Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — A Unique Industrial Scheme. [ARTICLE]

A Unique Industrial Scheme.

A unique industrial scheme is soon to be undertaken at Kansas City by Walter Vrooman, founder of Ruskin College in England. He has purchased land near the city where he will build a model village. It will have a dozen factories and all the other features of village life, such as churches, school houses, dwellings, stores and places of amusement, all of which will be built at Mr. Vrooman’s expense. In Kansas City he will open twenty-five co-operative stores, where the articles produced in the factories of the model village will be sold. The students of industrial conditions will watch with interest the development of this the greatest co-operative system in the world.