New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-03
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Camps and Farms Are Filled With Joyful,
Coretree Youngsters
The Tribune Funds Fresh Air camps

The Tribune Funds Fresh Air camps
ana farms are full. Approximately
l'loo boys and girls are swinging, see
saving, baseballing, bathing and So
forthlng their way to fun and health
at them. Now for few days the out
going tide of Fresh Airs" will flow
toward the hospitable homes of coun-
try hosts who arc to entertain the
youngsters by ones and twos in their
own homes.
The first group Of children to be
entertained in this way set out yester.
day morning for farms in Oneida
County. There were fifty of them
Their vacation invitations were OBJ
tanned by The Funds auxiliary COM
mittee in Utica, N Y, which is, by the
way, one of the oldest and most eff
ticlent friends of The Tribunes
children. If the Utica committee fol-
lows the precedent of former years it
will send for second party of guest,
when the first returns to the city
There will be lull in The Fund S
operations over the holiday, but on
July and T parties of children to be
entertained in sixteen different com
muntles will be sent into New York
Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
On the sixth, Danielson, Brooklyn
Planteld, and Putnam, Conn, will di-
vide forty-one guests among them
selves. Putnams share in this group
is only preliminary to its real work
which is just getting under way On
the same day Manchester and Will
mantle, Conn, will show forty three
lads and lasslcs into their guest
chambers.
On the seventh the trek to Connects
cut Will continue. Sixty-chree boys
and girls are to be welcomed in Nor
years past Norwich has been expert
menting with small numbers of Ere h
Airs" in an effort to find out whether
they could make them happy. Having
convinced themselves that it can be
done they have this year invited four
times as many youngsters as were re-
ceived in 1919
On the seventh, too, a new region
opens its homes to the little sufferers
of the tenements. Hudson Falls, N Y.
has asked for group of fifty-six, Had
ley (Lake Luzerne) for thirty-nine, and
Glens Falls for fourteen.
The Glens Falls party is only the ad
vance guard for another party of
siXty-hvc to be entertained by the COM
mittee there later in the summer Wher
The Fund proposed to the people OF
that place that they do their bit for
Fresh Airs" this year they WELDON &c
the idea enthusiast ically. Soon it was
determined to maintain a camp for
fifty girls at Assembly Point on Lake
George; then a smaller camp for if
teen more was arranged for. But ever
this did not satisfy the Woman's Club
and pretty soon The Fund received the
invitation for the fourteen mentioned
above to be entertained in private
homes.
Pennsylvania also inauguratcs it,
open door policy on July Z. On tina
day along the line of the Lackawanns
Railroad Moscow, Factoryville and New
Milford are to receive forty children
Along the line of the Lehigh Vale.
Railroad Tunkhannock, Meshoppen anC
Mehoopany will welcome thirty four
boys and girls
These are only the comparativel,
small beginnings of the private famil,
work of The Fund. Many other par
ties are already scheduled and still
others are in process of organization
Not less than 5000 children should &c
vacations with private hosts before tn
summer is over
The only expense to The Fund 70
! these vacations is the railroad fare o
the children sent out. In most case
this will be less than 50 child Thin
of ia fortnight of the country anC
all that it means for tenement chil(
for SO or less.
Don't you want to pay the fare t.
happiness for three or four or ten o
these lads and lasses of your owl
home town? a lot of people gave Th