An Exclusive Wealthy Colony

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 7.

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An Exclusive Wealthy Colony

Wealthy men of the East have purchased 6,000 acres near Los Angeles, having an elevation of from 100 to 650 feet above the city, for a select membership residence section. Membership in the colony can be secured only by unanimous vote of all residents. It will be kept rigidly to a certain social standard. As stated in the news item, "It will be a great, private, residential part of the most exclusive character." In the syndicate are said to be Andrew Carnegie, Henry C. Frick, E. H. Geary, Charles M. Schwab, etc. It may be safely said that they will be no happier there than the people who live in an ordinary sort of way in an ordinary part of the city. Such division of class, however, on the pure lines of wealth, will not tend to mollify the socialistic and anarchistic spirit which is arising.