Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-23
4 MACHINE.
washing $4,000 Pieces n Day and Never
breaking n Cup-One OF the Marvels OF
Inventive Genius.
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washing $4,000 Pieces n Day and Never
Rreak,nr a Cup-One OF the Riarvels OF
Inventive Genius.
RehObOih Sunday Herald.
There is an all day and night restaurant
on the Bowery, which for fourteen years
has never closed It's doors. Unless thesixty'
five employees go en- q strike the 1000 per
sons who eat there every day will continue
to nj and sup undsr the mechanicaltans oy
dsy and the electric lights at night tor years
to come. But it would not surprise the
cook, the csrvess, nor the walters IN hoe
linen, if Tommy the water boy, should tell
the boss tomorrow that the Ice Water
Pourers' and Tumbler Washers Union No.
1916 had ordered o strike. Tommy q
lately formed q union.
A man from Ohio, who said be was az
inventor, got the ear of the proprietor two
wears ago, and said: How many dishes DO
YOU wash a dSyT'
lover 1900" replied the boss.
allow many people do you pay for wash
ing thenT
ave have six dish-washers on the pay
roll"
~ can make a machine that will wash
and dry $500 peices in au hour, without
bresking or chipping q dish. l will save
YOU 81, 900 per year in wages alone, and
viii wash your dishes clean and keep them
free from finger marks and lint.
The inventor described his machine. 1t
was q long trough, divided into three com
nartments. On one end was an l. and the
other end, the front, was O set OF valves.
He showed the boss how a MAJ could
stand al the front end and pull o handle.
That would fill the compartment iarthesl
away with scalding hot water, which would
afterward be kept hot by steam. When the
commitment was full it ran over into the
middle trough, and that in turn into the
first space, directly IN front OF the opera
tor.
Sosp is put into the water in that com
psrtment. In that space q set OF brushe;
revolyed in the water, and they were set
with springs, like q clothes wringer, 10 LEI
large and small dishes pass between them
A wide canvas belt with Flats across 1t raj
the whole length Of the machine under wa
ter, If dishes were put between the re
volving bushes they would be secured with
soap sudq, dumped on the belt, carried IntC
the second bath and rinsed of, and finally
dumped into the clear hot water in tht
third compartment. Dat Of that the bell
delivered them into the l., where they driet
of their own heat.
The machine looked practicable, aut
the man from Ohio was sent home to bunk
one for the Bowery restaurant. The dist
washers heard that q machine was to 81
put into the kitchen that would do TIT
laundry work, wash dishes, scrub floors
stairs and tables, and supply steam iol
heating the building and for running trainI
on 1.-THE elevated railroads. They told lh'
boss they would build q bonfire Of the ma
chine. The accused him Of importing
foreign psupe labor faom Ohio, and the,
called q special meeting Of the kitchen en-
ployes. But in due time the chst'iron disl
washer was set up. When the workmer
who act it up came around next morning
to test il, all the bolts in the machine wer'
found unscrewed, and toe wide canvas bel
f had been cut through the middle. The,
} Fixed it, and q guard was stationed to Watcl
| The machine next night.
Another trial was made, and the ma
: chine washed dishes ct the rate 5000
pieces per day without apparently breaking
a piece; but whke the water was draine;
, off the bottoms Of the trouchs were fount
covered with broken dishes. The wonel
said the machine broke them, but tho Obi
man claimed the pieces were dropped int
; the water by the women. He must bsv
been right, because the next trial was
perfect success Everybody in the kitchen
had been watched. 1t took several month
/ for the machine to make friends with tn
dish washers, who were given other employ
ment, but to this day it is looked upon as
non-union employe. 1t is the only mG
chine OF its kird 10 the city, and the onl
one in the State ia said to be in a big hote
, at Lake Chautauuua.