The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-09
A FARM COLONY.

Women Can Be Self-SupPorting.
 John Arbuckle. the coffee merchant, is planning a new philanthropy. MT. Arbuckle has a great aversion to the ordinary bOGrding and vacation home for young womei.. and next summer he intends to make a thoroughly practi- cal and concrete protest against the same. In other words, he intends to found a farm colony where young men and women who need employment in the open air and nutritious food to restore their health will be able to se- cure the same in bachelor and spin ster colonies, but ia association with ore another. Mir. Arbuckle intends to utilize Mary and John Arbuckle's Farm" at New-Paltz, N. T.. for this purpose, and will erect a building hay ing accommodations for two hundred 1 as colony home.
 Meantime he intends to provide some good times for women wage earn CTS and small salaried men under the conditions that he thinks proper, He has accommodations for a hundred persons at New-Paltz, and now that the schools are about to reopen and they cannot be used anl longer for children, he intends to place them at the disposal of grownups. Arrange menas have been made whereby Wo- man wage earner can secure two weeks outing on the farm, with an ex- cursion ticket on the Albany day boat to Poughkeepsie and trolley ticket from Poughkeepsie to New-Paltz, for only S7.25. Men will have to pay $4. more than this, because they usually have more money than women.
 The visitors will have free use of a golf course, and tennis court, with clubs and balls, nets and racquets, and free boats for fishing on the Waikiki River. A circular with further infor- nation may be obtained by sending a postal to John Arbuckle, No. Il Wa ter-st., New York.
 Mr Arbuckle. thinks that this kind of an outing. will be much more inter esting than the kind usually provided for women wage earners, and he waxes very wroth when he discusses the sub 1 ject.
 What is the sense," he asks, ''of sending young women to the country for a good time and then taking care | that a man isn't allowed to come with in five miles of them? My sister once fitted up 8 house that she happened to own on Long Island as a vacation home for young women and turned fl over to woman's organization.
 T sent a lot of young women out there, and one day went out to see the place and found the forty guests sitting in rocking chairs on the piazza and evidently bored to death. I ask ed the managers why they didn't put up some tents ofi the lawn and bring forty young men out from the city to occupy them. They held up their hands in holy horror and declared ttat it would be Impossible. s'.
 Tt is the same way in city homes Everything possible seems to be done to. keep. men away from them, and thu inmates have fo meet their men friends on the streets. All their movements are spied on, too. had a letter re. gently from a young woman living ir such home in reference to an inven' tion she wanted patent, and she asked me if | would kindly regard 1t as con- denttal and not let the matron know l about it, This is abominable. A home like that is I prison, not home.
 "I can't imagine what the womer who support these institutions arc thinking of. They go to a great dea of trouble to give their daughters ar opportunity to meet men, and deny those opportunities to young women who have to earn their own living They seem to think that the woman wage earner belongs to a different racu and hasn't the same feelings as theil daughters.
 II want my colony to stand as pro test to this sort of thing. It is ab' surd to criticise young women for mol marrying when we never give then a chance to do so.'
 Mir. Arbuckle has already put thest ideas into opperation. Last winter h. utilized a large boat, formerly al ocean liner, as a home for working girls, and alongside of it was mooret another boat used as home for men The occupants of both boats took theil meals on the steamer, and had theil recreation rooms there.
 This experiment" says MT. Ar buckle, proved that my ideas wer, not only workable, but that they pre- scented no difficulties whatsoever"
 But iS is not only the young of botl sexes who are to be invited to becom, members of Mr Arbuckle's colony. II, hopes to make it home for old mer and women and people of any age wht for reason, are incapacitated for sup
 porting themselves in the regular way As nearly everything the colony vii need will be produced on the farm, h, thinks that such people will be ablt to maintain themselves by the laboI that they are able to do. Some of then will be employed on the farm, and oth CTS will carry on various light indus l tries, for which power will be provid | cd in tho colony hI1ildinp Tha hI1i1d