ORZOON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907.
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Helicon Hall Hobbies
Inconsiderate Fire Interrupts an Interesting Ex
perimcnt In Collective Housekeeping.
Upton Sinclair' Eojlewood Effort Toward Individuality Thromh Limited
Co-operationMerely an Organized Protest Afalnit the Irrita
tion ot Existence In a Blf City Not Brook Farm
- Dream, but a Business Proposition.
Colony May Continue.
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By ROHERTUS LOVE,
i HAT wns a ui'Htt unmannerly anl
Inconsiderate Are which de
slroyed Helicon 1 1 nil, th roof
tree of t'plim Hlnchilr's home
colony on tho height of JCngle wood, N."
J. Hut for Hint blame, ho sudden Mini
sweeping, this latent experiment In
limited ce operation tnlifttt Imve run
nloiiK III Ht original grcsive until the
tent of time should pronounce ,tt priii'
tlriililn or luipriictlciiblc, A It lit, I In
eoliiny now uiiiNt make n new Hlurt, If
It determine to Weep going tit nil.
Tint experiment at ' ICnglewood has
I Mi' n tulsiilidcrstiMMi 1 1)' (111 gCIICrill
public. There 1 Junt n possibility Hint
some of (lie experimenter themselves
dlil not quite comprehend It. The hab
It linn been to Hpciik of tint Helicon
I In II project a h Knelnllslle or coin
iiiiiiihI coniiiiiiiilty. to Mourn sense tlil
was trui. In n broader senite It was
an Individualistic coiuuiunlly. I'erbapa
Mr. Hlncliilr himself will dispute this,
but IiIm owu description and declara
tions Co toward proving It.
The Helicon Hull people cooperated
In an efTort to realise Individuality, la
Hint paradoxical? I l uh see, Most of
them,' perhaps Nil, were resident of
tho city of New Vrk or Is-lnnged t
tliut hirgo chis of city worker who
Voniitniie" from the suburbs, They
were Impplly nil of llirin survived the
fire, we iniy any they sre pemon
of nil Nile or Intelleclunl tciiiteiii
Tltcy me it wenllhy. Their Income
are itiiMl.'Mf . enrinil by priifenhlniinl or
iMntltiem bib'ir In the clly or connected
with the rlir, thus requiring Hint they
rvtililc wllhlll shooting illnlllljre of III
metropolis The iiillllminlre may live
In roiiiii'iihil i'livlroiitnent provided be
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la the servant question, Where are
tlie servants? All thoNo who have sat
isfactory servants please raise the
right hand.
The Wby of Helicon Hall.
Mr. Sinclair determined to overcome
the annoyances of separate hoiisekecp.
lug. Ho hud no notion of surrendering
imjf of hU ludlvldiiHllly. (Hi tho other
It it tul. bo proposed to develop Ida Indl
vldiiiillty by getting rid of tho petty
fetters which hindered It growth,
Thnt, a n mere matter of fact, was
the why mid wherefore of the found
ing of Helicon Hull. Mr. Kluclnlr din
coveted ninny other who thought as
lie did concerning tho comparative use
lenxiifN of tho conventional manner of
keeping bonne, and these per urn went
Into tho cooperative colony.
How far did the co operation go? Not
fur enough to hurt. Tho Helicon Hull
people rvally established for them
selves au Improved boarding bouse,
J with tho disagreeable featurca ellml
i tinted. Tho very first tiling was to get
congenial fellow boarder. Aa a mat
ter of fart, tho worst feature about
the average city Imnrdlug house la the
promiscuous aggregation of human
specimen with whom one needs muni
be iiMHiM'luted. That 1 even worse
t hit n tho prune aud the picture. Tho
id ti ii ucroxN the tnblo limy perfuijte hi
! perwoii w 1th linink tlmt Hhrlcka to henf
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rn. noil oe umj mi iiornu wneu juu
prefer bomlletlca. Tho liewltchlng fe
nut In creature at your aide may eutcr
tuln you thrtxigb a whole dinner with
a illamTtntloii on tho virtues of her
pe-t poodle, pup when you would b
more liitlinntely lutercNted In n d!a
aerlntloti on Mnt pig, a In Ijitnb.
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t rf'IM MM I. A lie A.Mi HKLK'ti.N HAI.l.
bnn bnlliiK etioiiKh. It Ih liol mi with
thi artlitt, tho ntithor, the college pro
femir or the liewHpuper iilitor whm
limited Income depend upon hi (tick
ing clone to n great city.
tptun Sinclair' Protest.
