Show SAlVATIN ARM COlONIS COMMANDER BOOTH TUCKER TALKS ABOUT THEM Why Large Cities Should Be Interested Inter-ested Economical Way of Displacing Dis-placing Almshouses Chicago Dec 7Commander Booth Tucker is in Chicago making arrangements arrange-ments for a mass meeting of businessmen business-men and philanthropists at Central Music hal next Monday night to consider con-sider the Salvation Armys project for farm colonies for the poor of the American cities In an interview Commander Booth Tucker said At the Carnegie hal meeting in New York we got 30000 of the J100000 needed to colonize 2000 acres on the rolling plains of Colorado for the worthy wor-thy poor I expect Chicago to forge ahead even of that splendid showing made in New York Christmas week will bring joy to the hearts of 40 San Francisco families That is when we throw open the colony down near Monterey Cal and give it i over to them The land of the Monterey colony is very valuable even now considerably con-siderably more so than when we took hold of it There are 500 acres of the land with 20000 more acres available at any time The land is particularly adapted to the raising of beets and there is no reason why our colonists should not make a good thing out of it Commander Booth explained at length why he thought the townships I cities and states of the country should become vastly interested in the colonization colon-ization movemdnt He said izaton For 50000000 the 3000000 paupers II of the land could be formed into these colonies It costs the country that amount every year to take care of the pauper criminals They all dont have to be farmers to live in the colonies I carpenters smiths and such will be needed too I |