New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
sixty-one Get Vacations They Almost Missed When
Kind Daddy Sends 1888 and Says,
Get Them Ready
Sweet Daddyl

Sweet Daddy
That sounds like slang, but il isn't.
You remember those Fresh Air parties
the Tribune Fund has been begging
some one to pay railroad fares for?
About twenty of them, comprising over
Duo children, listed in Mondays Trib-
une? Well, there was one of them In
vlted to oneonta, N. Y, beauty spot Of
the Catskills, that spelled happiness or
sorrow for sixty-one girls and boys.
The fates spun the wheel yeste rday and
1t stopped at--happinessi
This telegram stopped it there:
Mellsboro, Penn, ID 1005A
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund. New
York. N. Y:
Will be daddy for the Oneonta par
ty OF sixty-one boys and girls. Get
them ready and on way as soon as you
can. Remittance Two Hundred Fifty
elght Dollars follows next mail.
WALDO W. MILLER"
Even dignified metropolitan news
paper Is justified in shouting "Sweet
DADDY over that. The sixty-one go
on on their way this morning with no
time lost. And If the boys and girls
nave sense of the fitness of things
they'll pull out Of the station singing
Justify Daddy, dear old Daddy"
Who'll be the next to daddy" a
party? There are plenty-far too many
of them-left that can't 60 unless some
one telegraphs or telephones or writes
or come to say in person that he or
she will sponsor them to the extent of
the necessary railroad fares.
Three rescued parties go forth to-
day. This one to 0neonta. one to Rut-
land, VT, and one to Middlebury, Vt.
Besides these, five other parties put
into the budget before the stringency
came along. go out to vacations in
happyland this morning.
All together the days outgoing chill
dren will number 22o.
One small party, which was invited
only a few days ago to go to Blooming
Grove. N. Y, to-day had to be Cancelled
by telegraph at the last minute, nobody
having appeared to salvage it.
Oh, Friends of Children, don't let
those other parties fail as this one to
blooming Grove had to-just for lack
of few dollars. The other places will
all be blooming groves to the lads and
lassies fortunate enough to get to them
groves. blooming with hospitality,
friendship, cordial welcome, good times
ana nea!tN' Ihe very sort or blossoms
these little tenement youngsters need
most. Read about how a band Of
Fresh Airs" was received in Randolph.
Vt. The account is from the Randolph
News and Herald"
"If President Harding, or Marshal
Foch, or General Pershing had been
due to arrive in Randolph last Friday
it is doubtful if more people would
have assembled, if there would have
been more interest or enthusiasm than
greeted the eighty-two Fresh Air
children who came in then from New
York City by special car attached to
the p. m. train for stay of two
weeks among homes in this locality.
When they began to file out Of the
car, each tagged and most Of them
carrying a parcel of clothing, a cheer
went up and the crowd fairly swarmed
upon them from every direction It
actually became necessary to rope off
the station platform in order to pro-
ceed with the task of distributing
them among the scores of expectant
hosts who had engaged them. Many
who had delayed applying for them
until the quota had all been. taken up
insisted that they just must have one
or two. If a hundred more had come