The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10

with him and soon after Mary Ann
futile appeared with a little girl. The
children appear to be brother and sis
ter. They call Schweinfurth papa"
and Mrs. Tuttle mamma" lately two
more children came who also address
the Messiah as papa, though 1t is not
known who are their mothers. Hav-
Ing apparently collected all the sec
tons of his family here, the Messiah
seemed to pass very pleasant sum-
mer. Recently the angels and disci-
pies from Rockford and Chicago have
been arriving. There were about ten
new arrivals in the last two weeks and
the amount Of baggage they carried In
dicated that they came to stay.
The neighborhood firmly believes
that Schweinf1rth is going to make his
headquarters here, and they are very
much agitated over the matter. While
they admit that the conduct of the
colony is outwardly decorous and gives
no scandal. yet it is generally under
stood that the inmates do not as
sumo the marriage bond. Some of the
property holders employed detective
for time to watch the place, but no
evidence of immortality could be col
lected. The triple marriage tends to
straighten matters somewhat.
THE SCHWEINFURTH COLONY
is domesticated at the residence of c.
G. Whitney, 3114 Fifteenth avenue
south. That is, it is supposed to be-
long to that gentleman. Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Thrall do most of the
housework and chores. The property
formerly belonged to the Thralls, who
are a thrifty Norwegian couple, but
their little son, says Mr.. Whitney,
bought it from his father.
AS one of the cardinal articles Of the
Schweinfurth creed demands that the
members give up all their worldly
goods for the benefit of the movement
and always thereafter live in strict
obedience to the leader, it is thought
by the neighbors that Thrall gave the
residence as a contribution to the
cause.
The house is a handsome, modern
light fawn color with green trim
mings. The lawn in front is well kept
and spacious barn at the rear shell
ters number Of horses and several
carriages.
Within, the house has lately been
handsomely furnished. Dainty lace
curtains hang at the windows. The
parlors and halls are carpeted and the
furniture is in the latest style of up
holstery. In the dining room the fine
china and SilverWare indicate anything
but ascetic tastes on the part of the
inmates The whole house is modern
in construction, and is kept scrupously
clean.
The Thrall family, who do the heavy
work about the place, were among the
first disciples to the creed in Mime
apolis.
They gave Mr.. Whitney and his few
disciples home six years ago on
Seventeenth avenue and Thirty Fourth
street. They are devout believers in
the creed and feel honored to have
Messiah Schweinfurth with them. One
OF their sons, however, ran away from
home last spring because he did not
like the customs of the heavenly
people.
Mr.. Whitney with his wife and grown
son and daughter may be seen at the
place constantly and the colony, until
recently, numbered ten people at the
house and five or six on a truck farm
managed by Mr.. Whitney
Although all outside the colony were
strictly barred from the Whitney res
idence, yet two callers came yesterday
morning and were admitted They
were an old lady and a young
and comely girl. who seemed to
be her daughter. They were both very
much agitated and neither the efforts
OF SchWeinfurth nor Mr.. Whitney
Gained them. After leaving the house
they held a long conference on the
porch and the younger woman came
again in the afternoon 1t was whis-
pered that both ladies had formerly
been inmates Of the heaven at Rock
ford, and were making a protest
against the wedding. If so, 1t was I'M
awaiting, and they departed and prep
arations went on just the same.