Tillamook headlight., August 23, 1906, Image 5

S been I,urcha»ed and con­ Birmingham to a point four miles from tenths per thousand in Bournville. Phoenix, Arizona, a farm of one hun­
verted into a Gildhall and shops for the elty and erected twenty-four The garden features in Bournville are dred and sixty acre* has been turned
handicraft work. The laud around tbe houses for the workmen. Mr. George planned with much care, provision in
into a bomecroft village. The land is
OUR HOME TOWN.
house has practically au been appro- Cadbury, from long observation and most cases being made for some lawn, especially
adapted to raising vege­
af.a
li°
use oi “ garden school experience, concluded that the ouly flowers, vegetables aud fruits.
A Department Devoted to Village
tables aud Is under one of the beet
vri
in
garden«.
practical
way
to
solve
the
problem
was
To
return
to
the
Homeerofters
Gild,
water-rights In the region. Five-acre
Betterment.
F H !Urict?r of
gardens Is Miss to take the factory worker out on the there is one distinctive advantage in
CICHAKD HAMILTON BYCD.
. Elizabeth 8. Hill of Groton, who last land where he might pursue the na­ Mr. Maxwell's plan, in that he aims tracts are here given to each worker.
The new government reservoir on
I year conducted tbe school gardens In tural and healthy recreation of garden­ to attach to each home eno
land to Salt River and driven wells on the
The editor of this department deeiree to keep in tonch with th.
Brookline and Groton. Over a bun ing. Says Mr. W. Alexander Harvey make It a feature aud not merely an property, insure a permanent supply
-«ebers of Civic and Local Improvement Asez.ci.tioJ... "nd ererv
Sweated in the improvement, protection aud upbuilding of“Vu ifltaJU
dred children are already at work and in bls book on Bournville, “It was im­ incident in the life of the worker, aud of water for Irrigation aud therefore
many more, almost two hundred In all. possible for working men to be healthy be has added the crafts work for wo­ unfailing crops.
What le being done inyonr town to encourage .malt Induetriee and
have applied for space. It is an inter­ and have healthy children, when after men and for men in the whiter. He
tor home employment ? W hat ie doing along theline of .tree, ImSi-oJV-
These undertakings, while practical
esting sight, aud a poor commentary being confined all day in factories they already has under way plans for an aud constructive in every sense, are
,„t and the beautifying of private lawns, roadways and public pe“kJ?
on our puhlic school system, to see spent their evenings in an Institute, experimental group of four houses intended rather as models to show
Are yonr local merchants receiving tbe support of the local trade?
the wistful look of the children “not club room or public house. If it were under one roof, to be placed at the what can be done in any community
Experience, plane, auggeetions and photograph. will be welcomed bv
the editor of tile department and ao far us possible given pluce iu theee
in it as they watch the fortunate ones necessary for their health, as it un- centre of a square so as to secure the In the country. Japan, with sixty­
coiamue.
and inquire of the instructors as to doubtedly
that they should get greatest economy of space aud place seven per cent, of her total population
how long they will have to wait
working in part or entirely on the land,
Many children not connected with the
has become a land of gardens where
The Local Handicap.
school watch the workers aud play on
hopeless poverty Is almost unknown
i
£
roun
ds,
so
that
it
has
become
a
The Prophet Is without honor In his
and where tuberculosis Is a negligable
i children’s center for the town.
quantity. America can take care of
own country. So the village and small
Its hopeless thousands tn the same
The opening or the garden school has
town are without confidence In their To Enable People to Live in Their
way, first by putting hope Into them
Own Home and on a Piece of aroused an Interest among other prl
own resources. We get BO familiar
and then by puttlug them where they
i vate organizations in the neighborhood
Their Own Land.
with the things about us that we re
may attain It. It Is to the promoters
I and the Women s Club of Watertown
apt to underrate their value. It Is
View
in
of
our great Industries that we must
. has established another garden school,
often necessary for a total stranger to CHANCE FOR FACTORY WORKERS also under Miss Hill's supervision, as Orchard,
look for help in great part, but public
come along and show us the neglected
sentiment and sympathy will move the
is still another opened by the Women's Showing
opportunities that have been under our
promoters and reach the problem.
Social Science Club of Newton, whose Trolley Line
Every
Child
in
a
Garden
and
Every
The Homecrofters Gild promises a
nose unseen for years.
garden is on Jackson Road near Non­ by Which
Mother
In
a
Homecroft
”
is
the
antum.
start which ought to weld together the
The writer while pursuing some In­
Boatou Is
Motto
of
the
Organization
—
A
Hun
­
country and the city Into one Inde­
dustrial Investigations had occasion to
On the outer boundry of the town, Reached.
