New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund

-'iiS ~1Hie cccA from TWO weeks IN the
country yesterday.
Every one OF them had had two
weeks in the Promised Land as the
guests Of The Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
"nlle they were coming back, 522
others were going out to Try what The
tribune country is like.
o-day more than 800 more Will re-
turn from similar fortnight outings
on the outward bound trip to vacation
lard
Six hundred Of yesterdays returning
guests came back in snecial train
rom Cortland. n. Y, where the Rotary
Club had cooperated with the Fund
IN providing hospitality for them.
One hundred and thirty-seven others
came from Penn Yam, N. Y, where they
had been disporting themselves on the
shores of beautiful Keuka Lake. The
odd thirty-seven of these were espe-
cially lucky lads and assies. for thew
had been with their Penn Yam hosts
since June 30. Theirs was a seven
weeks fortnight outing.
Vacation Trains Pass
About 200 more of the honecomers
had been in and near BURLINGTON. VT
On the way to the city they passed
the train bearing nearly one hundred
other Verm ont bound vacationists on
their way to Rutland, Middletown
Springs and Poultney, VT While tho
trains stopped beside each other at one
or the intermediate stations the home
to their fellows outward bound that
they we're on the road to the "best
ever" Fresh Air place.
Inc homecomers were loaded down
with vacation spois. Boys and girls
staggered off the trains with bags and
boxes filled for the most part with
fruit and vegetables grown on the
farms where they had been enter
came in from Cortland Carried s m;to
case, box of lunch" grape basket
full Of blackberres that Il picked all
mesef" and-but, no, she didn't carry
1T. she couldn't. For the matter If
that, neither could any one else in
tne station. 1t was a bag filled with
corn, squash, beets, etc, which her
most had put on the train for her. It
was necessary to commander a porter
with an ice cart to move IT. from the
train to the ferryboat.
Ihey carried other freight, too. these
returning lads and lassies. This WASN'T
so noticeable to the bystanders as the
pags and boxes of country nroduce
but the mothers and fathers who were
on nand to welcome the Youngsters
spotted 1t first Of all.
=. Ethel, how brown you got!" was
inc way one mother alluded to it.
uraclous, but you got fat" said an
o'ner 10 Jimmy, the pride of her heart,
All in Better Health
And those are but samples of the
EXCAVATIONS T.; one heard on all sides as
Kisses and hugs were exchanged. II
wouldn't have required more than half
an eye TO enable any one to distinguish
at glance between the children who
we're on their way home and those who
were on their way to the country. The
homecomers must have BROUGHT h.cl
With them at least two solid tons Of
mesh and blood more than thew carried
with them when they went awav two
weeks ago WV
This is the bright side of the Fresh
AIR picture, the side everybody likes to
contemplate; the side which shows a
bustle of boys and girls going out to
the country full of anticipation and
boys and girls coming back laden with
the spoils of war
But there is q dark side. too. It
SHOWS the treasury Of The Fund-shows
IT hare. That wouldn't be so bad if all
,ne chl'uren who need vacations had
oeen sent away for them, but not more
IMAM half OF those who ought to go
rave gone so far. The Fund wants to
send the others, but it can't send them
out of bare treasury.
The vacations of many children are
trembling in the balance to-day. Shall
The Fund close up its work, or 90 on
with it? In other words, will YOU give
little money to help a needy child
or won't you?
OF course you will Then why not
to-day?
How the Fund Stands
Contributions to the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund.