River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-07-01

New York Star: There is All all-day-
and-night restaurant on the Bowery,
which for fourteen years has never
closed its doors. Unless the sixty-lve
employees 90 on a strike the 5000 per-
SONS who eat there daily will continue
to sit and sup under the mechanical
| fans by day AMI the electric lights mt
night for years to come. But il would
not surprise the cooks, the carvers, nor
the walters in fine linen if Tommy, the
water boy, should tell the boss to-mor-
row that Ice Water Pourers and Tum-
bler-W ashers' UnioU, No. 1916, had or
dered strike. Tommy has lately
formed union.
A man from Ohio, who said he was
an inventor, got the ear OF the propri-
etor over two years ago and said: "IIow
many dishes do YOU wash in day ?''
"Over l5,O00,' replied the boss.
How many people do you pay for
washing them?"
1--WE have six dish washers on the
pay roll. =
II can make a machine that will
wash and dry $500 pieces in an hour,
without breaking or chipping dish.
| will save you 81, 200 a year in wages
alone, and will wash your dishes clean
and Keep them free from iinger-marks
and lint.
The inventor described his machine.
1t was long trough divided into three
compartments. On one end was an L.
and the other end. the front. was set
of valves. lie showed the boss how a
man could stand at the front end and
pull a handle. That would fill the
compartment farthest away with scald-
ing hot water, which would afterward
be kept hot by steam. When the com
! partment was full it ran over into the
middle trough, and that in turn into
the first space, directly in front of the
/ operator. Soap was added to the
water in that compartment. In this
/ space a set of brushes revolved in the
water, and they were set with springs,
| like a clotheswringer to let large and
small dishes pass between them. A
wide canvas belt with Stats across il
ran the whole length of the machine
under water. If dishes were put be-
tween the revolving brushes they would
/ be secured with soapsuds, dumped
| on the belt, carried into the second bath
and rinsed off. and finally dumped into
the clear hot water in the third com
partment. Out of that the belt deliver
ed them into the l., where they dried OF
/ their own heat
The machine looked practicable, and
| the man from Ohio was sent home to
build one for the Bowery restaurant,
/ The dish-washers heard that machine
was TO be put up in the kitchen that
would do the laundry work, wash dish
eS, scrub floors. stairs. and tables, and
supply steam for heating the building
and for running trains on the elevated
railroads. They told the boss they
would build a bonfire of the machine.
They accused him of importing foreign
pauper labor from Ohio, and they called
special meeting of the kitchen en-
| ployes. But in due time the cast-iron
! dish washer was set up. When the
workman who set it up came around
next morning TO test it, all the bolts in
4 the ma shine were found unscrewed,
and the wide canvas belt had been cut
throuon the middle They fixed it. and
a guard was stationed to watch the
machine next night. Another trial was
/ maui, anu tltt utdchlht NdSICu uiSHCc
ut the rate of $4,000 pieces per day.
without apparently breaking piece;
/ but when the water was drained oil the
/ bottom of the troughs were found COW
cred with broken dishes. The women
said the machine broke them, but the
Ohio man claimed the pieces We're
dropped into the water by the women.
He must have been right, because the
next trial was a perfect success. Ev-
erybody in the kitchen had been watch
ed 1t took several months for the ma
chine to make friends with the dish
washers, who were given other en-
ployment, but to this day it is looked
upon as non-union employe. 1t Is
the only machine of the kind in the ci-
ty, and the only other one in the State
is said to be in big hotel at Lake Chau-
tauqua.