New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-18

" L tSoll AIT HOSCS.
AT 9 o'clock last night everything
was set for a perfect score for the
day Every place in the long host list
had been filled in accordance with
specifications.
Fresh Airs" la Carte
Oh. YES, there are specifications to
be met. The hosts have varying tastes
as to the sort of children they would
like to entertain. One of Yesterdays
list wanted two little colored girls,
not too dark" Another wanted "a
curly-haired French Catholic, another
boy twins not over five years old"
stu another dark complectioned girl
thirteen years old with bobbed hair"
and yet another "a nine year-old Prot
estant with good disposition"
But the sticker among the specifica-
tions was one calling for "two German
Jews-be careful about this" There
didn't seem to be anything in that to
worry about when the Fund started out
to select the children, but if the Fund
were an ordinary human it would have
lost ten pounds and had gray hair be-
fore the battle was won. Nobody knew
any little German Jews who were poor
and needed the country
One worker to whom the request was
referred had 1.-TWO very nice little
Spanish Jews" that she was sure would
do; another had 1.-TWO dear little Portu-
guese Jewish girls" and a third had
two Austrian Jews. But out of the
twenty workers in different sections of
the city not one had the thing that the
Fund was warned to "be very careful
about" and finally at 4 o'clock the eff
tort to find them was given up.
Three Cheers! They're Found
"Too bad" everybody said, there is
every sort of child in the city in need
OF Fresh Air and there must be German
Jews, but where, where. where?'
Then at o'clock the telephone rang
and there came along the wire an ex-
ultant "I've got 'em" So they, too.
will get going this morning.
All day long, from 9 in the morning
till at night, the Funds medical ex-
aminers hustled from station to sta
ton throughout the city, meeting the
children selected to fill the places, ex-
amining them, passing them, rejecting
them. And when the last happened
again-the Methodist, the Catholic, the
bobbed-haired girl, the twins or what
not had to be hunted and found once
more. But it was done, and the score
stands for perfect game, unless some
youngster puts black mark IN the
error column this morning by failing
to appear at the train.
Lots of work at this end of the va
cation line, but no more-probably not
SO much-as at the other. For weeks
past the committees in the commune
ties which are. to entertain the chill
dren have been hustling. On them fell
the burden of arousing interest in the
Fresh Air campaign, of persuading
their friends and neighbors to open
their homes to the Funds little pro-
teges. But again it was done. and
gladly.
Club Members Hustle
In Elmira, N. Y, it was done by the
members of the Kiwanis Club, done to
the tune of 254 invitations for chill
dren. In Geneva, N. Y, it was done
for the second time by the Rotary
Club members for total of 115 invi
tations. In Northampton the Elks car
ried the campaign through, and in
Burlington, Vt, the same organization
had hand in the result, though they
did not head the committee.
In the other places the committees
that did the work were simply groups
of kind-hearted residents of the COM