For audi pcrum city life menu tho
botirdlng hoiiKe, with all It ngo worn
borror. tho flat or apartment, with It
III iiihI i'vIIh, or the rooming Iioiiw. rr tienlwl
with the fiMimliig reMtiinriilit exlntence.
Mr. Sinclair something u thnn a
year ago conceived the conviction that
IMHiple didn't really have to put up
with tho annoyance, tho Irritations
and the downright dlNtroHMc of the
aeparato household nyntettl of living.
They could get together and do the
thing better. Why not? Ho eoiudd
rred hi own cimo. Tho young author
had been living on n farm In New .7cr
So thee Helicon hoarder took good
care thnt they ahould Ih congenial one
to another. There was much pruning
down and weeding out. This pro'tH
hurt now and then, n ml Home of the
hinndmlttrd candidates vented their
(opinions through tho people" to provide their own mualc .nd
,of tho dally newpaK.rs One gentle, j T,1(l Bfwk ,,nru h,
1 ninn itei'iareti tnai no mm neen exciua-
ed because Im wa n Jew, but Mr. Slu-
this, the Inference being
j thnt tho candidate was not nccepted
i becaiiHe he evinced an overweening de-
' lre to rule the roost. ,
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The Children's Dormitory.
At hint the colony got down to a llrl i uJ "ls aasoclntea surely
! Inir liiml llelli'im Inill nun nemilrn.1. ! Credited W Itll a SclieillO
and Into last fall the co operative
, biutidlug Iiouhc was opened. It was
j well tilled, with plenty of candidates
! on tho waiting list. An executive com-
soy, which was very tlno In theory, j lull too served In lieu of the traditional
In practice It was otherwise, as any landlady. There was a big dining
city iKim, college bred, artistically In
clined person will discover by trying
It for awhile, Thero were no ninuse
nienls. uo neighbors of congenial
tastes, nothing but broad fields, whis
pering woods and a largo lonesome
ness. The city wns not to lie thought
of because there was tho small boy
of tho household, ami what really
thoughtful parent ever Is satisfied w ith
bringing up n child In n hoarding
house or on apartment?
Tho clly Isiardlng house wherein tho
filet runs largely to prunes and the
art environment Is bounded on tho
dining room wall by a nightmare
rhromo of bullet slain birds hanging
by their necka after they are dead nnd
on tho bedroom w all by n steel cngra
Ing of Washington crossing the Dela
ware when It wiib full of floating Ice--well,
who wants to live In a boarding
house? Then there Is the flat, which
tn New York they call npnrtinent. That
la a cliff dwelling with modern Im
provements, Tho family occupying
the lodge directly overhead may pos
sess a phonograph with an nil Ilowery
repertory, aud the fumlly luhabltlng
(be ledge below you may subsist on
garlic ami take the household dog to
tied with them. Doee anybody ever
occupy a New York apnrtment except
from sheer necessity?
Aa to living In a whole bouse tn
yournclf -now, that appcala. But there
room, with family tables, though only
tho adults ate therein. The children
had a dormitory to themselves, where
they slept, ute nnd played under the
watchful eyes of one or more womeu
belonging to tho colony. This chil
dren's dormitory Iden, by the way, wai
one of Mr. Hlnclalr'a pets, He held o
theory as to the bringing up of chil
dren which seems to be gaining ground
slowly throughout the world, but very
slowly. Most mothers still prefer to
keep their chlldreu In their vwn cure,
nnd even nt Helicon Hall some of them
did this. In several Instances tho chil
dren slept In tho rooms of their par
ent. There were no hldebouud rules
aa to tho children.
Intellectual persona to do the cooking, I
tho washing, the denning nnd other I
necessary duties about tho big bouse
was tried at first, but when found tui- I
practicable It wns given up In the ,
main, outsiders being hired.
Character of the Colonists.
Most of the colonials were authors,
editors, artlsU or devotee of Intel
lectual pursuits of some other sort.
This Is significant. People tike to talk
uli.ii ftlwlaa rxf m fmillw will 1 nrM
j nuvi'i ifii m va- i' " a i ;vu a iiw rr
The hod carrier prefers the society of
another hod carrier to thnt of the
bricklayer or tho construction fore
man. Ho It la with those higher up. It
U gulte conceivable thnt Mr. Klnclalr'a
associates, could they have happened
to get together In a large boarding
house In the city, would have enjoyed
life Just aa well as they did at Helicon
Hull, but without cooperation tbey
could not get together so they must be
Ilellconlwd.
