New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-24

CHILDREN TIED TOGETHER WITH CLOTHES
LIsE- BANJoEs AND BANDANAs
From The Louisville Courier-JournaL
The first exclusive coorcd colony ever started
in Minnesota was sent from Kentucky last night
by Mr.. Sid J. Gates. General Agent OF the
Big -Four passenger department. The colony
consisted Of Seventy-iiVe men and women, ana
over half as many sleepy looking pickaninnies
Of various sizes, ages and shades. The colony
worked up under the direction OF Mr.. Cafes
by J. III. Lewis, Al Pcnick, Gaines Strater ana
Frank a. Marshall, all G. A. r. veterans, WHO
were sent up to Fergus Falls Mimi, last June
to prepare for the colony when 1t got ready
to CO.
After finding that the country was a good one.
the quartet returned to Greensburg. KY, about
thirty seven miles from Lebanon, and began 70
work up the cololy They got them al 70
gether last Saturday, when both Mr.. Gates
and James G.. Mooney, of the Chicago Great
Western. went to Greensburg. Many or tne
emigrants owned their own farms, which they
sold Some Of the party scraped together enough
money to lay their fare and went to take up
Government land. Some had nothing at az,
and among these was Ethel Jackson. muatt0
girl, who was engaged to marry Henry WILSON,
who belonged to the class with just enough
money to pay his fare Wilson INTENDED y
send money back TO Greensburg when ne MAGE
enough so that the girl could follow him: SDe
was not satisfied to wait she concluded 70
crowd herself into Wilson's trunk and go WIN
him I'm that way. The trunk had seen ions
and hard service and was not calculated 10
out any troubl, The trip was made TO LouiS-
VILE all right but when the trunk was penis
transferred from the Louisville ana Nash'liie
car TO one Of the two special baggaSe-cars IL
fell 10 pieces and the girl fell SPRAYING 70 inc
platform The girl started to cry. but ,iates ahu
Mooney rather than have the good feelns Oh
the party destroyed. paid for the girl ticket
and she accompanied the party 10 their destlna-
/ lion " here she and Wilson VIII be married.
one Of the funniest sights Of the whole parry
was that Of n healthy looking couple with elght
children They ranged in age from a niue eDoh-
faced onc- yca.'-od to a tw"lVe-year-od BOY.
In order To- keep them from being lost or Deceol,
ing separated the parents had the family strung
along a cloth,slinc with the father al one eno
+ and the mother AT tn" other.
/ 4 homemade banjo. u box when 'erVed lnc
purpusn 81 a trunk ana sceping-bag the Iypi-
cal ban,sana handkcrchicf-bag. were some or me
| baggage which the owners CONSIDERED TOO pre-
| cious to check 50 they carried them -
Tho party left on the o'clock Big four UaAI
| last ui4ht \ crowd of Louisville negroes VINO
/ bad friends or relatives in the party was AZ
! the d,rot To sec the colony d. part IL was
! feared some negroes not entitled 10 go WVutu
try 10 force themselves in the tram, so fdtroI-
man Frank Singers VAS stationed at the satess
| 10 keep out all intcrlopors The regular uain
| an In. Big Four carried two extra coaches ana
two extra baggago-cars for the colonlstS. np'
! Gates accompanied them to chicago ana 81
| Mooney viii go through to Fergus fails VIII
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