San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-16
CARYL's MODEL CITY.
Only a Few Millions Needed to
Make a Success.

business man is sitting up at
nights wondering how he is going
to pay taxes and other current OK
penses and at the same time con-
tinue business, there are others
who are "Smarting under the
grinding heel Of the tyrant, mono
poly" and chasing the visions of a
"model government" as outlined
by Ballamy in Looking Back
ward" and more fully by Ignatius
Donnelly in his "Cpsars column"
Last night meeting Of the the
orists was held in the auditorium
of Mrs. Scott SaXtOn's dramatic
school rooms. There were thirty
four present, sixteen men and
eighteen women. The meeting
was held for the purpose Of form
ing a "circle" Of the Peoples
Union.
J. A. Caryl, a gentleman with
strong lungs, handsome mutton
chop whiskers, and a flow of lam
guage, explained in nearly two
hours talk the practicability of a
model government and "model
city" He proposes to start in with
plenty of cash and a corporation
having 100000 shares at par
value of 500 per share. These
shares are to be put upon the mar
ket by a board Of enacting trus-
tees at par value, and when a man
or woman buys share he or she at
once becomes one of the controlling
stockholders Of the corporation and
also becomes eligible to election as
member of the board of Enacting
Trustees.
NOT ENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC.
Elections are to occur only once
in ten years, however, and the
board, to begin with, is to be COM
posed of the founders of the
scheme, and a million and a half
of the shares Of the company are
to be donated to this board of con-
troll, for which consideration they
are to devote the remainder of
their lives to the work of the
union.
The enactIng trustees are to adj
vertlse for a tract of land, ten
miles square, and when all offers
are in a vote shall be taken to de-
eide which State shall be honored
with the model city. All the funds
for building the city are to be rails
ed in the meantime, and the active
work of building is to be COM
menced on the first day of January
A. D., 1900.
Mr.. Caryl has used about fifty
pages of good legal cap paper,
closely typewriter, in outlining
his plans, employing the ideas Of
Ballamy and Donnelly, after whom
he has carefully copied. He wants
to organize local circles of not
more than 100 each, to be composed
as nearly equal as possible, Of men
and women.
A member Of the Board of Enact.
ing Trustees, if he happens to have
any other property than stock in
the union, must, before he can
qualify, turn all his earthly posses
sessions over to the board.
Notwithstanding the plans of
the founders Of the model city and
government that everything is to
be on the cooperative plan, the
residents Of the proposed city are
to be graduated in five classes,
ranging from the common laborer,
who is to receive 50 per day and
eight hours work, and the supreme
officers, who are to have titles to be
hereafter selected, and are each to
receive SIC per day and be prOvid-
ed with mansions.
Members of the honorable" class
are to receive IS per day and be
provided with homes.
A CHANCE FOR ROTHSCHILD.
After having disposed of the
100000 shares of capital stock
several hundred million Of inter-
est-bearing bonds are to be sold to
the greedy Spectator, who sits up
nights clipping coupons and who
will gladly purchase these bonds
when they are issued.
Mr.. Caryl admitted to his audi
ence of thirty.four that his plans
were gigantic, yet he said they
were perfectly feasible and he
could not see where there would
be any trouble encountered in dis
posing of the capital stock at par,
even in these hard times. A few
hundred million could easily be
secured if only a few Of those who
were already in on the ground
floor would start the ball rolling
by planking the cash down to the
treasurer, who is, presumably, Mr..
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