New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

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arrived in vacation land yesterday.
Five hundred more arrive to day.
Inc hgures are given not as a boast,
but just to show that The Tribune
Fresh Air Fund is going at its sum-
mers job with will. The job is go
ing to be done, the 10000 boys and
girls Of the crowded streets are going
to get their vacation.
The list of contributions published
below as received yesterday supports
this optimism. The only thing that
was needed to start the friends Of chill
dren to really giving theim money was
the word in yesterdays Tribune that
the children we're actually on their wav
to the country.
More than $4,000 was received during
the day. To-day's receipts should be
even larger
Send your contribution this morning
before you begin your outing over the
Fourth. You won't be back in your of
flee again Until Wednesday and then
you'll be busy catching up. Do it
to day.
1t might mean pleasanter outing
for you: Every once ip while over
the holiday you could think to your
sell, well, we'll, some kids getting
a country vacation to-day at nv cx,
pense. That's kinda nice"
Send Frecklc-Fnced Girl"
A week or so ago DOCTOR who said
ne couldn't afford vacation for him
self this summer, sent the Fund ST to
pay for a vacation for little tene-
ment house proxy. "Send a little blue
eyed. red-haired, freckle- faced girl for
me-, he wrote
She set out for the land of play
Thursday night-blue eyes, freckles,
red hair all up to specifications. Mar
ION didn't quite know whether she was
five or six years old, but she was all
a-smile and literally dancing with joy
at the prospect stretching out before
her. The doctor host would have a
pleasant week end if her could have
seen her when she went.
And every one who has contributed
TO the Fund this year may have the
same feeling, for he has a share in
the happiness Of the 1900 odd young
stcrs who are in the country TODAY
as Tribune Fresh Airs"
on next Monday the Fund will de-
vote the day to sending out by ones
and tWos Youngsters who have urgent
invitations from the country hosts who
entertained them last year to come out
again and spend the whole summer
They will go to all points of the com
pass to vacation places in sevent states
And al leach Of these all-summer alb
sences from tenement streets and their
horrors will cost the Fund is the price
of railroad ticket at one-quarter the
regular adult rate--not more than Sc
tor the round trip in any case.
More Going on July 6
On July 225 more lads and lassies
will be added to the Funds list of
guests, al lof them to be entertained in
private homes. You may envy them all
too, when you know where those homes
are, where these wan little tots are to
find the roses wherewith to paint their
cheeks.
Some of them are going to Saratoga
Springs-no less place. Some more
of them stop just one station short oi
that famous place, at Ballston Spa.
Sixty-six of them are going to new
fresh air region, beautiful old Schuyl
ervile, with it's historical associations
Their hosts are anxiously awaiting
their arrival. Twenty-one more go tc
the neighboring village of Greenwich.
Then lucky lot are going up into
the Lake George region-some to Hud-
son Falls, some to Fort Edward, some
to Hadley and Luzerne. Hudson Falls
in addition to entertaining it's crowd ir
the homes Of the place, is planning tc
pay the expense of having about
twenty-five children sent to one of the
Funds camps.
Cortland, N. Y, which last year
year broke all Fresh Air records by
giving vacations to more than 600
small boys and girls, is to get twenty
six of last summers crowd back on
Thursday for the whole summer.
Bound Brook, y j., will open it's
doors TO ten CHI. den on the sixth,
and Kingsley, New Milford and Spring
Vile, Pa, will all receive quotas, not
to forget Tunkhannock in the same
state.
Thousands of folks in the country
are working for New York City's little
frendless "fellers," getting ready to
take into their homes boys and girls
who are utter strangers to them and
give them good times and plenty for
fortnight or longer. Not for pay,
but for charity's sake. Mr. New
Yorker, this problem of helping the
little tenement dwellers of the me-
tropols is really more your job than
theirs. 1t comes nearer home to you
than to them. You won't let these