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chemes were suggested, the happiest and most fruitful 
Haze: Pingr It became known : tee’s Potato 
Patch Sc e."’ His plan, in brief, lend unemployed 
land to unemploye en to cultivate, giving all the land they 
could till and all the vegetables they could produce. The 
suggestion was novel, many tho He it visionary; but being put 
to the test, it resulted in many f Land-owners 
were quick to lend a dete vacant lots, aad the needy were no 
less quick to enter on their cultivation. Out a thousan 
fo) 
families then receiving aid from the city and from charitable 
Oteanizatons, more ee nine ean piri ip caacaiie of i 
$3,600 on ear aa 1 d ott conservative 
sage to the City Council, in January, 1895, the Mayor thus re- 
ferred to it: 
- te seems to me oo the experiment has d trated,—first, 
r cent. of the peo in destitut 
exile of the hard eee are eae willing, and 
anxious to work; second, that a large number of these people can 
hat 
The following year results were even ifying, and other 
cities took up the plan. The return of pene presser: how- 
ever, soon lessened the need and the interest, and also the number 
of workers; in many places the work ceased to be vigorously 
see while in others it was abandoned. 
n 1897 Philadelphia took up this work. They have éontinied 
