New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-16
Plots Worth ST 100000 Rent
For ST a Year as Playground
Children Who Cannot Leave City Find Recreation There
Churches Issue Appeal for Funds to Send thou
sands to Camp on Shore and in Mountains

tablished for their relief at the sea-
shore, in the Berkshire Hills. in the
Catskills and IL the Adirondack Noun
tains. Innumerable Ravens are being
reopened and renovated preparing for
the great army of boys and girls who
are eager TO taste the freedom and JOY
Of the open fields.
Children Love Seaside Home
Trinity Episcopal Church has a large
seaside home al Great Neck, Long ISL
and. 20 which are sent hundreds o.
children each summer from the Bowery
and the East Side Their home is a
large, roomy, comfortable house Of no
particular architectural rambling
sort OF house. One perhaps that you
wouldn't look at a second time-that's
because you don't know IT, But the
children Of Trinity Parish know II. and
have grown TO love it, To them 10
means comfort, good cheer, kindly af-
lection and the refining influence Of
Christian home. II means two weeks
in the real country, among real daisies,
with real cows TO look at. without
this chance many would never know
what the great out-of-doors looks Ike.
The extreme heat OF June, July and
August annually supplies ideal harvest
conditions for the ravages of CASTRO
enteric diseases among little children.
This portion of the year is the one
most dreaded by all social workers.
The summer relief work OF the Brook
lyn Children's Aid Society has grown
up meeting this very need
Their Seaside Home at Coney Island
was dedicated forty years ago 10 "the
service OF little children, the healing o.
the sick, the strengthening of the weak
the refreshing of the weary" Last
year $3.50 children and 1904 mothers
were sent there and cared for during
the hot days. Their Seaside Hospital
has been kept open throughout the
year, caring for rs children, the vic
TINS Of infantile paralysis. In connec-
with the sanatOrium there are now
eleven cottages, a beach pavilion and
fully equipped lighthouses.
The work Of the Brooklyn Children's
Aid Society has grown until it had 70
be divided into nine departments: The
bureau Of counsel. investigation and
/ relief, temporary shelter and working
/ boys home. q boarding out depart
ment. summer care Of little children,
F Seaside Hospital for little soies,
Herman Farm School for Boys. free
milk for infants, free ice for distribu-
ton, and, finally, country fortnightly
r outings
The Herman Farm School for Boys
is situated al Monsey. Rockland
/ County, " y, Il consists Of an
old country house. with outbu.lG-
ings. accommodating 40 children. and
eighty acres Of farm, field and wood
land. Here are taken fresh air chill
dren between the ages of five and
twelve years.
BOYS Learn Farming
Thirty boys make their perma-
nent residence there. Their farm
school course is directed by the New
! York State Agricultural Department al
+ Cornell University, which supplies
much agricultural literature. Each
/ boy has his own experimental garden.
receiving therefrom IN cash the full
proceeds of his knowledge and labor.
Opportunity is also given the boys 10
earn extra money by neiChboring farm
ers who want help IN picking berries.
running errands and doing light work.
An appeal is just being sent out by
the Brooklyn society 20 all physicians.
nurses and social workers. inviting
/ them 70 recommend all needy children