The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-24


mentS, parks, base ball grounds and the LAYING
ont Of streets. The latter will all hc Of extreme
width and arc being planted with shade trees
Tho general work at Endicott is being pushed
forward as rapidly As possible and a special effort
Is being made to finish tho big shoe factory aud
the tluncry buildings ahead of the time fixed
by the contracts. There will be at least 5000
people in this ideal town. Accommodation. sill
be provided for that many anyhow The two
manufactures that arc coming in to maize she
necessary industrial nucleus already employ some
1000 workmcn and workwomCn In their new
quarters they will he ENLARGED. The earning
power Of thc inhabitants is estimated at 5000.
600 year and 1t is calculated that each resident
Will he an indirect contributor to the city's sup.
port and still have margin for saving.
Many phldnthropistS have tried the experiment
OF creating model towns, in which tho worker
should be rendered content. Few, IL any Of them
have succeeded, and the country is Uttered with
their wrecks. The town Of Pullman was prob.
ably the first of these model towns to be built
in the United States. II was founded hv George
NJ. Pullman the sleeping car monopolist Out.
wardy the town was delighttul, aud the lot Of
its people--the workers in the Pullman shops
vas supposed Ia be ideal Later the truth came
uut. There were drawbacks. 4 far better and
more comfortable town than Pullman sprang up
in Dayton, o., around tho works OF the National
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have everything that tho heart of man could
wish for The workers in the factories seemed TO
the outside world more like n big family than
a chance gathered collection oi wage workers
Think Of everything nice that a workman might
like for himself and his family and you will
probably fall far short Of the actual conditions
at Dayton And yet tho men struck.
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With a lew unmporant exceptions this has
been the fate Of every attempt to gather working
people into towns aud make them contcnted aud
happy, The trouble has mostly been over that
little word make" and II is because Of its on.
tire elimination from Mr.. Tits plans for Endi.
colt that his idea and its execution interest 50
many people lie holds the astonishing theory
astonishing when held by philanthropic en-.
ploycr--thIt YOU can't make men sood, content
or happy, lie saws they have got 20 become
good. become happy and become content and
they must accomplish ii in their own way. Tlev
cannot be forced 10 be ANYTHING hut discontented
and rehcllious, Give your men the opportunit cs
to be good, content and happy says Mr. Tilt.
and they will naturally become so. Mr. Tilt
is not uniricndy toward labor unions Neither
is he remarkably partial 10 them, Ne SAYS that
there would be no such things As labor unions il
men were treated properly. lie regards a labor
union as a sort of machine constructed by work.
mon with which TO obtain their rights Give
them their rights, saws he, and they will not
construct labor unions, They viii not want
them or be able to use them.
The main difference between Mr. Tilrs nlan
and that Of other men is in its inception. Mr
Tilt has not forgotten that he was onrc a work.
ingman. The others forgot, Mr. Tilt has not
forgotten that he dsliked being "manaccd"; nc
remembers that he liked TO do pretty much as hr
pleased as long as he intcricled with ANYBODY
else, Mr. Tits predecessors in the creation Of
ideal factory towns wanted 10 have a hand in
everything, They wanted TO "hass the whole
town" Mr.. Tilt absolutely refuses {, have any.
thing In 10 with that part Of the business The
town will he in the hands Of those who live
IN It, BY their votes they can make EnGicott