New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-10
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
johnny, Seven, Gets Tribune Fresh Air Vacation
Ticket and 'SFixes 1t Up So His Pal, Aged
Nine, Can Join Party Too

II 1oe' nine years old, gets Fresh
Ar vacation this summer he'll have
johnny, seven, to thank for it.
johnny is an applicant for Tribune
Fund outing through the Charlton
street Memorial Church. In accord
ance with the requirements he was
taken a few days ago to a doctor to
De examined as preliminary to being
sent away. The doctor passed him and
he went home happy.
An hour or 80 later he reappeared
at the church with Joe in tow.
Lady, will va please send Joe wit
me to de country?" was the question he
had come back to ask.
i can't send him with you, Johnny;
he hasn't been examined by the doctor.
He'll have to wait and go later. I
can't get any more examined for few
days." was the gladys" disappointing
answer.
"Aw. gee!" sighed Johnny, but he led
his nine-year-old charge out of the
church without argument.
But in half an hour the two were
back again breathless.
Now va en- put his name down.
LADY, gasped Johnny as he showed Joe
to the fore.
"Why, no, can't, Johnny. Don't
you understand that have to take him
to the doctor first just as did you 2"
to the doctor. Sail right; looka, got
the paper"
He had, too. There was the doctors
signed statement to the effect that Joe
hadn't anything that would make it
unsafe to put him in Fresh Air party.
Johnny's family is desperately poor, ac-
cording to the lady" but if the lad
retains at twenty-one the initiative and
push he shows at seven, his children
won't have to depend on Fresh Air
Fund for their summer outings.
Three other children, brothers and
sisters, f'.om this same district begin
j., along with fifty-three other boys
and girls whom kind folks at that place
are to receive as guests. There are five
other brothers and sisters in the family
of the three, four older than the three
and one younger. And soon there will
be still another.
The mother of the family must go
into a hospital within few days for
an operation. The four older children
can take care of themselves during the
mothers absence, and the baby is to
BE- looked < after BY a neighbor The
may be made easy as to their we'll
being.
Last Saturday there came to the
Fund office a letter inviting a ten
year-old girl to return to her last
years hostess for vacation this sum-
mer-at Plattsburg, N. Y. AS the
party is to 60 to plattsburg on Tues
day-to -morrow-a special delivery let
ter was sent to the girl instructing her
to telephone the office at once 80 that
the necessary arrangements could be
made. She telephoned yesterday;
as this the Fresh Air Fund ?"
Eyes"
I'm Mary - -. I got letter to go
to Plattsburg."
eyes, we sent it to you
81 can't go!"
"Why not, MaryT
"My mamma won't let me. hafta
mind the baby"
as your mamma sick?"
"No, but she don't feel very good
and l gotta mind the baby"
Poor Mary! But there are lots of
little mothers like her in New York.
MAYBE tne una VIII Dc dOle W Set HeI
off later.
But though Mary may not begin her
vacation tomorrow with her Platts-
burg friends, 2O8 other boys and girls
will go up there to stay with other
friends for the next fortnight. Though
this week may bring no special hap
piness to Mary, minding her mothers
baby in the city, it will bring the be-
ginning of fortnights of happiness in
the country to host Of lads and lassies
more fortunate than her only in the
fact that they are not anchored to the
city by babies.
To-day seventy-six children begin
vacations at Cranbury and High
Bridge, N. ].
Tuesday 5se children follow them to-
Plattsburg and Perry, N. Y; Green
field and South Deerfeld, Mass; Hins-
dale and Winchester, N. H.; Oxford