| Show OM COMFORT of ahe hirsch fund be juls the trustees have partly solved the le the unfortunate poor of the great cities al m glance and comfort in the country who before his ersch was a rich jew the sut alleviate to death did much of his people especially those ferl when be aled ahls bussa exiled from cabled on the philanthropic widow her death the entire work and upon amounting to millions was fortune trust fund for the uplifting of made a jacob A ails hebrews t tells of the of reviews api in the review solving the problem of to labor given e slums the jewish refugees from russia were abjectly poor and possessed little skill save in the most overcrowded of handicrafts when they began to flow into new york their that something must own saw be daae and tried the experiment of putting them back on the land in new jersey lands were bought and several hundred families settled but y the possibility of at once making tarm ers out ot people forced tor ages to i be traders and town dwellers was soon ay apparent the settlers lacked the f means the skill and the markets to f win their living from the land they drifted back to the slum then the trustees of the hirsch fund tried a new plan they induced several manufacturers to remove their plants to new jersey agreeing to furnish their em v aloyes with homos they gave each settler a piece of land and a cottage on easy terms they established a school of gardening to teach how to use the land this combination of work in factory and on soil has succeeded k the older settlers are steadily buying more land and leaving the factory to the newcomers new comers the result Is the prosperous village of woodbine whose people are steadily developing into a contented yeomanry X to show the benefits obtained by i those who have been taken from the slums the following case is cited breslow was a carpenter nine months i in 1891 he and his wife and children starved in a new york tenement pays ing 15 a month for three rooms then they came to woodbine they have i paid tor their comfortable cottage j and original lot and bought the next SA lot chod be thanked Ihan ked said mrs bres low we owe nothing and pay no more arent jr ent and are nevermore hungry in athe outskirts of the village a girt mr alls a few hours before had sewing buttons in the clothing factory welcomed him to her fathers biome Ti ome his thirty acre place Is now the figest in the neighborhood and its la oa the road to substantial health ufah has been the advantages of cringing the people close to the soil and the successful experiment of the comes as a tribute to the wisdom of the early fou noera of the settlements in this state who plan F y te have even the inhabitants of the 4 then developing clelea leara to till the ana elp sustain themselves by i little garden patches |
