New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-14
AN OPTIMISTIC EXHIBIT.

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Of the email exhibition hail. and. entering. found
himself IN a full Of optimistic proofs. There
were many signs IN English well as in the
'curve and angle" Hebrew characters. explain
ing the exhibits. There were photographs in
Vulnerable showing Jews ploughing the fields.
hoeing of fourishing vegetables, milking
cows making cheese and gathering flowers from
the gardens about six-room houses. Men with
Hebraio faces stood in the shadow Of stalks Of
prize corn. which rose 10 almost twice their
height. SAMMY and 'Ikey' and David and
Ably were portrayed learning dog paddle in
real swimming holes" There were photographs
of large New England farmhouses. with Jewish
families, the owners. standing on the grass In
front. Most of the houses had of the dilap
idated appearance that connects with the
abandoned ancestral homes of old New England
families although such most OF them were SAID
TO be. Dozens Of pictures showed families whose
names end in SKY holding ptcnics, and loading
hay, and doing other things of a like nature. A
sign said that there We're Jewish families IN
Alaska, Canada. New Hampshire MaSSachU-
setts Connecticut, New York New Jersey Penn
sylvania, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana. uli-
nois Michigan, Wisconsin Iowa Missouri. Texas
Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Mexico Minnesota.
North and South Dakota and Washington. He
was Informed that it was known that IN the
OF the Jewish faith. They and their families
aggregating 74sl souls. We're now cultivating
farms covering 125 434 acres, and valued, with
the chattels, at S2.716649
The visitor astonished at discovering that
IN Connecticut there were between four hun
ored and i've hundred Jewish farmers. Some Of
them had gone TO Connecticut TO work in fac
tories and, finding abandoned farms in the
neighborhood, had bought them. Others had
followed them 10 the country. A young man in
the exhibition hall; who proved to be the head
Of the Board Of Education Of Woodbine q Jew
ish farming and industrial community in
Southern New Jersey and the head OF the De
Eirsch Agricultural School there said he Was
the OF Jewish farmer of Connecticut and a
graduate from the Storrs Agricultural College
OF that state.
There were several cards telling what a num-
Der Of this new type Of Yankee farmer possessed
and what they made their possessions yield
them, There was one farm at Ellington, con-
sisting Of 260 acres, which was valued al
$1,000, and on which there was q mortgage OF
$500 On il thirty-fve cattle three
horses, poultry ana, surprising to relate three
pigs, Last year the owner made 81 600 from
his landed possessions He was not the only
farmer Cd the list owning porkers. Others of
less annual income reported the presence of pies
on their estates, without telling why they haT-
bored these animals. abhorred by the lew
or indicating what they did with them Most
\ OF the farms were not so ostentatious as this
d one, which headed the list
There was Abraham Goldstein who had in
vested 5000 and signed a mortgage for 81. 90
who was making an income OF from $500 TO
5000 year out OF milk. eggs butter and fruit
and adding to his receipts by keeping summer
boarders in his nine room house With two ex-
cepuons. all OF the houses had over six rooms
one having as many as eighteen and few had
fewer than eight rooms, into practically all ~
Which the sunlight poured on every pleasant
woOpBINE's PROGRESS.
Down in Southern New Jersey, he learned
there is the village of Woodbine, containing a
population Of more than two thousand settled
by jews. Here is the Baron de Hirsch AgrfcuIt-
IRA echo0i Ior Jews AT Norma, Rosenhayn,
carmel Alliance, BrotmanVille and Carton Road
IN the neighborhood, colonies Of Jews in
GLIDING more than 80 farmers. Scores of pict-
ores showed them picking peaches gathering
grapes from their vineyards cultivating sweet
potatoes and shipping them TO market Tho
Jewish farmers of this neighborhood he found
had formed union 70 protect their Interests
Shipping through the union they secure better
freight rates. for they can ship in quantities
for
market their goods through one man instead of
competing with another
A pamphlet described the NationaIa Earn,
School at Doylestown, Penn, which was esta b.
hshed several years ago for the training OF
which has been commended by President Roose-
Welt and Secretary Wilson OF the Department
or Agriculture. Several Of its former students
are employed by the department. and II is turn,
ing away applicants for admission every year
The exhibit also contained information about
me educational, the religious and the social op.
portuniues for Jews in each OF the neighbor.
hoods where Jewish farmers have settled The
Jew IS anxious 10 have an opportunity to visit
the synagogue occasionally. facilities for tn,
education Of his children and chance to marry
ms daughters 10 Jewish young men. An isolated
Jewish farmer would be cut of from the former
and when his daughters mature into marriage
able maidens they. too. would .be cut off from
lists.
Up 10 the roof garden OF the Alliance Ru,,d
ing the visitor climbed. There he found In ;
booth made Of green boUghs the fruits OF sew
eral Jewish farms. There stalks of priz
cora mammoth prize pumpkins and squashes
with the names % The growers grown into then,
here were punches OF asteTs. evidently gath
cred from the beds on tie farms
The visitor thought OF the CONTRASTING, rjcft,r
presented 10 the mind OF the Jewish innn1igran
VINO CHANGED 10 be standing at his side on tn
East SIDE this serious faced representative O
the food Of Tens Of thousands of Russian Ru
:nanian ana Austrian Jews pouring into III
ofercroWQed ghetto and the producing mem
bers or his family together We're earning on al
eFerase - a week a little over $40 ;
year, bending over the ceaseessly whfrriug sew
Ing MACHINE OF the sWea Ishop. He was sDend
ing quarter OF these earnings for the iIs, n
three or four rooms and the privilege of becon
ins a. victim Of the white plague" out of th
remainder the family Of seven was being fed
clothed and warned. ON The firm nns . com