The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29
AN ADAMEEsS
PARADISE
BRITISH WOMEN PLAN COLONY
IN FAR AWAY AUSTRALIA
WITH MAN EXCLUDED-SUF-
FRAGE is REASON.

LONDON, Sept. 2S.-No man will
be allowed to W a share, of stock
or a rod of land or to hold any
office in the new industrial colony
which is about to be started in West
ern Australia by a number of British.
women, and which is situated within
forty miles of Albany, on a great
rock facing the sea-. The land has
been secured from the Government
of that commonwealth by a number
of British ladies as a freehold prop
erty. Among the number is Mrs.
Emily Crawford, president of the
Householders' League; Miss Crooke,
an expert lady gardner, now chief of
the Women's Agricultural College
established by Mrs. Victoria Wood
hull Martin at Bredon's Norton in
Worcestershire; Miss Hetty Sawyer,
M. D., a successful London medical
practitioner, and the owner of great
lwoolen mills who is too modest to
| allow her name to be mentioned. The
moving spirit is Mrs. Crawford, who
is a novelist and artist and a woman
! of wealth. She was one of the judges
of hammered metal work at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair. Much of the
capital is bHng supplied by Mrs.
Martin, who is better known in
America as Victoria Woodruff, the
famous advocate of woman's rights,
who married the late John Biddolph
Martin and settled in England.
James Carlton Young a millionaire
of Minneapolis, also has come for
ward to assist in establishing the new
colony and is credited with the de-
sire to erect a library or art gallery
in the near future, at Emilliah, as
this Adamless Eden is called.
A good deal of the capital needed
for the scheme is secured. All
would be forthcoming were it not
that Mrs. Crawford and the other
freeholders under no circumstances
will allow men to purchase land.
Even married women whose hus-
bands are alive are also excluded
from the privilege. Widows and
spinsters will run the colony in the
interest of their own sex.
When Mrs. Crawford was asked
why it was she and her associates
went SO far afield to sing their
CdplIdl size Teplleu.
1T is solely a question of Par
liamentary vote. There is no security
in this country for women's financial
enterprise. We pitch u tents in
kAustralia because there women have
the franchise. Consequently they
.flhave the protection and the adj
vantage which it affords"
This new township is finely equip
.fped by nature for a health resort.
Situation and scenery are beautiful.
1t has mineral springs of much To-
cal repute for rheumatism, govt, etc.
There is a small lake of pure, fresh
water, and more than the usual at
fractions in fishing and wild bird
shooting are afforded. The climate
is dry and .bracing and at no time
excessively hot. Finally, it Is with
in ten days journey of Colombo, a
fact which means an immense ad-
vantage to Anglo-Indian families,
who will be able to deposit their
children there instead of taking them
to England. The owners of the
townsite intend to establish schools
which will compare favorably with
first-class schools in England. They
are making a point of special schools
for girls, wherein domesticity will
be taught to perfection.
The school of gardening will be
started at once and will be made
one of the most prominent features
of the entire scheme. The railway
company has offered to facilitate in
every possible manner the interests
of the prospective gardeners. 1t has
already divided the ground, which is
laid out in portions of 100 cares to
each proprietor, and when the time
comes it proposes to run special
trains for the transportation of pro-
duce at the lowest possible rate to
Albany, which is also the port.
The skin industry is yet another
for which there is great scope. A
Egreat factory for the preparation of
sheep, goat and kid skins will soon
be raised and these will be made one
Of the specialties for export. There
is also a proposition to develop a
glove factory. The skins of birds,
from the giant black and white
swans to the parrot, all Of which
are found in the new township, will
also be turned to suitable uses, such
as the manufacture of fans and
ornaments. Although nothing def
mite can be said about the mineral
products, there is an idea that the
soil will prove rich in them, and
there are indication that petroleum
will be forthcoming. .6