Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-11
JOHN cnIyAxAx ii DANGER.
A Grand Move in tho Right Direction
BY W. b. Wells 4 Goa New En-
terprisc In the City Well Worthy
the Patronage OF the Public.


Among the new institutions Of the
city that merit special notice, we men.
ton the Pickwick steam laundry Just
established near the foot OF Houston
street. w. b. Wells & Co. and c. c.
Gerard are the owners and proprie-
tors, while the foremanshlp in the me-
chanical departments IL filed by Mr..
II. ii. Foster, late of Cincinnati, and
lsundryman Of more than ten years
practical experience. Yesterday a GA.
zEI-rE representatives. called In Mt the es-
Enlistment and Cleaned the following
facts In reference TO the business: The
primary object of the establishment
was TO do the laundry work of the
Hotel Pickwick, from which its name
Is taken. The management of the ho-
tel found II impossible to get their
work satisfactorily done by dividing
IL even among the lesser laundries of
the city aud in self-defense they were
obliged to make special arrangement
1t was found that by investing
about $1,000 in addition
to the outlay contemplated
all the latest improved machinery
could be purchased and laundry
established which in point OF excel
lence would be second to none In the
United States, and to this end their
efforts were directed wiki moro than
ordinary results. All Of the machin-
cry In use was manufactured by the a.
nj. Dolph Co. of Cincinnati. o., aud
each the most perfect of its kind. The
washers ale made reversible and so
constructed that there Is no rubbing,
except from the weight of the clothes
pressing against the inner surface o
the perforated cylinder while It Is il
motion. Three OF these machines are
in use. and together they have ca
lpacity of 5000 pieces per day. Next I,
the washers Is arranged one o
Dolph's latest improved centrifugal
wringers. This wringer Ia made basin
shaped of perforated copper, aud whei
in motion has a speed OF 1900 revolu
lions n minute. The re
volving motion forces the waite
through the perforated sides of tn,
wringer. on thea same. principle tina
mud Is thrown from buggy-whee
when in rapid motion. The capacit,
Of this wringer Is 200 pieces in tel
minutes and by this process II is i'm
possible to wear the goods. With tn
aid of Dolph's patent starcher they cal
use boiling hot starch and thus secur
for shirts, cuffs and collars the dc
nestle finish of new goods rather tina
the greasy looking gloss of the celes
tials. Their drying rooms are heate,
by steam and kept a
I temperature of $50 d,
J grees Fahrenheit from the time tn
clothes are placed in the dryer till the
, are taken out, which gives them
brighter, clearer white than whel
9 dried by the ordinary process. A con
bination shirt, collar and cuff ironer
used which has capacity of sixt
I shirts an hour. Palmer goods ar
!. ironed on one of Dolph's latest In
2 proved sixty-inch steam-heated mar
y giles, the only one now in use In th
: state. The motive power whic
= drives all this machinery Is furnishe
!. 10y n ten-horse Willard < Co. engine ,
improved pattern, and so perfectly
!. everything arranged that.the eightee
i. or twenty employees are made to do tn
9 work ofover 200 operatives. Their pric,
!. are from 10 to 20 per cent. less than o
b binary card rates on laundry wor
!. and better class of work Is guaraI
! teed. Their delivery wagons are |
!. constant use and all orders by tel,
phone will receive prompt attention.