The Dawson journal., 1886-06-24
DISTINGUISHING MACHINE.
1t Can Do More Work Than Six Wo,
men and Three Boys.

restaurant en- the Bowery, says
the New York Star, which fol-
fourteen years has never closed its
doors. Unless the sixty-five en-
ployees so on strike the 5000
persons who eat there every day
will continue to sit and sup under
the mechanical fans by day and
the electric lights at nights fol
years to come. But it would not
surprise the cooks, the carvers nor
the walters IN fine linen If Tom
my, the water boy, should tell The
boss tomorrow that Ice Water
Poarers' and lumber Washers
Union, No. 1416, haa ordered a
strike. Tommy has lately formed
q union.
A man from Ohio, who said he
was an inventor, got the ear of the
proprietor over two years ago and
said: GLOW many dishes do you
wash in a day?"
Cover $4,000" replied the boss.
elbow many people do you pay
for washing them?"
eve have six dish-washers on
the pay roll.
81 can make machine that
will wash $500 pieces in an hour,
without breaking or chipping a
dish. | will save you $1,000 per
year in wages alone, and will wash
your dishes clean and keep them
free from finger marks and lint"
The inventor described his ma
chine. 1t was long trough, divid-
ed into three compartments. One
end was an l. and the other end,
the front, was a set Of valves, He
showed the boss how man could
stand at the front end and pull a
handle. That would fill the com
partment farthest away with
scalding hot water, which would
afterward be kept hot by steam.
When the compartment was full
it ran over into the middle trough,
and that in turn into the first
space, directly in front of the OPP
orator. Soap was added to the
water in that compartment. In
this space a set of brushes revolv-
Ell in the water, AMI they were set
with springs, like clothes wrin-
ger, to let large and small dishes
pass between them. A wide can
vas belt with Stats across it ran
the whole length of the machine
under water. Ii dishes were put
In between the revolving brushes
they would be secured with soap
suds, 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 bell
delivered them into the l., where
they dried Of their own heat.
The machine looked practicable
and the Ohio man was sent home
to build one for the Bowery res
taurant. The dish washers heard
that machine was to be put into
the kitchen that would 10 the
laundry work, wash dishes, scru+
floors, stairs and tables, and sup.
ply steam for heating the build
ings and for running trains on the
elevated railroads. They told the
boss they would build bonfire
of the machine. They accused
him of importing foreign paupel
labor from Ohio, and they called
a special meeting of the kitchen
employees. But in due time the
cast iron dish washer was set up
When the workmen who set it uI
came around next morning to tes
| it, all the bolts in the machine
were found unscrewed, and the
wide canvas belt had been Gu
through the middle. They fxeC
it, and a guard was stationed t.
watch the machine next night
Another trial was made, and the
machine washed dishes at the
rate of $4,000 pieces per day,with
out apparently breaking a piece
but when the water was drained
off the bottoms Of the trough
were found covered with broker
dishes. The women said the ma
chine broke them, but the Obi,
man claimed the pieces were drop
ped into the water by the women
He must have been right, becaus,