WORD BOOK 
 
 OF THE 
 
 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 OF THE FOUNDING OF 
 
 NewHarmony. Indiana 
 
 1614 
 PRESENTED JUNE 13 1914 
 
 PRICE 25 CENT5
 
 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 Closing the Centennial Celebration, June 6-13, 19 14-, of the Founding 
 of New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814- 
 
 PRESENTED BY 
 
 THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE TOWN ASSISTED 
 
 BY THEIR FRIENDS 
 
 JUNE 13, 1914, AT EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT 
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 
 
 By 
 
 CHARITY DYE 
 
 MANAGER W. V. MANGRUM 
 
 HISTORIAN MRS. NORA FRETAGEOT 
 
 DIRECTOR MRS. MARY H. FLANNER 
 
 THE COVER WAS DESIGNBO BY 
 
 A/IRS. HAROLD HAVEN BROWN
 
 COPYRIGHT, NINETEEN-FOURTEEN 
 
 By charity DYE 
 
 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
 
 r- 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN 
 
 OF NEW HARMONY
 
 PREFATORY NOTE 
 
 The school children's historical pageant is a distinct division of pageantry in 
 itself, demanding special considerations of time, preparation, choice of material, 
 and adjustments to the age and development of those taking part. It should be 
 borne in mind that children have no large background of experience and hence 
 the methods used with adults can not be used with them. The evolution of the 
 school pageant has been in response to the play spirit along educative lines, and 
 marks a difference between the mere spectacular performance, which is gotten up 
 in haste and dies as soon as it is born, and the one that makes permanent im- 
 pression of what is valuable to the development of the pupil, and is presented in 
 conformity to the known laws of education. Under the wise management of 
 Mr. Mangrum, the superintendent of the schools, who began five months in ad- 
 vance, the New Harmony pageant soon proved its educational value. It has 
 made community interest and co-operation a living reality; it has telescoped the 
 history of the town and the region in the minds of the children and taught them 
 of people and events more vividly than could have been otherwise possible; it 
 has united the entire school system of the place by giving every child some active 
 part in preparing for the great historic event of celebrating the founding of the 
 town. The very least ones have been cutting with the scissors the pageant 
 scenes, outlined by the teacher, and making silhouettes ; others have been draw- 
 ing the outlines; some naming the birds of the district; others, the trees; and 
 still others noting the procession of wild flowers, all to show the nature of the 
 region. Older ones are making maps of the town and the topography of the 
 land, or drawing posters, and the prominent buildings of historical note. The 
 higher grades are using the scenes in original composition work of character 
 study and the dramatization of events. Music has been a feature all the way 
 along. Boys have been heard singing "Lo ! I Uncover the Land" from the 
 pageant, with happy loud voice. New Harmony is a rural community with only 
 three hundred school children ; what has been done there is possible to some 
 degree in every community in the state. The pageant lends itself especially to 
 rural regions wherever there is a school or several schools to unite in a fes- 
 tival for honoring those who have helped to make public education possible. The 
 near approach of the centenary of the Statehood of Indiana in 1916 — furnishes 
 the psychological moment that makes it both a privilege and a duty to arouse in 
 every school in the state, a new interest in its own environment or local history, 
 thus leading to a wider interest and conception of historic growth. The work 
 of the historical pageant in the schools of Indiana should begin next September 
 so as to give ample time without interfering with the regular work that must 
 otherwise be done. Richmond, Vincennes, Fort Wayne, LaFayette and many 
 other Indiana cities are especially rich in pageant material, to say nothing of the 
 wealth in this respect in the rural communities on every side. 
 
 Charity Dye. 
 
 May 20, 1914.
 
 ORDER OF EVENTS IN THE PAGEANT 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 The Forest Primeval 
 The Prologue 
 Statement of the Pages 
 
 Episode I 
 
 EARLY LIFE ASSOCIATED WITH THE 
 WABASH VALLEY 
 
 Scene I. The Indians and French Fur Traders 
 
 Scene II. The French Missionaries 
 
 Scene III. The British Red Coat and the Colonial Soldier 
 
 Scene IV. The Pioneer 
 
 Episode II 
 
 THE FOUNDING OF NEW HARMONY BY 
 THE RAPPITES IN 1814 
 Scene I. The Landing of the Men in 1814 
 Scene II. The Landing of the Families One Year Later, 1815 
 Scene III. A Day in the Rappite Community 
 Scene IV. The Transference of Harmonie to Robert Owen 
 Scene V. The Departure of the Rappites, 1825 
 
 Episode III 
 THE OWEN COMMUNITY IN NEW HARMONY, 1825-1826 
 
 Scene I Meeting of the Community. Robert Owen Speaks 
 Scene II Welcome to the Boat Load of Knowledge 
 Scene III. A Visit to the Owen School 
 Scene IV. A Social Evening in the Owen Community 
 
 Finale 
 A GRAND REVIEW OF THE PAGEANT 
 All Unite with the Music of the Band and Sing America
 
 HISTORICAL NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 
 
 CESSIONS OF LAND. — The second charter of King James the First 
 ceded "All those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying and being in 
 that part of America, called Virginia, from the Point of Land, called Cape or 
 Point Comfort, all along the Sea Coast to the Northward, two hundred miles, 
 and from the said Point ... all along the Sea Coast to the Southward two 
 hundred Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land lying from the Sea Coast 
 of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea." 
 
 Virginia had in 1781 declared her readiness to cede her lands Northwest of 
 the Ohio river to the General Government. But owing to the terms proposed by 
 her, agreement was not reached till March 1, 1784, when, upon the authority 
 previously given by the Virginia Legislature, her delegates in Congress ceded 
 this land to the General Government. 
 
 The Ordinance of 1787 and the beginning of Indiana Territory in 1800 are 
 known to every school child in the state.
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 TRUMPETERS 
 
 Hear ye ! Hear ye ! The school children's pageant commemorat- 
 ing the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of New Harmony, 
 Indiana, in the year 1814 is now to begin. You will first see the spirit 
 of the Forest primeval, represented by the wood sprites, who will dance. 
 After this the Prologue will be spoken. 
 
 I. DANCE OF THE WOOD SPRITES 
 
 The stage is set ivith trees in boxes, and the ivoodland sprites, 
 dressed to represent spring and garlanded ivith zvreaths made of leaves, 
 zvind in and out among the trees as they dance. 
 
 2. THE PROLOGUE 
 
 An ancient king had once a crystal globe 
 
 Which imaged all his realm and men and deeds ; 
 
 He only had to look therein to see 
 
 His entire kingdom vast before his eyes. 
 
 The crystal globe we have today is Time 
 
 In which who wills, may look into the past 
 
 And plainly read through books, and art, and men 
 
 Of what was done along the centuries gone. 
 
 Each one of which though marking but a span. 
 
 Doth also measure lives and progress made. 
 
 And outposts point for those unborn to reach 
 
 Before they pass from off the scene of life. 
 
 Look you now backward in Time's crystal globe 
 
 Upon this land three hundred years ago 
 
 And feel the primal hush that reigned supreme 
 
 Before man's voice broke in the central gloom. 
 
 Then England's King did royal charter grant. 
 
 And other cessions came and laws were made 
 
 And Indiana Territory formed. 
 
 Now see far back the long procession start ! 
 
 First owner of the soil, the Red Man, comes 
 
 Well pleased with happy hunting ground so large, 
 
 And none to claim or question his first right. 
 
 Next comes the friendly Frenchman to buy skins, 
 
 Or plant the Cross or tell the tidings glad 
 
 Of peace on earth and of good will to man. 
 
 The pale-faced pioneer soon follows on
 
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 Well armed with woodman's ax to blaze the way, 
 And build the cabin in the clearing wild 
 Where all the simple joys of hearth and home 
 ]\Iake him free man and founder of a line. 
 Look back again and hear the news of war ; 
 The British Red Coat now invades the land. 
 To meet him comes the manly pioneer 
 Now called "Colonial Soldier," who defends 
 His home and country, dear as life itself. 
 The years go by and quiet rules the land ; 
 But look again ! now towards the river banks, 
 And see the Rappites marked with deep intent; 
 They come not singly as the pioneer ; 
 A hundred strong they come as brothers true, 
 Whose life means work, forgetting self in all. 
 As conquerors they come to plant and reap 
 And build ; to give and not to take and hoard. 
 W^e see them move about in church and home 
 And march to music, going forth to work ; 
 Their lives are Godly and their leader true. 
 For manhood strong, George Rapp example stands. 
 They pass us by, but what they left behind 
 Is still a witness of good life ; good work ! 
 The Owen band from Lanark, now come here 
 To work out social dreams in this fair spot ; 
 To study nature and her laws and read 
 Tlie message left by bird and stone and fish. 
 Forgetting not the laws that govern men. 
 The little children claim their tenderest care 
 In training them to strength for adult life ; 
 And woman is given a place within their scheme 
 As helper in, and sharer of all work. 
 Wise Robert Owen and his group were schooled 
 In forethought for the good of all mankind. 
 They too pass by in person not in thought ; 
 Their influence helps to shape our lives today 
 And all this country wide and grand looks on 
 With interest in the tribute that we bring 
 To honor them for teaching untried ways 
 In education, science, law and love 
 And all that makes for worth and higher life. 
 Shall we go forth less worthy than our sires ? 
 Or lift to heaven less worthy brows than they? 
 Shall we not strive on towards the goal in view 
 To which they pointed out and bade us reach? 
 Let it not be in vain that we have met
 
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 To look again back in Time's crystal globe 
 And see the meaning of this day and hour 
 That beckons on to fairer life in home ! 
 In school, and church, and mart and nation wide. 
 
 Note. At the close of the prologue the end trumpeters will conduct 
 the speaker off the stage. The middle trumpeter ivill step to the front. 
 
 SCENE I. EARLY CESSIONS OF THIS LAND 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 You will now hear the chorus sing of this land, and listen to the 
 pages tell of our right to it. 
 
 I. SONG. "Lo! I Uncover the Land" 
 
 Lo ! I uncover the land 
 Which I hid of old time in the West, 
 As the sculptor uncovers the statue 
 When he has wrought his best. 
 
 Emerson. {The Boston Hymn.) 
 
 The chorus both comes and goes singing, remaining on the stage 
 long enough to sing the stanza tzvice. 
 
 2. STATEMENTS OF THE PAGES. THE CESSIONS AND 
 RULE OF THIS LAND FROM 1609 TO 1814 
 
 First Page. King James's Charter, i6op 
 
 This land from royal grant of England's King 
 Dates back three hundred years or more, when we 
 Of that domain named for the Virgin Queen, 
 Were part. ~ 
 
 Second Page. Virginia's Cession in I/84 
 
 Virginia now doth cede her land that lies 
 To north and west of the great river known 
 As Ohio, unto the general government 
 To which this spot henceforth belonged. 
 
