The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-22
THE LANDED LORDS.
MFNsWt4 d iCHARCE OTHERS FOR
4E PRIVILEGE or EWING.

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The Landlord Glass Is Growing In Its
Holdings and Tower; the Landlcss
Class Has Lost Its MISREPRESENTATION
OF the American. People Homeless.
George Montford Simnonson, writing
in Munsey's for August. describes the
remarkable growth Of the great landed
estates in America and discusses the
cause Of the movement and its possible
meaning for good OF. Ill. We have a
landed aristocracy, and correlated
class called the proletariat, Or landless
class. The latter class now number
over half OF the 10000, 900 of our popu-
latIon.i The landlord class is growing
IN Its holdings and power, the land
less class has lost it's independence.
We recently referred to Lord Scully,
the alien rack renter, who, with rents
from his original purchase of loo, 900
acres In Illinois in the SOS, has been
increasing his holdings until he now
owns in addition an entire county in
Kansas, $4,000 acres in Gage county,
Nebraska, 10000 in Nuckolls county,
ana other large tracts. In this arti-
Gle, using Mr.. simonson for authority,
we will call attention to some other
landed gentry.
Inc Vanderbilt family is naturally
taking he lead in grasping the basis
OF all power and authority, the land.
George w. Vanderbilt, the youngest of
Wlillam 81. Vanderbilt's sons, lis max
Ing Oh Baltimore, neal Asheville, North
carolina, 4 of the most remarkable
mansions. This Vanderbilt has bought
$4,000 acres there, land that made
many small farms, and has put up a
mansion, the foundation of which cost
s4oO,OOO. The top Of a mountain was
ieveled OFF to make the site, and i'm
mense quantities of rich. soil for the
gardens were transported by rail
from distant valleys&andariver bottoms.
Astemporary railroad was constructed
toeconVey building material to the site
ofsthe mansion t's Thissvast Vanderbilt
estate is to esdevoteds to tree culture
ana a. game preserve. The raising Of
Wild deer and foxes il" more important
than the rearing Of men @&s AafA
John Jacob Aston has a similar, es-
tate in Florida. ss's@ . As@7 f'sf
Still greater in extent is the M "a
Of Dr.. William Seward Webb. (whuose,
wife was the, William H. sVanderbilt's
daughter) in the. Adirondacks,, an .es-.
tate OF 5 $1,000 acres, Including part of,
two counties. Of this, amount liz, 900.
acres has been incorporated by Dr..
Webb under the name of the Nehasane.
Park Association, as the anage of
the estate says. Sin order to facilitate
the, perpetual holding in a solid body
of so much of this land as. DR.. Webb
should finally decide it desirable to
devote permanently to the purpose of
a private park and game preserve"
Much of this estate will be fenced to
contine large game, moose, elk. and
deer having already been placed3in the.
enclosure for breeding with
a view to the final stocking of THE
whole park. Net men die; let millions
Of families be homeless; but provide
the rich a range to breed wild animals,
that they and the English dukes, and
marquises who come to trade names for
fortunes may have the fun of shooting
them) 11 .Isf5E.
DR.. Webb has also one of the finest
country seats in America on the east
side of Lake Champlain.. It contains
10000 acres, and twenty-eight small
farms, homes, were absorbed to form
this single family estate.
NJ. NICK. Twombly, another son-in-
law Of William H. Vanderbilt, has an
estate adjoining Webb's in the Adiron-
dacks which contains about 100 900
acres, besides a splendid country seat
at Madison, N. T., containing several
hundred acres of ground 5ssaifsE6
Austin Corbin, president of the Long
Island railroad, has a vast estate in
New Hampshire, containing $4,000
acres. The declared object of farming
this great game preserve is "to pro-
vide a living book on natural history
for the instruction of his son." How
fine a thing it would be for the whole
United States to be bought up by mil
lionaires and converted into private
parks to furnish shooting and instruc-
ton for their son in natural history!
Corbin has had thirty miles of barbed
wire. fence placed around his park, at
a cost of $4,000, and has placed within
reindeer from Labrador. wild bears
from Germany, moo from Montana,
while elk from the northwest, deer
from the Maine forests, apartridges from
Virginia and hares from Belgium. A
herd of American bison which Corh;n