Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-14
HOMES FOR THE POOR.
John Hazeitine's Plan to Start a
 Colony Tn Montana.
RxPEors TO ESTABLISH A TOWN

Syracuse Phflanthropist without
 Means Tells of His Scheme to Re-
 lfeve the Distress of Fami1ies I'm
 Need ana willing to wOrlx-Hopes .e Lead About 1000 Persons to the
 West Next Spring.
 At the head of colony of 300 fami- lies, or 1000 persons, John Hazeltine will start next spring from Syracuse, N. T., for Montana to take up govern ment farms and establish a town, says tshe New York Evening World.
 Hazeltine is poor, uneducated, day laborer and most successful philan- thropist. For nine years he has fed the hungry, clothed the naked and provid- ed for the needy widows and orphans in Syracuse to the number of 5000 families.
 Necessarily through his long years of grappling with the knotty problem of how to live and bring up and educate l large family of children on nothing year, with sickness and hard times and slack work as side issues, Hazelt1ne has become something of social econ 0mist. He knows nothing of its theo- ries, but the hard sense of bringing needy people and opportunity together appeals to him, and out of this he has evolved the idea Of starting a colony.
 Away out in the wilds of Montana, where there are thousands of acres of government land crying out to be crltt- vated, Hazeltine means to take his army of poor people, who are crying ] out for something to cultivate. The rest, he thinks, is easy.
 From now until spring." he says, S'we will be making preparations, and when March opens we will be there ready for the spring work on the land. I have a list of 800 heads of families who are poor, hardworking, often in { need and out of work and who have a day by day struggle to keep alive.
 s9The men are abiebodied and willing to work, but they are not skilled work men. They have large families, and their kind of work is irregular and overcrowded in the city. Out of this AuADClp ! LhAuA3 OVO APdA4lACSs oI oDOus thousand people, will be glad to get a chance to improve their condition. have many applicants already, and more are coming in daily.
 ''Not only men with families, but sin gle men and single women, can join us, but every man, woman or child must mean business and start with the idea of making the most of their opportuni- ties in the new country. There must be no drones and no adventurers We nre serious and have no time to waste,
 q have been thinking of this for a long time, but never could see just how to do 1t before. Two years ago, however, four families, friends of mine, borrowed money for cArfare and went out to Montana to experiment. They took up government claims. One of the men, John Wilson, has kept me posted. Tn these two years, he writes, they have cleared most of their land, built their homes, have a pair of horses each, some cows, pigs and poultry, paid their passage money, and he, Wilson, has saved $500. The others, he says, have as much or more.
 Now, if these four families can do as much why can't 300 or more? There are obstacles to be overcome and a lot of planning as to detail, but I've seen harder things done. and we're going to do this We will go in immigrant trains and as eheaplv as we can and be ealn hQEts bls. Our Ioka ~ fax north