The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-30
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until they could grow some crops. They
cut cordwood and cut ties This brought
money. A few hours each day were de-
voted to building fences, pulling stumps
and clearing brush Other immigrants
| came and they were kept busy.
| That first winter the colonists cut TO-,
| 900 cords of wood and 10000 crossties.
The pay they got was far more than
| they ever could hope TO earn for such
| work in Italy, and although they were
| deprived of many of the comforts they
| had enjoyed at home they were delighted
Some of them were not content to work
| in the day. but labores in the moonlight
to clear their little patches of land. The
ownership of the soil appealed strongly
to these industrious peasants They had
| little chance to own anything in their
native land. The sores their labor prom
ised to bring TO them seemed like great
possession.
with an italian colony started, Nc
Hugh busted himself establishing others.
There were Swedes, Germans, Poles, Hum
garians, Slavs. Dutch, English emigrants
to be diverted to the south. He had his
agents traverse the rural sections of con-
tinental Europe. They went even into
the Balkans and got some Bulgarians.
They went. too, up Into Russia.
With IL batch of German immigrants
McHugh established another colony,
aud in their honor he named it New
Berlin. This German colony was about
twenty-five miles distant from the
italian settlement Ten miles from the
German colony no established n mixed
settlement where on 1000 acres Eng
lish Dutch, Hungarians and Norwe-
eians were located. Near this colony
there was one given over to the Poles,
end thirty-five miles inland still an
other settlement was started for only
English speaking people.
Ntzhugh, thought he had planned
well. He was not looking particular
money in the long run--a great deal
OF 1t. in fact-but he did not expect to
find it so difficult job to get his
colonists to take root as 1t proved to
be.
There is lot of hard work In every
new undertaking. In these colonies
roads had to be built. land had to be
drained, thousands and thousands of
stumps had to be pulled and many
miles of fences had to be placed. But
making roads, digging bitches. pull
ing stumps and building fences were
the least of the trouble. All the
colonists were not hard workers Some
we're shiftless, lazy ne'er do well.
They had ability In one direction oniv
spreading discomfort.
Each colony was under the care of
a superintendent, man selected by
reason OF his knowledge of the coun-
try and for the soil. The superintend-
ent of the Italian colony had an easy
time. The superintendent of the Eng
lish colony had his hands full. This
English-speaking colony contained
some Americans. who had been brought
on from the west, whore they had
rallied 1t contained, too, some men
and women from northern England and
southern Scotland. To make anything
out of the earth requires labor. These
Americans. English and Scotch had no
particular love for. toll. They had a
genius. however. for finding fault and
getting into quarters They neglected
Their fields and made such an absolute
failure OF the project that they had to
lbe gotten rid of. There was trouble.
too. in some of the other colonies The
human element entered into the affairs
there Some OF tho newcomers got ter