 Third Page. Northzvest Territory, lySy 
 
 Our Congress then did straightway measures take 
 For rule and bounds of this new gift of land 
 And Ordinance of seventeen-eighty-seven. 
 Far famed, did pass. The Northwest Territory 
 Was the name by which we then were known.
 
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 Fourth Page. Indiana Territory, 1800 
 
 One portion of this tract was set apart 
 
 And "Indiana Territory" called, 
 
 And government commenced at Fort Vincennes 
 
 In eighteen hundred. This was still our head 
 
 When Father Rapp came his community 
 
 To found here just a century ago. 
 
 The pages in the foregoing scenes carry banners zvith the insignia 
 of England, Colonial Virginia, the United States with the thirteen 
 stars, and of Indiana Territory. 
 
 HISTORICAL NOTE TO EPISODE I 
 
 THE WABASH VALLEY.— A celebration of the founding of New Har- 
 mony naturally includes a mention of the thirty thousand acres of land bought 
 by the Rappites for their settlement in 1814. This tract extended to Vincennes, 
 which had then long been the most flourishing post west of the Alleghany moun- 
 tains, and in which the Rappites had a trading center. 
 
 Mr. Lockwood says : "In slow succession there passed through the beautiful 
 valley of the Wabash, — 'described by Col. George Croghan as early as 1765 as 
 one of the finest countries of the world' — the roving Indian, the Jesuit Mission- 
 ary, the French fur trader, the British redcoat, the Colonial soldier, and the 
 American pioneer."
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 13 
 
 EPISODE I 
 
 EARLY LIFE ASSOCIATED WITH THE WABASH VALLEY 
 SCENE I. INDIANS AND FRENCH FUR TRADERS 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Give ye heed! Give ye heed! The Red Man is now to appear. 
 You will see the braves and the squaws in their wigwams and in the 
 dance ; also as they barter with the French fur traders. 
 
 1. The Indians. 
 
 a. An Indian Lullaby. 
 
 b. Dances of the Squaws and the Braves. 
 
 2. The French Fur Traders. 
 
 a. Coming with trinkets for the Indians. 
 
 b. Bartering with the Indians. 
 
 The Indians and fur traders leave the stage at the middle of the 
 hack, and return after the missionaries are on it. 
 
 SCENE 11. THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 The French Missionaries are now coming. You will see them plant 
 the Cross and hear them chant the songs of their religion, true to their 
 motto, "TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD." 
 
 The Misionaries are dressed in black gowns with girdles of the same 
 at the left side, also with brimless caps, white collars, and possibly 
 some of them zvith crosses on their breasts. Along with them are two 
 standard-bearers, one carrying the cross and the other carrying the 
 banner of the order ivith a cross in a Held of blue on one side and the 
 motto, "TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD," on the reverse 
 side. In one corner there will be a fleur-de-lis. They come and go in 
 processional and recessional chanting "Stabat Mater" in both and also 
 while they plant the cross.
 
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 SCENE III. THE BRITISH RED COAT AND THE 
 COLONIAL SOLDIER MARCH BY 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Behold the warriors ! They follow the missionaries. The Red 
 Coat comes to invade and the Colonial soldier to defend this land. 
 
 Each group of soldiers marches to the bugle playing the airs of its 
 ozun country, and dressed in the uniform tvorn by the soldiers of Revo- 
 lutionary times. 
 
 SCENE IV. THE PIONEER 
 
 B.AND Plays "Land of the Fathers" 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 PIo, ye ! Ho, ye ! Ho, ye ! The pioneer is now at hand ! He is the 
 home maker, the continent builder, the true hero of our new country. 
 At his fireside are sown the seeds of our great American Democracy. 
 
 Persons — Father, Jeremiah Jenkins ; mother, Nancy Hanks Jenkins ; 
 children, Sarah, aged fourteen; Benjamin, twelve; Thomas, ten; 
 Rachael, eight, and the baby boy. The grandmother. Visitors : 
 Mr. and Mrs. White and little daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and 
 son Robert, the singing master, Mr. Brewster ; the hunter, Mr. 
 Thomas, and the woodsman, Mr. Blake. 
 
 . SONG BY THE CHORUS 
 
 "The Pioneer" 
 
 (Tune, "My Native Land." In Sunnyside, p. 6i) 
 
 I sing to thee, O Pioneer ! 
 Whose manly strength without a fear, 
 And purpose firm in Heaven's sight. 
 Gives thee a place by crested knight, 
 Or feudal lord o'er country side. 
 Thou art the nation's honest pride !
 
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 II 
 
 Thy symbol, O brave Pioneer! 
 
 Is woodsman's axe to forests clear 
 
 And cabins raise in regions wild 
 
 For sake of fireside, wife and child 
 
 And country dear to fast upbuild. 
 
 Now with thy praise our hearts are filled ! 
 
 Ill 
 
 O noble, noble Pioneer ! 
 We give thee honor now and here, 
 In this our Middle West a part, 
 Thanks come to thee from every heart, 
 In words of love and hope and cheer. 
 All hail ! our noble Pioneer ! 
 
 Family having entered, father seats himself at the stand and takes 
 out his glasses; mother places the baby in the cradle, then comes to the 
 stand and takes out her sewing; Benjamin, Rachael and Thomas gather 
 around the basket of corn to be shelled for the grist, and Sarah makes 
 ready to spin at the big zvheel that stands a little zvays back. The 
 grandmother takes out her knitting. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — {Going to the zvall, taking down the almanac and re- 
 turning to the stand as he opens it.) Well, Nancy, it's going to be 
 clear to-morrer (and looking up) and the rest of the week. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — I'm powerful glad of it ! I want to go down and see 
 
 Mrs. Simpson. She's been so poorly of late. 
 Children. — (Gathered around the basket, cry out together.) Hooray! 
 
 Hooray ! We're awful glad ! 
 Benjamin. — (As he shells the corn.) 1 must get my walnuts in Sat- 
 urday. 
 Thomas. — We're going to have speakin' in school Friday ! 
 Sarah. — (Fixing her zvheel for spinning.) I want to go down to see 
 
 Granny Jenkins Saturday. (Turning to her father, zvho is still 
 
 looking at the almanac.) Daddy, read some of the jokes in the 
 
 almanac. 
 Mr. Jenkins. — (Reading.) "The horse is a curious feeder, for he 
 
 feeds best without a bit in his mouth." (Children stop shelling corn 
 
 to listen.) 
 
 "The greatest ocean race known is what?" (Fishes.) (Children 
 
 all laugh.)
 
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 Mr. Jenkins. — Here's something for you to guess. 
 Children. — Read ! read ! 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — Why does a hen cross the road? (Children all guess 
 zvroug except Rachael, who sa\s "She tvants to go to the other 
 side.") 
 
 ]\Irs. Jenkins. — Right! Rachael is a good guesser! 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — {Again reads.) Two prisoners were quarreling. One 
 said to the other, who had taken a watch, "What time is it?" He 
 immediately answered the other, who had taken a cow, "It's milk- 
 ing time, sir." {Children clap hands and cry,) "More, Daddy! 
 More, Daddy!" Father says, "No more to-day. There's some 
 mighty funny things in that almanac ! You'd better look in it once 
 in a while." 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — {Who has been sitting at the table sezving and now 
 starts to thread her needle.) Children! children! I've lost my 
 needle! Come, quick! quick! and get down and find it. {All, 
 father included, hunt for the needle and make quite a scene.) 
 Here's even grandmother, I declare ! 
 
 Rachael. — {Holding up the needle.) I've found it! I've found it! 
 {Bringing it to her mother.) 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — {Taking the needle from Rachael.) Well, I declare! 
 and my little Rachael ! Nothing can go on in this house when a 
 needle's lost till it's found. I've brought up my family so far on 
 four needles, jest because everything's stopped till they're found. 
 Rachael, go look in the winder curtain and see if the other three are 
 there. A needle's just as important as the axe or anything about 
 the place. 
 
 Rachael. — {Returning.) They're all there, mother. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — That's good. {A knock is heard at the door.) 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — (Loudly.) Come in. (There enter Mr. and Mrs. 
 White and little daughter, Mrs. and Mr. Jones and little son, and 
 Mr. Brewster, the singing master.) I'm mighty glad to see you! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Howdy! (Shaking hands zvith all in a most cordial 
 manner.) I'm powerful glad to see you! And here's Mr. Brew- 
 ster, too. That means we're going to have some good singing to- 
 night ! 
 
 Mr. White. — We jest thought we'd scare you with so many of us. 
 But the moon's so bright we couldn't stay in and so we thought 
 we'd come and set till bedtime ! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — (As she disposes of the guests on chairs and stools.) 
 Settin' till bedtime's what I like best of anything! People can't
 
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 come here for that too often to suit me. {The grandmother comes 
 forward and welcomes the guests and the children join Benjamin 
 around the corn basket.) 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — Are ye all well? 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Yes, the children have had a spell of the mumps and 
 the chickenpox, but they're all over it now, 
 
 Mr. Brewster. — {Who had joined the children upon entering, brings 
 out Thomas by the hand, saying) I've found something fine for 
 you all to hear! Our little Thomas is learning his a, b, c's and 
 we're going to help him sing them. 
 
 Mr. White. — Good ! My little girl is learning them too ! 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — And so is our Robert ! 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — Well, Brewster, you do the leading! 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — Begin all! {Children, led by Mr. Brewster, sing ba{ba), 
 etc. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — Let's all help! {All join in ivith the children and sing 
 ce{ce) and ta{ta), etc., till through.) 
 
 Rachael. — Daddy, Sarah can sing the geography lesson ! 
 
 Guests All. — Come, Sarah ! Come ! 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — Yes, Sarah, we'll all jine in and sing with you ! {All 
 sing the capitals of the states.) 
 
 Mr. Jones. — We can't sing the capital of our state yet. I wonder how 
 long it'll be before Indiana Territory'll be a state? 
 
 Rachael. — {Coming to the front.) Benji's going to speak a piece 
 Friday. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — 'Pears like the childern's trying to show off to-night ! 
 
 Mr. White. — Come, Benji! I'm jest waitin' to hear you speak your 
 piece ! What's the name of it ? 
 
 Benji. — Breathes There a Man ! 
 
 Mr. White. — Good ! Good ! That's a fine piece, I know that ! {Ben- 
 jamin speaks and all clap hands.) 
 
 Grandmother. — {After going to the reel and taking off the yarn on 
 it.) Come, Thomas ! Hold this for grandmother ! {Thomas holds 
 the yarn, and after winding it grandmother resumes her knitting.) 
 
 Rachael. — {Bringing the gourd from the zvall.) This is just like the 
 one we have at school, and I passed the water round for the chil- 
 dren to drink out of it the other day! {Mrs. Jones admires the 
 gourd.)
 
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 Mrs. Jenkins. — (To Mrs. JVhite.) Have you seen my quilt since I 
 finished it? 
 
 Both Ladies. — Do show it to us ! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Well, it's mighty purty! I did want to have a quilt- 
 ing, but I couldn't get it in. There's nothing nicer than a quilting 
 where you meet all your friends, and get so much done and the 
 menfolk and the young people come in the evening. It's 'most like 
 a weddin' ! 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — We've not had a quilting in this neighborhood for quite 
 a while ! I think they're nice, too. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Do you see my chest there? (Pointing to it.) I keep 
 my treasures in it. I'll bring my quilt out. (She goes to the chest 
 and lifts many bundles out, placing them beside the chest, and 
 brings out the quilt, zvhich all admire.) 
 
 Mrs. White. — I heard you speak of another quilt that your mother 
 pieced for you. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Law, yes, I hardly ever take that out except to please 
 the children once in a while. (Goes to chest and brings out quilt.) 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — I never saw such a beauty ! 
 
 Mrs. White — Ain't it purty? 
 
 Mr. White. — A woman that could piece a quilt like that could do al- 
 most anything. 
 
 Mr. Jones. — I tell you the mothers of our children are mighty smart ! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Well, since the chest is open, I'd as well show more. 
 It'll be a long time before I open it again. (Lifting out a long roll 
 of rag carpeting, spreads it on the floor. The children gather about 
 and the visitors are filled zi'ith surprise.) 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — And you did this? My! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Yes, I spun every thread of it on that wheel. (Point- 
 ing to the wheel.) I cut every rag and can tell where I got each 
 piece. They are colored with walnut and copperas and sassafras. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — My woman's lost no time since I've knowed her, I can 
 tell you ! 
 
 Mrs. White. — Women have to keep busy to do the like of that! 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — (Bringing out a double coverlet.) This was spun and 
 wove by hand too. 
 
 Mrs. Jones. — There's nothin' more to say ! 
 
 Mrs. White. — That's what I'm thinking! (A loud knock is heard at 
 the door.)
 
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 Mr. Jenkins. — Come in! (Louder.) Come in, I say! (A hunter 
 with a bag of game on his back and a zvoodsman zvith axe on his 
 shoulder enter, each resting his pack by the door.) How are you? 
 I was jest thinking what a fine night this would be for hunting! 
 You seem to have had purty good luck ! 
 
 Mr. Blake. — I felled a tree for him that had a whole nest of coons 
 in it. 
 
 Mr. Thomas. — Yes, I owe my good luck to-night to Mr. Blake. 
 
 The Children. — (Gathering about him.) Please tell us about the 
 wild beasts you've fought with ! Do, please ! 
 
 Mr. Blake. — I'll come sometime on purpose for that, I must go now. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Benjiman, you and Sarah pass the apples and cider 
 around. (They are passed and the hunter and the woodsman re- 
 tire.) 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — (Opening the Bible on the stand, takes out a letter, 
 holding it up.) This came from Kentucky. It was three weeks on 
 the way, and cost the sender twenty-five cents. 
 
 Mr. White. — That seems a heap to pay, but it's so nice to write to 
 your friends. 
 
 Mrs. Jenkins. — Mr. Brewster, we must have some music before 
 you go ! 
 
 Mr. Brewster. — Very well! Each one name a tune. (Oft in the 
 Stilly Night. Auld Lang Syne, are named and sung.) 
 
 Grandmother. — (Going to the cradle at the crying of the baby, and 
 bringing him to the front.) You've not seen this young man to- 
 night! We're awful proud of him! (The baby is taken into the 
 arms of the guests and then replaced in the cradle by Grandma.) 
 
 Mr. White. — It's time to go. Jenkins, come over soon and sit till bed- 
 time with us ! 
 
 ]\Ir. Jones. — And with us ! 
 
 Mr. Jenkins. — We'll do that real soon! (Good-nights are spoken and 
 hands are shaken. All go to the door. JVhcn guests are gone the 
 family gather about the stand and the father reads from the nine- 
 teenth psalm. When he is through, after a moment's pause they all 
 stand and the father in an attitude of reverence says:) May no 
 harm come to any home this night. (They kiss good-night and go 
 out together.)
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE 
 
 TO EPISODE II 
 
 George Rapp, founder of New Harmony, Indiana, was born in Wiirttem- 
 berg, German}', in 1757. Here, at the age of thirty, he began to preach in his 
 own home to people gathered from miles around. Not being satisfied with the 
 religious spirit of his native land, he sought freedom in America in 1803 and 
 established a "Community of Equalitj'," called "Harmonic," near Zelienople, 
 Pennsylvania, where all the members bound themselves in obedience to the 
 laws regarding property and brotherhood, and to the loyal support of the doc- 
 trines of their leader. Experience proved this location to be unsatisfactory and 
 Father Rapp purchased thirty thousand acres of land along the Wabash river 
 in Indiana, about fifty miles from its junction with the Ohio. Here, in 1814, 
 the men came and made ready for the families who came one year later and 
 another "Harmonic" community was established. The ten years spent in Har- 
 monic, Indiana, mark a marvelous prosperity in the increase of wealth, power 
 and happiness. In order to be nearer a great market, they sold the Harmonic 
 estate to Robert Owen, of Scotland, in 1825, and went back to Pennsylvania, 
 about twelve miles from Pittsburgh and founded the town of Economy, where 
 they remained till the community died out, celibacy being one of their tenets. 
 Father Rapp was a man of deep religious conviction and great power, and his 
 influence in his community made for what was best in building character. 
 
 There is a slight fore-shortening of history in Scene IV of Episode II.
 
 George Rapp
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 21 
 
 EPISODE II 
 
 THE FOUNDING OF NEW HARMONY BY THE 
 RAPPITES IN 1814 
 
 Band — Overture to William Tell 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Hear ye ! A new scene presents itself. A German community led 
 by Father George Rapp is to be started on the banks of the Wabash. 
 Here all will share equal work and equal reward, 
 
 SCENE I. THE LANDING OF THE MEN IN 1814 
 
 ( The day after the landing. Persons: Father Rapp and his men in 
 the wilderness after a night's rest under the large oak tree. Men appear 
 with axes on shoulders and saws in hand ready for work.) 
 
 Father Raff.— (Lifting his hands.) Hail, my men! How did you 
 rest last night under the oak tree? 
 
 Men in a Body.— Well ! Well ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — You are ready for work, I see ! 
 
 Men. — All ready ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — (Szueeping the compass with his arms.) These are 
 giant trees to be cut, but we can do it ! 
 
 Men.— Ya! Ya! Ya! 
 
 Father Rapp. — We shall go forth in bands. Jacob Dengler will you 
 lead the first band ? 
 
 Jacob Dengler. — That I will ! Step out, men ! (Johannes Trompeter 
 steps out.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — I see Johannes Trompeter wants to be a leader ! Join 
 him. (Men obey.) 
 
 John Reichert. — I will be the next. 
 
 Father Rapp. — Follow John Reichert. (Men step out.) Do all the 
 men have leaders? Are all ready? 
 
 Men. — All ready!
 
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 Father Rapp. — Ours is a joyful work ! Here even in this wilderness, 
 with these great trees before us to be cleared away, we are cheered 
 by the thought that we are working for the good of one another. 
 
 Men. — It is true ! It is true ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — I shall be with each band to-day at some time. When 
 we can all be together, I shall lead you forth, as is our wont, with 
 singing and music. 
 
 Men. — Be it so! Be it so! 
 
 Father R.\pp. — Pass now to your tasks, and may the work of your 
 hands prosper. 
 (Men go forth singing.) 
 
 BEAUTEOUS IS THE GREAT WIDE WORLD 
 
 Translated by J. S. Duss 
 
 1. Beauteous is the great wide world, 
 More so, still our living ; 
 
 All the loveliness unfurled, 
 God is freely giving. 
 
 2. Still what is all of life's alloy? 
 Scan it with probation — 
 You will find all earthly joy, 
 But of short duration. 
 
 3. Though one be in treasures rich, 
 Gold makes no one wiser. 
 
 And in death are all alike ; 
 Beggar, Pope and Kaiser. 
 
 4. No one, but by Christly life, 
 Heaps eternal treasures ; 
 
 And through noble toil and strife, 
 Enters heavenly pleasures. 
 
 SCENE IL THE LANDING OF THE FAMILIES ONE YEAR 
 
 AFTER, IN 1815 
 
 The Rappite families just landed from their boat on the Wabash, 
 have on their zvraps and carry bundles as travellers carried at that 
 time. The company consists of women and children for the most part, 
 zi'ith a fezv men. They are led by Frederick Rapp, and come in pro- 
 cessional from the river hanks, singing Luther's hymn. They come in
 
 BOOKOF WORDS 23 
 
 tzvos mostly and zvhen the company are about half on the platform, 
 continuing to sing, Father Rapp, in long gozvn and long zvhite beard, 
 and cap, appears ivith upraised hands, standing before them till all 
 have reached the stage. Then they all kneel to receive the Father's 
 blessing. 
 
 Father Rapp. — May the blessing of God rest upon you all, my chil- 
 dren ! May each one of us strive to live the life' of the just and 
 walk uprightly before all men and in the sight of God. Amen ! 
 {All rise, taking the attitude of reverence.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — {Coming forzvard.) Father, I am glad to come to 
 thee ! {Shakes hands.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — Welcome, my children ! I wish I might call you each 
 by name and shake the hands of each, but time permits not, with 
 the matters that we have on hand ! It is fitting that we rejoice over 
 being gathered together once more, after our separation for one 
 year. It is also fitting that we feel a just pride as we look about us, 
 {gesturing) in the work of our men in making ready for you these 
 comfortable homes that you see. We know with what willing 
 hearts you will take up the tasks that await you here in this new 
 settlement in a new land. We have been one in aim and in spirit 
 since we crossed the deep to fair America, where we have been free 
 to work out the will of God as we have understood it. As our 
 hopes outweighed our regrets in leaving Wurtemberg, so do they 
 in coming from Pennsylvania to this spot. It will be only a short 
 time before we shall here look upon flourishing vineyards, waving 
 fields of grain, green meadows and hear the lowing of herds and 
 the hum of the mill and the spinning wheel. Life here will go on 
 as it did in Pennsylvania, and our new home will soon be our old 
 home too. We know the doctrine that we profess, of mercy, jus- 
 tice, self-sacrifice and industry. And knowing the doctrine we must 
 live the life ! I shall now lead you forth to the dwellings that are 
 waiting for you. {The body of travellers, led by Father Rapp, re- 
 tire singing as they came, in recessional, off the opposite end of 
 the stage from ivhich they entered.) 
 
 Stage empty.
 
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 SCENE III. A DAY IN THE RAPPITE COMMUNITY, 1819 
 —THE PALMY PERIOD 
 
 WATCHMAN'S EARLY MORNING CALL 
 
 "Again a night is passed and the morning is come, our time runs 
 away and the joys of heaven are our reward.^ {Three times.) 
 
