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174 THE FACTORY HOMES' ASSOCIATION* .
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will undertake the superintendence of these Factory Homes . We quote < c The again Instruction from , the and prospectus Training . " of the Workers in their leisure *
time will be a special Department of the Institution , carried on Association mainly by the of personal Ladies residin efforts , g or on under or near the superintendence the premises , , whose of an
comfortable gratuitous services home would may be be a assisted desideratum by those . When of others it is to seen whom that a
Ladies will volunteer to help their fellow-beings amidst disease and will death lend in forei a hel gn ing lands hand , it to is train presumed and elevate that many the will youthful be found Orphans wha
and Destitute of p their own sex at home . From this contact of highlyeducated Ladies with the workers of the factory , the best results
may Such assuredl are the y be moral expected aims . " of this noble project . We will conclude
with a brief statement of the material means by which it is proposed to " carry It is them intended out . to loy the Workers in the manufacture of
emp such fabrics or material as may be deemed most suitable or profitableand also in household work , including , not only the domestic
labors , of servants , but also the making and mending of articles of wearing " As one appar successful el and of self household -supporting use . " demonstration that those
theoretical objects may treatises be secured on the , would subject do , it more is proposed good than to a show thousand the
Monkhill principle , at Pontefract work in ; the the requisite first instance capital being on a raised moderate by means scale , of at
Loans to the Association on Debentures , bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent , per annum , payable out of the profits . fix
" Several considerations have led the Association to upon . Pontefract as the seat of their operations . Situate near the best Worsted and Linen Markets in the Yorkshire districtsit presents
, niany special features which render it a most desirable site for the works proposed to be carried on . Coal is abundant and cheap ; and
the means of transport , both by rail and water , all that can be required " This . Association has obtained the gratuitous services of Wm .
Wood , Esq ., late M . P . for Pontefract , the originator and promoter of the foregoing systemwhofrom his present and previous occupation
and position , is thoroug , hly , qualified to promote the interests of the Institutionand to secure the confidence of the public . Mr . Wood
-was formerl , y Resident Managing Partner of the Wilton Carpet and Factory Wilton , and Carpet is well Power known Loom as the & ori c g and inal as inventor the propounder of the Brussel of the s
, , highly successful modern system of Carpet firstclass Manufacture medal in the by French Power
Exhibition Looms , for of one 1855 of which . Mr he . Wood obtained was a recentl - y the Representative in
Parliament of his native town , having been called to that position
174 The Factory Homes' Association* .
174 THE FACTORY HOMES' ASSOCIATION * .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/30/
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