New-York tribune., 1922-07-12
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Five Hundred and Eighty-six Youngsters Leave for
Vacations in Country and Hundreds More
Are Going To-day

They went-5s6 OF 'em.
Not down the great drain like the
friends Of the princess In the story. Not
silently or with garottes around their
nseks Ike the friends Of the princess
Not 10 death.
Not By long shotl They wore grins
on their faces and the sparkle Of ex-
pectaney was In their eyes And 81
lence was as far from them as $50 pairs
Of lungs could drive A.
They hadn't any prineesses for
friends-you could tell that AZ glance
Yet they felt themselves the salt Of
the earth. Why7 They we're going 20
the country-no, that's not right, IL
was THE COUNTRY they we're going
20. They were OF % the green fields
They were bound for a land Of play.
Yesterday began the great adventure
for them, an adventure full Of thrills.
beginning with a long ride on the rail
road cars" continuing with a view Of
mountains and forests. going on
through plunges into cooling streams
and lakes, spreading out into hcqnaint-
anee with cows and chickens, birds and
flowers. growing crops and loaded fruit;
trees. swelling to climax in the max
ing Of good friends.
First Left Early In Morning
They went-to life and health and
Who7 The Tribune fresh Airs"
who were beginning their vacations.
They began leaving AZ ; In tho morn
ing and the last got OF late last night.
The hrst are now In Greenfield, Mass.
The last 10 start were going 20 Perry,
y. Y. Between the first and tho last
went some who now are In Plattsburg,
others in northern Vermont, still
others who will spend the next two
weeks in Hinsdale and Winchester,
n. H., and yet others whose vacations
will be spent in South Deerheld, Mass,
and oxford, y. J.
II was a days work 20 get them OF,
but they will get s,20i days Of play
from that days work. Though they
may count no princesses Of the blood
royal among their friends they gill
be treated like princes and princessea
By the royal good friends who have In
vited them for vacations % their
country homes.
Five hundred and seventeen more 20
out to-day 70 join them In the country.
Tomorrow 227 more, the day after so
more.
And while lhese friends In the coun-
t~v we're opening their homes 20 the
Fresh Airs" % Johnny and his sister
Susie. other friencs N the city kept
right on opening their pocketbooks as
evidence OF their good will and their
hope that Johnny and Susie might get
what they need.
Contributions Still Arriving
One hundred and ffty-two Of them
contributed more than $1,000 % the
Tribune Fund 70 help defray the eX-
penses OF the vacations which the
Fund is providing this summer. That
brought the total Of this summers con-
tributions 70 almost $4,000, 20 nearly
three-tenths Of the 100000 that will
be necessary 20 pay FOR the 1900
vacations which the Fund aims 10 pro-
vide before the schools open in the
fall.
One OF the contributors sent with
bis gift the following letter;
"An old mana young man, one OF
General Lees rebels still has enough
of the boy in him 20 feel the strongest
svmpathy for hddies, and especially
for the kiddies Of the tenementi. ne
therefore repeats his contribution, ous
OF his meager income, that viii gave
good time 20 two little ones. hope
the full amount desired VIII be oo-
tained. Yours very truly,
-. &. WEEMS."
There are 10000 other little rebels
-rebels against the privations and con
hnement, the heat and the discomfort
of the tenement streets-who hope with
his veteran friend that the full
amount desired will be obtained. The
vacations Of many OF them depend on
that.
will you help 20 relieve them for
fortnight from the things that tney
rebel agAinst-by giving ~ 70 tne
Tribune FUND.- You can give As much
more as you wish. Will you helpI
How the Fund Stands
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