| Show how a city Siar toa the little city of mt vernon new york owes its origin to communistic discussions in a tailors shop far down hudson street the tailor and some of his acquaintances finally agreed to put in one dollar a week until alie accumulations should reach a sum to purchase a tract of land in the suburbs of new york tho little organization grew to contain more than one thousand members and they put in one dollar a week for bev enty six weeks then about 1851 they made their purchase horace arceley Gr celey who was one of the subscribers to the fund wished to range the private lots about a central common but to this his fellows would not hear and to this day mt vernon has no considerable public square all traces of the original communistic scheme have disappeared though some of the original subscribers may survive |