 Music by the Band — German Airs 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Hear, all men ! You are now asked to spend a day in the Rappite 
 Community, and see the signs of prosperity that reigns here. 
 
 I. THE WAKING OF THE TOWN 
 
 People of the community dressed in the Rappite costume are seen 
 going hither and thither. Some with baskets in hand, others carrying 
 bundles. The boy cries out in the street "Sollt Fleisch holen," "Sollt 
 Fleisch holen!" Over the doorway of the store is the sign, "THE 
 STORE," and people are coming out and in. The squatters are there in 
 numbers, and dressed in fur coats. The visitors are {Woods, Birbcck, 
 Hidme, Welby and others.) At the same time, the harvesters in proces- 
 sion, led by Father Rapp and the band, pass by on their way to the 
 fields. There are men, zvomen, boys and girls with baskets, and carry- 
 ing sickles and rakes in their hands. 
 
 2. HOUSEHOLD INDUSTRIES OF THE AFTERNOON 
 
 The stage is set zvith ovens and tables and utensils for the zvomen, 
 zvho are preparing the evening meal. They have dishes and seem very 
 busy. The little children run in and out. Tivo boys come to blows just 
 as Father Rapp comes out upon them. Father says, "What is this, my 
 children? No disputes must arise in this community. The sun must 
 not set on any man's ivrath. Rise, my children! Shake hands and be 
 friends." The children obey. They also ask Father's pardon for their 
 conduct. 
 
 3. RETURN FROM THE FIELDS SINGING 
 
 CHILDREN OF FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE 
 
 Translated by Jacob Henrici 
 
 (Nephew of Jacob Henrici, Trustee of Harmony Society.) 
 
 I. Children of friendship and love, lift your voices, 
 Sing the sweet bond that uplifts and rejoices;
 
 BOOKOFWORDS 25 
 
 Joyfully sounding divine friendship's praises, 
 Join the great hymn the angelic host raises, 
 In greatful homage to heavenly love 
 Swing your glad hearts to the ether above. 
 
 2. Lo ! from the throne there the bright fountain gushes ; 
 Through the wide heavens the crystal flood rushes — 
 Pure, holy, friendship, from sun to sun streaming ; 
 Filling all space with its blessed mild beaming ! 
 
 Love rules the universe ; through it alone, 
 Can real blessedness ever be known ! 
 
 3. In bonds of friendship the spheres are united ; 
 Seraphs and angels in friendship are plighted. 
 Patient and loving it meets ev'ry trial ; 
 Freely forgives, with divine self-denial. 
 
 Were its pure ray into hell to descend. 
 Hell at that moment would come to an end. 
 
 4. Friendship is shield against arrows of malice ; 
 Holds to the suflf'rer the life-giving chalice. 
 Gives to the starving friend food to restore him. 
 Warns and protects him when danger hangs o'er him ; 
 
 Brings to the dying couch heavenly rest, 
 Folds the poor erring one close to the breast. 
 
 5. Angel of friendship, abide with us ever; 
 Comfort and guide us ; abandon us never ; 
 Fill ev'ry spirit with good will to others ; 
 Grant us in friendship and love to be brothers. 
 
 Hate and suspicion, depart from our ways ! 
 Angel of friendship, we bring thee our praise ! 
 
 As they near the house Father Rapp comes out, and zvaving his 
 hand to them, says: "I greet you, my children! A hard day's work; 
 a well-earned meal. Our life here grows more prosperous every day. 
 Let us be more thankful in proportion. Disperse ye now to your tables 
 made ready for you, and eat with the heartiness that comes of a good 
 conscience. We meet again just after the early evening service. 
 
 4. MEETING AFTER THE EVENING SERVICE 
 
 Father and Frederick Rapp come first, folloived by the people in 
 procession. 
 
 Frederick. — Well, Father, things have turned out beyond our ex- 
 pectation !
 
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 Father Rapp. — Yes, God has prospered us in this land beyond belief 
 in five years ! We have done well. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — Our people have lived in true "Harmonie," and 
 we have made good our name. (Procession of men and zvomen 
 coming from the evening service singing, gather around. Standing.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — Greetings, my children ! We have gathered here on 
 our way from the service to rejoice in our prosperity without 
 vanity. Let us sing. (Sing a Rappite hymn.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — My father and I have just been talking over what 
 has been done since our coming here five years ago ; it seems un- 
 believable ! 
 
 John L. Baker. — It does seem unbelievable! (Others nod and make 
 motion of assent.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — We thought we would bring out the book of our com- 
 munity to-night ! 
 
 Jonathan Lenz. — (and members of the community.) Bring it out, 
 father ! Bring it out ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — Frederick, bring out the book ! 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (Brings out the book and stands holding it.) Shall 
 • I open the book. Father? 
 
 People Present. — Father, let us hear Frederick read from the book ! 
 Yes, let us hear. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — This book, you know, contains the names of all the 
 members of this community and what they had when they joined. 
 Shall I read ? 
 
 John Schreiber. — I do not wish to hear. Father, what the members 
 put in the society when they joined. It is enough to know that we 
 all belong to one body and are all equals in aim and work and 
 worldly goods. 
 
 Father Rapp. — You hear the wise words of John Schreiber. Have 
 you anything to add ? 
 
 Dr. Mueller.— Father, I think John Schreiber is right. What good 
 will it do to know what each man put in? We know that each one 
 has done his best since he came and that is enough. We are all 
 equal now just the same as we will be when we are laid to rest like 
 those out there in the graveyard. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — Father, of what use is the book if they do not wish 
 to know what is in it? if it would show that they were not equal 
 in this world's goods at the start? They are now equal in every 
 way!
 
 BOOKOFWORDS 27 
 
 Adam Nachtrieb. — Father, your son has spoken well. The book is 
 of no more use. Let us bury it so the matter can never be brought 
 up again ! 
 
 RoMELius Baker. — Let us burn the book ! (Others nod assent.) Burn 
 it! Burn it! 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — Father, what shall be done? 
 
 Father Rapp. — Let it be as the members have said, I see that we have 
 grown in the true community spirit ! 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — How shall it be done ? 
 
 Louis Schreiber. — Here before our eyes ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — Place the book on the table, my son. (Turning to 
 audience.) We are all agreed that we are one. Your decision to 
 burn the book will be to you a bond of closer union and faith in the 
 brotherhood of man and the justice of God. The book is here but 
 where are the faggots ? 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — I will bring them, father. (Brings them.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — (People all gather round closer, each one having an 
 intent look upon his face.) In burning this book,' we are burning 
 all thoughts of selfishness; and in lighting this torch (lights the 
 the torch and holds it) we are lighting the fire of a finer faith in 
 our hearts. (Sets fire to the hook.) Let us all sing while the book 
 burns! (They sing a Rappite hymn.) As the book ceases to burn. 
 Father raises his hands motioning in silence, a good night and all 
 quietly make the stage empty. 
 
 Night Watchman's Cry. — "Again a day is past and a step made 
 nearer to our end, our time runs away and the joys of heaven are 
 our reward." 
 Stage empty. 
 Music. 
 
 SCENE IV. THE TRANSFERENCE OF HARMONIE BY 
 GEORGE RAPP TO ROBERT OWEN, 1824-1825 
 
 Band Plays Scotch and German Airs for Six Minutes 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Attend ye ! Important transactions are now to take place. Har- 
 monic is about to pass from the hands of the Rappites into the owner- 
 ship of Robert Owen of Scotland.
 
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 I. BUSINESS MEETING IN HARMONIE HALL IN 1824 
 
 Present, George Rapp, Frederick Rapp and the Harmonie 
 
 Community 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — {Opening the meeting.) As we bound ourselves 
 more firmly together at the end of the first five years here, by the 
 burning of the book, to show that all were equal, regardless of what 
 we first put in the society, so now we are met to make the ties still 
 stronger as we hear the plans of our leader. {Jonathan Lena 
 stands.) Jonathan Lenz wishes to speak. 
 
 Jonathan Lenz. — ^Let us hear the purpose of our leader. 
 
 John Reichert. — What the Father says will be right ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — You are all true children of the Rappite doctrine, and 
 as such you will, I see, wish to do what is for the good of all. My 
 son Frederick will now tell you of what Richard Flower has done 
 for us. {Turns to Frederick.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — When Richard Flower went from Albion, Illinois, 
 to England, my father, as many of you know, asked him to adver- 
 tise there the Harmonie estates for sale. He has done this, and 
 here is his letter. 
 
 John L. Baker. — {Recognised by the chair.) And please you, father, 
 may we hear the letter read ? 
 
 Father Rapp. — The reading of the letter will now be heard. {Turn- 
 ing to Frederick.) Read the letter. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — {Holding the letter in his hand.) Richard Flower's 
 letter, as you see, is very long and can not be read entire, but I 
 shall leave it on the table for you to see. The part that refers to 
 the business in hand says : "I have found a purchaser for the Har- 
 monie estates if they prove what I've represented them to be. The 
 buyer is a wonderful Scotchman, Robert Owen, by name, and will 
 come to America to see the lands. He is willing to pay the price I 
 asked, of one hundred fifty thousand dollars. He is like you, a 
 believer in community life and he wants the estates for a place to 
 carry out his system of co-operation in America." 
 
 John Reichert. — That is good news from over the sea! This land is a 
 good place to start communities in and the more we have of them 
 the better it is. 
 
 John L. Baker. — I wish to stand for anything that is for the good of 
 all, and if it is to be for the sale of the Harmonie estates here, I 
 shall stand for that too. {Others nod assent.)
 
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 Father Rapp. — I feel that it is wise, my children, that we go to a 
 place nearer to the market. Then, too, we are ready to conquer a 
 new wilderness. We have learned so much here in the way of land 
 production and machinery, and general industry, that we have out- 
 grown the place. (Signs of grief in the audience here and there.) 
 We who say daily, "The joys of heaven are our reward," can not 
 fix our hearts on one place. (Long pause. Father sits.) 
 
 John Reichert. — Father, when do you look for this Robert Owen? 
 
 Father Rapp. — At any time. He likely started as soon as the letter, 
 and we may look for him any day. (George Wagner stands.) 
 George Wagner, one of our wise men, has something to say. 
 
 George Wagner. — Father, how soon is it in thy will to go ? 
 
 Father Rapp. — We give immediate possession. (Meaning looks ex- 
 changed in the audience.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — It might be well to add that we also surrender in 
 the purchase our stock and goods and grain in part. 
 
 Adam Nachtrieb. — (Recognized.) Robert Owen will get a fine vine- 
 yard. (Others.) Yes, and fine sheep and cows and hogs, too. 
 (All nod assent.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — That is well, I would not wish that we sell anything 
 of a poor quality. 
 
 Jacob Henrici. — The will of the father must be done and we are glad 
 that he knows what is for the best. 
 
