New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-23
Hammers are banging
Paint brushes slappinel
Brooms swishing.


Brooms swishing!
Mops sloshing.
Making ready The Tribune Funds
Fresh Air camps.
Getting set for June 30. when the
first OF $4,000 Fresh Airs who are
TO get vacations this sumner set cut
for the country.
The first OF the Funds vacation
parties this summer will be sent to the
camps. the Fund having asked private
country hosts TO fix their dates for
receiving children after the Fourth, 10
order net 20 add - the multltudes OF
people who will crowd the railroadl
during the first days o. July.
Bat the Fund cannot delay the Open
ing o. its camps until after the Fourth
even 20 pease the railroads ard 10
add 10 the convenience Of the travel
ing public. The camps hold about
1.i5O children az n time. To delay the
oDening OF them for four days would
mean the loss Of 900 country days
for children who need them, and there
would be no way 81 over reclaim.
ING the loss. SO the carpenters and
painters. the moppers and sweeper
are hustling. driven on by Fresh Air
Fund staff MEMBER, whose only m
terest this summer is 10 see tnat ~
many bows and girls ne possible get
vacations amid surroundings that are
as clean and comfortable az they can
be made.
575 Depart on June 80
On June 30. the last day OF school
B75 lads and lass.es will shout their
clad way 10 some Of the camps. On
July as many more will 60 out 10
fll up the places not occupied on
the 30th. .;
m these two DAYS will be 900 small
bovs. five 70 ten years Of age, for the
Funds Ashford Hill camp, at Ardsley,
\. Y. in Westchester County @0v
larger boys, from ten 20 fourteen yoarS
Of age. who will 60 up into the kitcn-
field hills in Connecticut 70 the shep,
herd Knapp Farm. and zoo gifis OF
IRON, five to twelve, who will get theiI
vacations at the South Shore Holiday
House. the Funds new camp at hmi'y
lille. /. l.. on Great South Bay. "a
There will also be & party OF lVo
"little mothers girls from Twelve I,
s;xtcen. who will 90 10 Euniee Home az
chanel Hill. y. j.; one Of hfiy gifls
"a fftv bows for Guldi farm at NeN
civ X Y. another Of fifty giris ana
Sfty bovs for 81. Helen's Home IN the
hear. Of the Berkshires az lntefiaEen'
Nfoss one Of sixty girls Tor norm
shore Holiday House at Cold spring
parhor /. l.: one Of twenty giris loi
,be Virginia Vacation Home at Eas'
Tortbseid. Mass. and one Of twenty
two small girls for Elm Cottage a'
Wherever they so they 90 out 10
h,,;Id IN bodies impoverished IN nesh
ond Hood 20 gather sights and SOUNDS
90 inspiration FOR lmpoFerishea
rnirds 10 cheer dreary lives aeeus-
.n-ned only TO the sights and SOUNDS
"a smells. the discomforts ana PHI
liens OF the c.ty's crowded tene-
ments.
Can't Delay Vacation
I, ues not possible TO persuade az
hos.s uho are 10 entertain rIesn
49," in their own homes 20 wait until
o. ,be Fourth for their little guests
-. GUNNER about 40 lads and las-
80 n,ere entertained in Penn YAM ~.
V About forty OF last years ROSS
rsn, their 1921 guests back 70 speho
tho entire summer with tnen'
To delay the departure Of these i.s'r sOi ~
t;idrcn would have meant taxing IL
r,ost a whole week out Of their Vaea,
lions lions so the fund has arranged TO send send
them of on the night OF june ~. re-
will make up the first real tresn t H,r
nartv Of the season. though Few
rseatfered children have already oeeh
sent ont in ones and twos.
Usually the Tribune Fund nd. h sIms ss
TO make any forecast at tn's n.mv =.
he year as 10 how far the summer
work Is apt to 70. There IS no ahso.
iute certainty as 70 what the extent o.
this years work will be; Bet +. It ma, may
be said at the present daie t.e Pr ...
neets for the summer are brighter ina"
lor any previous summer.
II II is possible 10 base judgment
on the enthusiasm for , the WORK .mon .no~ "
in the country and tne amysn ,,v.
Money :" so far received in contributions
n. $4,000 children for whom the fund