St. Paul daily globe., 1886-06-20

which is full of small holes and revolves in
side another cylinder somewhat larger.
The inner cylinder revolves by machinery
six times one way and then six times the
other, the clothes being thus tumbled about
and treated to constant supply of hot
suds which constantly runs off carrying
with it the dirt collected in it's passage
through the clothes In from one to two
hours the clothes are thoroughly cleaned by
this process, and they are rinsed by turning
on supply Of clean water and keeping up
the same motion for time. After being
washed they are put in the wringer which,
however, is not set of rollers, but consists
of hollow copper cylinder open at the top,
full of holes at the sides and made to re-
| volve inside an iron case. When the
clothes are put in this cylinder lis revelved
at the rate of several hundred
|, revolutions minute, the centrifugal force
pressing the goods up against the sides and
driving the water out through the holes.
/ When taken out they are damp, but still so
dry that not drop Of water could be wrung
! from them by hand. Up stairs they go first
to $he drying apparatus, which consists of
from twenty TO forty slides or racks ten feet
high and fifteen long, arranged side by side,
and which run in and out of the drying
room like sliding door. One of these is
pulled out, loaded with clothes and pushed
In again.
THE TEMPERATURE
is kept at a high point by steam pipes and
but short time is required for thorough
drying. The ironing is all done by means
of rollers, variety of machines being
provided for different kinds of
work One machine dampens turn
down collars along the line where
fn ha Iod of+ boy,,
Another resembles timers trimming ma
chine. and Is used to iron and bend the
neck bands of shirts. A special machine
curls collars after they have been ironed
fiat Collars and cuffs are ironed between
long rollers as fast as girl can handle them.
and all rollers are kept hot by gas jets
burning on the inside. Finally, the clothes
which have been punched together by the
hundreds without any regard to ownership,
are assorted by postoffice arrangement of
boxes, first by letters and then by owner
ship. Laundry work ig about the hottest
that the city affords during the summer
and a visitor feels relief at getting out on
the sidewalk in the sun, after sweating for
a half hour over the mysteries of the inter-
esting process. The help employed is
almost wholly women and girls and prob
ably 800 are kept busy at this woSK
during the summer, when the amodns of
work is doubled One laundry receives
each week from the railroads alone 40, 600
pieces and washes in the course of its regu-
lar trade several hundred Shirts three or
four thousand collars and cuffs, beside the
large amount of other classes of work.
Some laundries use the high finish which
gives high gloss, and others the domestic
finish which resembles more the finish on
collars sold in the stores The latter is
said to be becoming more preferred of late.
A good many packages are received daily
at the leading laundries from parties at a
distance, some coming regularly from as
far west as Montana. But few laundries
cater to the ladies' trade. They say it is
very irregular and that women are the
worst kickers: always wanting the work
done very cheap.