Children at Work In the First
structible whole and. supplemented by
visit a thrifty little city In the South­ dred
the old Emerson Place has been pur- in Forty-flre
School
Garden
at
Watertown,
Mass.
proper charity administration aud sane
west It is an old town that has liter­
a „
garden
chased and set aside as _
___
EDWARD
T.
HARTMAN
vagrancy laws, remove entirely the
ally been forced to the front by the
school for boys and even men who de­ Minutes.
possibility even of a “submerged
Secretary
MMwehwetts
Civic
League.
pressure of development and northern
sire to do practical work. Tbe plots In
tenth,”
At Watertown. Massachusetts, there this garden are large enough to permit
energy. The place has five railroads,
a population of 30,000 and a number of is being put under way what seems to of practical experiments and to even
modern buildings. Still the natives be one of the most sane and practical supply quite a quantity of vegetables,
Parking for the Town.
which each gardener is allowed to ap­
The town parks, or the town or
propriate to his own use. The only
village square are the lungs of its
requirement Is that each gardener pro­
citizens.
vide his own tools and seed and pay
If the town Is growing. It is none too
sufficient attention to the instruction
soon to start a movement to provide
and to his work to keep his plot in fair
for the securing of ample town park­
condition and in harmony with the
lug. The land Is increasing; when the
garden as a whole. There is in this
town has doubled and has become a
garden plenty of space not taken and
small city, it will not be so easy to
It offers a uplque and valuable oppor­
secure sites, readily accessible to the
tunity for any one desiring such work.
people. without paying an exorbitant
A Sunny Slot» price. Secure first the land; It la not
The garden is supervised by a young
tor Berries
man with practical experience in
Important that a large amount of
market gardening.
anil Vege­
money should be at once expended
niton Its beautification, possibly It
tables.
WEAVE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
needs but little, since nature may have
The weaving department, the only
made It more beautiful than can man.
handicraft department as yet de­
It Is not necessary that It should be
veloped In the Gild. Is supervised by
transformed Into carpet beds of
Miss J. A. Turner, formerly with the
flowers and trimly kept lawns. If It
experiment station for the blind In
a fiords sunlight and a green relle* of
Cambridge. Miss Turner, assisted by
grass
and trees for the eye. It becomes
her sister, has several looms already
LANDS AT WATERTOWN, MASS, THAT WILL BE SUBDIVIDED
a civilizer and an equaliser, for the
in working order and instruction has
FOR HOMECROFT VILLAGE.
[>oor as well as the wealthy, a resting
been taken up. The alm of the work
in weaving, as it will be in other home­ fresh air. It was equally to the advant-. the worker In direct contact with i hit place where a man may forget, for
the time, some of his struggles and
_ . of ** il-
. 1— .. moral
— ....-»I 1:
zvivl.I Invizi
craft work, is not to have a weav­ age
land. 'i'VìAn/i
These ninna*
plans n are liixlmv
being *xs**xno
prepared
their
life that Ilt.nT
they al»
should
ing establishment for the production of be brought Into contact with nature. by Mr. Allen W. JackBon, the archi­ his anxieties In a contemplation of
what God has made.
goods, but to conduct a school in There was an advantage, too, In bring­ tect
The park should be kept, In fact, as
weaving and design where women in ing the workingman on to the land,
HOUSE AND BARN FOR HOMECROFT VILLAGE.
Something over fifty acres of land natural ns la consistent with Its use as
the community may learn to do work for Instead of Lis losing money in the have already been purchased for sulxll-
Watertown, Maw.
such.
It 1 b never too early, however,
which may be carried on In their 'amusements usually sought in the vlsion, and Improvement. This will be
to secure its site, with a view to the
homes.
This,
as
in
the
case
of
the
have not yet fully realized the > solutions of ninny of the pifeblems of croft work, will enable them to occupy towns, he saved it In his garden prod­ sold to workingmen for homes for prac­ building np of the community, when
change—they still are doubtful and I modern city life ever attempted In this spare time, which would be otherwise uce—a great consideration where the tically what It cost In large tracts, plus land values will necessarily Increase.
suspicious. About four years ago, be­ ■ country'. It is In line with the best wasted or Improperly spent. In con­ poorer class of workman was con­ the cv«t of division and Improvement
fore the tide of immigration and capi­ ■ enterprises for solving the questions of genial, healthy and remunerative em­ cerned.” And again, “The cultivation A special plan Is to Bell homes to In­
tal set In toward the Southwest, a i housing, sanitation, education and ployment. It is hoped and believed of the soli is certainly the best anti­ dustrious working men on a long Distribution of immigrant» the
Solution.
stranger from the North drifted into i morals. As such it should command that such work will enable many dote to sedentary occupation of those time, on the monthly Instalment plan,
this particular city. He was just : the attention and co-operation of all women who have to supplement their working In large towns. A primitive at a rate which will be no more than la
If there were only some practicable
instinct
is
induged,
the
full
value
of
usually
paid
iu
rent,
but
which
will
constructive
social
workers.