 Father Rapp. — Your words are wise, my children, I shall appoint my 
 
 son Frederick to make ready the lists of acres, and what grows 
 
 thereon ; of the stock as to what kind and the numbers thereof ; 
 
 of the mills and the goods and the buildings, by the time Robert 
 
 Owen comes. 
 Frederick Rapp. — It shall be as my father says. The lists will be 
 
 ready. 
 Father Rapp. — As I have so often done before, I again bless you, my 
 
 children. Let us sing. Will Jacob Henrici lead? (Rap pit e hymn 
 
 is sung.) 
 
 2. NEXT EVENING AT THE RAPPITE HOME 
 
 Persons— ^Ir. and Mrs. George Rapp, Frederick Rapp, Mrs. Johanna 
 Rapp, Gertrude and Rosina Rapp. Guests : Robert Owen, William 
 Owen, Captain McDonald, Mr. and ^Irs. George Flower, Richard 
 Flower, Frances Wright and sister Camilla, Jacob Henrici, John 
 Schnee from Springfield, Ebenezer Phillips and John L. Baker.
 
 30 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 Gertrude Rapp. — {Before guests arrive, improvising at the piano.) 
 Rosina, let us sing. (They sing an old Rappite song.) 
 
 Beauteous Is the Wide World. (See p. 22.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (Taking the violin from the piano.) I'm glad this 
 IS here ! 
 
 Gertrude Rapp. — Do you suppose they are musicians? 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — Most English gentlemen are ! 
 
 Jacob Henrici. — (Just entering.) I see you are having some music 
 to-night ! 
 
 Gertrude Rapp. — Yes ! I hope you know a good many Scotch songs. 
 
 Jacob Henrici. — Yes ! I shall be pleased to sing them ! 
 
 Father Rapp. — (To Frances Wright, just entering.) Welcome to 
 this home, Frances Wright ! Workers in human welfare always 
 have a place in my home! (Shaking the hand of Camilla also.) 
 Welcome to Camilla, too. 
 
 Frances Wright. — The interest in helping the less fortunate is all- 
 absorbing and makes lighter things fade away. 
 
 Father Rapp. — (Shaking hands ivith Mr. and Mrs. George Flozver.) 
 Here are my friends from Albion ; they are also community be- 
 lievers. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (Going to the door.) Mr. Owen, I am glad to see 
 you and your son, come. (Shaking hands cordially zvith both.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — (Reaching out his hand to Robert Oiven and taking 
 Mr. Oiven's hand.) My brother in a common cause, I greet you 
 heartily ! 
 
 Robert Owen. — Yes, we are brothers in a common cause. My system 
 is very dear to me and the opportunity of working it in America 
 opens up many possibilities. (Women gather themselves in a group 
 for conversation.) 
 
 France.s Wright. — (Coming forzvard to meet Robert Ozven.) Good 
 evening, Mr. Owen. Well, our "Worlds are not remodelled yet, 
 and the human race is not redeemed from the existing state of 
 society," but we still have courage. 
 
 Robert Owen. — (Returning greetings.) I have no doubt that my 
 system will ultimately succeed and that crime will be rooted out, 
 punishment will be abolished, and dissension and warfare disappear. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (To Robert Ozven.) Has the day been pleasant? 
 
 Robert Owen. — I have been looking around and find all things as 
 Richard Flower represented them.
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 31 
 
 Father Rapp. — I had my son Frederick list the land and the belong- 
 ings of the estate, ready to make the transfer when you came. 
 (Turning to Frederick.) Bring the paper. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (Drazving the papers from his pocket, hands them 
 to his father.) Here they are, father. 
 
 Father Rapp. — (Handing the papers to Robert Owen.) You will 
 find everything as herein listed. 
 
 Robert Owen. — (Handing the papers back to Frederick.) Read, will 
 you? 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (Reads.) Town of Harmonie and Community. 
 
 20,000 A. of first-rate land ; 2,000 A. highly cultivated land and 
 15 A. vineyards ; 35 A. apple orchards ; 500 bearing apple trees ; i peach 
 orchard ; i pleasure garden ; i three-story water mill ; i factory of cot- 
 ton and woolen goods ; 3 sawmills ; 3 large granaries ; . . . i tavern ; 
 I store; i tanyard. Stock: 140 milk cows, 125 steers, 28 heifers, 700 
 sheep, 250 hogs, 16 horses, 8 wagons and carts, 8 plows. Whisky, 
 wool and furniture. 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — Does the list come up to your expectation, Mr. 
 Owen? 
 
 Robert Owen. — It does. I am ready to sign the papers. Can I not 
 speak for you, too, William? (Nodding to son.) 
 
 William Owen. — It meets with my entire approval. The sum, I be- 
 lieve, is one hundred fifty thousand dollars ! 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — That is right. (Drawing the papers toward him.) 
 I shall sign my name. (Looking at his quill pen, signs.) 
 
 Robert Owen. — Let my name be placed next to yours. (Signs.) 
 George Flower here can sign as a witness. (He signs.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — John Schnee, our business agent, will sign it, as well 
 as Ebenezer Phillips and John L. Baker. (Father calls each one by 
 name as he takes the chair to sign the paper.) 
 
 John L. Baker. — The deed is done. Harmonie is no longer ours. (As 
 he finishes his signature.) 
 
 Frederick Rapp. — (To Robert Ozven.) I shall give you possession as 
 soon as you wish it. 
 
 Robert Owen. — I hope to get my system of cooperation in working 
 order on this side of the water as soon as possible. 
 
 Father Rapp. — Living in co-operation and brotherhood are the only 
 ways for a happy life. These squatters all about were here when 
 we came and they have never done anything for themselves and are
 
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 still in a pitiable condition. My people have, by steady industry, 
 accomplished what you read in the list. This shows what perfect 
 equality will do for the good of man. 
 
 Robert Owen. — I trust my community may be as thrifty as yours. 
 But I am not so sure. I have a different problem to deal with, and 
 different people in my undertaking. They may not understand my 
 system at first. 
 
 Father Rapp. — There is no reason why any community should not 
 succeed by co-operation and equal sharing. (Mr. Ozven and Father 
 Rapp remain seated at the table. The paper is still on it.) 
 
 William Owen. — (Going to the piano.) Mr. Henrici, let us have 
 some music. 
 
 Jacob Henrici. — Certainly. (Gives out "Coming Through the Rye.") 
 (Gertrude plays the accompaniments.) 
 
 Robert Owen. — You compliment us to-night ! May we not hear some 
 German and American airs? (The band then starts to play "The 
 Vaterland." All listen.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — America is the Fatherland ! This is the land of oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 Robert Owen. — I hope I shall find it so. 
 
 Father Rapp. — Gertrude, bring some of the fresh grape juice so Rob- 
 ert Owen can see the flavor of the fine grapes in the vineyard that 
 he has just bought. This juice is made from cuttings that come from 
 Germany. (Cake and grape juice are handed to all the company 
 by Gertrude, Rosina Rapp and Camilla IV right.) 
 
 Robert Owen. — (Tasting the juice.) This is indeed fine and I am 
 glad to know what to expect. (When through sipping juice and 
 glasses are taken.) You have not yet let us hear an American 
 song! 
 
 Father Rapp. — Jacob Henrici, will you lead in the Star-Spangled 
 Banner? (Henrici comes to the front and all join in the singing.) 
 
 Robert Owen. — (Rising.) We must go. It has been a happiness to 
 meet a man who believes in a higher social state and is carrying out 
 a system for human betterment. I shall meet you again. (Shaking 
 hands.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — Yes, we shall meet again. (Holding the hand of 
 Ozven.) I wish you to hear a Rappite community song before you 
 go. (All are standing and join in the Rappite song, "Children of 
 Friendship and Love" (see page 24), after ivhich the guests de- 
 part.)
 
 BOOKOFWORDS 33 
 
 SCENE V. THE DEPARTURE OF THE RAPPITES, 1825 
 
 Band Plays German Airs and "Home, Sweet Home" 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Look ye ! The Rappites are about to depart from Harmonic to 
 their new home in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Cornetist sounds the reveille and cries, "The William Penn is at 
 the landing! Be ready! Let nothing he left! Have all boxes in the 
 wagon ready to he taken to the hoat." 
 
 Note. The people are all dressed as they zvere ten years hefore, 
 zvhen they came, ready for traveling. There is confusion. The old 
 Rapp zvagon is hacked up to the end of the stage and hcing packed 
 with hoxes and drazvn to the hoat by men. People go in and out, for- 
 getting things and going hack for them. Others pick up things to re- 
 member the place by.) 
 
 Stage Empty. 
 
 The Crier. — To the church! To the church! (People hasten to the 
 church (zvhich is the platform) and Father Rapp appears as on 
 Sunday.) 
 
 Father Rapp. — My children, it seems fitting to come to the house of 
 God as the last place before our departure on the William Penn, 
 for our new home in Pennsylvania. Here we have worshiped in 
 spirit and in truth. The very walls of this house are sacred in 
 memory of our prayers and songs. These are the seats (pointing 
 to them) in which have sat those who have gone to their reward, 
 and where we shall soon go. (Some of the people break down.) 
 I see some of you moved almost to tears ! Let this not be so, but 
 rather let it be a matter of rejoicing that we are to conquer a new 
 wilderness and make it fruitful, as we have done this. We are not 
 parting from one another, but all go as a family to strengthen one 
 another, and that being so, our new home will in a little time be as 
 dear as this has been to us. Saying farewell to a place is not say- 
 ing farewell to a friend. Let both our feelings and our words be 
 full of cheer and hope. Let our leavetaking of the place be as befits 
 our strength. The boat, the William Penn, lies waiting for us. 
 One moment to say goodbye, and I shall lead you forth singing the 
 same song that you sang when you came here ten years ago. (Fare- 
 wells are taken and men kiss men and ivomen kiss zvomcn and they 
 follow Father Rapp in recessional singing till the last ones can be 
 heard no more.) 
 
 Stage Empty.
 
 34 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 TO EPISODE III 
 
 Robert Owex. — Robert Owen, one of the most advanced men of his genera- 
 tion, was born at Newtown, Wales, May 14, 1771. He was self-educated, 
 and being by nature a close observer, and having the power to use his ob- 
 servations ; by the time he had, through serving various apprenticeships, come 
 to the position of controlling the mills of New Lanark, Scotland, in January, 
 1800, he was filled with the possibilities of what might, in such a position, be 
 done to make life less dreary for those whose chances for wage-earning were 
 growing less every day by the rapid introduction of machinery. He began his 
 illustrious philanthropical work here among the operatives consisting of from 
 thirteen to fourteen hundred families, with from four to five hundred pauper 
 children. By the application of his wise schemes for giving training in living, 
 and instruction, and by especial care for the little children whom he was the 
 first to gather into an infant school. New Lanark soon came to be widely known 
 and attracted educators and philanthropists from all parts of the world to see 
 what could be done and what was being done for the betterment of workmen 
 through co-operative life. With this large experience in social reform, Robert 
 Owen accepted the offer of the Harmonic estates in America, made by Richard 
 Flower at the request of George Rapp, and came to this country hoping to find 
 "New Harmony" as he christened it, a place where he could work out his social 
 theories in an untrammeled way. The Owen Community at New Harmony, 
 was short lived as a co-operative body; but like the winged seeds, their ideas 
 have found lodgment and grown into the great social and reform movements 
 without in many instances knowing that they were wafted from the mind of this 
 great man. It is asserted that such a company as gathered in the Owen com- 
 munity at New Harmony has seldom, if ever, been seen on this continent. (See 
 Guide Book to New Harmony.) Robert Owen had the good fortune of moral 
 support by his sons. Robert Dale Owen deserves a pageant by himself, as 
 being one of the most able men of Indiana, as lawmaker, educator, writer and 
 a champion of justice; a worthy son of such a father as Robert Owen. 
 
