Life — July 19, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Our Fresh Air Fund PREVIOUSLY acknowktged $1284 $5 Bessie, Molly, Ned of Mother $ 00 In Memor: Dorothy, K. Storer... 2 ° ry FLW. J.and N.N.J." ° Fanny Havin Wickes. 10 00 John Jacob Astor... 109 00 Isabel and Elizabeth t0 00 Marguerite and Alice Prestrey 400 Marion Story 160 ©0 * Anonymous. co Mik od Lydia 40 00 Myrna and Nona... 2 00 $1.5 NEW YORK man who is in very comfortable circums attending a fashionable Episcopal church for five years. Although he is a member and contributes liberally, he knows none of the clergy nor have they ever been to call on him. “How would you asked a friend. “Well,” replied the churchman, “we're not rich enough to have the rector come—and we're too rich to have him send a curate.” ces has been count for this?” INGING to the skirts of the great is like hanging onto the ropes of an ascending balloon when denied a seat in the car. Big Game “] HAVEN'T noticed any mosquito netting around,” remarked — the visitor who was making his first trip to Swampville-on-the-Sound “No,” answered Mr. Summering, proudly, “we use mouse-traps.” *LIFE® Life’s Fresh Air Farm FEW words about the work. Since it was started, eighteen years ago, the total number of children who have been entertained at Lirr’s Fresh Air Farm is 26,385. On the average, they have consumed each season about 17,000 quarts of milk and they have stowed away 9,000 loaves of bread a year, and loaves of the biggest kind. ‘These figures are given merely to convey some idea as to the appetites of our guests. The Fresh Air Farm was first started in 1888, in New Jersey. A factory had been destroyed by fire, leaving a number of abandoned cottages, and these cottages were used for the children. The first year we took care of 2,000 children, the second, 1,900, and the third, 2,417. In 1891, through the kindness of Mr. Edwin C. Gilbert, we were enabled to secure the present location at Branchville, Conn., at-a minimum rental. Later on, Mr. Gilbert transferred the entire property to the Lire Fresh Air Fund, and it is now a permanent feature. The original cost of the land and buildings given to Lire amounted to $32,000. The first year that Lire’s Farm was transferred to Branchville (this being the fourth year of its existence) 1,018 chil- dren were taken care of. From this time on to the present year there has been an average of about 1,250 each season, the largest being in 1892, 2,872, and the smallest in 1889, with 1,017. The children are collected from vari- ous sources in New York. Many come from the slums; many are waifs. Among those who visited us last summer, one group on July 3 and the other on August 14, there were: Orphans, 10; father dead, 33; mother dead, 31; parents in hospital, 16; abandoned, 10; parent insane, 6; father in prison, 5; father deserted by mother, 20; mother deserted by father, 8; taken from mother, 93 mother in reformatory, 6; father a drunk- ard, 25; mother a drunkard, 12. To quote Mr. Mohr, the superintend- ent: “The transportation of the children averages about $1,050 a season. We employ six caretakers (three men and three women), besides Mrs. Mohr and myself, to look after the children, and six colored women to do the cooking, clean- ing and chamber work. A number of years ago we had to close the farm for a few days because of a case of measles; other than that, although many children are taken to the farm suffering with non- contagious ills, no child has had to be sent home on this account.” At the close of the first season during which Mr, and Mrs. Mohr have had charge of the farm there was a balance of... $1,170.99 ad season. 3,667.80 jdt. 2,781.39 qth © wisssseauerceys 2iQ0gs62 sth saweeseewes: os» 9437-91 At theopening of the sixth, or present, season, deficit. .... 10.11 STUNTS comicbooks.com