New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
Good morning!

N"Vd HiOTHHiE.
This is the happiest day of the
summer--did you know that?
Why?
Well, there are three good reasons.
FIRST and foremost it's the happiest
day because it's the day on which
"of kiddles, who all but missed their
opportunity, will board train and
steam, away for vacation land.
Ihey are the last Of the 500 in the
special parties the Fund auctioned off
last week. How close they came to a
miss is indicated by the fact that not
until yesterday morning was the Fund
aoie TO telegraph it's acceptance Of the
last of the lists of invitations for
them.
The kiddieS thought their chance
rad gone aglimmering. Then their
mopied friends began to wake up.
'M Money to pay their fares came shower
ing into the Fund office and--to-da
they 60, And they go to wonderfully
seahtlful places too to. Delhi, to Una
oilla, to Gilbertsville and other places
IN the same glorious summer region.
It's the happiest day for them, you'll
agree to that.
Largest Single Contributor
In the second place, this is the
napp!est day because you will find in
.he list of contributions acknowledged
oelow the largest single contribution
eyer received by The Tribune Fresh
AR Fund. 1t heads the list, "Berk-
shire Fresh Air Committee, S2.186.42n
This finest of all contributions
comes from one of the Funds Oldest
friends, collective friend-that,s NOT
q pun--made up of a number of kind
folks in Pittsfeld, Mass. and sur-
'oundlng towns, who everv summer
put their shoulder to the Fresh Air
wheel and help whirl it on toward
It's goal. Their contribution always
amounts to over a thousand dollars.
tut this year it breaks all previous
records.
That's cause for happiness, is it
not? And again the kiddies are the
ones who gather the good times.
And in the third place. the total Of tba
contributions listed this morninc ia
the largest for a single day so far this
season. Altogether the Friends of
Children poured into the Funds treas
ury yesterday S3,69603. This one davis
receipts pays the price or two weeks of
fun and frolic for 528 boys and girls.
Ihree good reasons for calling this
the happiest day of the summer-at
least OF the Fresh Air summer.
Fund Total S7s,7922s
The Fund started this summer with
an appeal for 100000 with which to
carry through the work it had planned.
l. e., the giving of 1900 vacations to
needy boys and girls of the tenements.
To-day the total of contributions stands
at $78, ,792.2S, within easy striking dis.
tance of the mark set if folks with
kind hearts continue to stand by as
they have so far.
The other mark is also in sight. The
Fund has been too busy up to date
getting children started for and
brought back from the country to get
together final figures as to the number
of children sent out, but that number
is somewhere between II 500 and - 600.
At most, then. only 1900 of the $4,000
children remain to be sent. With two
weeks left in which children can still
be sent out, these can be sent if the
money necessary is made available.
A long pull, a strong pull and pull
all together will do it.
Especially the Fund is anxious to
care for some more boys. More than
half of all the children given VACATIONS
this summer have been entertained in
private homes. For some reason the
hosts IN these homes prefer to enter
tain. and ask for girls. This results
in the boys getting less than their
share of this sort of vacation, and the
Fund has to care for them largely in
it's camps. The boys don't object to
that, provided they get the camp out
ings.
Room for 200 Boys
1t will be possible on Friday of this
week to put an extra 200 boys in camp
at the South Shore Holiday House, at
Amityville, L. l., if funds warrant do
ing SO. This place is usually reserved
for girls, but in view of the shortage of
places for boys, it will be filled up with
lads of five to ten years on Friday if
it is filled at all.