RECOVERY: Utopians Eastward

WARNING. Please keep the door locked. Strange men, have been seen on the premises. Supt.

Such was the notice which appeared last week in the entry of a remodeled apartment house at No. 23 Barrow st., Manhattan. Men strange to the janitor had indeed been climbing the stairs to visit the new tenants of Apartment 4 C. The visitors were the intelligentsia of Greenwich Village. But the most important visitor the janitor had not seen. His name was Edward Bellamy and he had been dead 36 years.

In 1888 Edward Bellamy, a 38-year-old...