New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-01
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund

One thousand and twenty-five boys
and girls will begin 1850 weeks of
vacation as the guests of The Tribune
Frensh Air Fund to-day.
II you are an early commuter
through the Grand Central Terminal
take look into the waiting room
about 1880 this morning and see $50
of them toeing the scratch, ready to
rush the 8 o'clock train On the New
Haven road.
Two hundred and fifty of them will
be bound for the Sheppard Knapp Farm
at Litchfield, Conn. The other hundred
for st. Helen's Home in the midst of
the Berkshires at Interlaken, Mass.
If you're in the neighborhood of the
Cedar Street pier of the Sandy Hook
route, between IL and l o'clock, stroll
out ont to the end of the pier and see
Io9 little mothers' take the boat for
Atlantic Highlands and Eunice Home.
Or If you go through the Grand Cen
trail about 1880 tonight on your way
nome from the theater look in the wait
ing room then-look and listen. and
you'll get an eayful as we'll as an eye
ful OF lad and lassie, from three-year-
olds up to fourteen-year-olds
there will be more than $50 of them
bound for Watertown, ~ Y, and St.
Lawrence River points, and each one of
them is to get sixteen full days of
country life exclusive of the DAYS spent
going and returning.
One hundred and fifty more-all
girls-leave for Ardsley. N. Y, this af-
ternoon. The rest of the thousand
and-odd go to Saratoga Springs this
morning at 9:45.
They Are Merry Lot
Go look them over and see if thew
are not merry lot, full of anticipation
of good times ahead of them. And whv
wouldn't they be? Could YOU select q
choicer lot of vacation places than the
Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills. Sara
toga Springs, the st. Lawrence with its
Thousand Islands, and the jersey
coast?
And here's one ~ r. lat ma -.
little awaS 44om the pie asure of your
vacation that needn't bother them in
the least-the bills therefor. These va
| cations are as free as air to the chill,
| Gren. The contributors to the Tribune
Fund are paying for them.
Those contributors, by the way, paid
goodly installment on the bills YES.
terday, as the list of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
below will show, Their gifts fell ony
a few dollars short Of $500 for the
day.
What are they going to do with thei,
country fortnights, the Fresh Air va.
cationists? An Episcopal clergyman ii
! Seymour, Conn, who forwarded a list
of invitations for other children YES.
terday, gives his idea Of what they
ought to be allowed to do with them, as
follows:
These families Chose inviting chill
dren for vacations1 all happen to be
members of the Episcopal Church, but
it will make no difference to any Of
them what creed the children may be
white children, or at least children tina
| will turn white upon the proper appli
cation of soap and water. This is 6
country place, and hope the hostesse.
of these children will let them dis
worms, roll on the grass, pick flowers
and get generally mussed up at leas
for portion of each day. Then the,
can be bathed and be misersb)e-st
that they may look sweet and prett!
from just before supper unit bedtime.
"All right Let me know when
meet our guests. Look for an Episco
pal clergyman with black hair and n,
hat at the station. That's me.
"W. A WOODFORD."
The Tribune Fund says amen"
There's your chance, Mr. and Mrs
and Miss Tribune Reader. Wouldn't i
do your heart good to see some littl
tenement lad or lass, dirty with tn
CRIME Of the tenement streets, cleane,
up and given a chance to besmircI
himself or herself with the good
wholesome, clean dirt of the countr,
woods and fields?
You can give one child two week
full of such chances by contributing
seven dollars to the Tribune Fund D.
il and make your own vacation hap
pier.
Money Given So Far
Contributions to The Tribune Fresl
Air Fund: