Daily Republican., 1882-05-17
THIRD EDITION.
a V1IMIn GION EN1ERPRIsE
How Dirty Carpets arc cleanse d
and made almost - good as new.

How Dirty Carpets arc cleanse
and made almost - good a. new
A representative of the REPUBLICAN
coming down the avenue this morning,
and hearing the puff Of the small en-
gine in Ferry's carpet cleaning estab-
lishment concluded to step in and see
how the great machine that extracts all
the dust and sand from carpets opera
ted Manager First who stood in the
door way welcomed us. "You will find
il n little dusty back there, but If you
get around in the rear towards the
door YOU will see the thing work, said
Manager Frist, We went back to the
place Indicated and before us revolved
upon its axes huge six pointed star
twelve feet in diameter.
The revolving star was about four
feet thlCk, 1t WAS encased Win
wires worked into a screen. In this
monster Btar.drum were something like
a hundred yards of brussels carpet kept
in continua motion by every succeed.
ing revolution of the drum, when the
carpet is carved by one projecting
point of the star up to the turning point
it falls down on another projection
and az it falls it gathers wind in Its
course which carries off the dust that
is shaken from the carpet every time 1t
falls from point to point.
"Well that is wonderful and as sim.
ple as wonderful" we exclaim.
CHOW long? Wellit takes about bali
an hour to clean an ordinary carpet and
If very dirty it takes some fifteen min
utes longer, and yoa see it makes nc
difference what kind Of carpet Is put in,
it all comes out alike cleaned said
manager First.
Our ideas of carpet cleaning were con.
siderably enlarged and remodeled after
looking at that revolving star few
minutes. No steam brush, scraper, mol
switch is used as some enormously sup
pose. The carpet is simply thrown into
that irregular sextagonal star wheel
dirty and full Of sand and dust, and II
comes out bright, renovated and
cleansed.
We are not surprised that it is get
ting to be q dark day for the carpet
switchers. A few stick to the old sys
tenn of switches because their fathers
used them, and no matter If the
carpets are all switched into
holes and rents it was the old way anc
it was all right.
1t would naturally be supposed thai
there would be difficulty in distin
gushing one carpet from another
amongst SO many, but Mr.. Frist in
formed US that their driver could gathe
up hundred different kinds OF car
pets and would never make mistak
In one Of them, and Mr.. First by lonI
custom had learned to tell each persol
ut sight, no matter how many were Il
. lot.
The machine in which these carpet
are cleaned was invented and patente
by Mr.. Ferry himself q couple of veal
ago and 80 much better is it that 1t ha
taken the place of all others whereve
introduced. He does not sell them br
puts them out on a royalty. Thirty
nine of them have already been shippe
to the large cities of the Union and b
is continually hearing good report
from them wherever introduced.
The testimonials from hundreds
leading housekeepers in Wilmingto
are evidences of the effectiveness of th
machine.
Thanking Mr.. Frist for his attention
the REPUBLICAN man left with ne
wrinkle in carpet cleaning.