Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-06
The Once Over
THE SUMMER yACATIoNIsTs RELIEF FUNT


Copyright, 1880. by The Associated NewspapersJ
Today inaugurates the 1880 Summer vacationists'
Relief Fund. now In It's third year and with more
work cut out for it than ever before. The purpose Of
this fund, as most readers know. Is to bring succor to
thousands Of vacationists suffering at summer resorts.
Their condition is more pathetic than ever this year.
due to lack Of shade. poor food. defective ventilation
and one thing and another. Unless brought back to
the comparative comfort and GOODNESS OF their city
homes at once. many of them will suffer excessively.
$780,
This season the plight Of vacationists is more
heart-breaking than ever. largely because Of economic
conditions. Summer hotel proprietors have retrench-
ed more than ever, 1t seems, with the result that these
establishments are about as low In the scale OF COM
fort as they can get. Whereas in other more prosper
Gus years a hotel proprietor would mend the porch
rail so a guest could lean on 1t without being pitched
into the yard. and put a comfortable chair or two IN
the lobby, nothing OF that nature has been done this
summer. In fact, letters from suffering vacationists
reveal that in some hotels there are no chairs at all.
The few on hand when the season opened collapsed
the first time anybody sat In them and the manage
ment refuses to make requirements.
Economy in the operation OF summer hotel kitchens
is reported to have gone the limit and many vacation
lists are reported near starvation. The following let
ter is typical Of many:
Fund for Relief OF Summer vacationists:
Dear Sir:
1 sincerely trust the fund will repeat its splen-
did work Of former summers this season. You have
no idea of the pitiful plight Of persons caught In
many so-called shore resort hotels and boarding
houses lust now. My husband and I and two children
came to this place a week ago. 1t was advertised as
a de luxe hotel on the ocean front, but 1t Is a mile
and a half from the nearest water, which is nothing
but a creek.
We are being charged $50 a day for two tiny rooms
in the attic. overlooking a public garage. The place Is
sitting. We have to carry drinking water from a well
200 yards away from the hotel. The menu consists
almost entirely Of stewed prunes. steamed clans. corn
fritters. BURBERRY pie and bad coffee. Unless we are
rescued at once it may be too late.
A Mother.
Are you not touched by this communication? DO
you not feel the urge to aid without delay? Send in
your contribution now. Remember there are thou
sands Of your fellow beings suffering on summer va
cations. Unless food is sent to some Of them they
will perish. It is your duty TO help succor these un-
fortunate fellow beings and provide funds TO bring
them back to their homes and their Jobs. the only
places where they can find real comfort and s~atisfac-
ton, after all
1t viii not cost as much per head to bring summe
vacationists home this year as In the past. due 70 the
changed financial situation. This summer II will be
possible to bring back one adult for So or four for $50.
We hope 70 handle the children at the rate OF 81 each
or four for SIS. Think Of the great army Of swelter-
ing. hungry. nerve-shattered vacationists undergoing
all the miseries OF life at inadequate shore hotels and
sitting there waiting and watching for signs of relief
Let your heart 90 out to these poor people. Send in
your donation today.