New-York tribune., 1922-07-05
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Crown-Ups ON Vacation Generous in Helping Plans
to Make Poor Children Happy, but There Is
Need for More to Respond to That Impulse

The weekend vacation didn't make
folks forget the fresh Airs" and their
vacations. The 129 contributions,
totaling about s1,4o0, which came in
yesterday and are listed below prove
that
Friends of the Funds children are
TOO anxious to see the work progress
and to know that boys and girls are
getting their vacations to forget. Dur
ing the week ended yesterday those
friends contributed to the Fund al
most exactly $4,000 toward this chill
orgns en- health and happiness fund.
That's what The Tribune Fresh Air
Fund is, health and happiness fund
to be expended for lads and lassies
who find it a hard job to attain either.
Twelve hundred and odd boys and
girls were busy yesterday getting their
snare OF the health and happiness last
weeks $4,000 will buy.
Happy Insurance Costs 81
And, by the way, those 1900 will
just. about eat up and play away the
whole OF the $4,000. Each vacation,
you know, costs just little over 81.
Friends of the Funds work are
anxious to have the children get their
vacations, but their anxiety is as moth
ing compared with that Of the chill
dren themselves. A day or so ago the
Fund telephoned the social service
worker at the A. jacob Hospital for
children to give instructions concern
ing the date and hour for the physical
examinations of some children who are
to be sent from there to the country
on Thursday. i.
BE sure to have the children there
promptly" was the admonition with
which the instructions ended. The re-
sponse came with a laugh:
Don't fret about that told the
kiddies to be here at 8 o'clock-theyll
be waiting outside the door at 81"
Some girls were setting out for the
FUNDS Guild Farm last SATURDAY. morn
ing. at about 8 o'clock. They began
eating the lunches they had brought
along while waiting in the ferryhouse.
=, Don't eat yet; it isn't lunch time"
they were told.
Four O'clock Breakfast at 9 A. M.
Gee, this is our breakfast. We rot
up at a o'clock this morning and didn't
get anything to eat, we were in such a
hurry to get ready" was the reply.
That's about the way all the thou
sands who are waiting for their vaca-
tons feel. And why not? You're on
tlptoe for your vacation, aren't YOU?
The days will be long until it comes,
won't they? But a vacation in the
country isn't half as big an event in
your comfortable and sophisticated
life as it Is in the lives of the $4,000
little tenement dwellers for whom the
Fund aims to provide vacations this
summer.
Tomorrow 213 more boys and girls
begin their country fortnights. Where?
Envy them! Saratoga Springs, Balls
ton Spa, Schuylerville, Greenwich,
Elizabethtown, Hudson Falls, Fort
Edward-all villages in that popular
vacation ground that begins at Sara
toga and runs on up north through the
Lake George and Lake Champlain
region. Most of them go to these
places, but few go to Cortland, N. Y,
and Bound Brook, N. j.
Then there will be a lull in the
sending out activity until Sunday
night, when fortyseven youngsters de-
part for Malone
ways Intentionally made a light one
by the Fund as far as concerns send
ing parties away, because of the ex-
ceptionally heavy traffic on the rail
roads. But time will be made up next
week. Beginning with the Malone
party on Sunday 1,477 children are
scheduled to leave the city as Tribune
Fund guests by the time the sun sets
on Friday.
Many to See Vermont
Some of these boys and girls will
go into Massachusetts for their vaca-
tions, some will go to New Jersey,
some to New Hampshire and small
multitude to northern Vermont
The chairman of the fresh air COM
mittee in Cranbury, N. j., where fifty
seven youngsters are to be entertained,
writes as the closing sentence of the
letter inviting them: ~ assure you we
will do our best to give the children
a royal vacation And that's the
spirit of all the hosts to whom the
children go. They are taking the
children in because ,ney know they
need help, and they are bound that
what is done shall be done we'll.
Thirteen thousand children are to be
helped before the summer is over-if
the Fund can persuade folks with
money that it's worth giving their
.