The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

WORKED.  Referring to the institutions in Germany known as workmen's colonies, Mr. Drage, in his report on German labour, says that they owe their establishment to the efforts mado by Pastor von Bodelackwine), between 1870 and 1880 to arouse general interest in favour of sonic proviston for workmen Out of employment. In 1682 the tint colony, that of Wilhelmsdorf, near Bielefeld, was founded, and the number quickly grew until by the end of 1892 it had reached 25, which were scattered about in different parts of the German Empire. These colonies are supported by private benevolence; they are governed on certain general principles agreed upon by the directors, and the history of one is to a great extent the history of all. Able-bodied working-men who are out of enap'oyment find admission without distinction or creed, nor are discharged prisoners refused, since the aim ol the founders of the cclonies is the reclamation of the , Inmates and the revivil in them of the spirit of industry. A distinctly religious character is given to the institutions, though due allowance is made for differences of creeds. In all the colonies life is regulated by certain common rules. Labour is paid f .r, but at a somewhat lower rate than that current In the district. To leave the Berlin colony with , any balance in his favour the colonist must earl. i on an average 63. a week. Colonists from the neighbourhood have the preference if there is a scarcity of room,and those who have been dismissed from another colony cannot be received without it e approval of the authorities of the colon' from which they have come. Every colony is managed by a local committee, and the direct personal supervision is entrusted to an officer with the title of " flausvater," assisted by two "brothers" or members of the association for tr ining philanthropic workers. A central board f inanagement in Itrlin directs the wit hi und r• taking. The majority are farm colonies, and the work done is mainly agricultural; little is manufactured except articles actually needed for use on the farm or fur the personal requirtments of the colonists. Tim re are, how. ver, :tame city colonies, , as, for instance, in B I lin, where brush and matmaking, straw woik, bookbinding, and similar inituatriee are carried on, The details collected by a deputation sent by the Glasgow Association for improving the Co. dition of the People with regard to the is lony of Friedrichswille. near R. peen, in GI, province of Bradenburg, shew the general maeagemem. This is a farm colony under the direction of a "ffausvater " with a salary of 1.200 marks a sear and an assistant to superintend outeoor with a salary of 240 marks and board. 'there are also four "brothers" trained at the Ratiehaus a training college in Hamburg, and thee six cow .. a number of colonists varying from 110 in th . summer to 200 in the a inter. Every cabalist admitted must nmain at least three days, and before admission he must answer a num, prof questions as to birth, t arentage, creed, trade, number of relations dependent on him, numlerhu a position to support him, past life, immunity or not from military service, and similar matt:rs. Invalids, inebriates, or persons coining from infected districts aro not atmitted. Mist of the colonists are sinele men, and the majority are between 30 aid 50 jr. are of age. They remain on an average three or four months, none longer than a year, and about 50 per cent. return after having been away a few month's. Only two men were discharged for miscenduct in 1891 Four meals a day are Own of a substantial nat me, but not including meat, escept tacon and seepages; beer is given only on fi sot days. SATvices are held every morning and evening, at whit b attendance is compulsory for Catholics as well as Protestants; on Sundays Catholics se allowed to go to their own churches outside the colony. Th.. caloniea are not, as a ride, self-supporting; that at Friedrichswille requires an annual grant of £1,200 in cash and £l3O in materials from the parent society. The Berlin colony has from time to time required help from the municipality, and has received timely donations from the Emperor and Empress, and from private individuals. Its chief income is, however, derived from the sal of its pro lucts, which realised in 1891-92 a sum ol 103,154 marks. The total receipts for that year were 1 2,679 marks, and the expenses 192,318; the receipts included a donation of 8,000 marks from tile municipality. A house-to-house collection is made annually in Berlin under the supervision of the colony chaplain.  A large five - storey factory used for making electrical appliances and supplying Halifax shop, with electric lights was burnt out on Thursday morning.  At Croydon Police-court, on Friday, Frederick William Ree<, a pedlar, was remanded for a week on a charge of stabbing his brother, who is a shhp• walker employed by a South Norwood draper. A quarrel took place in the shop on Thursday night, and the prosecutor, it is alleged, was struck in the left t, mple by a stick, from the end of which projected a thick iron screw and a knife blade aorking on a swivel. The injured man is lying at the hospital unable to be moved. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Gladstone, who have been on a visit to her Majesty, drove from Windsor Castle, on Friday morning, to the Royal gardens, Frogmore, for the purpose of seeing the fine collection or the Queen's chrysanthemums. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, after spending some time in the greenhouses, drove back to Windsor and left by train foe town.  While a van drawn by two horses belonging ti the North Wales Mineral Water Factory. Wrexham was proceeding from that t3wia to Lladnegla, ot Thursday, one of the horses was mined with th. staggers, and falling over a low fence dragged Op horse and van down a precipice. The driver manage to jump off, but a lad, named Thomas 51.1),nnuJi who was with him, was carried down the embank ment and killed.  A woman named Reynolds was found drowned Ia the River Witham, at Lincoln, on Sunday. It is supposed to be a case of suicide, of which there have been four in that city in about a month. The Gas Light and Coke Company use about 2,000,000 tons of coal in the year. In the distribution of the gas in London by this company alone it is necessary to have some 2,000 miles of mains. A century ago Mr. Holt, a Newark printer, was found guilty of publishing in his newspaper addresses on Parliamentary reform. He was fined £5O. and sent to Newgate Prison for two yeah.