Miscellany: Association; Or, Principles Of A True Organizati...

We pointed out briefly in our last article how operatlons should be commenced in establishing an AsROciation. Our object is to give the Reader a clear idea of what an Association is, so that he may have a distinct conception of" it. In ortler to do so more eflectually, let us examine how two thousnnd persons, or about three hundred families, now live. and how they would live in Association. This contrast will show us the dilference between the present 6ystem and that which is advocated. Three hundred families require at present three hundred separate houses, and having three hundred separate houses. they must have three hundred kitchens, - three hundred kitchen fires, three hundred wotnen to do the cooking. three hundred set of cooking untensils. and every thing else upon the same scale of división and compli" catión. If they are farming families, they must have three hundred littlo farms,- three hundred barns, - three hundred teams, - three hundred wells, - two thousand fences at least, &c. &c.uu me worK auenaant upon tlie care of a fam ily - such as cooking, washing, marketing, keeping up fires, &c , must be gone through with scparately and riaily by the three hundred "families with the same detail as for a large Association except the diflerence of scale. The waste of such a systern is so enornious that it would scarcely be beheved it shown in figures. Let us see how thtee hundred families, on the other hand, would live in Association. Instead of three hundred Imle farms, enclosed and cut up by walls and fences, the Association would have a large and elegant Domain of about six thousand acres, surrounded with, and divided by. some extended linea of hedges: instead of three hundred small houses, misernbly constructed as regards health, convenience, comfort and economy, it would have a large and elegant Edifice. eituaied in the centre of the Domain, which would combine all those advantages; instead of three Iiundred dirty üttle kitchens, where poor hired creatures drag out their days in a round of repulsivo work, ihc Association would have one large and commodious ktrehen, divided off into lom or live compnrtments for ihe different kinds ol cooking - thé whole, airy, elegant and fitied up with cvery convenience, instead of three hundred kitcrïen fires, it would have four or five large ones, which could warm the building by means of tubes; instead of three hundred set of cooking utenpils, il would have every thing upon a large scale, and thebestmachinerycalculatedin every way to save labor and facilítate culinaryferal „me deparlment of coóS in , EST Wad of buymg all its goods at retail,-S n asthreehundred ramilies now do, twenty r S ' ty thoueand Üttle parchases in the course of ñ year, wh.ch g,ve rise to on immense nuÏLr o qunrrelsand law-suite, the Associaüon Tonld buv eveiy th.ng at Wholesale, and wh.Ic H íbífiíS e', a f f .d q"aI'ty and íree from adultera. ion pr Wh? thCm at í! Iüwe8t olesaíS pnce. What a source of Economy, Wealth and Un. y of Action, Association wouid be! ' dand nffl . W'.U bear '" mind 'hesccontras.s, and reflect upon the others, lte will be ablo tn ormac,earIdeaofAsSociation:howiïïtlcn6: that it ,8 not a comphcated and impractible enterTHE EDIFICE. The Real and Personal Estáte of the Associat.on.-that is is Domain, Edifices. Flocks Manufactures, Implements and Diner" ProS woud be repreaented by Stock dividcd' , o Shares, as are Bank Capital, Railroads and often Steamboats and Manufactories. Persons wouIdownStock accoHing to the amount of Capital wfiïch they invested. By this mcans, indiviclual Property will be maintamed. Ve will now proceed to describe the Edifico leaving the explanaiion of the system of Property Cor anotlier anide. fThe Edihce, outhouscs, and the distiibution of the grounds of an Association. whoso Operations and Industry are regulated by concert and combination, must differ very matenally from the conatruclions of our false Societies,- from their isoated dwellings. which are adapted only to familiesbetween whom very few Social Relations and no combination of Action exist. Instead ofthe confused mass of small houses, which com pose our townsand villn2es and cover our farms and which vie with each other in dirt, ugliness and inconvenience, an Assuciation would build a a regular Edi (ice, conibining ihe highest deree of archuecturr.l beauty and convenience The Ed. fices of Associations will conform, to a o-reat degree, in all countries to one general plan, which 1-ounerhasdeduced from certain natural laws and based upon the wants and requirements of Human INature. but the greatcst variety in btyle and architecture would be adopted, according to thetastes of apeople, locality, clinmte. &c. We will give a general descriptíon, supposing the location to be a favorable one. The building will " tlot be a mere square and oblong, as houses of the present order generally are.