The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-02

runs number of shafts all through the
lower story, which in their turn
run the washing machine, ironer and the
pumps. Tho boilers also supply the steam
and hot water that is led by pipes to every
part of the house--to the wash-tubs and
rinsing tubs in the laundry, the wash stands
and bath rooms in the hotel, and to vats in
the kitchen. The washing apparatus Of
the laundry consists of two large wood
cylinders, about four feet in diameter, fur
nlshed with rollers and other machinery, in
which the clothes is placed with boiling
water. soap, etc, and thoroughly work
over by steam, then it is thoroughly rinsed
in watts with cold water, steam, etc, md
after that it is pressed into wringer,
which is nothing but copper
vessel, about twenty inches in
diameter and fifteen inches deep, puuctured
with meriads of little holes through
which the water in the clothes is thrown
when the vessel revolves, which 1t does with
great rapidity, making fifteen hundred rev.
0lutions in one minute. After this the
clothes are hung upon iron bars which are
showed into large box or room and
then it is subjected to q
drying process by steam. In few MN
utes it is taken out and run through the
ironer, which consists of two rollers, run
by steam. The larger one of these receives
the linen and then, by means OF lever, is
pressed against the smaller, which is heat
ed by gas, and does the work of ironing
rapidly and perfectly. A cream
freezer one of the latest in
ventions, is also run by steam and has
all other necessary accompaniment, such
as Ice crusher ice box for the cream, etc.
The motive power which keeps the eleva-
tor in motion is supplied by water, upon the
automatic principle, which can be regulated
according to the amount of work the ele-
vator is to do. But perhaps the best piece
of mechanism and what Mr. i. w. Halliday
has reason to be especially proud of, because
it is in part the result of his own inventive
powers, is the ingenious hydraulic ma
chine, which gathers up ali the refuse mat
ter from the closets, bathrooms and other
departments in the hotel, and also from the
kitchen, and forces it through large iron
pipe into the river. So perfect does this
machine do its work that the
large sink in the yard, into which
all this matter accumulates, does not give
forth the slightest odor. This leads us to a
consideration of the
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
and the sanitary condition of the premises.
Under this head great deal might be said
but, however lengthy the description might
be, it would not convey to the mind of one
who has not seen for himself, just
idea OF its perfection. AS fresh
water is the great purifyer of
all things, this article as before stated, is
led to every part of the great hotel and the
arrangements wherever is it may
be needed for cleansing, are such that a
mere turn of knob or cock will let forth a
stream OF cool, fresh water, which carries
everything unclean through iron mains into
the great reservoir in the yard below,
from whence it is removed by the
machine above referred to. Therefore
nothing whatever can accumulate in any
part of the building that might tend to
vitiate the pure air. Outside, the drainage
ID equally perfect and therefore the sanitary
condition is the same. The pavement
around the building is concrete
stone which sheds the water
Into cutters on the outer edge,
and down below, around the basement, the
same material has been used in the con-
struction OF gently sloping walks, which
prevents the moisture Of the earth from
arising and causes the water to run to-
gothcr into sewer, which carries it away
from the premises. Thus it will be seen
that the comfort not alone, but
also the health Of the guest who
enters the Halliday, has been taken
into consideration.
From this poor description the reader can
obtain an idea of the grandeur Of the Halli-
day, but the idea must necessarily be I'm
perfect, as nothing but actual sight will
give person true conception of the com.
pleteness and splendor OF this hotel,
The management of this institution is
now In the hands of Messrs. L. P. Parker &
Co., the lessees, gentlemen who have
had many years experience in the
business, and who have made the hotel
business o life study. They are assisted by
men, all selected by themselves also, with q
view to their experience in the positions
which they respectively occupy. The people