New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-21
Scattered Over Five States
in Search of Health
and Fun
729 More Next Week
Hundreds Sweltering in the
Heat Of the City
Need Help

When the sun goes down tonight
on the country, on the hills and in the
valleys of that summerland, there viii
be at play 1887 boys and girls sent
thither by the Tribune Fresh Ali
Fund in the ten days ending to-day
This is the largest number of children
the fund has had out at any one time
so far this year.
They will be scattered over five
states, some in New York and New
Jersey, some in Connecticut and Massa,
chusetts, some in Pennsylvania. Each
Of them is out for fortnight's vacation
Some are nearing the end Of the period
others are about in the middle of their
vacations, while still others will have
been out for only few hours when
the sun dips behind the hills.
OF the nearly two thousand young
sters now in the country, 634 have been
sent out between Monday and Friday
Of this week-37 on Monday, FAC on
Tuesday, rs on Wednesday, 270 on
Thursday and so on Friday. To-day
puts a climax to the week with a total
of 400 boys and girls to be sent out
before ! o'clock. This will make the
whole number who have begun out
ings during the week, 1,O43.
Many Are Guests of Families
About one-haf of all the children
now in the country ,067. to be exact
are being entertained in the Fresh
Air camps maintained under the di-
rection of the fund. The other $40 are
the guests of kind-hearted county
folk who have extended hospitality to
the funds little charges
To-day's 400 Fresh Airs" 60 out in
three different directions. Two hun
bred and fifty of them will be boys
bound for the funds Shepherd Knapp
Home, at Litchfield, Conn. Twenty-Five
others will be boys to be entertained
BY the Fresh Air committee of New
ton, n. j. The remaining 1877 are to
be split up into three parties, to be
entertained by three neighboring COM
munities in Pennsylvania. Forty-slX
of them go to Easton, Penn; fifty TO
Bethlehem, and the remainder to
Nazareth, Penn. From the three places
named they will, Of course, be as
tributed over the surrounding country.
Possibly next week will exceed the
present week in the number OF young
sters beginning vacations. ALREADY
plans are complete for sending away
729 children, and there IS very hlgn
probability that additional groups VIII
still be asked for.
A Little Hitch in Vermont
In practically all directions the out
look of the work is promising. In only
one quarter is there any sign OF SCI
hack TO it. Plans have been maturing
for some time to send several good
sized parties of children to places IN
Vermont; Yesterday brought the news,
however. that the Board Of Health OF
the state is worried over the possibility
of an outbreak of infsntile paralysis.
there. For the present the holding OF
fairs, conventions and other gatherings
has been forbidden for some sections
of the state. This is probably due 10
an excess of caution on the part OF the
authorities. The situation there is not
alarming in any respect, and no doubt
the ban against assemblage Will De
lifted again soon. If this proves to be
the case, the work of providing for the
Riddles will be continued, and two hun
dred or more will get outings among
the Green Mountains.
The fund needs your aid in piling up
this total of children sent to the coun-
try. Thousands have been sent away,
but many more thousands who need the
change still remain 10 be provided Tor
Will you help bring relief and JOY. to
thelads and lassies you see swelterlng
in the crowded streets of the East Side,
the West Side, Harlem. Brooklyn, and
other sections? They are worth IT.
Every penny you give will be expended
directly on the children. Gifts to the
fund range in size from FIVE cents TO
81 400.
You can afford something somewhere
between these two figures.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO TIE TRIBUNE FRESH