A somewhat widespread misconcep
tion as to the Helicon Hall status led to
many annoyances. Mr. Klndalr was
obsessed with cranks and ntilxnuces of
all sorts. Homo there were who seemed
to Imagine that the Hall was n sort of
free for all, thnt the Hollconlans were
living In a atate of free and easy hos
pitality audi aa only the very rich cau
afford and not even the very rich ever
dispense.
(in one occasion Mr. Hlnclalr received
a telegram from a man of whom be
bad never beard to the effect that this
Individual, "with friends," would ar
rive that evening. An hour Inter the
self announcer arrived, accompanied
by another man and a woman. All car
rled suit cases and announced that they
bad come for a week'a visit. Aa it
happened Unit every room In the Hall
i was occupied and some colonists were
' sleeping on bunks, the visitors were
I delicately directed to the Englewood
I hostelry. Tbey made what la described
! aa a scene, and the ringleader filled
1 columns of newspapers with his denun
ciations of the colonists. It was a seer
tallied that at an anarchist meeting on
the east aide In New York this man
bad casunlly met a member of the col
ony, who bad casually said:
j "Come up and see us some time."
i Not Like Brook Farm
, Another error In relation to Helicon
I LUll Is to call It a Itrook Farm expert
, uicut. There la aenrcely anything
about the Helicon proposition to aug
gent tho celebrated experlmeut In to
opera tlo't which was tried for two or
' three years by a small band of eulbu
' slasts near West Itojbury, Mass.. early
la the forties. Brook Farm was alto
gether a different proposition. Profes
sor Oeorge Ripley bad a theory that
men and women could dig a living out
of the dust of the earth by working a
few hours a day and could live on a
higher and more rational piano by so
doing. He gathered about hlin a band
of plain livers and high thinkers. They
founded Brook Farm. Mrs. Itlpley, a
highly accomplished woman, did the
community washing. Nathaniel Haw
thorne la said to have fed the pigs. At
the memlwra were vegetarians this lm-
i putittlon Is exploded. However, sever
al of these afterward eminent persons
did furm labor and household drudgery.
Among them were Margaret Fuller.
Thoreau, TJeorge William Curtis,
Charles A. Dana and A. lironsoii Al
cott. Mr. Emerson alo used to run
out from Concord and trausceudental
lie tho enthusiasts, but be was not a
member of the community.
After a time Rrook Farm got under
the Influence of Albert Brisbane, a de
vout Fourlerlte, who Fourlerlzed It
aud Incidentally killed It off. The
farmers built a phalanstery after the
teaching of Charles Fourier, who held
that all mankind should divide Into
"phalanxes" of 2.M ersons each.
Oue large building, or phalanstery,
was to house all the' 2.0O0. In this
building and on the land around It
they were to produce nil things tieccs-
sary for their subsistence. They were
amuse-
phulanstery
, burned down one day, and the farmers
' separated to become noted poets, phi
losophers. Journalists and other things
Just as good.
i Helicon Hall wns something In the
I order of a phalanstery, to lie sure, but
It wiis not Fourlerlstlc. Mr. Sinclair
in iin t tie ac
111 u eh more
practicable than thnt which was tried
and found wanting nt Brook Farm.
That I'pton Sinclair Is not over
whelmed with fine haired theories was
proved by his athletic nnd corporeal
swatting of the beef trust with his
club, called "The Jungle." last yeor.
The tire como too soon for hlin and bis
associates to have a fair trial of their
experiment It Is well known that the
original. Iden embraced the separate
cottage system, with the community
dining hall. Mr. Sinclair and ninny
other members declare that the colony
must go on. nnd In tho event of Its
continuation It Is not unlikely that the
cottage system will be tried.
The Father of the
American Na.vy.
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GEORGE C. BROWNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
1 I TT7" 1 . . nl . . n n . 1 . m - m. A ,w
log more and more fond of
erecting memorial to their j
k military and naval heroes. One '
of tho latest of these la the statue of
Commodore John Bsrry, recently un
veiled In Philadelphia. It stands In
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llUrtr. Barry la often called the "fa-I .DOI
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THE BAHttr atONUMIUtT IN I'HILADELPHfA.
ther of the American navy." John Taul
Jones was an officer under him. The
statue of Barry now possessed by Phil
adelphla was presented to the city by
the 8oclety of the Friendly Bona of St
Patrick, of which the naval fighter was
a member, and It was unveiled by Miss
Elsie Hazel Uepbiiru, ' great-great-grandntece
of the hero, on March 10.
