New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-06

there, no busy foot passengers are seen passingto
and fro; only now and then solitary sip-shod
woman, or n vretchedly clad, pae.iaced man,
NAV be seen creeping silently along the deserted
street You enter sort of narrow court where
the sun can scarcely penetrate; you stumble over
loose stones logs oil wood, and heaps OF dung
mass stable doors wide open, old broken vehicles
and barrows in which men and even women are
harnessed like beasts of burden hens and chick
en- wander about under your feet, flies congregate
on patch of sunlight that serves but to show the
filth and misery OF an old boarded shed, the en-
blem of tottering age and poverty
On one side of this court IS perceived ~"
doorway leading to narrow rckety II5n1. Vi
wooden stairs, up which you creep on arrIYln9
at the top you enter small, announcement IOolli1
and find Yourself surrounded by number Oh
pianos, which, for richness of ornament ana ma
teriaI. for elegance of form and s0lidlty OF con
struction. might grace the nobest draWln8-r9oLhs
ne our cities Here in this humble abode, nave
these honest industrious, and 1ndePendeaf "oiA
men built their fortress against the attach9 %
novertv from without. Engaged IN nahuIa AZ:
~ rennires tbe greatest skill taste deli
! cary of touch and considerable knowledge VI
| science these men have neglected nothing 70
make their goods the most perfect OF thelr hlnu'
every new invention is introduced, ana lihPicE ~
1nents are added by themselves so 5LaV tiey -
con,nete with the most celebrated III Tue tiauo1
Ia ttboT, the means to hire warehouse IN some
| fashionable street where they could expose theiT
Goods 10 the best advantage. AS 1t is they holu
second rank and beside their Pans customers
| have considerable export trade we were
| shown pianos, worth t4O or Low OF tae FlcIesI
tome for we had an opportunity OF Judging When
one of the members entered and at the request
| of the gerant sat down and played with great
taste and considerable execution
By the report which have before me, 1t ap-
pears that in December, 1910, they possessed
| capital of more than l6,000L (t640, OF Whlch
about OO0E form a reserve fund, derived from de-
auctions on the salaries of members and the rest
consists of money placed in the funds by tue TWEEN
tv.nine members at 50f each, OF stock, tools, &c
and of nrots obtained since March, 1910, alter de-
Quoting the expenses and labor OF or6anlzatlon'
which involved period OF two uhproqoGtlVe
| months They are paid by the piece, and keep
the Profits for extending their business. Such
result, in so short period, is an evidence OF the
snerior iptelligence with which their affairs have
| been managed and yet this Association is COM
posed entirely Of c0rtlngn1en, not single master
| having Joined Them and when they applied to- the
| Government for portion OF the three millions
voted TO the Associations, they were refused, on
account Of the representations OF the master man
ufactnrers With courageous hearts, however,
| they set to work, some bringing their hive Gor
twenty francs, others their TOOLS some pawn
ing their watches and others their clothes :
aud they went without fire in the winter, drank
no wine, not even on Sundays; lived upon
bread though working so hard and what
was worse than all, they made their child
rem live on it too! Thus they deprived them
selves of every comfort, and even OF the neces.
saries Of life in order to amass the small sum OF
3O0C (tl21 which, with their tools and the say.
ings of the adherents who worked in private es
adjustments, amounted to about l000-a paltry
sum that many young lordling has squandered
in one night in profigacy They hired the mlser-
| BILE rooms ! have descrbedi induced OeneVoIeht
/ lattl hon, Inv thp ua
bic woods on trust made piano, sold It, and
with the price were able to make two others;
! sold them, and made four more; invented ana by
friendly mutual criticism perfected important I'M
proponents in the manufacture OF pianos, Tor
| which tlley have become celebrated that they
have more orders than they are able to accom-
plisb having refused order for iityslX pianos to
| he purchased and one hundred and twenty to be
let on hire and when we visited them had already
engaged more spacious ateliers to which they IN
| tended to remove in q few days Ihey only re-
edthattheirfriend and beneiactor, c1toyen Lou
Is Blame to whom they were indebted for the first
cstablishmentol these associations, was not among
them TO witness the results of his benevolent eX-
ertions Bon jour, citoyenS, said !, and Bon
50l,y cit0Qen," with hearty shake oil the hand,
was the reply. "Ihink OF US when you return to
your country, and tell your countrymen what can
be done by association. Tell Louis Blanc we
never forget him, said one who had been dele
gate at the Luxembourg, and we hope soon to
! see him again among US. Thank you Tor the IL
terest you take in Us, and we trust our enemies
may soon be led by the accounts they read to have
better feelings toward US, J, L. 5.
THE PARKHEAD (England COOPERATIVE
SToRE-The nineteenth anniversary OF the Park
head Cooperative Vctualling Society was held
on the 9th September, when about one hundred
| of the members, with their wives and swcethearts,
sat down to an excellent supper. At the conclu
sion of the repast several of the members de-
lvered interesting addresses on the benefits they
had derived from the society, and on the social
and moral results which might accrue to the
working classes generally if the principle of CO.
operation was more generally acted on. The
sales of this society amount to from II 400 to
{ 600 per quarter, and members, beside being
supplied with cheaper and better provisions, and
shoes, aud various articles of clothing than could
be obtained from other dealers, have an average
permanent stock amounts to $3.50; all profits &C
cumulated above this sum are divided equally
among the members