The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-03
GETS THE COLONY.
UPTON SINCLAIR EXPERIMENT
no BE TRIED on PALISADES.

Secured 1T Is . stone Building I'm the
MIddlc Of q NINE Acre Park Near Engle-
d-Possessisn to he Given Soon.
It's all on with Connecticut, Long Island
n The Bronx, which have been In hot
competition with New Jersey for Upton
Sinclair's cooperative s~ervantlees home
colony. Jersey gets it. The site COM
mittee have planked down a deposit for
Helicon Hall. formerly a juvenile educa-
tional institution up on the Palisades near
Englewood.
The glad news hadn't permeated very
generally through Englewood last night.
because the deal wasn't put through until
late yesterday afternoon, when Mr.. Sinclair,
Edwin 8. Potter and Ellis o. Jones met
John W. Craig, who has been conducting a
boys school in Helioon Hall for come years,
and a arrangements TO buy the place.
The tidings got to Englewooo's exclusive
colony OF bank presidents, brokers, big n
little trust magnates and pork packers n
produced a shock. They didn't enthuse
up on the hill beside them where he could
peek down and see everything that was
going on. Half OF the rest Of Englewood
was disposed to throw sout its chest over
the advent OF a heavy consignment Of
brains which will raise the mental avoirdu-
pois Of the town away above everything
else in the State, except possibly Princeton.
The other half acted just like any rural
community would when it heard that a
circus was going to come and stay all winter.
Whether Englewood likes it or not the
Upton Sinclair Cooperative Home Colony
expects to be all settled In Helicon Hall
by the first of November. Possession is
to be given next week and any ~colonist
who is in a hurry to FIRE he hired girl and
fit over to the coop headquarters can
do it soon, but il won't be well under way
for a month yet.
Sinclair isn't going to be the star attrac-
ton Of the home colony by any means.
One Of its members is DR.. John Dewey.
professor Of philosophy at Columbia.
Two other Columbia men, William Noyes
and W. p. Montague, lecturers, are on the
list. Other members are William J. Lamp
ton. Edwin Biorkman, Edwin S. Potter,
Ellis o. Jones and d. c. Serber. Or.
Charles H. Castle has heard the call OF the
co-ops away out in Cincinnati and is NOV
ing on here az fast as he can.
A valuable member Of the colony will be
DR.. James T. Gwathmey, who has been
living at 1874 East Sixteenth street. DR..
Gwathmey said last night that his specially
is administering anesthetics and he is go
ing over more for the sake of his son and
daughter than for professional reasons.
Helicon Hall stands in the centre of a
nine acre park in the corner Of a fifteen mile
forest, which stretches along the Palisades.
II is two stories and a half high, is of gray
stone and surrounds a spacious court.
The building has a dinky little theatre
and a bowling alley in it,. On the grounds
is a one story building formerly used as
a recitation room, which is to serve the
same purpose for the little children Of the
colony when it gets in full swing. There
are only twelve children in the colony at this
writing.
No one would say yesterday how much
Helicon Hall and its surroundings is TO cost
the home colonists, but the buildings are
valued at $50 900 and land in that neighbor-
hood has been selling at 5000 an acre,
so that apparently il isn't going to set them
back less than about $40, 900. From the
hall the colonists can see all over the Hack
ensack Valley, even Rs far as the Ramapo
Mountains, forty miles away: