New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-21
Practical Organization Of Association.

OIL
1HG EDIFIcF.
We showed in our last article that the privac,
Of the domestic life would be fully preserved II
Association. Families would have their suits 81
rooms. consisting Of parlor. >leeping-roo'n', aHd'
if wished. libraries, baihin--rooms and oihef
con,enicnce. The private residences would be
separated by division walls. and people would
live q. rctiredly they now do.
We have described the Ediicc Of large ana
opulent Association; for a small Association I"
much palmer. simpler and less expensive tdihce
would be required By describing large Edihce'
the small one will be better understood, a II l.
merely reduction Of IT.
A.. the village OF our civilized Societies las re-
placed the wigwams of the savage horde, 80 the
Fdifcc Of an Association will replace the confused
mass of isolated houses which compose our VII
lagos. In the architecture Of Association ther
viii be nothing arbitrary; it will be based upon
and adaptod TO. the domestic and social relations
,rb;cb s,l, naturally from union of two thousand
persons.
Let US take once more a rapid and general >sr-
vcv of the building of an Association, so az to
brine il a. clearly as can be done by dcscriPuos
before the imagination of the Reader. An Asso-
citation will replace the village or township OF our
present Societies Instead of one or two hundred
farms. poorly cultivated, cut up and divided by
fences and division walls and as many lonely, small
houses scattered over them, the Association would
have n noble Domain, beautifully cultivated. ever
which would be scattered bowers and pavions,
where group. of work mcn would meet after their
work was done and which would serve de-
,osirorics for implements and working dresscs.
In the centre of the highly cultivated grounds
would stand the Edifce in all its architectural
posed Of a spacious centre, from which two wings
would project forward at right angles, leaving n
large square surrounded three sides by ranges
Of buildings, and from these wings two surviving.
would fall of to the right and the left, parallel
with the ccstrsl range.
The Edifcc would be ,hreo stories in hight, and
would rest upon high basement. In the centre
,f the basement would be located the kitchens,
AID .torc-rooms attached to them; in one OF the
wing. would be constructed tho noisy workshops,
and in another the large wash-rooms.
In the first stor, Of the centre OF the Edhce
would be placed the Din,ng-Halls, the Exchange
Library. Counci-Rooms, Lecture Rooms, Caller!
of Arts, &c. The private apartments would &C.
,u,v mart of the first. and the second and third
stories; they would consist OF more or less rooms
and would vary grestly in price. to suit all desire.
Of economy and degrees of fortune person could
select simple parlor with alcove, and from that
nm 10 an extensive suit of rooms.
Around one front Of the Edihcc would WIND a
.pocious Hall or Gallery, from eighteen to twenty
fo,r feet wide il would be placed upon level
with the first story and run the length OF the
b,ild;nu. II would be the public avenue of III"
Association. and would communicate with every
mar, of the Ediice; the entrances 10 the pubic
saloons and private apartments would be from the
Gallery.
The Association would have its public Library
Reo1ing.Rooms Baths and every other con-
ycuienc, which Man would require, and which
,yould he omen TO all If an individual wished hi,
private library or bathing-rooms in his own apart
mcn,s. be could do so by paying for them' lh''c
j. no objection to persons having these con'enences
provided public establishments exist when eN'ehu
the advantages of them to all.
The Edifce would be warmed throughout by
nine, or tubes. running from the kitchen iirr'.
Other tubes would convey cold and warm water
to the bed-rooms,-a convenience which Is no"
enjoyed scarcely in palaces. The building would
re lighted throughout by sas. The Association
would have an apparatus-thc construction OF
which is not at all expcnsivc-tor making H.
Some Theatres now use this apparatus. The tat
and refuse stuff of an oily nature from the kitchens
,youh make gas enough to light the whole Edihce'
The expense would not be onc-tenth part what OIL
and candles now are for three hundred isolated
families. besides the saving Of the trouble OF clean
inr lamps and candlesticks.
The Association would have it, extensive wash
rooms. fitted up with large vats and the pest o'
machinery for the saving Of hired Labor Inc
clothes would be collected, say, once a MONTH
assorted. carried to the washroOms, and put IN
the vats. where, with the aid ct cleansing pro
cc.s used in Switzerland some better one the
cIo,hes could be washed far better than they no"
are. and with very little trouble. The ironing
would be the principal part Of the labor; much oil
il. however, nigh, be done by mangle' and othef
machinery, and forty or fifty women could do the
whole in few mornings work
A. pre.ent. three hundred families must devote
two DAYS every week or two to washing and IRON
inc which amounts, for three hundred families TO
,,,cnv or thirty thousand days. work in the course
Of the wear. Three hundred poor women ma''
,oil a, the washtub, in dirty kitchens and over not
fires. At the most repugnant and disgusting labor
that is now-with one or two eHcePuons-Pe'
formed in our Societies.
In Association. the washing OF two thousand
perso,. could be done with less than thousand
d.y,' work, which would be an economy OF more
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