New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-29
VINELAND. NEW-JERSEY.
THE SEVEN YEARS, WONDER.

| ..ra AhE SEVEN YEARS WONDER
! Great inventions, and all great enterprises
having in view the development OF national resources
always receive kindly consideration intelligent
press hence assume that your business and Agricultural
readers will feel some interest in letter from this rather
peculiar settlement
class Vneand in the list OF great public enterprises,
because any OF perception can that example
must work powerful Influence in the business OF colon
Lation, and the future development Of the country
Here there Is combination OF attractions, the SOIL
abounds IN mineral qualities available for plant food
ana once cleared Of its forest debris is cultivated with
ease.
Fruit trees and the small fruits succeed well with clean
CULTIVATION ana while mannres valuable, they are no
essential than in the best cultivated portions Of
NeTI ork ana Pennsylvania The Winters are short ana
mild, aud blowing Ia generally carried on every month OF
the year. the Summer temperature Is more regular than
from the Delaware Bay the Atlantic and the nights
are rarely sulry In addition the great natural markets
Hers S az o s s Fsspe e area NoTtSer0 states re-
qulres no extraordinary sacrifice OF time money to re-
so Up TO November 1897 the 90 square miles or so OF the
Nineland tract literal wilderness, but the railroad
Or Se nay F sn S S ands along
the route presented, and Charles Lands, then
young man Of some q years, took the initiative.
tell the reader what Vineland to-day it win
be just as well as II went into minute details as to tho
plan.
The village site occupies about square mile and its
population numbers OOpersons The population OF
the entire tract Is put down at some 10000 The country
being rolling, and the village site little elevated both
village and country are In full view o. each other Tor
and builds upon IL within year. and locates his dwelling
less than 90 feet back from the roadside. He also
plants shade trees every two rods along his 'front.' ana
outside the village the dwellings stand rs feet ormore)
rg &c kind Of opportanity not often
neglected The system OF planting and road
the building stipulation and the Improvement Of oer
tam portion Of the farm within year after the purchase
The result Is that speculation as carried in the West
is almost unknown Every ,d IS an Inn
0pner lessth feet. extend
Of the tract and laid out on the general plan OF tho
city streets Their united length TO the present time,
village streets included is about 100 miles Every high
way named, aud has at least one row OF shaderees on
But the strangers mental eye soon discovers another
popularity, viz, the entire absence OF liquor SHOPS OF
10 600 more on the tract within sound OF the church
BELLS and yet not solitary vender Of alcoholic stim'
ans The sentiment OF the voters expressed ut each
township election. IL unanimous against license.
There nearly 90 schoolhouses upon the tract in
Guiding academy, and not including large Method
is SEMINARY now IN the course Of construction which
Will cost $4,000 or more, when finished Inc Prespyte,
rans, Epscopalians MethOdists and Unitarians have
good church edifces The Bapsts building go 900
church, while the Lutherans, swedenborgians and so'
Catholics are taking the initial steps for organize
lions OF their own. The founder Mr. Lands donates the
sites for churches and schoohouses and has also re-
adornments and besides has given well lmbered
where celebrations and outdoor gatherings are already
fashionable, aud Will become more and more 80 as popu
Now in all this there Is something than heart
less speculation that merely requires that the lands be
previous purchasers the ultimate good OF the settle
ment The plan pursued has in the elements OF true
staesmanship-he highest possible development Of the
resources (mOral social well as Agricultural or hor
tcutural OF township. The absence Of liquor selling
ia an Insurance for public order and OF freedom from
many temptations while the practice Of rural aesthetics
on grand scale has powerful attraction for the very
classes Of society The State gains immensely by
tho addition TO her assessmentrOl; the surrounding
townships gain by the opened for many
their products the cities gain by the source OF sup
ply opened for fruits and vegetables the settlers
gain by the exchange OF homes In tho Eastern, Middle
or Northwestern States, where long Winters, late
Springs and fiery 6ummers rocky and forbidden
soils make farming undesirable; and every state with
undevel0ped lands gains by the example shown OF How
10 doit systematic plan, which win guarantee the
settler the advantages Of the highest rural CIVILIZATION
by which Is meant ready access TO schools churches,
st0res newspapers, mills and manufactures. coupled
with social order and high development OF rural taste
will secure results perhaps not quite rapidly as gold
mining, but quite satisfactory 70 those with whom
sudden wealth is not dream, or passion