Sent Daily to the
Country Last Week by
Tribune Readers

Last week The Tribune Fresh Air
Fund sent ia children to the country
for vacations. This was an average
Of 129 children a day for the work
ing day week. The total for the week
was somewhat below normal, but this
does not indicate that the work of the
Fund is letting up.
The low total was due to the fact
that during last week not many of The
Tribune's Fresh Air homes received
new parties. That an average of 129
children a day is by no means an
insignificant number. is indicated by
the fact that it represents a cash out
lay day Of about $500.
The accounts of the work of the
Fund published from day to day gen
! orally deal with masses of children,
| seldom with individual cases. This is
necessarily so from the large volume
of work done by the Fund. But the
Fund does not always deal with the
persons it sends out in masses. In the
course of a summer the cases of many
persons have TO be handled Individually.
In handling them the Fund relieves
/ many an emergency.
Mother and Child Helped
The other day an agent of the Chill
dren's Society called the Office of the
Fund by telephone. Said he over the
wire:
1--WE have here in the Office a woman
with a two-year-old baby. The mother
| isn't well; the child has been very sick,
and does not seem to have any recuper-
alive power. We ought to send them
| both TO the country at once"
The Children's Society knew no
where else to turn for help for this
emergency. Within three hours the
woman and her sick child were on the
way to a Tribune Fund country home.
They are there now-and the baby
seems to be getting the recuperative
power it needed.
Only a day after this a hospital So
cial service department telephoned the
Office of the Fund: 1--WE have a family,
tho father of which is on the Island,
insane. The mother supports the fam
/ lily, but she is sick, and has 70 come
| TO the hospital for an operation. 1t
will mean a month away from home for
/ her. Can you take care of the chill
/ dren of the family during that time ~
The Fund could; the Fund did. The
next day two youngsters were sent 70 a
/ private host in the country, who will
/ keep them until the mother is able TO
resume her work of supporting the
home.
Boy Saved From His Father
( Another day a district Office of the
| Charity Organization Society tele-
phoned the Fund to ask that provision
be made to care for boy who had
I been brought to their notice. The
father of the boy had gone wrong
though the cause was not quite clear
/ 1t was suspected that he was drug
user. His influence on the boy was
bad, and it seemed the best plan TO
separate the two until the father could
/ be rehabilitated.
Could the Fund send the boy away
( for a fortnight while definite plan
/ for the future was worked out? Again
/ the Fund could and did. At the end OF
| the two weeks the emergency demanded
/ that the lad still be kept out of the city
| and away from the father. When the
/ situation was explained to the Fund II
agreed to see to it that the boy was
/ kept away until it was wise to bring
| him back to his father.
| And so it goes. Sometimes the emer-
| gency is like one of the above. Some
/ times it is something entirely differ
| ent. But no matter what the emer-
gency, no matter who the call comes
| from, the Fund has an ear open TO the
appeal. No appeal is ever refused un-
/ less the facts seem TO indicate that
what the Fund has to give does not tit
the need to be- supplied.