The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-10
Farms And Prizes the Induce.
mentS to Settlers
BIG COLONY ESTABLISHED
Experimental Settlement at st. Helena,
N c., and Prominent New York
Italians GO South to
Inspect It.

New YORK, July l0.--COmbinlng mo-
tiyes Of business with an opportunity
to get out Of the city over the 4th Of
July, party Of Italian Investigators
Of this city has been spending the past
few days in the vicinity OF Wilmington,
IN. c.
The party is headed By Luigi Solari,
president Of the Italian Chamber Of
Commerce, and its membership includes
Feice Fewero, brother of William Fer
zero, the noted historian and sociologist,
and Father Boppo Of the Church Of the
TRANSPORTATION.
It's purpose Is to look into the work
ings Of an experimental Italian colony
already established at st. Helena, n. e.,
and named after the Queen Of Italy On
that colony 250 Italians are working to
demonstrate what can be done with
land, at present moecupied, in the direo-
ton Of raising truck garden crops to
supply The New York market.
The land Is along the Carolina coast
in easy reach from New York, and the
plan on foot is TO make the present ex-
pertinent the vanguard for q large Ital-
ian movement provided IL Is successful
The Italians are the guests OF Hugh
McRae, a Wilmington banker. who "a
fostering cooperative colony movements
for Southern lands, not only among the
italians but also among the Germans,
Hollanders and Poles DR.. Frederick
Van Eeden Of Amsterdam, Holland Is
now touring his own country in an ef-
fort to enlist a thousand or more col.
onists to take up q stretch Of this coast
wise land, which he picked out last
spring. The Dutch colony is expected
in the fall.
The Italian eolanv Of ST Helena Is
the first Of the foreign sttlements, and
provided a favorable report Is made up.
on it a veritable little Italy may
spring up there before the summer
months are over.
II is not thought that the new set
tiers viii be drawn very extensively
from New York, but from the Northern
provinces Of Italy, where the popula-
tion is already given 70 farming The
hackers of the movement, in their any-
iety to make the invasion Of foreigners
"a real one, are nursing the preliminary
colonies with great care.
a mule, seeds, fertilizer, shantv,
and ready market for the wood clear.
"a of the new farms, is readily furnish
ed each colonist as "a starter In ads
dition a prize 81 $40 f giyen for each
child born in the colony. and the promo
ters 'are careful to see that the eolonists
come III family groups
While opposition to making the South
heretofore spared from the general inn
migration wave. participant IN il from
now on might be looked for, ID appears
that the welcoming hand has been held
ont to the present experiments.
The Wilmington Commercial club met
the New York Italians a the depot ard
made them their guests An indorse.
ment of the movement by Ben Iillman,
was exhibited as follows:
Having myself been very pronounc-
ed in expressing the idea that italians
were undesirable emigrants for South
Carolina, a sense Of justice compels me
70 say that, having watched the people
Of Italy with that very question ia view,
j shall feel that the people Of Naples
and those Of Southern ITALY whom ! saw
lat Salerno and paestum are not the
type we would Ike TO have From
Rome northward the impression on me
is entirely favorable ard ! feel sure that
if we could get any Of the northern
Italians into the Southern states they
would make good citizens and help in
every way to assist the white race in
solving the race problem"