The Dickinson press., 1888-10-27
BROOKLYN LAUNDRIES.
COVE RsATloN WITH "JoHN CHI
NhhiAM" AS TO THE BUSINESS.
4 ""'nan'> Opinion on Hand Work and
II" IN N"rk-lIcat of the Drying Room.
Visit tn II Steam Laundry-Macliinc
Work..

Work.
Nl",.clA:; one day to be passing n Chinese
ita:l Try which had the name James l.. Yu on
liz" 't"or. the thought suggested itscf to the
',riir Ia s,r,, in and see how the laundry
t~r~'l.r-; i, CARRIED on.
"%l!ri.p," sai,i the reporter, 'how is bust
i,- -"
t'.. '~;,-jln~s TO good. People all gone to
eoH4.Hv. 20 make much now"
rN.fl l"u '"ll mo how much YOU average
o.. ", i and ow much you pay Your assist
AM"
"Nt,in about sl5a week in winter, some
I naS :: COY SO. Pay him dis asSistan,) $40
= ~,v: Then have to pay $50 II month for
s';!,". @;,l r..,i and wood. light and rico,
~ t....e> ;.%a,ilncat cost
va. yoi lot me SEQ the back room,,'
Mes, | let You see, but no stay long hero
i',N, wat; you 80 home"
Ioc reporter Started back into the kitchen,
witch w3s q lIo. that nobody but Il China
iil1 eotsai stand 1t any longer than five min
H. Iue:v WAS nothing i'll it but Il few
l.i-. !. "a X. II table. two chairSaud II retihot
>t-,e. wrva the store and the kitchen, in
= : ~. l.tsSlgeway. We're two hunks, very
i~.;-,.t -. Tic l,iam Of >tateroom berths, one
".,. t.@s other.
t...-:..i.sa, generally speaking, live on rice
@:ti N,-4tsll,s-Ncrv little meat. They eat
:. 30 with Chop sticks. and when eating
/. "e%er sit oa y chair properly, but place
l. r4," Oh the chair and assume ~ sort of
u iI4.rI II, position. In writin. they use Il
| iu:. Itte! w!t!l calncl's hair stack in one end
IN t..e >4a!c al Il brush. This instrument is
%c,l.ria "uil."
"nr ypu 20 to Sunday schooli' asked the
REPORTER.
"A.~. @oio Methodist Sunday school in
.A).!lt.c street. No burn joss stick no
,H"ie. 10 Worship him 10 more. Now you
gp!'.:..." sud- lie suddenly.
Walking up Iulton street the reporter
c,:.:le t"a laundry kept 10y Il native. Would
sac Use any information.
oh, certainly; with pleasure"
"Wi!l You tell mo how long You have been
III III, business, and if it PAYS
"MuDl, I've been in it about three or four
V ri HOW. AS TO its paying, l think it does
| ~ mage 10 make Il good living out of it, be-
:, tv.rG employment to eight women, not
r%uiEtiiG two girls who stand behind tho
coEnivr to do up the clothes and wait on tho
customers. Aud it is all hand work, too"
"no You not find it very warm in the sum-
Esor.."
"Oh, yes, it is warm all the time, winter
n@l SIMMER, in the drying ROOM here she
showed Il snail room in the back of tho store
and "leains the door, said: This is the dry
ils room. As You can see We have II stove
r'! bot I'll the time, and this room is lined
vi h sheet iron, SO that there is 10 danger
from it AMI all the heat remains Within"
do You t:iuk this business is injurious to
hcullh."
Not IL hit of it. 1t would be probable if
We had to he over that hot stove all day, but
yol sec | have another stove going down in
H." Kitchen, and that is wlero the irons are
i'@:ilel. OF course, it is hot, but not nearly
st, II t as the drying room"
"Nhat do you think of the steam laun.
drirs."
II don't think much of them, to tell tho
truth. suppose it lightens the labor u good
Ic;l To have rollers TO iron with by steam,
hut then You'll find that the collars and cuffs
and other things will eventually he Worn out
brfof" their time by that systcm.''
"What do You think of the Chinese"
1.-The Chinese, is it! Well l never look at q
ChinalEan but what he puts me in mind of u
lricl up monkey. But as for them washing
and ironing any Christians garments, l tell
you if | never had anything washed l
wouldn't get a Chinaman to do it. Fudge, |
amt lear them"
TIN next visit was to q steam laundry.
"Do you employ many hands,"
"Well, between twenty and thirty, l think.
And would not be surprised but.what next
winter we will have to employ more, as this
kind of work is constantly increasing.
People don't care TO nave their white goods
lone at home. Whether it is because they
ne not done up nice enough for them, | don't
SNOW, but i'll nine cases out of ten you will
find that all the white goods find their way
to the different laundries in the city"
"What do you mean by white goods;'
ooh, collars, cuffs, shirts, ladies' collars,
skirts, etc. OF course, we do more of IL bust
ness i'll mems collars, cuffs and shirts than
anything else"
"In your opinion. does it injurc clothes
any this steam work.
"Why, bless Your heart, no? How could
it. Some people have al idea that We merely
sonse the things once or twice in the water,
starch and dry them and then put them
through tho ironing rollers. But we don't
10 anything of the sort. The clothes in this
laundry methoroushly and carefully washed,
and as carefully finished off before they
leave our hands,"
1A'' many u litS oOluS lJiNc YOU.
w have only one drying room. but it
contains 10 less than five medium sized
stoves, and it extends nearly the full length
IF the cellar. Do You know l think We lave
the best drying room 1.-THE city! Why if You
put Il new shirt i'll there. in five minutes after
you put it in you can take it out bonc dry
GLOW does land work compare with this
steam work.
Swell. | don't pretend to know half ,s
much rs some people, but my opinion is that
when a machine can tighten the labor, why l
say use the machine by all means, no mat
Ter what the motive power. AS for hand
work, we'll il'sall we'll enough in Its way, but
let those w!.o like it do it. Steam work is
the thing; why, while u woman at the old
hand work system is finishing one collar We
ran finish two every time; Of course skirts
have to be done by hund.''
"Do you know if the other steam laundries
take III skirts.'
We'll as to that l couldn't say. There i.
not much i'll them, i'll fact there's more bother
than their worth, but then You know if /;
lady says she wants athins done it has got t.
3 be done, and that's an end of it."
/, Can YOU tell Inc about how much yo,
t average n day or week.
Q well | would not like to tell that. but " E,
!. can see for yourself that if this laundry en-
/. ploys about twenty people all summer round
\ and ten or fifteen more in the winter, will
/ the fact that business is constantly improv
t ing, why then of course. We do take in Il littl
o mouey.'-''F G." in Brooklyn Eagle.