The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-06
FOR BAD BOYS ALSO
Biggest City In America 10 Also
Known as the Biggest Rube
Town In the
Country.
by Carlton Ten Eyck Written for the
United Press.1

land" advocates who believe that the
good brown soil that lies beyond the
city,s pale is the cure for want and
woe that afflict millions OF the city
voorhees, are greatly cheered here by
the apparent success OF New York's
experiment which is now in full swing
Actively backed by Governor Glynn of
New York state and with Charles w.
Harmon Of the Land and Labor bureau
OF the state department Of agriculture
in active charge, real work Is being
news of the city and to take he work
less workers to where they can get
close to natures breast with plough
and hoe in hand. The experiment be-
ing made by New York state is being
closely watched by officials of the Unit.
ed States Department Of Labor and II
it proves the success which has SO far
been indicated there is every probabil.
ity of federal action In a great nation.
al "back to the land" campaign.
The first move Of the state govern
ment was the taking OF seventy-three
men and five women on a special car
to Fonda, small farming community
up state. OF the total number trans
ported from New York city to this lit
tie town work was found for all but
seven men. And every one employed
by the farmers who thronged to get
aid today is getting living from the
land-a good, filing living-with from
$40 to S35 in cash each month be-
sides.
Weekly, or at least semi-weekly
throughout the spring and summer,
shipments OF the idle denizens Of the
city who want work will be transport
ed free OF charge by the state to some
fof the rural districts and unless tho
present Indications fail. thousands OF
the unemployed will be placed within
la few months on the soil where they
will be an asset, not menace. to the
community.
Miss Katherine 3. Davis. New York
City's commissioner of charities and
correction, is also believer in the
country life theory and has applied it
to ten boys from the Harris Island re-
formatory, who today are busy as
nailers building bunk houses and get
ting in seeds on the city's farm of COO
acres in Orange county. Miss Davis
is woman with ideas. She made up
have q great deal better chance to de-
velop into useful citizens while hoeing
corn, tending chickens and breathing
fresh aic than they would within the
walls Of any reformatory. And having
made up her mind the ten boys were
at once picAed for the experiment and
hustled right out to get next to the
land. Their labor is expected to sup
iply many ~ the city institutions with
fresh vegetables and, If the plan works
well, 1t is predicted a wholesale exodus
of the city's bad boys will follow.
Winter and "the beautiful which
falls in that season costs big city
money New York spent nearly 3d.
600 900 to clean the streets Of snow
during the chilly season now officially
past. They tell little story of how
| it hit Street Cleaning Commissioner
Jefferson when it was at its worst.
The February blizzard caught Fether-
stone unprepared. When all his eff
forts were blocked all he would say
was II am praying for rain" Then
the March blizzard came, worse than
the other and Fetherston was asked.
Are you praying YETI" He answer,
NO, d. 1t. I'm done" And the inter
view closed fight there.