Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-09
PASSING AWAY
The Oneida Community RanidIv nj.
minishinR.


Of the $50 persons belonging to the old
community at the time of 'sdivision and
reorganization" says the Utica Herald.
four live in Boston, eight in New York
city, one in New Jersey, ten in the town
OF Oneida, four in the village of Oneida
Castle; twenty-five live in houses of their
own near the community, and are en-
ployed more or less in the business OF the
Oneida community, limited; twenty
| seven, including accessions by birth.
gathered around a Christmas tree in a
| small house in southern California. the
house standing on great plain, stretch
ing ten miles TO the Pacific Ocean one
way and ten miles the other way to the
| lncurYlng ''fOOt-hills," a mountain peak
sixty miles away emphasizing the whole /:
three IN LockpOrt, fifty at Niagara Falls,
attracted thither partly by the presence
Of j. ID. NOyes, and partly by the table
ware business, which pays out $4,000 a
| month In wages, and the rest Of them live
here IN what are called the "hOme build
| lngs,' and enjoy many of the old comforts
and advantages, steam-heated rooms. hot
and cold bath, Turkish bath, library and
| reading-rOOm, lawns and flower gardens.
The greater part of those living in these
buildings board in a common dining
| AOytls CUuuutltu Dy private parties III
much the same spirit that prevailed in
the old community. There are seven or
eight families that keep house separately,
beside few solitary individuals, who
board themselves without any very visi-
bic connection with cooking stove. The
restaurant plan" was tried and aban-
| dOned IN 1881. 1t was not without its
merits, but old habit and feeling were
against it. l should add that five cid
I FtFln m aTgHga
nectlcut; that two are printers In Cincin-
natl, and that one is at WalingfOrd,
| Conn, taking care of the cOmpany's prop
| erty at that place. Nearly all the people
who have "gOne Out' are living in homes
built or bought by themselves. The money
| that is made in the company business and
distributed as dividends now spent in di-
vers places. 1t was formerly spent here.
In this respect, the change from cOmmu-
nifty to joint stock has not been good tor
this region. TwO-thirds of the stock of
| the Oneida community, limited, is more
or less under the influence of j. III. Moves
and his sympathizers. Thirty or more Of
his most religious friends hold semi-daily
meetings here to keep IN communication
/ with one another and with him. He has
weekly gathering at his own house in
Canada Sundays. Some of the long-headed
ones are predicting that the dispersion
will spend Itself, and we shall soon see a
wave of returning adventures. Some
may think ''ZiOn is going to be restored"
Some may think it is going to be an era OF
art and music and good feeling without
| this plague or discipline. We have not
| the standing-place of the prophets. These
former communists are certainly more or
less held together and kept separate by
their common history and association.
| and, perhaps, too, by the fact that there
are among them between thirty and forty
persons who have a common blood, and
are yariOusly related to most of the others.
Something may come of this fact-per-
Laps nothing but intermarriages-per-
haps more.