| Show I AN t EXPERIMENT I IN Pt Tm The Once Famous Oneida Oncida Com Corn Community futility Seems to Have Died Of or Success ONE OF KIND THAT After ft r Achieving Prosperity the Organ Organization II How 0 W Move Movement ment Vas IVas ilS Started Correspondence Oneida N X V Y Jan Jail IS experiments ments ts In iii and work workIng workIng Ing lag ili of failure The rhe once lite famous Onella Onel la in 11 u lilt however hoer lo to have haI died of success At Al ony atm malt after Itter It lui hl I been Jeen guided from somalI small begin nI s through desperate straits to wealth WIll It h living anti and college for tor Its young people then timen Its members In perfect f harmony antI ac or accord I cord cool as ClI nays parted hurled their goods good conflating of oC houses antI landu live livestock 11 stock toek nod factories and manufactured articles with scarcely u a 1 ripple to tu Indi Indicate talc cab the Iho I changa chango dma ago Li a 1 common Pu iso e eto to a it I divided dl v lIed household ami atil VA lii accounts is and returned ret ii riled to the I he i i nry it ry ed family fa iy life ItCo I I Co mid ii nil economic to I Maybe their traveled cultured 1 young profIle people did not like to be b ns UI coming from the only socialistic community on record that ever eler made a it 1 of or lt Some toine of ot the separate families however still live In lii the coin 0 i t y building him i hI log and a III un U us e th Ih I h common mm dining hall hallIt It Is to 10 be he specially noted that the Ihl ito iii ns community commit ii i t reopen property amount ii nt InK Ing to 10 millions In value was divided In proportion 1101 it iou to the lie I number ml in her of or o t years lU rs service each member contributed to tho th community auth that the ho th women shared hurNI shim red equally tia I ly tv I ii tl i men in I Ii the t he dis Ilia distribution d is John Humphry Noyes NII who timo III In ISIS IMs founded the association I on oh the time theold theold old Indian reserve Oneida Onelda be tie In lii womans rights anti womans economic NOIl ulue tue lul What er profits the tho little I it tie community coni gradually grud y mm ii I at ed ci worn ver divided d 1 member men hc for tur fi r member la I lm sexes sharing a I Ike The ihm Ihl omen a rd d equally eq tin hi y with mi tim tilt tie t men 1111 nit ii tilt the t hard hardship ship the toll toli nod what was still worse wore for fir women time the th social the Ih set settlement t lement encountered In im Its yeam till It got rot Home money 1110 II c ahead and the lIme feminine halt half had Its I is full lull pan purt un it of ot time the cream and honey of or prosperity Mayho this strict Justice to women was III one fur for or the time great gloat success of oC the timi Jonathan Hurt had bin n mm little land amitia n a sawmill on omi OneIda creek and ion he lie II do tinted It to t time the experimenters Henry HInt Thacker k I one of f the time members rl showed tho time rest how h to raise fruit Time The Idea of ot the tho ore wo wn a to live 1110 by tl horticulture and farming faiming At It Il they the went hoe hoc spid nfl list lIt They rhe soon porm Cr that would grow there but there then vas lS as no near In the th beginning hOIlIer the mem hers her hind halt pledged one rue another III In olio nile word agreement Not agreement alone however nei neither II I Ithel ther thel I Ii ci nil oh nl I the tue th hatch batch tia trim of oC angelic un Ic i uni I Ice together lorether ever emer bi ought nun a 1 material living Tor that he lie must hustle The Time community hail had no money Hew all New Nl home uI se a n woodsman and ii on of it the lie I furl Ond da la 11 community coin niu imi I had bad hn n a knack nack k for fot to r ham hi in and welding weiding powerful p steel traps with blacksmiths bl lek tools He lie Home of ot these to catch wild wili game In diani and boys ho came to 10 barter h for time the traps trailS Mr mIr Ir Newhouse u o found they the briny money mone That was wims 18 actually timi beginning of nf tho the vast Olt community nit manufacturing II which now nol Includes the time making of r f steel goods gootis and snoot silk Tim rill nf nr the Newhouse spread as AMri tar far r ns ris r Hudson bay ha and anti time the company them sent hont to Oneida Onelda nn an eider time tho size of oC which the associations nM writes writer gave gao the community a n long re 11 thrill The Tho pioneers began helIn to gi K g on nil In the days du of ot hardest lUrk luck ono one all of the men members began he peddling spool i l silk In iii the tue Ih country roundabout Sev Several te Bf eral ermil others took n a nt lit tho tue name manic business Uy Ily II un by II young men and were ere sent to ew England to 10 silk elik lIk spinning thread I h rI II mak big Ing They Vile rhe came CO back and s in 1 mm lit Ii I ItIe tIe factory actor of or their own oln That t was stas tIme the I beginning hp of the tho OneIda OneIll II spool slUt silk lIk making now no so o extensive le an 1111 Industry Indu try A woman who tho len ineil tile the t lie huts I In Imi NI Is still s t I i I tho t lie j tm Intend en ii ent nt nf of nil all the spool sIlk lk making at Oneida Mr ili h the time horticultural memo mem ber her longed to make the tho experiment of or ofen en nimi a i and a putting t t I im g on till the t market t romp of or time tho luscious IUM Onelda fruits It foolish and n nIt visionary the 1111 ho conserva conservatives con elIn lives tives thought hl still for or tho the sake of or agreement he lit was allowed to do In as ho he wished 1 hll and Hint was tins the of ot mother another great Int profitable enterprise The rho of or the tory tor Is ts In iii that word It If there In is nimy an moral lorl Hf N |