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population, and in this way to create a local market 

 for the farm surplus. 



"Our educational facilities are yet small, but we have 

 opened two temporary schools with an attendance of 

 100 children and also a night school for adults with 

 25 to 30 in attendance. I and my new co-worker, 

 Arthur Reichow, are trying to induce the Fund to 

 build a central education institution, where manual 

 training and improved scientific and agricultural 

 studies will be connected with public education; that 

 is, to create a 'People's University/ This would be 

 practicable, since the State will be willing to bear one- 

 half of the expense in starting and supporting such 

 an institution. The State of New Jersey is very liberal 

 in this direction. I am only sorry that the people do 

 not all make use, as yet, of the liberal support offered 

 to them by their State. You see, my friend, what a 

 really wonderful field for splendid work there is here 

 for me in every line, every direction. But in case my 

 work is not appreciated, as it often happens that sin- 

 cere and earnest workers do not succeed in accomplish- 

 ing what is so dear to them, and if I ani compelled to 

 seek another field of activity, I shall look forward to 

 working with you. But I would then, and only then, 

 consider your kind offer. 



"Yours, 



"H. L. SABSOVICH." 



Very soon after, in February, 1893, my husband, the 

 idea seeming to have taken hold of him, wrote on 

 the subject of the "People's University" to Judge 

 Meyer Isaacs, then President of the Fund. 