"looking around” with no special pur­
way of distributing Immigration more
income to do it in their homes aud not which seems hardly yet to have been
pose in view. A curbstone real estate
The nomecrofters Gild offers garden be forced Into factories and other un­ realized. Many believe, indeed, that create a sinking fund that will pay equally among all the ports of the
the
purchase
price
and
In
the
mean
­
broker had on his list a tract of bottom work and craftsmanship as a substi­ satisfactory conditions. A system will with its encouragement the abuse of
country the congestion and segre­
land, timbered, but worthless on ac­ tute for the street corner, the cheap be developed whereby looms will lx1 the social club and the public-house time carry what will amount to an In­ gation phases of this problem would be
count of the annual floods. This laud show and the saloon. And it offers in supplied by and the product sold will be materially lessened, and one of surance policy covering the amount of nearer solution. It can be accom­
he had hawked about the atreet for addition health, contentment and a through tbe Gild. By this method ex­ the greatest social evils of the time the purchase price remaining due, so plished In but a smull degree, since It
75c per acre, but found no takers substantial Increase in Income to the penses will be kept at a minimum and disappear. (The experience of Bourn­ that If the purchaser should die the will only be done If answering an
among the home speculators. The workers. The Increase takes a practi­ the highest profits accrue to the ville certainly gives support to this proiierty would go to his family with­ economic demand, as in the case of
out further payment.
the Galveston-Bremen service. Wise
tract was “no good.” It was offered cal form In the shape of health from workers.
conclusion, for nearly every house­
to this stranger for $1.00 per acre. work in the air, from fresh vegetables
holder there spends bls leisure In gard­ FOLLOW8 SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH and well organized effort to Induce
HOME LANDS IN SMALL
Immigrants to pass through tbe Urge
Would he look at it? Yes. He looked and fruits, from a clean environment
PLAN.
ening, am! there Is not a single licensed
PARCELS.
It over, examined every acre of it— and from absence of bad habits; from
bouse In the village.)”
The movement is not Intended to be ports by finding and Insuring them
far-reaching
and
substan-
The
more
employment In the Interior and by In­
came back to town and handed over money saved from useless pastimes;
tlal feature of the movement is SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR an Isolated oue as the shops and forming them of opportunities else­
$10,000 for the worthless tract. Great from absence of doctors' bills and from the
garileus are open to any one who will
A HOUSE.
acquisition
and
subdivision
of
was the joy of the natives who were a direct return in the way of com­ land into small tracts for actual croft
The houses of Bournville were built use them in the right way. Mr. Max­ where, will do much to Improve con­
Used up at the various bars, to drink modities for use in the home or for purpose as outlined above. This close with special reference to cheapness, well feels that Isolation has been the ditions. The self-interest of states,
many of which maintain Immigration
to the health of the “sucker.” But sale.
ly resembles the schemes developed In artistic, development, sanitation ami cause of failure In such attempts and
the sucker returned In about a month
The founder and main supporter of Hitchin, Port Sunlight, Bournville aud convenience At a cost of from $700 that the people of the communlty'must agencies, might also be brought more
with another capitalist from the North tbe movement is Mr. George H. Max­
themselves ttecome a part of such a generally Into play to attraot ths In­
and sold this worthless tract for $30,- well, editor of Maxwell’s Talisman and
movement If It is to succeed. Here dustrious and ambitious new comers
000. But thia was not all. Within founder of the National Irrigation Looking Across
again the scheme resembles that of to their farms and smaller towns.
ninety days the second sucker brought Movement As a student of social con­ Tract, Showing
Bournville. There, though practically
a third and sold him the timber alone ditions, Mr. Maxwell has concluded Growth of Barisy
all the houses have been built by the
Improving School Ground».
for $50,000.
And then the local that college settlements and similar
management, only forty-one and two-
Iu Rochester, N. Y., the school
bankers and conservative capitalists movements merely scratch the upper Raised This Year.
tenths per cent of the occupants work authorities grade and sod tbe school
kicked themselves for not thinking of surface of the problem and fail utterly
in tbe village. Eighteen and six-tenths yards, while the shrubbery and other
a ax:«
It
per cent, work In villages within a planting Is by private effort In con­
to get under It and crowd It out with Irrigation Canal
mile and forty and two-tenths per cent, junction with the school children.
His creed is, Furnishing Water
For yean people have been leaving a better condition.
work In Birmingham.
