The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30
UPTON IN BERMUDA
SINCLAIR TO START NEW
COOPERATIVE COLONY.
Former San Francisco Editor to Join
Him-May Plant Onions or Write
More About "The Metropolis"

NEW YORK, Dec. @.-Michaei Will
Jams, his wife and three children, sailed
for Bermuda yesterday to join Upton Sir
clair. who preceded him by a week and
with whom he hopes to formulate plans
for a new Helicon Hall in that Island.
Mr.. Williams and his family were inmates
Of the HALF at Englewood, which was
wiped out by fire last spring. He used
to be the city editor of a San Francisco
newspaper. but he got burned out of his
lob at the time of the earthquake a yeaP
ago last spring.
Soon after the burning of Helicon Han
last May Mr.. Sinclair said that the mem
bers of the colony would look about a bit
and that as soon as they saw their way
clear the colony would be reestabilsned.
The Bermudan move seems to bear out
the prophesy then made by the author OF
the Chicago jungle book. just how Ber-
muda will take it is another thing. Ser
muda is exceedingly British, and as soon
as it finds out what's in store for 1t 1t is
more than likely that there will be more
excitement than has been caused by any
event since 'that niger was hanged
about eighteen years ago for killing his
wife. They have been talking Of that
hanging ever since it took place..
If Mr.. Sinclair Is looking for a IRE
nroof house for his colony, he couldn't do
better than Bermuda. Down there most
of the houses are made out of the purest
white coral, which seems to be ABOUT as
nearly hreproof as anything could possibly
be, Life can be sustained easily, too, with
a minimum of labor, for the nutritious
banana grows in abundance, and Is just
as much common property as umbrellas
In these ATTITUDES.
Most of the Heliconites, of course. are
highbrows, who deal in great thoughts and
put them into literature for the purpose
Of uplifting their fellow men, but II there
should be included in the colony persons
who insisted on toiling with something
besides a pen there is ample opportunity
for the cultivation of the famous Ber-
muda onion. Persons experienced in this
form of agriculture say that this kind OF
work makes you weep at first as unre-
STRANGELY as Mr.. Sinclair's most palpitat-
| ing writing. but that after a while you
get hardened in the one case just as you
do in the other. You can both work
among the onions and read Mr.. Sinclair
without having your outlook clouded by a
veil of tears.
AS for Mr.. Sinclair's immediate plans
for work. aside from the establishment OF
the new Helicon Hall, some obscurity sur
rounds them. But anybody who has just
finished such a work as "The Metropolis
ought not to have to do anything at all
for an extended period-a sentiment that
will be cheerfully subscribed to by those
who have read the first instalment. just
published, in the American Magazine.
In this work Mr.. Sinclair swings with all
the grace of the trained gymnast from
sausages to society-"New York Society
the magazine editors assert in an engaging
little foreword. in the course of which they
announce that the work constitutes a
series Of searchlight pictures that are
"unforgetably SEEN" 1t might seem that
Mr.. Sinclair would have some difficulty
in living up to such a prospectus, but a
glance at the first instalment shows that
he is equal to the task. and the foreword
states that the information set forth has
been acquired at first hand.