Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-01

COLONISTS HOME AND
stock raising and the like on larger
scale, and vii! become thereby more
than merely self-supporting.
Children Anxious to Learn.
Il have found the children of these
people as a rule bright, apt and exceed
ingly anxious to learn" said Robert
Morris, county superintendent of schools.
They attend the school regularly; study
WELL are obedient and easily handled.
The adults seem to me to be faithfully
working out successful destiny, and they
are becoming good and useful citizens and
producers. | think the society which
has started them upon this road has per-
formed a work for the direct benefit of
humanity. Under the plan adopted
here. there is practically no end to the
extent Of TINS work, us the money even
tually repaid by these settlers for adj
yances made to them is to be used as |
understand it, as perpetual or reyolv-
ing fund, being again loaned to others
who may come to our land to escape
tyranny and persecution"
The good opinion Of Mr.. Morris was
fully borne out by other residents, in
GLIDING the general manager of the
colony, Henry Il. Roehrig, who has been
III charge since tie start, December,
1904. He says they learn quickly and
are industrious. Mrs. Roehrig has ably
assisted her husband by working among
the women and teaching them modern
homework. etc.
To Make an Eastern Exhibit
practical exhibition of the results
accomplished by various Jewish farmers
and colonies located in different parts of
this country including Arpin is to be
made in October, at New York. under
the auspices of the Baron de Hirsch
fund for this work. To this end, Presi-
dent Rich of the Milwaukee association.
recently visited the colony in company
with S. A. Johnson, an official photo-
grapher of the Wisconsin Central road
at Phillips, Wis, who secured n number
of excellent and interesting pictures ON
the farms. in the homes and about the
colony. The views presented with this
article are by Mr.. Johnson.
Briefly stated, the Arpin colony plan.
as arranged by its founder, A. w. Rich
of Milwaukee. is this: Each settler has
ten years in which to pay for his land
which is turned over to him at S25 an
acre. He is not charged with any inter
est on the farm until the beginning of
the second year, and then only AT ! per
cent. per annum. The principal is ar
ranged for in moderate annual or semi
annual payments, beginning at the third
year. Those who came without ANYTHING
were assisted for one year by an ad-
vance of 50 a week for actual living ex-
pensCs. The payments to be made by
the settlers will be returned to the gen
eral fund to perpetuate the plan. and in
this way the POSSIBILITIES are beyond com
Tutation. What is here being done for
Jews can easily be done for unfortunates
of all nationalities.
A Gratifying Showing,
Personally, l found evidences of a
most gratifying advancement made in Il
year Mt the Arpin colonoy. l visited
the settlement a year ago, and am there
fore enabled, perhaps. to pass judgment
as to whas has been done and what may
be accomplished. In starting this colony
in the productive and healthful soil of
Wood county, at village through which
the Wisconsin Central. the Milwaukee.
and the Northwestern roads all pass,
thus insuring excellent railway facilities
and the best freight rates at all time,
believe Mr.. Rich and his associates. who
are working under the de Hirsch philan-
thropy. Measrs. J. Nj. .Pereles, Julius I'll.
Meyer. Louis Gimbel. Max Landauer
Morris Miller and Nathan Glcksman
officers and directors of the Milwaukee
Agricultural association, have not only
| inaugurated Il great benefaction, but that
| they are solving mighty problem as tc
| the most benehcent aud proftabie meth
/ cd of reducing the congestcd districts OF
large cities, whether of jew or Gentle
/ for the Arpin colony is no longer an ex
! periments; Il is an evolution in the direc,
ton of opening the gates of peaceful
prosperous and useful existence for will
ing workers, aud especially among that
unfortunate race, whose persistent per.
secution by a benighted, intolerant and
superstitious country has aroused the in.
dignation of the civilized world. To aid
III reScuing untortuuateS is a great work,
to make of them a self-supportiug and
good American citizenship, is greater
and grandCr work.