The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-01

over the entire surface to be starched with
out any friction whatever. All OF the
machinery is run by the steam power and
a complete system of shafting and pulleys
runs through the entire establishment
The steam mangle is quite complicated
piece of machinery and has a capacity of
$4,000 pieces day A steam jet heats the
center cylinder and the ironing is done by
steam rollers, producing no friction The
main cylinder of this mangle is sixteen
inches in diameter and thirty-six inches
long.
The Troy collar and cuff machine has
capacity of 600 day and is constructed so
as to preserve the shape of both. The
nicely and evenness with which it irons
and the entire absence of friction is what
gives the collars and cuffs done at the
laundry that high polish. A shaper is
then brought into requisition, which
curves them ready for the wearer. These
machines are not run by everyone, but
each girl has her machine and in a very
short time becomes an adept in its use
All styles of collars and cuffs are turned
out just as perfect as when they were pur-
chased from the haberdasher.
A special machine is used for ironing
shirt fronts, called the Gem shirt ironer,
and when run by the girl who regularly
has charge of it will turn out a shirt
minute. There is nothing about it to
wear shirt and it might iron a shirt
constantly for a year without doing
it any damage. The next piece of
machinery is called the Minneapolis
neck band ironer working with the same
rapidity as the machine just alluded to.
1t does nothing but iron the neck band
and leaves it in just the position that 1t
would naturally be when the shirt Is
worn. The body of the shirt is then lroned
by the old fashioned iron, such as is found
in every kitchen. These are heated over
little gas flame and the girls use them
with a dexterity that comes only from
long poactiCe.
The next piece of machinery that at
tracts the attention is the improved dip
wheel used for starching collars and cuffs.
1t is shaped something like a half barrel
with a secure cover. When the collars
and cuffs are put in it with the starch 1t Is
revolved by the machinery until the starch
is thoroughly and evenly distributed
through the wash The starch is made by
steam III d SUCdIn copper hCOCAC.
The various devices which are in use in
this laundry for saving labor and improv-
ing the quality of the work have been
mentioned with very little reference to any
order whereas it is one of the best arranged
laundries in the state. Mr.. j. I. Hanning,
the proprietor, has good cause to pride
himself on the order and method of his
establishment, and if it were not so he could
notbegin to trun out the quantity of work he
does to say nothingof the quality. Mr.. j. l..
Hanning opened the Kansas steam laun-
dry four years ago and from the start he
has been working right up to his present
capacity. BY the employment of few ex-
ira hands he could readily double his ca
pacity and the addition of some few pieces
of machinery. In another year it will be
necessary to enlarge his building which at
present only occupies one-half OF his lot.
The room at present is about the only
drawback He employs three delivery
wagons which are large and handsomely
painted and they are busy from daylight
to dark The plant is situated $40 North
Water street, is two stories, twenty-five
feet front and runs back to the alley dis
lance Of one hundred and forty feet. be
employs thirty-three hands in all and does