The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-23

operations were limited by the scarcity OF
water On the summit of the hill, swept
by health giving breezes, are the homes
of the men reclaimed from lives of crime
and idleness, farm buildings, the "ci adel''
where religious meetings are held-a
library, stores and bakehouses, says the
London Telegraph.
LOCATION is ADMIRABLE.
The picturesque ruins Of Hadleigh cas-,
tie, situated on the brow of the hill, over,
look this scene of hopeful Industry. On
the other side of the railway line the
prospect is not quite so inviting, although
showing many results of labor and en-
terprise. There are great mud flats which
year by year are being reclaimed and
turned into pasture lands, entertainments
having been built to keep out the waters
Of the northern estuary. Altogether there
are LOO acres of foreshore. The fishing
along the foreshore has 50 far been let
out, as the colony officials in their. own
words haveA humorously declared them
selves to be for the present only Fishers
of men,
1t Is with this great effort at reforma,
ton as with all good work-you cannot
limit it's influence. The amateur laborers
can, generally speaking, only do the
rougher duties Of the farm. Skilled work
men are required to build on the estate
and many of them have found their way
to this neighborhood. During the last
few years the aspect of Leigh, a hamlet
on the outskirts Of the colony, has en-.
tireiy changed. New houses are rising
Cfr in :
with the bricks produced on the farm.
The new postoffice is built of these brick ).
Ten years ago the population Of the vii
lage was 400, now it exceeds 1000, a-d it
is constantly growing.
A SCENE OF ACTIVITY.
At the present time this wide-reaching
estate is worked by 300 men, clad in mot
ley garments, but nearly all wearing COOL
strong, serviceable boots, for which they
pay the modest sum of As Cd. Some ara
hoeing weeds in the turnip fields, others
are engaged in orchards planted by the
army upon several hundreds of acres,
picking fruit, most of which will be sold
to private customers in the nei .hborins
towns; and others, again, are seeing after
the cows pigs and poultry, while b icka
and tiles are being turned out at the rate
of $1,000 day, to be increased by and b. !
to 10000 or 1000.
The housing of the "colonists'' is simply
arranged. There are two large dormito-
ries, with thirty or forty beds in each,
where new arrivals are lodged. AS they
prove themselves ready and willing
workers, they go up a grade to another
building, occupying room where there
are ten beds and then to a room w tn
only three, and lastly, some few get small
cubicles to themselves. newcomer is
given any work to do and allowed one
shilling day for the first fortnight or
so, even if he does not earn it. This
payment is made in colony coins-bra IS
disks marked I'D, I'd, Id and 11d-of no
value outside the farm. If the worker
proves energetic and quick he can earn
anything up to As or 5s day and when
he leaves he gets in return for savings
he may have accumulated equivalent cur
rent coin of the realm, amounting to as
much as ga.
MUST DIG OR STARVE.
Not few of the candidates for work
and a better life are at the outset too
proud or too infirm to dig. But they soon
thrive in health and come round to the
common sense argument of Col. Lamb,
the resident father of the colony
well, you won't dig, then? What can
you do? Here you are without a trade
and no work. and no prospect of work.
Whatever the calling of the penit, mt may
have been he must begin on the rough s,
unskiled job in the market garden or in
digging out clay for bricks.
"At first" said Col. Lamb, eff he has
been accustomed to Office work his new
labor begins to tell on him, but in a few
days he is another and, in regard to
health, better man. The people bel ing,
ing to respectable stations in life whom
wet get are both moral and phys cal
wrecks and it is surprising What Won