New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-20
Practical Organization Of Association.

The EDWIcF.
We gave in our last article general description
Of the Edihce or Residence Of an Association
Many persons are apt to imagine that If two thou
sand people inhabt one vast EdiGoc, the lndi-
yidual Will be mingled WITH and merged in the
Mas.,-so that domestic privacy and retirement
will be destroyed, and personal Liberty ard inde-
pendesce done away with. This Is very great
error as we will show. Individual Liberty ana
domestic privacy are fully secured in Association
combined with all the advantages of agreeable ana
varied Social Relations, the enjoyment Of the ATS
and Sciences. and the healthy occupations OF Al
tractive Industry.
Let us ask Cannot person who has the means
of taking suit of rooms in the Astor House or an!
Other very extensive Hotel, and who can dine IN il'
own apartment, or at the public tables, as he may
wish. live as privately as he desire, and ENJOY
the pleasures of domestic life j. not such mode
of life far superior to the manner IN when hin'-
tenths of those who are well off now live and mn
nitclv superior to inhabins solitary lighthouse like
our farmers. or a confined city tenement without
circulation of air, like our mechanlcs-in both o'
which the parlor and kitchen are often one n
loubedly and the proof Is that people 81 'a'''
and rcfincmcn, live in this way.
The Residence Of an Association would be m
fnite, more pleasing and comfortable than that OF
the largest and best managed hotels the tdIiice
would be situated in the centre of an extensive
and beautiful Domain, with parks and gardens
Immediately surrounding 1t on leavin. It, the III
habitants would be at once in the gardens, amidst
the freshness and lovenes, of Nature.
Hotels are noisy; they occupied principally
by men; there are smoking and drinking and the
people who reside in them are without occupation
and are idle, so that tone pervades them that Is
most disagrceablc; besides, they are entirely I'M
fitted for children.
In Associations on the contrary, order and quiet
will be maintained in those parts OF the building
appropriated to the private residences; the varied
and pleasing pursuits of Attractive Industry, ana
the Art. and Sciences will occupy the time OF the
inhabitants; the children will be useiully employed
and will be provided with the eet range for health
ul sports and pleasures, that they Will occasion
no disturbance. All these things will give Asso-
citation a charm which our isolated households do
not in the least possess
We see persons of rank and fortune having suits
of roems in W ndsor Castle or the Palace OF the
ruillerie, can they not live privately in them,
a. il they had separate houses! Undoubtedly SUN
there is large number of persons inhabltlng these
ediiices The same system will exist in Associations
. nerson will have his residence TO himself; hc can
live as he ishes,-eaiing IN The large bahquei-
balls.-in the small rooms adjoining, with groups
of trieuds.-or in his own roons: hc can invite or
be invited, and vary hi. company as often as the
desire may dictate.
We know that the possession ot private iesi-
dcncc or apartments by one. self, where We can
be alonc,-or with our famiies.-or with friends
whom we choose te invite, i. = want and desire OF
our nature which must be satisfied Association
will respect and satisfy it fully But tins want eN
.,. in the heart of the Poor Man well as IN tie
hear, &C the Rich. Now, as We are aboiing for the
elevation and happiness o ail,--hot oil i'N"re"
few. we wish to guarantee to erery 6ei"s the'e
privileges and enioynents. Association VIII 40
this also: with it, general economies,-'t' system
of Attractive Industry and other means oi increasing
pr. duction.-wth the iudicious application OF the
labor of women and children, who now produce
nothing it will give to every person private resi-
drnce. AVID add to the calmer Measures OF domestic
EC. tho charms of extended and varied Social ne
lations. We often hear it remarked by Preludlced
minds, that the Edificc OF an Association wou'd DE-
A great poor-house. In answcr,we have only to 'a!
thai the domestic animal, of Association would De
infinitely better lodged than are the LaOo'i"s
Glasses in our Societies.
Let u. explain how the private apartments would
be arranged and distributed in Association we
not must suppose that there would be uniformly
| and tha, all would be of one prize and one SIZE
ON the contrary they would vary greatly IN So,n
,b-se r,.pects There would be rooms TOR single
persons. and suits of rooms for families varying III
price. say from thirty five hundred dollars rent
per annum. The humblest indi'idudl II "''o
| CATION would possess parlor, with an a!co'c "
/ ,ide.room for a bed. Families would have 'u'S
Of apartments, consisting sf draw ing-rooms' sleep
;.groom.. &C. suited to tue tastes and fortunes oil
| people. IL.
TIA, private apartments would be separated by
division walls, as are houses in oar cities "inci,
now touch each other. Tie outside doors, instead
of opcujns upon dirty street at present wouid
omen upon large and elegant gallery, when we
de.cribed in our last article, and through "h''i
people could 60 to all parts of the Ediiir "''nII'
exposure to the heat OF the sun the Wet or 'c COM,
The windows Of the private residences WOMB
look out upon beautiful fields and gardens en-,
yened BY gay groups Of workmen,-and not d ' al
present upon back yards, where the private o'Ia'
nations of flmile. are seen, upon dirty OF m'dI!
.,r,e,s-,he ear stunned by rafting carts or '''V
screams IF street vendors, and the sense OF 'iliei
offended by sinking CUTTERS, where all the "''
and ,lops Of a city arc thrown u
Persons wishing To live very quietly and rct'red!
could take rooms in ono OF the wings OF the l.dli'T
those who desired to be more in the centre oil pun