Fifty and Ample In nd la furnished for decorative
Arkansas and Missouri—going west "Every child in a garden, every mother lor Tract.
seven-tenths per cent, of them are em­ playground purposes, and most exemp­
looking for opportunities.
To-day in a homecroft and individual, In­
ployed at Indoor work In factories, lary results have been obtained.
»frangen are taking their places and dustrial Independence for every worker
thirteen and three-tenths per cent, are
finding money on every bush. The In a home of his own on the land.
clerks and travellers, and thirty-six
MEANING OF HOMECROFT.
new-comen are simply developing tbe
per cent, are skilled workers aud pro­
resources which the natives failed to
The word “Homecroft has been
fessional men. By this arrangement
recognize.
coined by Mr. Maxwell to fit the thing
n normal community life Is main­
This principle holds true of a ma- he has in mind. The Scotch word
tained. The Homecroft Gild is being
Jority of individuals in every com­ “croft” means a very small piece ot
developed along the same lines.
anywhere in this country
munity. We are too near to see the land farmed intensively by its occu­
OVERCOMING PHYSICAL
opportunities at our feet We pass pant bnt not large enough to yield him
there la
DEGENERACY.
them over and leave them for some- a ; Uvlng and constitute him a farmer.
Tbe Homecrofter, therefore, under the
one to pick up.
The Gild Is not making the mistake
Any One
being developed. Is a labor­
of trying to make farmers pure and
The twentieth century for the United conditions
,
who ha* th«
ing
man.
clerk,
skilled
artisan
or
what
simple
out
of
city
workers.
Such
a
States at least will be a time of con- ,
who supplements his regular In­
hard and fast line between etty and
centratlon rather than expansion. A not.
,
by, and spends his spare time in.
country will nlways lead to failure. Spirit of True Patriotism
century of rural development and come
,
on the land. His children may
Mr. Maxwell says: "Give the city
home-building. As has been indicated work
.
worker a home In the suburbs, where
be employed out of school
the people must get back to the land. likewise
]
he can have a garden and a poultry Genuine Love of Humanity
and at other times when they
and Industrial Institutions to reach hours
|
yard, and where tils children can have
their best development must give the would otherwise be on the street or
in hto or her heart.
sunshlue aud fresh air without stint,
worker a chance for a home.
1 forced Into some one of tbe street
aud you have largely done away with
trades to help maintain tbe home. For
“The Coming People
the terrible evils tliat are cursing the
the children the advantages are ob­
vious. Healthy exercise In the open
denizens of the congested quarters of
Tbe Value of a Good Garden.
our great cities—physical degeneracy
By CHARLIS P. DO LB
Many people fall to realize the air for a purpose, fresh vegetables and
tulM*rculoalH, and social, moral, and
greet value of a thrifty, well kept other products, and occupation, are
should
be tho Brat book to be
political dangers too numerous to l*e
garden. Even an Inferior one Is much substituted for spasmodic exirese
enumerated." Henry W. Grady de­
better than none. Vegetables are In­ | under bad conditions, stale vegetables
scribed tbe antithesis when be said,
dispensable to a family, so far as or none nt all, tiutl tbe gang.
"The citizen standing In the doorway
health Is concerned, to say nothing of
It can bn demonstrated that the
SCENES IN OUTSKIRTS OF PHOENIX. ARIZONA, SHOW (NO SITE FOR of bls home—contented on this thres­
the money saved by not having to buy | ordinary factory work« on from one
hold
—his family gathered about his
FIRST
ARIZONA
HOMECROFT
VILLAGE.
so much flour and so many groceries. I —half acre to an acre of land can earn
—while the evening ot a
It would seem that every man 1 actually more In the odd time glvtm elsewhere In England. It will not be to $27)0 each s much higher grade of hearthstone
well-spent day closes In scenes and
should manage to obtain a piece of to his garden than be does
out of place to outline the Bournville home than the workers had been ac­ sounds that are dearest—he shall save
Rents the republic when the drum tap Is
ground and see that it becomes well i regular work, taking it hour for hour. plan which Is Identical In many re­ customed to was provided.
fertilized and enriched and then put Tbe other advantages are evident.
spects apd has been carried out to an range from 4a. fld. to 12s. per week, futile aud the barracks are exhausted.”
under a thorough state of cultivation
assured success. This model village not including rates: and the death rate
THE GILDHALL AND SHOPS.
Tbe Homecroft Gild baa other plans
nineteen per thousand In Binning
before trying to plant the seeds. It
A b a foundation for the Gild tbs was started In 1R7» when Messrs Cad­ of
Near
only costs a little to buy eDough seeds Wilson estate at 143 Main St Water- bury Bros, removed their works from bam has been reduced to six and nine- In immediate contemplation.
for quite a good-sized garden.
THE HOMECROFTERS’ GILD.
Wherever
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