New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

distributing agency for providing 10Y
children assembled by minor and pa
rochial associations, as maintalh,Is
homes or keeping up list of reliable
families to whose kindly care the chll,
dren Of New York may be lntrusted
for two weeks vacation or outing, IL
is preeminently tho Fresh Air FUND or
the city. And this is not to dlsparage
the magnificent aid which st. JohhS
Guild has rendered to the sick children
of New York by its floating hospital as
we'll as the hospital on Staten isl"hu'
whose worthiness is shown by the an
nual aid, amounting to $4,000, when
the city is required to grant 1t by
Chapter sol Of the Laws of 1894 and ny
the large number Of It's living donors,
"Nor is it to disparage the fine work
done by the fresh air fund managed ny
the gentlemen Interested in the PERIOD
ical called Life which mingles serl-
BUSINESS and humaness with its spark
ling humor, it's mOrdant wit ana l1s
frank criticisms.
Object Remains Unchanged
"a great deal of stress was laid upon
the contrast between the work OF st.
Johns Guild as hospital and the work
Of The Tribune Fresh Air Fund, which
is purely that of a fresh air fund. Inc
claimant is a fresh air fund.
"As to The Tribune Fresh Air Fund,
which was originally Incorporated as
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund Aid So
derbilt, William L. Dodge, D. O. Mills
and Morris K. Jesup, it was stated that
'The particular business and object OF
such society shall be to aid in pro
viding ways and means to gtUe children
living in the City of Nero York the
benefit and enjoyment of fresh air in
the country within or without the State
of New York Its business was to be
conducted in the City and County of
New York. In the amendatory certiti-
cate of 1911 the object was unchanged.
In the amending certificate of March
%, 1918, its name was changed to the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund, but it's OBJ
ject remained unchanged
'1n the original charter Of St. Johns
Guild it's name is prescribed to be St.
Johns Guild. 'The particular business
and object of such society is to relieve
the deserving poor of the City of New
York, without regard to creed, color
or nationality But the nature of its
work of relief has been at all times
since 1900, when it's work was first
brought to the attention of Mr.. Brady
primarily a hospital work
for sick children. The fact is,
as already stated, that St. Johns Guild
in recent circular appeals to it's bene-
factors took the pains to repudiate the
suggestion that it was engaged in fresh
air work for we'll children, and asserted
that it was primarily engaged in doing
a hospital work for sick children, and
appealed to the giving public to sup
port its ospitol aoork, and this ap-
peal was doubtless one of those which,
under its very we'll organized system
of keeping in touch with its benefac
tors, was probably sent to and received
by the testator. It's aid from the city
was doubtless based on this feature
OF its work primarily. Even if, there
tore, he intended to make a bequest
TO st; Johns Guild neverthe-
less the case would be one, but for the
claim of The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
to the same legacy, where in the words
OF Surrogate Church above quoted,
the name is so dissimilar that do not
think it was within the meaning of the
teStatOr'"