Harris-Ingram Experiment
Charles E. Bolton
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THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
By CHARLES E. BOLTON, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "A MODEL VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS," "TRAVELS IN EUROPE ANDAMERICA," ETC.
CLEVELAND
THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY
1905
TO MY WIFESARAH KNOWLES BOLTONAND MY SONCHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON
INTRODUCTION
This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23,1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, hestrove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He hadalways been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners athis funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should beconciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendlymanner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent.
Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is acomfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and OtherPapers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hopedafter finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times andbeen in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, totake a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way.
Sarah K. Bolton
Cleveland, Ohio.
PREFACE
Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County,Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience onebook.
I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written ascore of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a bookyourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief, and stimulated by the acceptedchallenge of my friend, to whom I promised a completed book in twelvemonths, I found time during a very busy year to pencil the chapters thatfollow. Most of the book was written while waiting at stations, or on thecars, and in hotels, using the spare moments of an eight-months' lectureseason, and the four months at home occupied by business.
I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose. Permitme therefore in advance to admit that this book has a double purpose: Totest the truth of Howells's words as applied to myself; and to describe ajourney, both at home and abroad, which may possibly be enjoyed by thereader, the inconveniences of travel being lessened by incidentallytracing a love story to a strange but perhaps satisfactory conclusion;the whole leading to the evolution of a successful experiment, which infragments is being tried in various parts of the civilized world.
CONTENTS
Chapter IThe Harrises in New York
Chapter IIMr. Hugh Searles of London Arrives
Chapter IIIA Bad Send-off
Chapter IVAboard the S.S. Majestic
Chapter VDiscomfitures at Sea
Chapter VIHalf Awake, Half Asleep
Chapter VIILife at Sea a Kaleidoscope
Chapter VIIIColonel Harris Returns to Harrisville
Chapter IXCapital and Labor in Conference
Chapter XKnowledge is Power
Chapter XIIn Touch with Nature
Chapter XIIThe Strike at Harrisville
Chapter XIIIAnarchy and Results
Chapter XIVColonel Harris Follows his Family Abroad
Chapter XVSafe Passage, and a Happy Reunion
Chapter XVIA Search for Ideas
Chapter XVIIThe Harrises Visit Paris
Chapter XVIIIIn Belgium and Holland
Chapter XIXParis, and the Wedding
Chapter XXAboard the Yacht "Hallena"
Chapter XXITwo Unanswered Letters
Chapter XXIIColonel Harris's Big Blue Envelope
Chapter XXIIIGold Marries Gold
Chapter XXIVThe Magic Band of Beaten Gold
Chapter XXVWorkings of the Harris-Ingram Experiment
Chapter XXVIUnexpected Meetings
Chapter XXVIIThe Crisis
THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
