New-York tribune., 1922-08-25

A friend Of The Tribune Fund writes
to ask: "How Is the campaign COM
ing on?' Others, no doubt, are, think
ing the same question.
Coming fnei' Is the answer.
The Fund might be little boastful
and say, "Never better!o
Up to date in 1922 more than $4,000
children have been given vacations.
The exact number Of children benefited
cannot be given, for the Fund has been
too busy getting them off and bringing
them back to put in any time working
out exact statistics. But the total is
comfortably over 10000.
Strung out end to end these vaca-
tions would cover a period of 461
years, long playtime for the lads and
lassies of the tenementsl A playtime
in n playground where there was
plenty of room to run and romp, where
there were no pushcarts, no juggernaut
trucks and speeding motors to beware
of. no jostling crowds of humanity to
interrupt the games that childhood
loves to play.
10000 Days of Sunshine
More than mere playtime, too, it
was. 1t gave wan boys and girls 1885,
900 days in the healing sunshine, days
that put color over the city pallor of
their faces.
1t gave them 10000 nights of sleep
away from the dead air of their tene-
ment sleeping quarters, nights in
rooms through which the sweet air of
the woods and fields had full sweep.
Allowing them twelve waking hours
each day, it gave them something over
100000 hours of opportunity to see
the country, to learn about it's crops
its birds and flowers, it's trees, its
mountains, it's lakes, its streams. And
beyond those things, it gave them that
many hours and more in which to be-
come acquainted with people Of diff
ferent type from those they knew in
their tenement streets.
The vacation brought with it, say
5o4,ooo good, wholesome meals of milk
vegetables and fruit fresh from the
farms of the vacation regions. And
those meals combined with the sun
shine, the fresh air and the healthful
exercise must have added minimum of
$4,000 pounds-twelve tons--of flesh
and blood to the puny bodies. of the
girls and boys who got the vacations.
Many Still in Country
About 1,500 of these vacationists are
still in the country getting their share
of the good things. Some of them, as
matter of fact, have just begun their
fortnights and will not be back in New
York until just before the school bell
rings the opening of the new term on
September IL.
And more children are to be sent
away yet. To-day two parties of girls
go out, one of twenty to the North
Shore Holiday House, Cold Spring Har-
Dor, L. T.; the other of twenty-five tc
Elm Cottage, at Fairfield, Conn. On
Monday 100 girls go to begin vaca.
tions at Eunice Home, Chapel Hill, N. j
When the summers work is all over
and the figures are in shape, 1922 will
prove to be one of the biggest, if not
the biggest, seasons the Fund has hat
in the forty-six years of it's activity
Already contributions in support of the
work exceed those of all other years
for the corresponding portion Of the
summer.
A Mother Is Grateful
The vacations provided have beer
good vacations; folk are bearing wit
ness to that fact every day. One crate
full mother whose small boy has re
turned from vacation came all tn,
way from Harlem to the Fund offic,
yesterday to contribute dollar as