The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
LOOKING FOR A LOCATION.
SHAKERS WANT TO ESTABLISH
THEIR COMMUNITY HERE.

THEIR COMMUNITY HERE.
DR.. SlinEerIand Much Pleased with
the Site He Looked at, But Nothing
Definite Has Been Decided-Fhc
Shakers an Agricultural People
and Hard Workers - President
Plant Wanted Them 30 60 to Flor
ida-Dr. SIIngerIand Likes Savan-
nah and Wants to Be Near the
City.
The governing board or ministry of the
Shaker colony from Lebanon, O., which
is now here looking into the matter Of To-
eating Shaker settlement near Savannah,
is much pleased with this section. and the
prospects are they viii settle definitely
upon some plan for community near
here before leaving the city.
DR.. J. r. Slingerland, one of the trus-
tees of the community near Lebanon, o.,
was seen by a representative Of the Morn
ing News. and talked very freely of the
objects and intentions of the board. He
likes the city very much and is particu-
larly pleased with this section of the coun-
try for the purposes the Shakers have in
members of the board, and Mr.. W. c. Aver
the other member, arrived in the city yes
terday, and have been discussing the mat
ter with DR.. Slingerland
81 went over yesterday to look at a
place in South Carolina" DR.. Slingerland
said. 1T is the Red Bluff plantation on
the New river, the property of Mr.. J. B.
r,sc. "A 7 Ia 4
considerable correspondence with regard
to the land with Mr.. T. L. Harden of
Atlanta, aud he accompanied US. The
location is one which I think would prove
very satisfactory for the objects we have
In view, but there are many things to be
considered and We will look well into the
matter before we act
I'VE are an agricultural people, and we
make a speciality also of raising fine
stock and cattle. Our farms in Ohio are
planted right up TO the fences, and We
have some of the finest crops to be found
In the country. / think we will want from
10000 to 1900 acres of land for our colony
here, and we would like TO secure a tract
to which we might make additions by
purchase should II be found necessary.
We are much pleased with the climate and
time contemplated placing a community
somewhere in this part of the south.
Sometime ago Mr. II. b. Plant, pres-
dent of the Plant system, with whom l
had an interview, endeavored to get me to
locate a community In Florida, somewhere
near Lakeland. He spoke especially of a
tract of land in that section which he
thought would be suitable to our purposes.
was not pleased, however, with the loca-
ton and we did not go there. Savannah
Is one of the cleanest and most beautiful
cities 1 have ever seen, and if we can make
satisfactory arrangements 1 should like
very much to locate the community near
here
If We get the place we want we should
hardly be able to bring the community
here before next year sometime. Still l
myself would remain here and make ar
rangements for their coming. l would
probably also bring few folks down here
for the work of arranging the necessary
building and getting the place in readiness
Tor the community. We will be here for
several days yet. and while We have not
reached any conclusion yet, We will decide
before leaving the city just what shall be
done"
Mr. Aver, DR.. Slingerlands assistant on
the board, left last night for Brunswick
and Waycross. He is going to see If there
are any places which it would be worth
while for the board to take look at. and
VIII return to the city Wednesday
The Shakers are a working people and
they enjoy their work. They usually put
up their own buildings, and, as rule. do
all OF the farming work themselves and
they do 1t well. 1t is one of their rules to
do the best that can be done with every
thing they undertake, and that is the Sc
cret of their success
DR.. Slingerland and those who accom-
pany him are thoroughly in earnest in
their desire to locate near Savannah. and
tney are gong to make every effort posi-
bic to secure a property that suits them
While he was much pleased with the prop-
erty he looked at near Bluffton. he said
that nothing definite had as yet been de-
cided with regard TO 1t.