Fresh Air Charity in the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Fresh Air Charity in the United StatesAfter waiting several months for further replies, another attempt was made after this fashion. The Charity Organization Societies in all the cities of inhabitants or over, not already heard from, were addressed, this time with a personal letter to the secretary of the society. Any other agencies known to be doing Fresh Air work, but from whom no direct information had as yet been obtained, were similarly approached. Not infrequently, a correspondence protracted through the summer of 1896 was neces sary before the facts desired could be secured. The tables are them selves witnesses to not a few failures to make the returns complete. In New York City, the inquiry was simplified by easy access to the agencies themselves. Reliance upon correspondence was, if possible, less satisfactory here than elsewhere. Personal visits, ex plaining the purpose of the inquiry, proved the one effective way of ensuring the cooperation of the societies and churches con cerned.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.