 Fr.'^nces Wright. Frances Wright was one of the moving spirits in the New 
 Harmony community. She and her sister, Camilla, were reared by Jeremy 
 Bentham, who educated them according to his own theories, and as a result 
 I'rances was well informed on general topics, versed in the literature of the day, 
 and spoke French and Italian fluently. She had traveled for years in Europe 
 and knew many distinguished persons, counting General Lafayette as her friend. 
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century she was a strong advocate of "Wom- 
 an's Suffrage," lecturing upon it in a most convincing way in New Harmony and 
 throughout the country. She advocated the abolition of African slavery, trying 
 an actual experiment in the realization of her views in Tennessee. She also 
 spoke on co-education, and equality and justice before the law.
 
 Robert Owen
 
 BOOKOF WORDS 35 
 
 EPISODE III 
 
 THE OWEN COMMUNITY AT NEW HARMONY, 1825-1826 
 
 The Band Plays Scotch Airs 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Ho ye ! In place of Rappites gone, here now 
 The Owenites a new community 
 Do form, and Constitution do adopt. 
 Hear ! Robert Owen speaks upon his plans ! 
 
 SCENE I. MEETING OF THE OWEN SOCIETY IN 
 
 MAY, 1825 
 
 Latter part of the evening of the adoption of the constitution for 
 the Preliminary Society. 
 
 a. Song. "Land of the JVest." 
 
 "Land of the West, we come to thee. 
 Far o'er the desert of the sea ; 
 Under thy white-winged canopy 
 Land of the West we fly to thee ; 
 Sick of the Old \\'orld's sophistry : 
 Hasten then across the dark, blue sea, 
 Land of the West we rush to thee ! 
 Home of the brave : soil of the free, — 
 Huzza ! She rises o'er the sea." 
 
 SiDig by the Oivcn party on shipboard, en route to N^ezu Harmony 
 
 b. Robert Owen at the meeting just after the Adoption of the first 
 
 Constitution. 
 
 My Friends: 
 
 Your "Yea"' this night hath placed us under law 
 Which points to fairer days and happier life 
 And by your judgment will we gladly bide. 
 jMy hopes are high and I am moved to look 
 Upon this goodly place in which to work 
 Out social dreams that haunt me night and day ;
 
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 Not dreams but schemes that must come true at last. 
 In them I see the Httle children saved 
 From blighted life that they must surely live 
 But for our guiding hand to lead them on ; 
 And men no longer wretched, starved and sad, 
 But filled with hope and pride to meet life's needs ; 
 And women looking forth each day with trust, 
 And all men brothers in a common hope, 
 And sharers in a daily toil made sweet 
 By knowledge, science, art, and fellowship 
 Without which, this our life were poor indeed. 
 All these and more I see must come to pass ! 
 Here with right-minded helpers, striving each 
 The same high end to win in different way, 
 What can we not achieve in this fair spot. 
 Both for ourselves and other souls to come 
 In far off time, it may be centuries hence. 
 Who will new purpose take from our resolve. 
 And, striving, make their social schemes work out, 
 And live with men as brothers, sharing all 
 Of goods, and pain and joy and worthy toil. 
 This is, my friends, the goal my life would reach ! 
 
 (A moment's pause.) 
 
 William Pelham. — (Stands till recognized by the chair before 
 speaking.) 
 
 This meeting reaches now a happy close. 
 Our constitution makes provision full 
 For guidance, check, and unforeseen events. 
 Thanks to our leader's counsel wise and true. 
 On which we more and more shall look for help 
 In days to come when questions grow perplexed. 
 
 Thomas Palmer. — (After being recognized by the chair.) 
 In looking round upon such numbers here 
 I puzzled am, to know the reason why ? 
 What brought them hence who heralded the start 
 Of our community untried and new ? 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 That is because my intent was made known 
 And men who sought to find a better life. 
 Hoped here they might begin to live anew. 
 
 William Twigg. — (Upon being recognized.) 
 
 Well pleased I am ; our name henceforth shall be 
 "New Harmony," not simple, "Harmonic."
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 37 
 
 William Owen. — 
 
 "New Harmony" seems better to express 
 
 Our purpose here in keeping all that's good 
 
 And adding unto that, free thought, free speech, 
 
 And opportunity for happiness 
 
 Which makes for growth and good and larger life. 
 
 All this is but a newer Harmony, 
 
 Well pleased am I you like the change in name. 
 
 William Sampson. — (Recognkcd by the chair.) 
 
 So great and grand seems this our starting out 
 
 That I am pressed our leader here to ask 
 
 How long these dreams of better social life 
 
 Have haunted him and when they first commenced 
 
 To shape themselves as possible for man 
 
 To meet life's higher issues and be more a man? 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 That story would be long to tell, O, Friend ! 
 Including my whole life since first I saw 
 Man's labor set aside by the machine ; 
 No way there seemed to win back happiness 
 But effort joined co-operate to one end. 
 It was in Scotland that this came to me. 
 But this home of the free, and untried ways 
 Did lure me on, and here we start to-night. 
 
 Robert Jennings. — 
 
 I have firm faith in our experiment. 
 
 But those there are who pointed questions ask, 
 
 "What get you out of this in worldly goods ?" 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 Who asked such question knows not of our aim ! 
 To ofifset suffering and the ills of life, 
 'Tis not what out of this we here do get ; 
 What we put in, is now our deep concern. 
 This done, the rest is left to time and tide. 
 
 People. — Good ! Good ! Good ! 
 
 Robert Jennings. — 
 
 I thank our leader wise for his remarks 
 "What can I put in ?" is the question now. 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 The hour is late. Much has been done to-night. 
 But I see here the music lovers' sign
 
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 Of instruments suggestive of delight, 
 And doubtless many voices too are here 
 Awaiting chance to pour forth in full tone. 
 Let music be our closing word this time. 
 
 Band plays Scotch airs. Many go fonvard to greet the leader.) 
 
 SCENE IL THE WELCOME TO THE BOAT LOAD OF 
 KNOWLEDGE, 1826 
 
 Music by the Band 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Now look and see our noted guests arrive, 
 "Boat Load of Knowledge" they henceforth are called, 
 And greetings from the children welcome them with maypole 
 dance. 
 
 Let the fixing of the maypole in the centre of the stage he a part of 
 the acting and the conversation he heard as is the other speeches. 
 
 Persons arranging the Pole: Rohert Jennings, William Sampson, 
 John Cooper. {Come in together, each hearing some part of the work.) 
 
 Robert Jennings. — {Carrying the pole.) Bright day for the guests, 
 if they come to-day ! 
 
 John Cooper. — Who are to come on the Philanthropist? I hope they'll 
 come to-day, I want to see them. 
 
 Robert Jennings. — {Looking up from his zvork.) Well, they look 
 for our leader, Robert Owen, back, and a letter a week ago said his 
 eldest son, Robert Dale Owen, is coming too. 
 
 William Sampson. — Some one told me there was no naming of the 
 scientists, and artists, and musicians, and inventors, and teachers 
 coming on the boat, and that the boat was already called the "Boat 
 Load of Knowledge." 
 
 John Cooper. — I like the name "Boat Load of Knowledge." 
 
 Robert Jennings. — Yes, "Boat Load of Knowledge" is very suitable 
 for such a cargo of learning as it carries. 
 
 John Cooper. — The maypole will soon be up. Are the children ready? 
 
 William Sampson. — You may be sure that the children will be on 
 hand when anything is to be done ! They'll enjoy it greatly!
 
 BOOKOFWORDS 39 
 
 Robert Jennings. — (As the maypole is finished.) Listen! (All 
 stop.) Just finished in time! Hear that shout! (Heard in the 
 distance.) "The boat has come!" "The Boat Load of Knowl- 
 edge !" "The Boat Load of Knowledge !" 
 
 John Cooper. — Let's go see. (All pick up tools and go out the middle 
 door.) 
 
 Music is heard and the children are seen with baskets of flowers 
 or leaves in their hands, strezcing them as they come, for the visitors to 
 walk on. Children diz'ide and form in two lines hetzveen zvhich the vis- 
 itors pass. The visitors are as follozcs: 
 
 BOAT LOAD OF KNOWLEDGE 
 
 Robert Owen, founder of the community. 
 
 Robert Dale Owen, eldest son, statesman and author. 
 
 William Maclure, geologist, philanthropist, educator. 
 
 Thomas Say, scientific author, father of American zoology. 
 
 Charles Alexander Lesueur, naturalist, artist. 
 
 Dr. Gerard Troost, Holland geologist, mineralogist. 
 
 William Phiquepal d'Arusmont, teacher of mathematics and music. 
 
 Frances Wright, lecturer and editor, with sister, 
 
 Mme. Marie D. Fretageot, teacher, IMaclure's agent. 
 
 A. E. Fretageot, her son, pupil of Phiquepal. 
 
 Samuel Chase, chemist. 
 
 Mrs. Chase, artist and musician. 
 
 Oliver Evans, Jr., son of the inventor. Plow factory. 
 
 John Beal, wife and daughter. Mr. Beal a teacher. 
 
 Peter Duclos, nephew of Mme. Fretageot, scenic art. 
 
 Victor Duclos, nephew of ]\Ime. Fretageot, pupil of Phiquepal. 
 
 Virginia Du Palais, married William Augustus Twigg. 
 
 Victor Du Palais, brother of V^irginia. 
 
 Cornelius Tiebout, engraver and printer, with daughter. 
 
 John Speaman and family, one of the founders of the Academy of 
 
 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
 Captain McDonald, Lord of the Isles, friend of Owen. 
 Miss Lucy Sistaire (and two sisters), artist, married Thomas Say. 
 Allen Ward, pupil, afterwards teacher. 
 Mark Penrose, pupil in the school of industry.
 
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 Balthazar, a Swiss artist. 
 Amadie Dufor, pupil of Phiquepal. 
 Charles Falque, pupil of Phiquepal. 
 
 Name of the boat, "Philanthropist." 
 Arrived January 26, 1826. 
 
 William Pelham. — {Stepping to the front.) 
 
