Savannah morning news., 1885-06-30
Jews AS FARMERS.
hundred Russian Exiies who are
IniVo - Pretty Well In south Jersey.

IG,v ns'nr Pretty Well In south Jersey.
from the Neao York sam.
AND. June 20.-The colony Of
.sb refugees from Russia, established
Se" years ago on 1,I00 acres
eI'V 1ord near here, purchased by
% Hebrew immigration Society Of
sr. snD york and the Jewish Society of Lon
W. has outlived the hardships of its first
uon US and is beginning to be prosperous
1n,pnity. The land is a rolling sea Of
'...o scrub oaks, four or five feet high,
i''nctuated with erect dead pine trunks.
eoottered here and there among the hills
S1 bollows of the tract the sixty frame
asarties IN which the colOnists live are
'..dIv noticeable. The little patches of
HaM on which the grubbing up of the
oers has exposed light, sandy soil tha'
s,o,v breeze raises in a cloud of dust,
oro mere occasional scratchings up of
~ face Of the barrens. There are no
otroats. no church, no stores. mills, or fac
s ssries nor any other Indication except the
catered houses that 300 people are there.
Since the first year, when all lived to-
cother in barracks, the land has been di-
yi6ed. Each family has about fifteen
ceres Each plot cost the societies from
81 SS50 to S400 and the the occupant is topay
ror il onp-half of the cost. They must pay
. nor cent. year upon this price, and this
interest is credited upon the principal, so
mai they practically have thirty-three
Years in which to pay for their homes.
81 Under this arrangement the colOnists take
more interest in their work, and although
thew were all natives of cities, trades
men, artisans and mechanics, and knew
httle of farming, they have got their
small clearngs into fair state of cull-
vation. and will this year raise an abun-
# dant crop Of strawberries, rasDherries and
blackberries. These small fruits are all
ri thal the land can be made to produce prof
& tablv. Finding the colony in the wilder
ness is like looking for fouf-leaVed
clover. A query addressed to the open
81 door of a whitewashed shanty apparently
several miles from anywhere Yesterday.
# eIs there a Russian Jew colony any
where around?" brought out a faxen-
81 haired man. a dark wife, with red hand
kerchief hood fashion ON her head, and
two children. Smiles were the prominent
s. Characteristic of the group. The man
talked English. The rest jabbered.
"Ye-es-a; thees ees eet."
Are you one of them."
81 eYe-es-a," with a dOuble-sized smile.
"How are you getting along nova
81 daysw
dCoo-oom-a cen an see," and the wife
& and children repeated the Invitation in
& Russian, while the man led off the vlsi-
tors horse to a convenient tree.
Inside the one chair was carefully
& wiped with u towel before TIE visitor was
& allowed to sit down. The man sat on a
q bench and contemplated a bowl of milk
Il and some bread on the table. He hoped
the gentleman would eXcuse.a him if be
s. Went on with his dinner he had to get
back TO wOrk-a. While the wife and chill
s dren smiled cOntentedly with reflected
satisfaction Of hunger and neighbors
& peered in at the door and window, be-
4 tween bites and smiles, in his slow, UNI
& certain English the man said that the six
s ty families i'll the colony were getting
along first rate now, with the money they
# got from their berries and from working
8 for other berry growers in summer and
eh0pping wood in winter. They liked the
country "Ver-a moOtOOch; oh, 20 mOO-Ooch
Btter than cen Russia" They We're all
4 gong to vote as soon as they got their pa
Il pers. They have no church, but tae Rab-
bi holds services around in the houses
every Saturday. Their children all go to a
district school. The wife neighb0rs jab-
bered apparently approving comments as
this Information was given. When the
E bread and milk and the information gave
E out the whole party stood outside and
E smiled as the stranger drove away, the
4 wife insisting on shaking hands as she
Paid:
"COO-oOm-a-a age-e-enW
Further on slender, dark cOlOnist,
With brOgue like Villain Macavi in
"jalled Back" said he was cloak maker
and couldn't farm, so he got elOaks from
Philadelphia and made them up. All he
nd his family could earn was 81 90
laY.
"Wo-ould like to go back to Roosia?
#Oh, wo-Ould I!' he exclaimed, in answer
to question, and then his English gave
#ont for IA while. "But where ish de mo-
ooneyP' he resumed. ''Ah, no! l zhall
die here! We zhall all die herei And We
are yrOOm de citiesl"
And the maker of clOaks looked mourn
iully away over the scrub oak loneliness
and went back to work.
The owner OF the sole mill and store in
tae vicinity said that the cOlOnists were
DONG We'll considering that they had been
ignorant of agriculture. They were order
" hOnest and Industrious. and would
make, he thought, good citizens. They
never quarreled with their neighbors, and
rarely among themselves, and always paid