- for in Association, all uniformity and monotony would be avoided. It will consist of a doublé row of edifices encirding court-yards, distributed in a centre, wiiigs and sub-wings. The centre of the Edifico would be reserve for public purposes and occupations; will contain the Dining-Halls. Counsel-Rooms. Library Reading.Rooms, Exchange. &c. (The Exchange willbea place of meeling, where the inhabitantscan disciiss thcir public and private arTairs,concert enterprizes, excursions, ana transad a vnriety o business.) Jn the centre wilJ also be placed th Obscrvatory. Galery of Fine Arts and Scientifi Collection , which latter every Association woul have. The central buildings would endose an opon spacc which would form a winter garden anc promenade, planted with evergreen trees and containing the garden house. The Edificó would be three stories high, and rest upon a high basement; the kitchens, and halls for various occuputions, would be located in the basementa. The Halla would, as we remarked, be placed in the centre of the Edifice: there should be seven or eight, and of different sizes. Adjoming the large dining-halls must be small dining rooms for parties or groups, who niay wish to eat apart from the large tables. Pariies of fncnds will wish to dine daily by themselves : they can do so in these rooms, where they will be served in the same manner and at the same price as at the large tables. We will explain Ínter the mode of living in Association: we will nicrely say that people can dine at (he public tables, - in the small dining-rooms adjoining, or in their own private apartments.. as they wish. The tables will be at different prices, to suit all tastes Tid desire oí economy.The Manufactories and V0rksh0p3 would be located n one of the wings, and those of a noisy nature, like carpenters' and braziers', at the extremity of it. Association will avoid by this means o great inconvenience of our cities, where, in almost every strcet, eome tin or black smith stuns the ears of the families around. One of the finest arrangements of the Edifice of an Association is its Gallcries or Corridor. around one front of the entire building would wind a spacious and elegant corridor, or an inclosed piazza, which would communicate wiih all paris of it. The edifice of alargo Association would be, so to say, a town under one rooi, and il must have n public avenue, like the streets of a town, to enable the inhabitants to go to the public halls, dining roome, workshops, library, and to visit each other. It would not have á dusty or muddy street, exposed to the wet and the cold, or to excessive heat of Sumnier. People now must go out of their warm houses inio the cold air; ladies must leave a ball room and encounter :he inclemedey of a Wmter's night in getting in their carriages nnd in going in thein home. Thousands are carriedofT by consumption by this single means. Our miserable systein of architecture or building sinks thousands upon thousands inte an early grave or afilias them with innumerable acute and chronic disoases. Instead of dusty and muddy streets through which people would have to pass to go to the dining halls, rending rooms, library, manufactories and öther parts of the Edifice, the archiiects of tho Association would run a large gallery orntior ahout twcniy-lour íeet wtde in the centre and 18 in the wings around the Edilice; it wouk pass along the first siorj' and on the top of ihe basement: it would he, so to say, a spacious hal running the entire length of the building. The roof of the Edifice would project over it, and i would be enclosed within the outside walis. - Flights of steps would lead from it to the upper stories. The doors of the private apartmems or residence would open iipon it, as our outside doors now open upon the street. We will explain in our next urticle the mode ol constructing the private npartments and show that people can live with their families as retircdly and privalely in Assoeiation ns they now do in their isolated houshoUU. at half 01 quarter the expense and infinitely more coinfortably. People could go from their rooms through the Gallcry, which should be handsomely fittcd up and warmcd in winter and aired in summer. to all paris of the Edifice; thcy could, in the height of winter, communicate with the public saloons, banquet halls, manufactories, visit the reading and lecture rooms, and go to lalls or parties 1 out knowing whether it rained or siormed, andety07 SiïtóS inrth Ed,!fice ofan As" con,modd by he cold o H ' "í" bei"g in' muddy streets woSSh V'"8 t0 PQ83 trhoDeh would digust SeS i?? .1 arm. S - neW that U If the civilized wnrl i teinsol-it'd liouseholds. y-fivccemuHes o, deilaS "l Ieaiined' afler ' healthyandcónv.n experi.e.ncc ow to conatruct sing tha? it I T reside"ces.it .s not surpriSociety not dlscovered a true system of