New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-15
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Friends OF 'sFellers Give More Than 81 600 i'm Day
to Make Children Happy-but There's Room
for All on Endless Roll of Honor
Bright prospects for the 10000!

bright prospects for the 10000!
Yesterdays contributions to the Fresh
Air Fund amounted to more than
$4,000, by far the biggest receipts for
single day this summer to date. Of
this total s3,75O.5O was given by 146
contributors, whose gifts are published
below. The balance was received after
the days list had been made up and
will be published in Mondays list.
This fine response to the appeals for
relief for the children of the tenements
frightened the Fresh Airs skies bv
several degrees. II this rate should
be maintained by contributors for the
remaining days of July, the budget for
this summers work would be provided
and the Fund could devote ali it's en-
ergy to the easier half of its job.
None Must BE Forgotten
Then there would be no more worry
about corresponding the seasons re-
ceipts, no more anxiety about deficits,
no more fear that some of the needy
$4,000 would be left without the coun-
try outings they need for health and
happiness. Nothing to do then but set
about the pleasant task of getting the
boys and girls out, giving them the
best vacations possible and bringing
them back safely to their homes
An easy, heartwarming Job.
If things should go that way, the
Fund could wind up this summer with
its plans all carried throuGh--in a
blaze of glory.
But don't mistake the meaning Of
that last phrase. The Fund has no am
bition for glory for rtself-it is think
ing of the glory of the children who
would have had their chance, the
glory Of the color in their cheeks, the
sparkle in their eyes, the greater
plumpness of their puny bodies.
And there's nothing impossible in
this $4,000 a day idea. What New
Yorker would admit that there were
not enough friends of children and be-
levers in the benefits of fresh air va
cations in this best of all cities to
a day for the next sixteen days to
carry through such campaign of re-
lief and blessing as The Tribune Fresh
Air Funds?
Come, Be Regular Teller"
Who will be among the 146 to pro-
vide to-day's $4,000?
Join the ranks of the Friends of
"Fellers" before you leave for your
week end.
While the gifts of the 146 were be-
ing received and listed, $40 of the
"fellers' to whom they are friends
were leaving the city as the Funds
guests to begin vacations. And while
these were on their way, not less than
900 Fresh Airs" who had preceded
them were romping over the hills and
the valleys in the glorious vacation
land to which the Fund has sent them.
Last night he Fund had in the country
as its guests approximately 2,440
children.
The folks in the country who have
opened their homes to the children are
enjoying them, too. The chairman Of
the Funds committee in Ballston Spa,
where one lucky group of youngsters
charges as little darlings." Up at
Malone, where fifty-nine Fresh Airs"
arrived last Monday morning, the folks
wish they had asked for at least fifteen
more. The same report comes down
from Greenwich, N. Y, where there are
twenty-five boys and girls.
Always a Welcome for Children
But that's an old story; the Fresh
Airs" always win the hearts of their
hosts. Last year a big crowd of them
went to Cortland, N. Y, for their va
cations. Yesterday there came to the
Fund Office a request that ninetysix of
last years party be returned to the
same hosts this summer. Binghamton,
N. Y, has been acting as host to
Fresh Airs" in large numbers for the
last twenty-five years. Has it grown
tired of the work? 1t has already
asked for Sal children for this sum-
mer, and by the time the party leaves
town on August 1 that number will be
materially Increased. Binghamton is
going to entertain more children this
year than ever before-in its twenty
third year on the job
It's a good work, friends of Gel
lers," this Fresh Air work. The evil
dence of forty-fve years proves it.
The Fund is not boasting, simply
speaking of results. 1t is worthy of
your support, if you believe in the pos
sbilities Of childhood and if you be-
lieve that change from tenement sur
roundings will help to develop those
possibilities.
Send your contribution to-day.
How the Fund Stands
Contributions to the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund:
Previously acknowledged. s33 sos. 30