Barry was born la Ireland In 1745
and came to the colonies when fifteen
years old. He elected to make the aea
his profession and soon took rank as a
aallor of rare ability and was given
command of a number of big ships en
gaged In commerce. At the outbreak
of the Revolution he was commissioned
to command the brig Islington, and
this vessel w as the first to fly the Con
Unental flag. He captured the first
ship ever taken by an American war
ship. Ills remains lie In the church-
yard of the venerable St. Mary'a Ro
man Catholic church In Philadelphia,
and the Inscription on his tomb reada
In part as follows:
ParrWt to the mmory of Commodor
John Barry, father of th American navy,
I-t tlie Clirtatlan patriot and soldier who
vlaila tilt-no mansions of tlie dead view
this monument with resect and venera
tion. Lleneath It reit th remain of John
Barry, who was born In the County Wes
ford. Ireland. In the year 17. America
was the object of hi patriotism and the
aim of his uaefulne and ambition. At
the Ix-Klmilng- of th Revolutionary war
he held the commlmlon of captain tn the
then limited navy of th colonies. HI
achievements In battle and his renowned
naval tactic merited for htm the position
of commodore and to be Justly regarded
as the father of the American navy. He
fought often and bled In tlie cause of
freedom, but his deeds of valor did not
diminish In him th virtu which adorn
ed hi private tile.
Parry died In 1S03. One of the most
exciting of the engagements In which
Killed by th Railroad.
A striking editorial paragraph In the
current Harper's Weekly calls atten
tion to tho callousness of Americans re
garding tho enormous nunuul list of
dead and wounded travelers and em-
To each of the colonists rooms were , ployees on the rullronds of tho United
assigned In the big hull. In tliepe
rooms, of course, there was the sumo
privacy that oue finds In, his own home.
There wns n common drawing room,
with n big fireplace, a music and
amusement room and Iu the Interior of
the building a gluss roofed court where
rubber trees flourished and the colo
nists might wander at will. Most of
the members of the community were
"commuters," going dully to New York
city and back. They paid for their
food at so much per week, just aa In a
boarding house, aud for rooms accord
ingly. Only a few of the actual colo
nist did any work about the place.
The experiment of finding artistic and
States. Tke disquieting statement Is
made thut since the 1st of Jauuury
this yeur 123 persona have been killed
and more thuii 300 Injured In seven
disasters on five different roads. "The
rallrouds," comments the writer, "have
the strongest possible motives for
avoiding accidents. Shifts that result
In dend passengers and wrecked ma
chinery save neither time nor money.
How our railroad mortality Is to be re
duced Is a question for our railroad ex
perts to solve. And It must be solved.
Not only In the case of the railroads,
but In a hundred other fields of our
J activities we Americans are dlsreputa
bly waste of human Ufa."
COUUODOBB JOHN BARRY.
he participated was that between the
Alliance, which he commanded, and
tho British ships Atlanta and Trepassy. j
At the beginning of the battle the
Alllaiico lay In a dead calm and could '
not bring her broadside to bear. The '
two British ships poured a galling Are
Into bcr! and early In the engagement
Captain Barry was carried below
wounded In the shoulder by a grape
shot. The flag of the Alliance was
shot away, aud the crew of the eueuiy
beguu cheering at the prospect of a
certain victory. ;
Barry, lying wounded Iu the cockpit,
declined to listen to any proposition to
surrender. i
"If the ship can't be fought without
It," he said, "I'll be carried1 on deck." j
His bravery stirred his crew. They '
cheered wildly the bloody figure car- j
rled on deck, a new flag was hoisted, 1
and the American shot was sent rip- j
ping Into the enemy afresh. Then na- .
tu re came to the aid of the Borely i
pressed Americans. A breeze sprang '
up and gave the Alliance a chance to
shift and use her guns. The Ameri
cans then fought with such unparallel
ed vigor that the two British ships
were forced to surrender. I
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become a saver of money we cDuiiir
that we have conferred a benefit upon
him and upon the community as well.
We want more savers
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