 I now do welcome Robert Owen back 
 
 The time has heavy hung with him away. 
 
 I welcome also Robert Dale, his son, 
 
 And in the name of this community 
 
 I greet all guests that made what we now call. 
 
 Boat Load of Knowledge, from its cargo rare. 
 
 Will not our leader give us now a word? 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 Right glad am I to be with you again. 
 
 My thoughts have in my absence turned to you 
 
 And to the work that now before us lies. 
 
 {Points to son) 
 My son has come to aid us in all things 
 And these wise persons here though strangers now 
 Will through their science, music, art and power. 
 To teach and lead and make of this a place 
 Where all may find help in what most he likes. 
 Thomas Palmer. — 
 
 Now for the children, let me greet you all. 
 They have for you a Maypole dance prepared 
 In honor of our leader and his son. 
 And others new to our community. 
 
 Children dance around the maypole — guests look on with pleased 
 faces. When children are through they chasse out the center door. 
 The guests shake hands and also go out through the center door. 
 
 SCENE in. A VISIT TO THE OWEN SCHOOL, 1826 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Ho ye ! Ho ye ! School time is now at hand ! 
 The Owen school now calls its children in ! 
 Here education is the need supreme ; 
 From infancy to youth, no pains are spared 
 To train and shape the young for useful life. 
 Where hand and eye and brain together work.
 
 William jNIaclure
 
 BOOK OFWORDS 41 
 
 Teachers. — Joseph Neef, head master and linguist; Mrs. Neef and 
 Madam Fretageot, teachers of the infant school ; Phiquepal d'Arus- 
 mont, mathematics and music; Thomas Say, science (zoology); 
 Alexander Lesueur, natural science and drawing; Cornelius Tie- 
 bout, engraver and printer ; John Beal, cabinet maker. 
 
 Pupils. — Members of the community's children. 
 
 (Members of the industrial class follow their teacher and take down 
 their tools for work at the carpenter's bench.) 
 
 Head Master Neef. — 
 
 All ready for work! {pupils are standing by their posts.) 
 
 To-day there will no new thing be commenced, 
 
 Our time we'll give to finishing our work. 
 
 To-morrow the keen-eyed inspector comes 
 
 To look upon the progress here we've made. 
 
 Now hold up each the piece that's nearest done. 
 
 Each pupil holds up the piece as commanded; no tzvo alike. 
 
 {Next enters the class in natural history. Pupils bear in hands 
 baskets of plants; some bringing shells from the cabinet; others stones 
 from the community. All placing zvhat they bring on a table in the 
 middle of the stage for the purpose. Thomas Say and Lesueur are 
 there. ) 
 
 Thomas Say. — 
 
 Well done ! Fine specimens you bring to-day ! 
 One trip with such a find lasts many days, 
 Put by your trophies with the greatest care 
 
 The Owen School. — To William Maclure, scientist and philanthropist, was 
 entrusted the educational department of the Owen Community. He was one of 
 the earhest champions of industrial schools. He founded a library at New 
 Harmony that has lived and flourished through seventy-six years, and is now 
 one of the best in the state. In accordance with his will, 160 libraries were 
 established in Indiana and Illinois. In 1826 the industrial department of the 
 Owen school in New Harmony were printing books that would be a credit to 
 any vocational school now in the country. They also did splendid bench work 
 and learned blacksmithing and other industries which this generation is now 
 coming to. The sciences of botany, geology and nature study received great 
 attention. The school was taught by teachers trained in Europe, men and 
 women of experience and culture brought here by William Maclure. In the 
 museum at New Harmony are to be seen the rollers of the printing press used 
 in the Owen school and mathematical and arithmetical instruments that show 
 the advanced ideas of the educators in the New Harmony experiment. Robert 
 Owen's idea of the infant school tried in Scotland was begun here. This was 
 twenty-one years before Froebel began the Kindergarten movement, and forms 
 great contrast with other attempts at education in bodies of social effort.
 
 42 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 That they be kept for other lesson's use ; 
 To-day the drawing master claims your time 
 And by close observation of the whole 
 Thus drawing well our specimen entire 
 The separate parts are easily understood. 
 
 The pupils make the putting aicay of their specimens a feature of 
 the action. 
 
 {While all the other classes are busily absorbed in their ivork the 
 Infant class enters, accompanied by Mrs. Neef and Madam Fretageot. 
 One of the teachers at the piano as they march in and go to the 
 infant table at the side of the stage opposite the industrial zvork. The 
 number frames of the Ozven time are to be used for a little count- 
 ing exercise and there zvill be a dance and some little game.) Teachers 
 are very informal; the children calling Madam Fretageot "Mother." 
 
 Visitors to the school, Robert Owen, William Maclure, Frances 
 Wright, Robert Dale Owen, Josiah Warren. 
 
 William AIaclure. — {To Head Master Neef.) Have the children 
 seen Robert Owen here since his return? {Upon being anszvered 
 no,) 
 
 Now listen all to what our leader says. 
 
 He comes with pleasure here our work to see. 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 I have not time to look at all the work 
 
 Here carried on to-day ; but pleased I am 
 
 To see so many gathered at their tasks 
 
 In working out our system in each line 
 
 That trains the hand and eye and brain at once. 
 
 Frances Wright. — 
 
 I do rejoice to see both boys and girls 
 Together work in learning useful things 
 And when to adult life they come no bar 
 Shall separate their tasks ; but they shall still 
 As equals be to shape and make the laws. 
 
 William Maclure. — {Going to the printing case.) 
 No implement of life exceeds the press, 
 It is the school and teacher of mankind. 
 
 {Pointing to a pupil.) 
 Bring the Disseminator here and show 
 What work this school can do in printing books. 
 
 {Addressing visitors.)
 
 BOOKOFWORDS 43 
 
 Look now at this and see the workmanship 
 Our schoolboys here are doing day by day, 
 In making books to last a hundred years. 
 
 Robert Owen. — 
 
 This justifies the system that we teach 
 
 In useful arts for all the needs of life, 
 
 To print and publish in this school such books. 
 
 Frances Wright. — Do you not send the books out from this place? 
 
 William Maclure. — 
 
 We send our wagon out with good books filled 
 And knowledge we diffuse by carrying it. 
 
 Robert Dale Owen. — 
 
 One day, I prophesy, your work will grow 
 Into a travelling library through the land. 
 
 Frances Wright. — 
 
 That is indeed what I should call it now. 
 What papers have you in New Harmony? 
 
 William AIaclure. — 
 
 New Harmony Gazette is our town's boast 
 
 We use it as a reader in the school. 
 
 Come forward, John, and read from the Gazette. 
 
 John. — (Coming forzvard.) What matter is it that you wish to hear? 
 William jMaclure. — Read heading first and then what you select. 
 
 John. — "If we cannot reconcile all opinions, let us endeavor to unite 
 all hearts." 
 
 Fifty-first year 
 
 of 
 
 Political Independence. 
 
 First year of 
 Mental Independence. 
 
 News Item. William Maclure will give a prize of $200 for the best 
 essay upon the subject, "The Value of Education." 
 
 Frances Wright. — Good. (Turning to William Maclurc.) Read 
 more, John. 
 
 John. — "New View of Society," by Robert Owen, just published and 
 for sale at the New Harmony store. 
 
 At the celebration of the National Jubilee, at Marietta, Ohio, among 
 the set toasts was the following :
 
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 "Woman. — May the experiment about being tried in New Har- 
 mony, of the same intellectual cultivation of the sexes, prove that 
 woman's mental capacity is equal to that of men." 
 
 Frances Wright. — I am pleased to hear that our experiment is of 
 interest to our neighbors. 
 
 Madam Fretageot. — (Coming forn'ord, greeting them.) Gentlemen, 
 may I ask you to see the infant school before they go out? {All go 
 over to the other side and see the school count, then dance, when 
 they march out of the room through the middle door of the stage.) 
 {Pointing to the pictures on the zi'all.) My children learn a great 
 deal by pictures. (Turning to a cabinet.) Mr. Lesueur is prepar- 
 ing a cabinet of mineralogy for my pupils. They love him dearly. 
 
 Robert Owex. — 
 
 At nothing do I feel a greater joy 
 
 Than in delight that children's fancy holds. 
 
 You wisely let them march from view, 
 
 They ought not be confined to tasks so young. 
 
 William Maclure. — 
 
 You see not all to-day we here do teach. 
 Each master his appointed time does take 
 For higher mathematics, art or music. 
 And thus all blend in one harmonious whole. 
 No faculty shall dormant lie with us. 
 
 JosiAH Warren. — (Coming in.) We have our band to-day. Would 
 you like to hear the music of our men? 
 
 William ^Maclure. — 
 
 Josiah Warren, leader of our band, 
 Will entertainment give us now outside. 
 Shall we not follow him and hear him play? 
 
 A^eef has boys put away their tools and all the school go out. Fol- 
 lowing them are the guests, and the music is heard outside. 
 
 SCENE IV. A SOCIAL EVENING IN THE OWEN 
 COMMUNITY 
 
 Note. This is a dress parade in the costumes of the Ozi'cnite time 
 and the main feature is the impersonation of the noted visitors and 
 members of the community. There is no fixed conversation but panto- 
 mime of it. The participants mingle through the company witJi the 
 slowness and ease of gentle manners, and bozu and motion the lips as 
 if in talk. One main aim is so to arrange it. that each person will zcalk
 
 Frances ^^'KIGHT
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 
 
 45 
 
 across the stage before the audience at least once during the mingling 
 time. After a while the music will begin, then the trumpeter shouts, 
 "On zvith the dance/' and those in the minuet gather toward the middle 
 of the stage and the others form in picturesque groups for a back- 
 ground for the dancers. These persons help to center all interest in 
 the dance. At the end of the minuet, the dancers lead the grand march 
 from the stage and the onlookers follow in pairs after them, going 
 zvith ivhomever they are by at the time. 
 
 The object of this scene is to bring out the social characteristics of 
 the Oiven community. The minuet is very stately and should give the 
 audience the impression that the dancers are to tlie manner born. 
 
 FINALE 
 
 GRAND REVIEW OF THE PAGEANT 
 
 TRUMPETER 
 
 Give ye heed ! The school children's Pageant now draws to a close ! 
 There will be a grand review of the persons as they march by. You 
 will first hear the song, "New Harmony," sung with the music of the 
 band. 
 
 NEW HARMONY 
 
 A Centennial Tribute 
 
 Music by Mr. Fritz Krull 
 
 Good Father Rapp and worthy band from far across the sea, 
 First made their home in Penn's fair land and thence in "Harmonic" ; 
 Here primal forests dense were felled and happy homes sprang up, 
 And waving grain and garnered store till increase filled the cup. 
 But prosperous life could not restrain from mem'ries of the place 
 Where first they came to cast their lot with Freedom's new-born race ; 
 So from their homes and fertile lands and gardens fair to see. 
 They back to Pennland took their way leaving dear "Harmonic." 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Hail ! all hail ! to the fathers so true ! 
 
