New-York tribune., 1918-07-09
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund

The children Of the tenements arc to
set sne'r vacations. The kind public.
winch holds the strings of the vacation
purse. has said it. Yesterday it banged
It's first down to emphasize its ,utcu-
ton. How?
BY giving to the Tribune Fresh Air
fo"d the largest total of contributions
Tor single day in ycars-s3. .0sl .a5.
inns sum will not go very far toward
paying the seasons bills. but it is a
straw which shows that the prevailing
"ano Is blowing toward Fresh Air
Land.
Inc day brought another indication
.nAe sns wind was from the right quar-
YET 1his second indicator was tho
nu'noer OF lists of Invitations for chill
uren 10 spend outings in private homes
which passed over the Fresh Air party
aesk yesterday. BY happy coinci-
oence TINS number was the largest for
-, - single day IN the last five years.
ihe total number Of children asked for
IN these lists was 42Q These. Of
course are not TO be confused with the
chiidren to be entertained in The Trih-
une funds vacation homes and camps.
most OF the Invitations from private
families entered yesterday were from
connecticut. That state seems in r
falr way to win reputation for hos
pitality which will rival that of the
south. Several hundred children are
at present guests i'll Connecticut fam
liies and more arc being sent in that
direction daily.
OF the towns which sent in lists OF
invitations Bristol carried OF the ban
ner for the number Of children to be
entertained. with 1923. Next came
TerryvillA with seventy seven. Forest
VILE. Pennington. New Hartford. Gran
by, Sim bury and Weatogue added
enough TO bring the total for Connecti-
cut uo to 329.
The hosts OF New York State. too.
are just beginning to complete their
plans for the entertainment OF Fresh
Airs" Yesterday brought definite in
vitations from Utica. Warwick and
Corning.
rye Conneeticuv villages are all to
Monday and Wednesday, Utica is TO
receive its group of fortytwo on
Thursday Of this week, Corning will
take in thirty-niNe youngsters on Tues
Cay. July Is, and Warwick will open its
oOors to score OF bows on the last
day OF the month
But the Fresh Air parties are not all
of the future. To-day the fund will
send crowd o. eighty crippled chill
dren to Devereux Home, at Deposit. n
Y. tor three week stay; a parry OF
Atty girls 20 Happy Land. Al Tenahy
\. j., for a fortnight, and party of
seventy-seven girls and boys to private
hosts at PutnaNl--anothcr sample OF
Connecticut hospitality.
On the closing days Of the week $50
other boys ard girls will be distributed!
among other OF The Tribune Funds
homes and camps. Thirty negro girls
viii be sent to the Garnett Home
thirty girls to the North Shore Holiday
House. twenty girls to Elm Cottage
hfty boys and fifty girls 80 st. Helen 5
Home, $50 glrls to Ashford Hill. and
25H boys TO the Shepherd Knapp Farm.
In all cases the parties 20 the Fresh
Air homes are the second Of the sea-
son. the first parties having nnished d
their fortnights.
The work is beginning TO move with
d momentum that promises TO carry
thousands of lads and lassies of the
tenetments into the great land Of
nature before the summer gives way
10 the autumn. But no matter how
great the momentum, there is 10 dan
ger that the seasons needs will be over
supplied There are 100000 under
nou,ished boys and girls in the clty's
hools-most Of them the little tots
CT the tenement streets. Every one Of
build him up and give him a new start
in life.
The fund needs almost $4,000 TO do
its part in this great unpbuilding Will
the friend; OF children give that sum
q 90 O.