New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-18
Practical Organization of Annexation.

Ne pointed out briefly in our last article how
operations should be commenced in establishing an
Association. Our object is to give the Keader n
clear idea of what an Association ia, so that he
NAV have distinct conception of it. In order TO
do so more chectually, let US examine how two
Thousand PERSONS or about three hundred families,
now live, and how they would live i'll Association.
This contrast will show US the difference between
the present system and that which advocate.
Three hundred families require at present three
hundred separate houses. and having three hun
dred separate houses, they must have three hun
dred kitchens,-thrcc hundred kitchen hrcs,-
three hundred women to do the ccoking,-three
hundred set. of cooking utensils, and every thing
else upon the same scale Of division and com
pieation If they are farming families, they must
have three hundred little farms,-three hundred
barns.-tlree hundred teams,-tlree hundred
vcps.-two thousand fences at least, Ne. Nc.
All the work attendant upon the care ct
r,nilv.-such a, cooking, washing marketing
kcepins np fires, &c, must be gone through with
separately aud daily by the three hundred iam-
lies with the same detail As for n large Ass9-
citation except the difference Of scale. The waste
of such Il system Is enormous that II would
scarcely be believed if shown in figures.
Lot ia see how three hundred families, on the
o,ber hand. would live in Association. Instead Of
three hundred Itlc farms, enclosed and cut up by
walls and fences the Association would have II
large and elegant Domain of about six thousand
acres. surrounded with, md divided by. some ex-
tended lines of hedges; instead of three hundred
small houses miscrably constructed IA regards
health. convenience, comfort and economy, it
wond have large and elegant Edfcc, situated
in ,be centre Of its Domain. which would combine
all those advantages; instead of three hundred
dirty little kitchens, where poor hired creatures
drag out their days in round OF rcPuisive work
the Association would have one large and com
modious kitchen. divided of into four or i've com
partuen,s for the different kinds OF cooking.-lhc
whole airy. elegant and fitted up with every con
venience: instead of three hundred kitchen fires
il would have four or five large ones, which could
warm the building BY means of tubes; instead OF
three hundred sets of cooking utensils, II would
have every thing upon large scale, and the best
of machinery calculated in every way to save labor
and facilitate culinary operations instead oil three
hundred women to do the cooking, and VINO must
now be employed every day at it, the Association
would have fifty or sixty experienced cooks who
understood perfectly some department OF cooking
and who would be employed part OF the day for
two OF three DAYS in the week.
Instead of having three hundred teams, as three
hundred farming families now have, and which are
50 expensive, the Association would not require
probably more than fifty or sixty, which would b.
of the finest Kind instead of three hundred barns.
exposed to dampness and rats i, would have three
or four large granarles, with compartments for the
different kinds OF grain Instead of buying all it,
y,ods at rctai,-makins As three hundred iami-
bss now do. twenty oi thirty thousand little pur.
chase. in the course OF year, which give rise TO
=, immense number Of quarrcls and lawsuits, the
Association would buy every thing al wh-lesale.
anil while !, obtained them OF good quality and
frce from alultcration, il would obtain them at
the lowest wholesale cash price. What a source
Of Economy. Wealth, and Unity of Action As'o-
-iation would be
Ii the Reader will bear in mind these coht'a''''
and reflect upon the Others he will be able 10 'o'''
clear idea Of Association: hs will then see tha'
Is no, a complicated and mPracticabe enterl,rtg,
but system which is simple economical ana 'ui'
Of ordor and unity