 Their mem'ries we bless for what they dared do. 
 
 Rich thanks do we bring ; glad songs do we sing 
 
 And rich homage pay on this jubilant day 
 
 To the fathers so true, for what they dared do, 
 
 Outlasting a century just passed away! 
 
 All honor to them on this jubilant day!
 
 46 
 
 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 From Scotia's realm the Owen group came to fair "Harmonie" 
 Where Rappite homes and fertile lands and gardens fair to see, 
 All greeted them as fitting place to live their dreams so grand, 
 For bettering the human race in this great Western land. 
 Large souls who came from ev'ry part to learn the Master's thought, 
 Here from him gained his ideas new and inspiration caught. 
 To Robert Owen and his band, our debt is vast to-day ; 
 True pioneers in progress they to reach a better way. 
 Chorus 
 
 From Harmonic her founders wise, have long since passed away ; 
 But they have left a shining light in which we walk to-day. 
 Who meet to mark a hundred years since here they first began 
 Their noble effort to uplift the entire life of man. 
 Sacred this spot to every soul that sees with forward look 
 And values all the good there is in life as well as book. 
 Thrice sacred spot ! to those who read the meaning clear and true 
 Of knowledge, love and will in man, that works the power to do ! 
 Chorus 
 
 As the pageant ends, the band plays America and the entire audi- 
 ence joins in the singing. Band continues to play other selections till 
 the company is dispersed. 
 
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
 
 I take this opportunity to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. 
 George B. Lockwood for the free use of his book, "The New Harmony 
 Communities," and to the Journal of William Owen, written at the 
 time the New Harmony settlements were being made, along with the 
 other invaluable books in the New Harmony library which have been 
 so kindly put in my hands by the librarian, Mrs. Nora Fretageot. 
 
 I am further indebted to the kind friends in New Harmony for 
 their generous consideration in helping to make the school children's 
 pageant a success. My gratitude to Mrs. Corinne Barcus for the 
 music to the stanza of the Fjoston Hymn, and to Mr. Fritz Krull for 
 the music to the Centennial Tribute will be lasting. 
 
 PAGEANT COMMITTEES 
 
 Assistant Directors 
 
 Introduction— Mrs. Charles K. Cox 
 Pioneer Episode — Miss Louise Husband 
 Rapp Episode— Mrs. Emma M. Wolfe 
 Owen Episode— Mrs. D. W. Donald 
 Review of the Pageant— W. B. Mum- 
 ford. 
 
 Games 
 
 Miss Caroline C. Pelham 
 Miss Sophia Miesel 
 Miss Lena Heuring 
 Miss Goldie V. Brill 
 Mr. G. U. Hargitt
 
 BOOK OF WORDS 
 
 47 
 
 PAGEANT COMMITTEES—Contmue^ 
 
 Chairman of the Committees 
 
 Cast— Miss Bertha E. Cox 
 Costumes— Mrs. Helen Chadwick 
 Music— Miss Geraldine Pote and 
 
 Mrs. George L. Ford 
 Stage Properties— Mr. Will Chaffin 
 
 Posters— Mrs. George L. Ford and Rose 
 
 Linxwiler 
 Publicity— Mr. Court Corbin 
 Reception— Mr. J. W. Hiatt 
 
 Advisory Committee 
 Governor Samuel Ralston VV. V. Mangrum 
 Charles Greathouse Meredith Nicholson 
 
 Y^^^J.S^ ^- Lockwood Booth Tarkington 
 
 Wilham Lowe Bryan Mrs. Julia Fried Walker 
 
 Logan Esary Mrs. Eugene F. Owen 
 
 Mrs. Bella Golden 
 Mrs. Elisa L. Ford 
 Mrs. Phoebe Stoker Elliott 
 Miss Anna Birbeck Ford 
 
 CHIEF TRUMPETER-MR. ROBERT CHAFFIN 
 
 NEW HARMONY SCHOOL CHILDREN 
 PRESENTING THE PAGEANT 
 
 Primary Grades 
 Dalton Anderson 
 Delia Anderson 
 Margaret Armstrong 
 Elmer Axton 
 Elwood Axton 
 Leslie Axton 
 Ruth Axton 
 Everett Axton 
 William Benton 
 Elbert Burrows 
 Mary Louise Burrows 
 Russell Burrows 
 Elizabeth Bruce 
 Priscilla Bruce 
 Gladys Chafifin 
 Goldie Clayton 
 Joseph Colgate 
 Joseph Conrad 
 Fannie Cox 
 Mary Cox 
 Stella Crackels 
 Anna Davis 
 Ina Davis 
 Maurice Davis 
 Denzill Dunbar 
 Frank Eaton 
 Helen Endicott 
 Lloyd Fettinger 
 Georgia Fischer 
 Robert Franklin 
 Theodore Frayser 
 Chester Freeman 
 
 Genevieve Freeman 
 Gordon Freeman 
 Guy Freeman 
 Mary Fretageot 
 Copeland Garris 
 Joseph Garris 
 Alfred Gentry 
 Mary Given 
 Charles Givens 
 Beulah Goodman 
 Margie Goodman 
 Julia Green 
 Charles Gregory 
 Viola Gregory 
 Camilla Harvey 
 Fannie Heckman 
 Francis Heckman 
 Ivan Hinderliter 
 Paul Hobby 
 
 Eloise Hopson 
 
 Herschell Holland 
 
 Lena Holland 
 
 Elmer Holies 
 
 Genevieve Hollis 
 
 George Horton 
 
 Lavona HufF 
 
 Harold Hugo 
 
 Edgar Hunter 
 
 Genevieve Hurd 
 
 Gerald Hurd 
 
 Maurice Hurd 
 
 Richard Hurd 
 
 Mabel Johnson 
 
 Richard Johnson 
 Mabel Jones 
 Charles Kemmerling 
 Gennie Kemmerling 
 Helen Kramer 
 Helen Kuykendall 
 Herbert Lane 
 Paulinees Lawless 
 Harry Linville 
 Joseph Loehr 
 Robert Loehr 
 John Mangrum 
 Beulah Marshall 
 Dora Marshall 
 Sylvester Marshall 
 Louis Matler 
 Nellie McCoy 
 Chester Morris 
 Roy Morris 
 Nora Moutrey 
 Robert Moutrey 
 Gladys Mynatt 
 Gussie O'Neel 
 Raymond Nelson 
 Sarah Nelson 
 Neva Nickens 
 Lena Owens 
 Malcom Owens 
 Horace Parker 
 Aleta Pelt 
 Fred Pendle 
 Georgia Perry 
 Lillie Petty
 
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 HISTORICAL PAGEANT 
 
 SCHOOL CHILDREN— Co«//««if^ 
 
 Percy Petty- 
 Lena Pevens 
 Neva Pickens 
 Dorothy Pool 
 Orum Rawlings 
 Arthur Rutledge 
 Elsie Rtitledge 
 Roy Sanders 
 Floyd Schaflfer 
 Frances Shephard 
 John Shephard 
 Rosana Shephard 
 Lilian Smith 
 Nora Smith 
 Dale Stallings 
 Henrietta Stanley 
 Worth Stanley 
 Eloise Stone 
 Geraldine Stone 
 Delia Strickland 
 Irene Voliva 
 May Voliva 
 Aline Wade 
 Chelsia Wade 
 Pearl Wade 
 Arthur Watson 
 Elbert Watson 
 Ellolee Welchance 
 Paul Welchance 
 Thelma Welchance 
 Oma White 
 Irma Whitehead 
 Ellen Wiggins 
 Fern Wiggins 
 Fred Wiggins 
 Ercell Willy 
 Menzie Worley 
 Walter Worley 
 John Wright 
 Elizabeth York 
 
 Grammar Grades 
 
 Robert Alsop 
 Bennie Anderson 
 Catherine Anderson 
 Clara Anderson 
 Richard Anderson 
 Mildred Arman 
 Maurice Armstrong 
 Dorothy Axton 
 Eugenia Pjailey 
 Jeanette Bailey 
 
 Copeland Baldwin 
 Lena Baldwin 
 Aline Bluff 
 Tvarene Burgett 
 Elzada Burrows 
 Marie Cain 
 John Carr 
 Presley Carr 
 Lela Cato 
 Ruth Cato 
 Harold Chaffin 
 Roy Clayton 
 Hester Collins 
 Lucile Conrad 
 Ethel Cox 
 Lonnie Cox 
 Mary Cox 
 Wallace Cox 
 Vincent Crabb 
 Vera Davis 
 Bessie Denbo 
 Joseph Denninger 
 Rosa Denninger 
 John Donald 
 Frank Egler 
 Geraldine Endicott 
 Ralph Endicott 
 Edna Freeman 
 Ethel Freeman 
 Garris Freeman 
 Paul Freeman 
 Roy Freeman 
 Walter Finnel 
 Lydia Frieg 
 Maxwell Garris 
 Martin Greve 
 Malcolm Hancock 
 Kenneth Hayden 
 Albert Heckman 
 Eloise Hedge 
 Elsie Hempfling 
 Marie Holmes 
 Anna Horton 
 Margie Huff 
 Herbert Hugo 
 Menzie Kemmerling 
 Winfred Lance 
 Merrill Mann 
 Inez Martin 
 Viola Martin 
 Stanley Mitchell 
 Herbert Moore 
 
 Iva Moutray 
 Jessie Moutray 
 Erma Nick ens 
 Vern Nickens 
 MilfordO'Neel 
 Ethel Oxford 
 Charlie Pendle 
 Maude Pendle 
 Naomi Rawlings 
 Arvis Smith 
 Donald Smith 
 Helen Smith 
 Orvall Smith 
 Etta Stallings 
 Marcella Stallings 
 Ralph Stanley 
 Carl Stephens 
 Elsie Stephens 
 Joseph Stockert 
 Frederick Stockert 
 Bessie Streamer 
 Etna Streamer 
 Nellie Strickland 
 Ernest Sundermeier 
 Pearl Volvia 
 Andrew Vandaveer 
 Bertha Wade 
 Mary Wade 
 William Wade 
 Elsie Watson 
 Winston Welchance 
 Edwin Willv 
 Hugh White 
 Mina White 
 Martha Whitehead 
 Maurice Whitehead 
 Alfred Wright 
 Rov Wright 
 Paul York 
 
 High ScJwol 
 
 Bunell Alsop 
 Leora Armstrong 
 Mary Bailey 
 Ellwood Burrows 
 Robert Chaffin 
 Mildred Collins 
 Eunice Cox 
 Margaret Cox 
 Raymond Cox 
 Margaret Crabb 
 
 George Dinger 
 
 Dorothy Donald 
 Mildred Donald 
 Agnes Drinkwater 
 Ruth Elliott 
 Mabel Endicott 
 Harold Frazier 
 Bertha Freeman 
 Noah Fifer 
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