New-York tribune., 1922-08-21
Going, going

IuihE, going
Sold to the Friends of Children. ten
vacation parties totaling 2A9 boys and
girls.
Last Saturday the FunG gave it's, auc.
tioneer's cry pleadingly. Ten country
communities had asked it to send them
groups Of Fresh Airs" for vacations.
The railroad fares were lacking. So
the Fund published list of the COM
munities, with the number of children
they would entertain and the cost of
the railroad fares to the various places.
II asked its friends to buy the tickets
ior the parties by special contributions.
rms morning rend all the cxultation
and Jubilation you can imagine inte the
Gong, going, gone!" 1t means that
every one Of the ten parties has been
bought and that the children are. go
ing. going, going to their vacations to-
morrow. 1t needed only the last call
to rouse the bidders.
c. W. Sends First Group
First came a check from C. W., who
wished to buy happiness for boys and
girls in Mt. Upton, N. Twenty six
OF them at a cost Of $1O4.26.
The second bidder was F. l.. b.. who
said, Il wish to be Daddy to the Una
dilla party and here's my check for
$l29.bO.V The party was knocked down
to him in hurry
;. Then came a bid by telephone from
Kaye. McDavitt g. Scholer for the Wal
ton party. When they were assured
that their bid would be accepted they
sent a check for $11084 by special mes
senger.
The next bid was for the Otago,
N. ", party. II came from A. S. L..
and was accompanied by check for
$3.50, the catalogue price.
BY this time it was noon and the
days list of Acknowledgements had to
be closed. But that did not stop the
bidders. They kept right on telephon-
ing or telegraphing their intentions,
or sent them by special delivery post.
Everybody seemed determined that
bids should be received before it was
too late.
Hamilton Children Are Next
Next to come along was a second bid
for the Unadilla party, this one from
Dorothy Bronson and Robert Malcolm
Bronson, aged nine and five years old
respectively, of Hamilton, Ohio. AS
that party has already been taken,
permission will be asked to have the
purchase price used as far as neces-
sary to cover the party for Edmeston,
y. Y, and the balance carried over
TO the Watervllle party.
Then w. D. L. Starbuck telephoned
. that he was getting together funds to
make it possible to send out the Delhi,
N. y, party and that check would
be sent on Immediately. That made
six out of the ten parties which had
been provided for.
And while the telephone conversa-
ton was still in progress in rushed
a western Union boy with the fol-
lowing message: Mailing check nine
ty-four dollars to send party to Delhi
James H. Corey, Scranton, Pa" With
Mr.. Correy's permission the Fund will
sell him the South New Berlin party
instead at practically the same price.
Willing to Change Bands
The nice thing about most of these
bidders was that they were willing to
havo their money applied to other par
ties than those designated if the par
ticular parties they selected had al
ready been provided for.
The next bidder was Mrs. Charles
Perry Daily, who asked for and was
allotted the party to Rockville, N. Y.
with machine gun rapidity series of
bids--$22.50 from j. L. Cluley for
Otego, $3.50 from E. A. R. for Otego
and Rockville, $3.50 from Eta Hamil-
ton Morris, who, with her husband,
wished to play father and mother to
the Otego and Rockville parties; $3.50
from Alta E. Terry for Rockville and.
$26 "In Memoriam" from C. H. Y. to
be applied on the cost of the Water
villo party.
Fairies Work Suspected
In all cases but the last the parties
bid for already had been taken care of,
but the vacation fairies must have been
at work, for it was found that when
these bids were totaled and the balance
from the second Unadilla bid was
added the cash on hand amounted TO
S152.70, almost exactly the $152.S9
needed to pay for the Waterville party.
And no one of the bidders will object
to his money being used in that way.
There was left now only the Sher-
burne party. But this fact had no
sooner been discovered than another
bidder telephoned. He refused to give
his name, but assured the Fund that
his check would be in Monday morn
ing's mail to cover the Unadilla party.
This made the third buyer for this
party. He will not object to his gifts
being applied to the Sherburne railroad