Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — A Mennonite Camp. [ARTICLE]

A Mennonite Camp.

New York World. The pier of the North German Lloyd, at Hoboken, was rendered picturesque last night by the eamping out of 336 Russian Mennonites who .arrived yesterday on the steamship Mosel from Bremen. A remarkable fact about the party fa the number of children included in it. Some of the couples have as many as twelve. At ten o’clock last night men, women anti children fay asleep flat on the pier ranged in long rows with walking Ways between, others were stretched out upon bales and boxes of merchandise, and in three or four places, men sat in groups of five or six, talking in subdued tones. Only the glare of camp fires, a little rurality ana the stormy sky overhead were lacking to make a typical wild Western scene such as would nave fired the heart of Captain Mayne Reid. The Mennonites come from the neighborhood of Odessa and represent a capital of over $400,000. Among them are sixty families, having 213 children. They are a remarkably fine looking party.