The New Yorker, August 19, 1939 P. 11
The members of a summer colony up in Massachusetts decided to incorporate, in order to tie up the riparian right to a pond which their lots surround. They chose their corporate name after a nearby range of hills, the Burnt Shirt Hills. Shortly after the information of the Burnt Shirt Colony, Inc., had been entered on the county records, an agent of the State Department of Labor called on the president. "I've come to investigate conditions in your laundry," he said.