The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

THE DONSIDE FACTORIES.

A plan has been recently adopted at the large fac-
tories on the Don, near Aberdeen, employing from
2,000 to 3,000 people, of supplying them with break.
:'ast and dinner on the premises, and it is found to
answer remarkably well, both as regards the work-
.,eople and their employers. The plan, as carried
nit at Messrs. Leys, Mason, and Co.'s, at Grand.
holm, is as follows, and the arrangements at the
other factories are almost precisely similar :—ln
he cooking department, to which a supply of
spring water is led in by pipes, there is for
soup a boiler of 120 gallons, and for coffee one of 70
gallons, and hot table ; and attached to the kitchen
are six rooms fitted up with benches and fireplaces
in each, affording accommodation for above 400 per-
ions when taking their meals. The breakfast con •
slits of a roll of bread, of 6+ ounces in weight, of
mixed or whole flour of the hest quality, and a mea-
‘ure of coffee, of one-tenth part of an imperial
vallon. For one gallon of coffee there is appropriated
oz. of coffee, 3 gallons of milk, 10 oz. of golden
syrup ; and to every 30 gallons of coffee one-half
ounce of ground cassia is added, which gives the coffee
an agreeable flavour. Dinner consists of barley broth
and bread, or pease soup and bread; either one-sixth
of an imperial gallon of barley broth, with a roll of
bread weighing six ounces and three quarters, or one-
sixth of an imperial gallon of pease soup, and a roll of
bread weighing six and one-fourth ounce. For SO
gallons of barley broth there is appropriated 431 b. good
butcher's meat, 281 b. barley, .51b. pease ; vegetables
—turnips, carrots, leeks, to the value of 2s. or
2s. 6d. For 50 gallons of pease soup, 22 lb. pease, 12
lb. butcher's meat, with the reserved bones from the
l)arley broth, together with vegetables—say carrots,
turnips, celery, thyme, and an ounce of ground cas-
sia. After the soup is boiled, there is added, to im-
prove its consistency, two or three quartern loaves,
cut up into slices and browned. Breakfast and
dinner, including bread, charge 14d. each. The meals
are served in exchange for printed tickets, of which there
are two sets—one for breakfast, and the other
for dinner. Each department in the work has a
number of these tickets appropriated, having the
number of the department on each. Returns of the
number of persons in each department who order break-
fast and dinner for the following day are given in to
the superintendent of the kitchen every day at twelve
o'clock, in order to the preparation of the
quantity necessary to supply them. Any surplus
there may be is inquired after, and bought for domes-
tic use by any person who may wish it. The over-
seers of the respective departments, having a list of the
names of those who have been supplied with meals
during the week, render accounts at the end thereof
to the superintendent of the kitchen. The cooking
part of the kitchen is railed off, leaving a passage for
those receiving meals, who enter at one door, and, on
being served, pass out at another door, or go into,
the sitting rooms. There are two cooks, a man and
a woman, in constant attendance ; and besides these,
there are two of the overseers of the works who
Assist by rotation during the time of serving out
the meals. Four hundred people can be served in
twenty minutes. The provisions are all of good
quality, bought at wholesale prices. The institution
is a self-supporting one. Messrs. Leys, Mason, and
admirably in
well
which
Co., much to their credit, supply the fuel gratis, as
as the house, furniture, and cooking apparatus.
The above plan which has been found to answer so
, cons
practice, originated in the hardships
werethe experienced by workers who had to
travel tofactories from a distance of one or more
a piece of dry
miles, and who,
losfccourse had to bring their provisions
and no means of gettianktgoe.
with them
very often of nothing else than
of at
azpore nourishing diet, the-
Having no house to go to,
much in bodily health and this state`of matters suffered
poor people subjected
••xhausted before the lobo strengthne.f being often quite
to a @eat extent obviated
These consequences, so injurious alikei day
to the employer
were over.
fallen upon.
and employed, have been
by the plan which has thus been happily
—Christian News.

AIIE NELSON MONUMENT AT YARMOUTH. the
Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday last we read the follow_
ing:—" There is every probability that the Nelson
Monument at Yarmouth will be handed over to the
Trinity Board, and converted into a lighthouse." We
feel fully warranted in saying that so far as the corpo-
ration of Yarmouth is concerned no such intention
exists. It is true the Trinity Board would accept
nothing less than an unconditional surrender of it,
which the Town Council, at their last meeting, po-
sitively refused to accede to.—Cumbridge Advertiser.
ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—LIVERFOOL, TUESDAY.—
The Camilla, Captain lbw, which arrived in the Mersey
yesterday from Callao, has brought upwards of 200,000
dollars in specie
Prince Albert, du •
ng Claremont last week...., found the stay of the Court at
the game more abundant
ttahata, n
butus there
Qtrhe yrere_.
i;dthe pheasants were not only plen-
vis 414.1244110 e 0 woodcock.