to the firm. Thirty-three independent houses, brick and stone built,
each with its own doorway to the quiet greensward, and its windows to
the sun, form an inviting, reposeful quadrangle. They were the last
gift of a life devoted to the interests of others, and the happiness
and peace which characterize them are fitting memorials of the late
Richard Cadbury, the elder of the two brothers who founded this great
industry, and who have in their lives been favoured to see such untold
blessing upon their labours.


[Illustration--Colour Plate: Section of a Chocolate Factory.]

SECTION OF A CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

The accompanying diagram of a chocolate factory is reproduced
by kind permission of the Berlin publishers of Dr. Paul
Zipperer's well-known work on "The Manufacture of Chocolate,"
which contains much valuable information. The machinery
described is that of Messrs. Lehmann, of Dresden, one of the
largest makers on the Continent.

By means of the lift (1) all the raw materials, sugar, cocoa, packing,
etc., are carried up to the store-rooms (2). Here are the machines for
cleansing and picking the raw cocoa-beans, which are fed into the
elevator boxes (3) above the cleansing machine (4), which frees them
from dust; they then pass to the continuous band (5) on which they are
picked over, and from which they fall into movable boxes (6). They are
thence transferred to the hoppers (7), and fed by opening a slide in
the hopper, into the roasting machine (8). The quantity contained in
the hoppers is sufficient to charge the roasting machine. When the