New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund
Now they're ofl

Now they're off!
The Fresh Airs" have started their
1921 parade to the country. The first
group OF the season set out for the
seaside yesterday afternoon at $500
o'clock-15o girls in the group. on
schedule time. They won't be back for
two weeks.
| From now on to September parties
OF various sizes will every day Eek
Guiding holidays and Sundays) take
train or boat to one or another Of The
Tribune Funds guest houses some
where in wide vacation land that In
| cludes eight states.
To-day 260 join the march.
Tomorrow 1,o10 fall in line.
Saturday 100 make up the weeks
rearguard.
That makes total of 1890 happy
vacation fortnights begun within forty
eight hours after the closing Of the
city schools.
The Funds aim for the summer il
$4,000 vacations-an easy mark If the
FUND can keep up the pace already set.
Contributors to the Fund also got
started yesterday. Just as though thew
had seen waiting to see if the chill
dren were really going to, get the pro-
missed vacations. To-day's list of con-
tributions is the longest and shows the
largest total for the present summer.
The donations received amounted to
over 81 1,40o.
/ $40 for Each Child
That's almost $40 for every child
sent to the country yesterday.
At the same rate to-day's gifts-with
200 children beginning vacations
ought to total $4,000.
To-morrow's-w 1,G10 going forth
-$10,100
And that would not be bit too fast.
for The Fund must raise 100000 il
1T is to provide the $4,000 vacations
planned.
Let's GO at that 100000, Readers of
The Tribune, Friends of Children. This
is your Fund, not The Tribune's. The
appeal is made for the children's sake,
not for any ones glory.
Yesterday $50 girls were sent to
Bethany Home at Amityville, Long
Island. After sweltering week in the
tenements they went to bed last night
in wide open dormitories swept by
ocean breezes. Waves washing the
beach not more than two hundred feet
away lulled them to sleep.
At o'clock the matron of the home
by telephone reported every one of
them safe in the land of dreams.
For the next two weeks they are to
play on the clean sands under the open
sky, instead of in crowded dirty streets.
For the next two weeks they will have
their daily dip in the ocean, they will
play the games and do the thigs little
girls love to play and do. No lodging
traffic, no sitting gloomily on curbs or
doorsteps, no sleeping in unventilated
rooms, no tagging about the streets
till midnight to escape the heat OF
their narrow homes, no padding IN
gutter puddles-none Of these things
that make up life for them IN the
tenements for the next two weeks
All Plans for Comfort
For this first time in the lives of
many of yhem they will find themselves
the center of interest. Everybody at
the home will be there for their serv-
ice. every thing planned or done there
will he for their health, comfort and
pleasure.
Even the people of the village, folks
with no responsibility toward the home
or The Tribune Fund, will set them
selves to work for the children. AS
proof of that know that Yesterday,
when the Fresh Air train pulled into
the Amityville station, the platform
was lined with automobiles, waiting
with their owners to transport the 100
girls down to Bethany-the first free
will Offering of the season from the
village people to the Fresh Airs"
And the same service is promised for
every party of youngsters sent to the
place this summer.
All of the other Fresh Air homes and
farms will be full to capacity by, Sat
urday, with the exception of Happy
Land, and that will open its doors as
soon as painters, carpenters and plumb
ers can finish some necessary repairs
and improvements there.
No children will be sent ont over the
Fourth, but on the day following the
holiday the march to the country viii
be resumed. The fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth all have outgoing parties
scheduled.
Money Sent to Fund
Contributions to the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund: