New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-15
LITTLE BROTHERS" HAPPY.
Thirty-tWo Sent to Country by
Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
MORE TO DEPART TO-DAY
Meantime Four Thousand Other
Poor Children Are Begging for
Chance to Go on Vacations.

The little brothers have gone on a va
cation and for the next two weeks their
address will oe Squam Lake White Noun
tains. New Hampshire. When at home
they receive their mail-when they have
anv-at various tenement houses in that
rather warm and thickly populated dis
trict known as Helrs Kitchen
The little brothers" are so called be-
cause they are the proteges Of the Big
Brother movement Yesterday afternoon
they assembled in their best clothes at the
northeast corner Of Madison avenue and
I 2ih street ready for their outing, each
with a through ticket 10 his destination in
/ his pocket provided by the Tribune Fresh
/ Air Fund
} Three organizations were concerned in
providing "a fortnight In the country for
; these boys. the third. in addition 10 the
I two already mentioned, being the Groton
School This institution maintains the
summer csmp near Ashland ~ II, at
which the little brothers are 10 be en-
/ tcrta!ned. Ordinarily the Groton camp re-
ccivcs only bows from the tenement dis
4 tricts Of Boston but for the last three
4 years an exception has been made in favor
T Of the Young charges Of the Big Brothers.
4 The Big Brother movement originated in
New York City in 1904. but has since that
time been adopted In twenty-five other
I cities II the United States. as well az in
various parts ~ Canada and Australia. II
. is an organization Of men-most Of them
Young m-n-which aims 70 put on their
feet the juvenile delinquents who appear
from time to time in the police courts
There were thirty-two in Yesterdays
party. most Of them between the ages Of
twelve and sixteen years. They were all
Of the class the Big Brother movement
aims TO help and had been under the SUI
lpervision OF that body for at least two
years.
/ According 10 Ernest X Coulter. clerk Of
/ the Chndren's Court and originator Of the
I Pig Prother idea the boys who went away
Yesterday showed a vast Improvement since
the days when they were prisoners in court
Z And although there were in the party some
who had in days gone by been notorious
I offenders and had made frequent appear
ances AZ the bar Of the Chldrens Court,
not one Of them had committed any breach
I Of the law within the last two years.
OF all tho means that have been used 20
get the little brothers" started on the
road 10 good citizenship, none. IN the OPINION
Of Rufus p. s Putney general secretary of
tho BIG Brother movement has proved so
successful 80 the summer vacation. This is
due 10 the fact that the great first step in
the reform Of the boy IS 10 get him 10
break with his gang two weeks
visit 10 the country gives him a chance to
10 this ana az the same time opens his
ewes 90 a new world.
The thirty-two in the Squam Lake party
were not all the little brothers in this
city. During the last ten months 2,0I3 Of
them have been adopted by the Big Broth
ers, and of this number 80 have so far
been sent on Fresh Air outings.
Besides the little brothers six other
parties aggregating 30 boys and girls,
were sent 10 country homes yesterday by
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund About as
many more will he sent to-day TO Ardsley,
Malone. Caroline and De Bruce, y. =
And nearly four thousand other children
are begging for chance 10 go to the
country and wade in the creeks, roam the
nils and breathe fresh air.