The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-07-29

WASHING By MACHINERY.
WORK IN rHi BIGGEST LAuNDHY
IN THts COUNTRY.
Quick Work yith an Ocean Liners
wash-Stesh Power Used Alto
gether-Patof Employees.

gether-Patof Employees.
~ I'D you. yer SEQ big laundry in
full bHti It il worth seeing.
- Whens We News reporter
tory, the washi4 from one of the great
Inman liners hal just come In. Il was
the washing Sr a whole week-the
washing for 200 persons. There wss
bedding, linens napkins, towels and
some few articld belonging to the ward.
robe of some of be officers. The rest
of the wash bebnged to the ship. u
rolled up to TN door in two wagons,
ana-it pslled outss The door OF tha
sorting room anQ ont H6eA dirty
snow storm In Il &fnd.
The work oil sorting this wash took
just twenty mi(utes, and four young
women, with hight brown eyes and
bright red arm After it was sorted,
the big pieces gfng with the big pieces,
and tho little pices staying with them.
selves, it was taken to the washing
machines. Onck there were wash-tubs.
There are wash fubs now, but they ara
simply amateur appliances. The pro.
fessional wash shop employs washing
machines, otherwise called "washers." "
These contrivan les are from Eve to eight
feet long, and are shaped like the boilei
of locomotive. They are made oi
metal and they revolvs on their axes,
like the cylinders in lawn mowers.
They are connected with the shaft by
puileys, and when the clothes are put in,
the door closed aud the water let in ty
pipe, the crank is moved, and the1
they begin to revolve with q mighty
swIshing and slashing in their insides.
After u few minutes or this, which n
called the soaking, the water is let of
aud hot water is turned on. With hoi
water soap is brought in and the crank
is turned again. This time it Is TO,
keeps, and when the washer stops the
clothes are clean. This is the sort oil
washing that requires no starching, so it
goes direct to the wringer. This is the
kind of wringer that the original laun-
dryman knew naught of.
The wringer up to date is round boz
set upon four round legs, made of ga.
pipe and hollow. The interior of thii
box revolves several, hundred times ,
minute. This turning interior holds tn,
wet clothes, and from it dry Clothes are
turned out, They are not entirely dry,
hut they are dry enough to go to the
ironing room. The revolutions of the
thtSWff 6hA FL ss&ift that tho water ID
The ironing room Is filed With iron
rollers. set ir frames, so that one roller
rolls against another, like the rubber
rollers in an old-fashioned wringer.
One or both of these rollers is hollow,
aud is heated by either gas or steam, and
the sheets and pillow-cases, napkins,
towels and table cloths pass between
these rollers and come out steaming hot,
smooth as glass, and white.
For some kinds of laundry work ,
dry room is required. Now this dry
room bears about as much relation to th'
drying-room in the ordinary house as
French bonnet does to bread bowl.
is small affair, heated red hot by steam
pipes. For starched goods this is used
and docs its work in hurry.
The laundry that the reporter visited
does not make practice of doing famil
work, although it has facilities Tor do
ing any kind of work. It devotes it
time chiefly to hotel, club aud steamboa
work. 1t can turn out 100, 600 pieces
day, and the average price for 100
from thirty-fve to sixty cents. Thes
figures are for unstarched work, ant
they are very low. 1t requires i4O per
sons to do the work. The washing
done wholly by men, who get $l2
week each. The rest Of the work
done by girls and women, who are S,
reryised by four forewomen, who g.
S17 week and their board.
The work woman get from sixty cent
10 81 day, the folders in the ironin
room commanding the highest wages
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