Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

APPLEGATE FARM.
NOVEl. COLONY Ot' Js:SOTERIC PHILOSOPHERS IN CALili'ORNIA.
Frank Chandler Talks of the Alms and Purposes of the
Esoteric Fra.ernlty.
We publish the following from the Toledo Blade of December
12, 1896, as we think it will be of interest to those who are looking
toward the Esoteric Fraternity. The sl.atements are correct, except
that the number of trees is somewhat exaggerated.
The office of the purehasing agent of a large railroad would be
the last place one would expect to hear the philosophy of living
.. far from the madding crowd," as the greatest factor in living
in the highest senile of the word. And yet that ia just where
and what a Blade reporter heard in the office of Mr. Frank
S. Chandler, the purchasing agent of the Ann Arbor road.
At the moment of The Blade reporter's entrance, Mr Chandler
was m:\king provision by telephone for a thouaaud can of
C!Oal, but that small detail attended to, he wheeled around in
his office ohair and said:
"~o you want to hea1· something about the Esoteric Fraternity
at Applegate, which I have recently viaited.
•• Appleg:•te ia a station on the Central P~&eific. about midway
between Auburn and Colfax. in California. The Fraterni•
ty has 160 &el"f!ll of hill land set out with 300 prune trees, 15,000
olive treeA, 25 walnut trees, 250 almond trees. 15,000 grape
vines and about 100 trt>es of various kinds, upon which experi;
ments are being made. It also has 160 acres of valley land.
which is adapted f.,r gardening and fruit trees, and on which
are many apple, peach. pear am{ apri«>..ot trees. Thl.!re is a
large two-Rtory hl'ick structure intended as a workshop. but
which is temporarily partitioned into ten rooms, to acoommodate
membeJ'II of the Frate1·nity. There is a f1·ame building put up
for blacksmithing anti general workshop. TheRe, in addition to
several cottages aeatte•·ecl over the two ranches, make up the
1um total of fa"ilities fur &l·enmmodation at present.
Aumi!111ion to the Frateruity is not 1' matter of finance.
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