New-York tribune., 1910-08-23
DREAM VOYAGE A REALITY
Thirty Boys Aboard Ship on
Fresh Air Passage to Boston.
GO TO GROTON SCHOOL CAMP
ALI Younger Brothers III Big
Brother Movement-Many
Saved from Evil Ways.
GO TO GROTON SCHOOL CAMP

Anchors are not SeneTaIiy SuppoSOu ~
float but hundreds of them, along Win
hosts of capstans and multitudes OF gang
nIanks. doated last night. The scene Of
their floating was gay with dancing red
mort lights and green starboard ones, while
miles upon miles Of hawser twisted ana
coiled here and there through the picture
It all took place in the dreams OF thirty
bows who were slowed away in as many
berths aboard the stanch ship Providence,
out of New York for Boston. Everybody
dreams lust such dreams on his first voy-
age and peoples them 10 overfowing with
captains and first mates, pursers and able
bodied seamcn.
The thirty were some of the younger
brothers from the Big Brother Move
nent, who are being sent away by the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund TO be entertained
by the boys of the GrotOn School at their
summer camp. Their ship was not sched-
u,ed TO weigh anchor until p. M, but the
boys wanted a chance to look her over and
make sure that she was seaWorthy
craft and properly provisioned for the voy-
age before the start SO they boarded her
at 4 Is, rushed her decks fore and aft and
wanted to swarm up her rigging-only there
wasn't any to swarm up.
There wasn't anything aboard the good
snip that esca ped their inspection. They
went everywhere that passengers were sup
posd to go and some places where they
were not, but nobody stopped them. 1t
was well that nobody did, for nobody
would probably have been keel-hauled or
forced TO walk the plank if any resistance
had been offered to the onrush Of the board
ing party.
They were not a very piratica1 looking
party. despite the fury of their onslaught.
and no cutlasses or marlinspikes were in
evidence. On the contrary. they were a
very neat, bright lot of ordinary boys. Yet
there was not a boy in the party but had
a history-the reason for his being
younger brother" Most of then-in fact
all but sIx-had been through the Childrens
Court
One of the boys had used knife on
his opponents in a street fight, another had
been arrested for stealing and still another
had been released on trial from a juvenile
asylum. Several others were boys who mad
been arrested as ungovernabIe children. But
this is their history. not their character
Almost every one in the party has been
under the oversight and influence of the
Big Brothers for two years and in that
time has proved that all he needs is half
a chance to be as much of man as the
next fellow a fellow~ who had got in
wrong as he expressed it, and went to
Mr. Putney, the secretary of the Big
Brothers movement when asked why he
didn't behave replied:
Nobody cares nothin' for me; what's
the use?"
When Big Brother took little interest
in him his attitude changed, and he is now
boy TO be proud of.
Sixty per cent of the boys in this Fresh
Air party have never been out of the city.
Yet according TO Mr.. Putney, the country
trips are just what they need. The two
weeks vacation gives a boy a chance to
break with the associates which are the
chief cause of his wrCngdoing. Said one
chap as he reported yesterday:
Il broke with me pals TO go on this trip
This means that when he comes back
from his vacation he will be able to make
fresh start. with the right kind of fel-
lows 10 help him along.
The party goes TO Squam Lake. near
Ashland, \. H., in the White Mountains.
In charge of it are two representatives of
the Big Brothers, and at the Groton camp
will be several Groton masters TO help in
the care of the boys