New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
Il FARM COLONY.
One Where Both Young Men and
Women Can Be Self-Supporting.

John Arbuckle the coffee merchant, is plannini
| a new philanthropy. Mr.. Arbuckle has a grea
| aversion to the ordinary boarding and vacation
| home for young women, and next summer III
intends to make a thoroughly practical ana con
crete protest against the same. In other WORDS M
intends to found a farm colony where young men
and women who need employment In the open all
and nutritious food to restore their health Will DC
able to secure the same, not in bachelor and spin
ster colonies but In associa don with another
Mr. Arbucke intends to utilize Mary and john
ArbuckIe's Farm" at New PaItz. n. Y, for this
purpose, and will erect building having accom-
modations for two hundred colony home.
Meantime he intends to provide some good times
for women wage earners and small salared men
under the conditions that he thinks proper. He
has accommodations for hundred persons at New
Paltz and that the schools about to re-
open and they cannot be used any longer for chill
dren he intends to place them at the disposal Of
grownups. Arrangements have been made where
by wage Garner can secure a two weeks
outing the farm, with excursion ticket on
the Albany day boat to Poughkeepsie and trolley
ticket from Poughkeepse to New-Paltz. for only
725. Men will have to pay 81 more than this. be-
cause they usually have more money than women.
The visitors will have free of a golf course
and tennis court. with clubs and balls, nets and
racquets, and free boats for fishing the Waikiki
River A circular with further information may be
obtained by sending postal to John Arbuckle, No.
Il Water-st.. New-York
will be much more interesting than the kind usually
provided for women wage earners. and he wakes
very wroth when he discusses the subject.
What is the sense" he asks 'of sending young
women to the country for good time and then
taking care that man isn't allowed to come within
five miles Of them? Ny sister fitted up a house
that she happened to own on Long Island as vaca
ton home for young women and turned 1t over to
woman's organization.
II sent lot of young women out there. and one
i a nj and md he
forty guests sitting in rocking chairs the piazza
and evidently bored to death 1 asked the
ayers why they didn't put up some tents on the
lawn and bring forty young out from the city
to occupy them. They held up their hands in holy
horror and declared that it would be impossible.
1T is the way in city homes Everything
possible seems TO be done to keep men away from
them. and the inmates have TO meet their
friends streets. All their movements
spied on too. I had letter recently from young
woman living In such home In reference to
invention wanted to patent, and she asked
If would kindly regard it condential and not
let the matron know about it. This is abominable.
home like that is a prison. not hons.
'I can't imagine what the women who support
these institutions are thinking of. They to
great deal Of trouble to give their daughters an
opportunity to meet men, and deny those oppor-
tunties to young women who have to their
own living. They seem to think that the woman
wage Garner belongs to Il different and hasn't
the feelings their daughters.
IT want my colony to stand a protest to this
sort of thing. 1t Is absurd to criticise young
women for not marrying when We never give them
q chance to do So"
Mr.. Arbuckle has already put these ideas into
operation. Last winter he utilized large boat,
formerly liner. home for working
girls, and alongside Of 1t moored another boat
used a home for men The occupants of both
boats took their meals on the steamer, and had
their recreation rooms there.
inap Mr A-hIo -ia O1-aJ
that my ideas not only workable, but that
they presented no difficulties whatsoever"
But IT is not only the young of both sexes who
are be invited to become members of Mr.. Ar
buckles colony. He hopes to make 1t home for
old men and women and people of any age who.
for any reason, incapaCitated for supporting
themselves in the regular way. As nearly every
thing the colony will need will he produced
the farm. he thinks that such people will be able
TO maintain themselves by the labor that they are
able to do. Some of them will be employed on the
farm, and others will carry on various light in
dustries for which power will be provided. in the
colony building The building will also have wide