Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-08-11
IN A STEAM LAUNDRY.
HOW DIRTY CLOTHES ARE CLEANED
ON A LARGE SCALE.


rhs First Opsrstios-seap Dissolved 10
Hot wstsr-Threush sAs Wrisssr--ls
the Dry.ns ke"D-starshsA saA o.
stsrchsd Clothino-lrsa1ag.
There isn't much time loss in laundry
In any department. Thirty avs peopls. Tn.
rluding drivers and rss,eivssv and ieiiversrs
os goods. will handle x.UU shirts. wv dossus
Of cuffs and collars and oO,uU pieces Of or
dinary clothing In . week. and whilo doing |
this they viii take In shlrt wash and irou |
IT, and wrap II up for delivery In two hours |
and q quarter The tirss operation u In the
wash room. Here ars sssn row. Of washing
machines. circular. with an inner perforated
revolving and reversinR chamber for the
clothes The clothes are thrown into this,
l2s shirts Al time, or the equal Of that IN
other pieces. and clear filtered water run In
on them and the chamber Htarted Making
= dozen revolutions In one direction. Il auto
matically reverses and makes the same NUN
ber in the other the clothes falling t,ark on
the r,btsst si.tsss bar spap IL something that
y aiiuost unknown IN y steam laundry The
soap used m received in largo barrels
Of clear white shavings. and is called .chipped
iauh.iry' One of these barreis makes eight
of suds. being thrown into q large vnt and
there boIIeh with water until IL has bseu
fully dissolved and reduced 70 about the CON
s,ste.,cy Of buttermilk This IL always kept
In stock c'0t. and poured into the washers
while the inner chainter IL still revolving
the motion Leing between the perforated
shell of this chamber and the water tight
covering The clothes are washed, rinsesi
and blued in this tub by tho aid Of valvea
the first suds being warm. the second boiling.
and the r,llsng cold. The clothes arc rinAsd
and then blued, tho full operation requiring
but an hour and twenty minutes
From the washer the clothes 20 to the
wringer. though this machine gets ita name
simply because II performs tho same service
~ the household wringer II looks more like
boiling kettle, though investigation shows
II to te double. the inner one being perfor.
ateti and revolving SOO times a minute. The
clothcs are thrown In this, the power put ON,
ami t'eng thrown against the perforated
sdes. are dried In . few minutaA The kettle
takes in lU largo, heavy linen sheets at
time, drying them in thirty minutes From
this the clothes go up stairs to the drying
and ,tarchinp room t,u1. collar. md AZ ira
and such articles m m,st r.. .tnrched ~.
thrown into a revoly,n, and reverSinu ma.
| china similar IN tho ~ashar .ua 80 ,h.,,
plssed through an ordinary vrinrrr n
| ne.sssnry or hung IN tn ,,rx Tn. .,rv r.,,,,,
| il surrounded by stx,an, ni,sss thu ..hnrvar On
which the clothes mr.. hing h.,,no nnll.d ~,
| on rollers while the clothsa ara I,eino hung
and then n,,shest lach n m.t,.r~ M, vh.,h..r
the x,,n IL SHINING and tho wind hloviry =,
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In twentv q, thirty minnie. the clotha. c,,r,.
out drv The unsta rche., vo.d. go l.. ~,
manpler. and tho starchesi ones d, the un,,ar
story 10 le roned
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mas never t,een Jeteete,i The mnnnlar 4.
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