The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-06
ST, 600, 600 TO PROMOTE
Mr.. HERRON'SDOCTRLNE
E7o.O the Fortune Of the Late Mrs Rand viii Be
Used to Sustain Colony and Prornulgate a
Crusade Against the Institution of Marriage
Unique Wedding and Strange Funeral.

IOfmef professor at Iowa college, Grin
nell, Iowa, whose peculiar conduct and
theories have been church and social
sensations for several years, is now
founding a colony near Metuchen, New
Jersey, where he and his followers will
exempify his revolutionary doctrines
on the marriage relation. Professor
Heron and his present wife, formerly
Miss Carrie Rand Of Burlington, Iowa,
have become heirs to fortune by the
Caroline Rand, who was widow of mil
lionaire Burlington lumberman. This
vast fortune, estimated by the New
York American at 81 100000, will be
drawn upon heavily, it 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
Mrs. Rand and her Daughter. On his
return he told his wife he did not love
her, and asked her to get a divorce.
She refused, but finally yielded, and
it is reported that $50 900, 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 Heron s
100000 becomes public in manner al
most as startling as the preceding cir
cumstances. p About a fortnight ago
when train on the Pennsylvania rail
road stopped at Metuchen a group Of
persons alighted, one of whom carried
an iron-bound box. The party got into
an open carriage and a country stage
coach and was driven to 'Elmwood
Farm,' where Professor Heron has
h11I1f vol 4o4S - Go1
lowers.
The iron-bound box was carried on
the lap of one of the party in the open
carriage. It contained the ashes of
Mrs. Caroline Rand, who, some eight
months ago, left New York with. Pro-
fessor Heron and her daughter for a
trip, abroad, and thru whose death the
professor comes into control of the
Rand fortune, which, with it's accumu-
like $11,000,000. She had died in
Europe, and her body had been ere
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
and children in order to make Miss
Aee'Ait hA' win PetAiloA'
Strange Funeral for Mrs. Rand. :
Others in the carriage and the stage
were adherents of Professor Heron IS
doctrine, some Of them prospective
members of the colony he plans to es-
tablish near Metuc hen. In the presence
called @ the real service' over theeashes
of his benefactress, the final burial at
Burlington being only formality.
eat 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 it's
leader with her millions.
During the last year, more than
hundred people have found various
kinds of employment on the expensive
improvements laid out by the professor.
cat the Open-air funeral services,
what her mothers wishes had been:
"There are flowers everywhere, for
she loved beauty. We have made no
change from our usual manner OF dress
ing, for she said to me-: IF anything
is different in your dress, let it be
white
Mrs. Heron wore white. The serv-
lcoS were uo1u Ou tue 1d"u, Wuc1c IAO
Heron followers were grouped around
the iron-bound box. The professor de-
livered a short address, by Mrs. Rand g
| last wish, he said. He spoke Of the
| beauty of her soul and the strength
Of her character, and felicitated 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 evil
denced by large OUTLAWS of money upon
| the surrounding landscape.
"At the conclusion of the ceremony
the iron-bound box was conveyed to the
railway station and placed in bag
gage car, and in a parl or car Professor
Heron and his companion accompanied
it to Burlington, Iowa.
Returning from the west the cou
pie, accompanied by their son, stopped
at the farm before sailing for Europe
| bound for Florence, Italy, where Pro
fessor Heron expects to complete 8
book which will set forth his peculiar
| beliefs and which he hopes to make ar
| effective weapon in the warfare he AND
his followers are waging upon the pres
ent system of marriage and upon pres
ent-day religion. Thereupon he plans
to return to tElmwood Farm to builC
up the colony of believers in his doc
trine and to send forth it's propaganda
turnout the, world. -, ..szs--. IT,
| TO Buy Two Square Miles.
| NBesides FElmwood Farm which