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

FACTORIES

THE DONSIDE

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-
fast and dinner on the premises, and it is found to
Answer remarkably well, both as regards the work-
:wople and their employers. The plan, as carried
out 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
the 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-
sons when taking their meals. The breakfast con-
sists of a roll of bread, of 6f ounces in weight, of
mixed or whole flour of the best quality, and a mea-
sure of coffee, of one-tenth part of an imperial
gallon. For one gallon of coffee there is appropriated
31 oz. of coffee, 3 gallons of milk, 10 oz. of golden
syrup ; and to every 20 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 60
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
barley 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 lfd.: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
admirablyhi in
Co., much to their credit, supply the uel gratis, as
travel to the f
,w_ell as the house, furniture, and cooking apparatus.
-Che above plan which has been found to answer so
practice, originated in the hardships
w en were experienced by workers who had to
with them,toriee from a distance of one or more
al
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miles, and who'consioft.course had to bring their provisions
and
strength,
state
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poor people subjected
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and no means of
so injurious alike Having no house to go to,
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—Christian News.

DIE NELSON MONUMENT AT TARMOUTIL-.-In the
Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday last we read the follow-
ing;—" There is every probability that the Nelson
Vlonument at Yarmouth will be handed over to the
Crinity Board, and converted into a lighthouse." we
reel fully warranted in saying that so far as the corpo_
ration of Yarmouth is concerned no such intention
xists. 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.—Cambridge Advertiser.
tARRIVAL OT SPECIE.--LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—
The Camilla, Captain Fow, which arrived in the Mersey
e
day from Callao, has brought upwards of 200,000
dollars in •
specie.
Prince Albert, during
Claremont last week,the stay of the Court at
foundThethe game more abundant
ti.ful,than butlstuatlaetrhe w
there.
vipheasants were not only plea-
as Abudwucc of woodcock.