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In fitting up the kitchen, care will be taken to in- 

 troduce every useful invention and improvement by 

 which fuel may be saved, and the various processes of 

 cookery facilitated and rendered less expensive ; and 

 the whole mechanical arrangement will be made as com- 

 plete and perfect as possible, in order that it may serve 

 as a model for imitation ; and care will likewise be 

 taken, in fitting up the dining-halls and other rooms 

 belonging to the establishment, to introduce the most 

 approved fire-places, stoves, flues, and other mechan- 

 ical contrivances for heating rooms and passages, as 

 also, in lighting up the house, to make use of a variety 

 of the best, most economical, and most beautiful lamps ; 

 and, in short, to collect together such an assemblage of 

 useful and elegant inventions, in every part of the es- 

 tablishment, as to render it not only an object of public 

 curiosity, but also of the most essential and extensive 

 utility. 



And although it will not be possible to make the 

 establishment sufficiently extensive to accommodate all 

 the poor of so large a city, yet it may easily be made 

 large enough to afford a comfortable asylum to a great 

 number of distressed objects, and the interesting and 

 affecting scene it will afford to spectators can hardly 

 fail to attract the curiosity of the public ; and there is 

 great reason to hope that the success of the experiment, 

 and the evident tendency of the measures adopted to 

 promote the comfort, happiness, and prosperity of so- 

 ciety, will induce many to exert themselves in forming 

 similar establishments in other places. It is even prob- 

 able that the success which will attend this first essay 

 (for successful it must and will be, as care will be taken 

 to limit its extent to the means furnished for carrying 



