Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-07
HERRON|S NEW COLONY
Something More About What
He Will Do With the
Rand Fortune
TO PROPAGATE HIS DOCTRINE
Former lowsn Will Found a Colony
for People Who Share His Peculiar
Views on Marriage and Divorce
Will Soon PubIisi, Book for FREQ
Distribution.

Will Soon Publish, a Book for Free
Distribution.
Minneapolis, Sept. Professor Geo.
d. Heron, the former professor at
Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, whose
peculiar conduct and theories have been
church and social sensations for sew
eral years, is now founding az colony
near Metuchen. New Jersey, where he
and his followers will exemplify his
revolutionary doctrines on the marriage
relation. Professor Heron and his
present wife, formerly Miss Carrie
Rand. of Burlington. Iowa. have be-
come heirs to fortune by the death
of Mrs. Herrons mother. Mrs. Caroline
Rand. who was widow Of IA millionaire
Burlington lumbernlan. This vast for
tune. estimated by the New York AM
erican at $11,000,00o. Will be drawn up
on heavily, ii Is reported, to plant the
colony and promulgate the Heron
doctrines.
The Heron case was the scandal Of
Iowa four or five years ago. Professor
Heron left his wife and four young
children to take u European trip with
Mrs. Rand and her daughter. On his
return he told his wife he did not love
her, and asked her to get divorce.
She refused, but finally yielded. AMI
1t is reported that $4,000 was paid her
by Mrs. Rand as consideration, which
she accepted for the sake of her chill
dren. OF the latest developments an
article in the New York American
says:
The news Of Professor Herron's
coming into the possession Of this $11,-
100000 becomes public in a manner al
most as startling as the preceding cir-
cumstances. About fortnight ago
when train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road stopped at Metuchen group Of
persons alighted, one Of whom carried
an IRON bound box. The party got into
an open carriage and country stage
coach, and was driven to 'Nlmwooi
Farm, where Professor Heron has
built the ral!ying station for his fol-
lowers.
THE iron-bound box was carried on
the lap of one of the party in the open
carriage. 1t contained the ashes Of
Mrs. Caroline Rand, who, some eight
months ago. left New York with Pro-
fessor Heron ana her daughter for a
trip abroad, and thru whose death the
professor comes into control of the
Rand fortune, which. with Its accumn-
iatioas. is said to amount to something
like sl1.Go0,000. She had died in
E5syiYepe, send her body had been Gre
mated. BY her expressed wish her
ashes had been brought over for burial
at her old home In Burlington, Iowa,
by her daughter and Professor Heron.
The couple were accompanied by the
little son born to them about two years
after the professor deserted his wife
snd children in order to make Miss
Rand his 'companion.
Strange Funeral for Mrs. Rand.
Others in the carriage and the stage
were adherents Of Professor Fderron's
doctrine, some Of them prospective
members of the colony he plans to es-
tablish near Metuchen. In the presence
Of his followers at "Elmwood Farm, :
Professor Heron was to hold what he
called 'the real service" over the ashes
of his benefactress, the final burial at
Burlington being only a formality.
"At the farm headquarters of the
Heron cult the party was received by
a large number Of adherents, who have
become accustomed to gatherings at
that attractive spot since it became
known that Mrs. Rand had endowed
its leader with her millions.
During the last year more than a
hundred people have found various
kinds Of employment on the expensive
improvements laid out by the profess
sOr.
"At the open-ai funeral services
Mrs. Rands daughter explained to
them what her mothers wishes had
been:
There are flowers everywhere. for
she loved beauty. We have made no
change from our usual manner of
dressing, for she said to me: IT any,
thing is different in your dress, let 1t
be white
Mrs. Heron wore white. The serv-
ices were held on the lawn, where the
Heron followers were grouped around
the iron bound box. The professor de-
livered short address, by Mrs. Rand's
last WISH he said. He spoke of the
beauty Of her soul and the strength
OF her character, and felicited himself
and his followers upon having been per-
mitted to know and love so superb and
beautiful spirit. He touched but
lightly upon the practical BENEFITS she
had bestowed upon himself, already
evidenced by the large OUTLAWS Of mon
ey upon the surrounding landscape.
cat the conclusion Of. the ceremony
the iron bound box was conveyed to
the railway station and placed in a
baggage car, and in a parlor car Pro-
fessor Heron and his companion ac-
companied 1t to Burlington, Iowa.
Returning from the west the con-
Pile. accompariel ~ their son, stopped
at thu farm before sailing for Europe,
bound for Fl 1rcnce, Italy. where Pro-
lessor Heron expects to complete a
book which will set forth hts peculiar
beliefs and Which he hopes to make
an effective weapon in the warfare hs
and his followers ere waging upon the
present system # marriage and upon
present day religion. Thereupon he
plans to return to Elmwood Farm to
build up the colony Of believers in his
doctrine and to send forth its propa-
ganda throut the world.
To Buy Two Square Miles.
Besides .Illmwood Farm which
Mrs. Rand presented to her daughter