WEALTH REFUSED. NEW YORK, Aug.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1922, Page 4

WEALTH REFUSED. NEW YORK, Aug.

Sir Charles Garland, an eccentric fc rater undorgradiT'H* or Harvard, whose adventures with a B2o;),000 legacy left to him by Ids father, coupled with Ids curious social theories, brought I im into prominence in recent months, has finally divcstc.l himself of his unwelcome wealth. Mr Garland, who tills a small patch 0 | ground on Pong [si Mid and lives in a small wooden shack, at first refused to accept the legacy on the ground that no one man had the right to possess so much money. Shortly afterwards lie lmd a series of matrimonial troubles which led to his bringing Ins "soul mat.” to live on his farm with his wife and child. Mr Garland now announces that lie has handed the money to a group of thinkers who share his opinions and inhabit Greenwich Village, New York’s Bohemian quarter. They have incorporated themselves as ‘ The American 1 Kund for Public Service.” The liionev, in the words of the newly formed body, will he devoted to promoting "agencies ot public welfare which" ire so new or so experimental that they do not command public supl> Mr Garland’s “soul mate,” Miss 1 : Uian Conrad, a Boston art student, left him recently. He is now hack on i,is farm minus wife, soul mate, and fortune.