The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-09
Brief j Ottings.

ellis company at Montreal.
| Hon. j. j. Perry lectures in the Mechanic
free course next Monday evening.
The large audience at Music Hall passed GU
in four minutes and half.
Rev. W. II. Fem will preach in High stree
church tomorrow morning.
1t is understood that Mr.. Charles Richards il
soon to assume the leadership of the orches!rs
in the place of Mr. Sweetland.
Mr.. Fluent is building fire escapes from the
Museum TO the low roofs on the adjoining
building. A good idea.
The creditors of Henry Moore have agreed tC
take rs cents, and his affairs will be speedily
adjusted.
| A young man named George Colby truck q
bar of iron sticking out of a wagon backed ny
to the store of Emery & Warehouse, Thursday
night, and cut his head badly.
One of our best known amateur dramatic
clubs went out TO Stevens Plains last evening
and played "Down by the Sea- in the vestry
of the Universalist church, to a good house.
Some one stole a lot of hosiery hanging in
| front of Farnsworth's store last evening, and
officer Very arrested two boys GU suspicion OF
the larceny.
Members, subscribers and interested friends
are invited to meet with the officers of the Wo-
mans Temperance Society Saturday afternoon,
| at o'clock, in ithe library of the Y. NJ. c. A
rooms, corner Congress and Casco streets.
news agent on the OSdensburg road fell
between the cars in the yard Thursday, but for
tunately he fell between the track and escaped
with few bruises, the cars passing over him.
The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad has
just lost two cases in the Supreme Court at
Montpelier, one where freeman Bixby of Mont
pelier, sued for s$55OOl for damages by accident
while passenger and the other the roads suit
against the town of Lunenbnrg for $4,000 of
bonds which the town promised if the road
were laid in a certain part of the town.
Chinese Soap.
For several months past the city papers have
displayed among their advertisements the word
"Chinese" in large prominent letters. What
this word meant no one knew and it has been
standing conundrum. A representative
set out yesterday morning determined TO solve
the problem. After straying about a short
time the scribe arrived at No, 1875 Commercial
street where he discovered the sign of "Chinese
No"P EceeoAy WhiNh Sa'O q dig iHhHuS VI
what Chinese" meant. Entering the building
bearing the sign, the whole matter was cleared
up and the mystery fully explained. 1t APP
pears that new process of making soap has
recently been discovered, by which great saw
ing of material aud time is made. This soap is
known as the Chinese soap and is to be manu-
featured at the above named place by Messrs.
Williams Watson & Co., the owners of the
patent process They haveijdst got in the nee.
essary machinery and the manufacture of the
soap is but just under way. They occupy the
whole of the two story wooden building just
east of the Portland Machine Works, and the
quarters prove very convenient for their pur-
pose.
The soap is made by au entirely new system
by which the best article can be made in two
hours, whereas by the old way four days and
nights are required. There is no waste matter
in making by this system as By tha DID, The
ingredients used are cotton seed oil, taow,
rosin. caustic soda and palm oil, the latter be-
ing only used to color the laundry soap. They are
now only prepared to make laundry soap, but
in a few days tley are TO turn out the best toll
ct soaps. The process of making the Chinese
soap is not very dfficat, but as it is new pro-
cess a short sketch of the operation may be in
teresting. The grease and caustic soda are car
ried into the second story where there are
two large tanks to receive them. The oil is re-
fned in one tank, by steam, while the soda is
dissolved in the Others When these substan-
ces are prepared they are conducted through
pipes to the large boiler on the first floor.
The boiler is filled with 1000 pounds of the sew
eral substances, when fire is kinded beneath
it. A shaft provided with paddles which runs
through the boiler is set in motion and the STAT
is boiled" for two hours, or until pressure of
steam, reaching 100 pouads is attaioed. The
soap is thus manufactured under the three
requisites of heat, agitation aud pressure, The
soap is then run up stairs into ''crutcher," or
cooler, which revolves By steam. When it is
nearly cooled it runs into the frames set be-
meath, where it is moulded. After lying in the
frames from three to six days the mUu1ds are
taken from the soap and it is cut into bars and
taken into the drying room to be thoroughly
dried. A temperature of 800 is kept up until
the soap is ready to mark. 1t is then stamped,
wrapped and boxed up for the market
For six reasons it is claimed that this Chinese
Laundry Soap is superior to any other: The
process retains all the gycerine, the best known
remedy for rough or chapped hands; the COM
plete Specification makes it cheaper; it gives
a superior whiteness to the fabrics washed;
there is no salt used in its manufacture; there
is 40 excess of alkali to destroy the fibre of the
goods, or njure the hands, while using; one
pound of the Chinese soap will do as much
work, as pound and half of any other.
The soap gives the best of satisfaction wher-
ever it has been used, and it is not strange
that the pro pretors of this process thiuk they
have a very good thing. 1t is refreshing to see
new enterprises starting up in the city in these
dull times.