The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-14
CLEANERS AND OVERS COMBINE.

They Have Formed u Company Which VIII
Keep Your Clothes In Shape for @2S a Year.
There must be thousands OF bachelors In
Now York. for q number OF cleaners and dyers
have formed n company which has rented n
four-story building and will do nothing Ok
cept clean. press. and repair mons clothes.
Almost all Of this business comes from I'M
married men. Us married mon are either rich
enough to have servants OF their W to look
after their clothes or their wives do the mend
ing and cleaning for them.
There are now two or three OF these clean
ing and repairing companies in New York.
but the new ono. which has been started with
in the past few weeks. is the biggest. 1t has
gone into the business in q wholesale way,
and 1t Is sending circulars to all the unmarried
men 1t can find. soliciting their subscriptions
to the company. 1t has hired O number Of
tailors and cleaners. who will work in its fac
tory and do nothing except clean. press. and
repair clothes.
The company has sent out q circular in which
1t says: THE above company contracts for n
moderate sum to keep the garments Of its
subscribers in perfect order. cleaning. press
ing. and repairing when required. calling for
and delivering same on such days every week
as may be agreed upon" 1t says in the same
circular that the company has been formed to
meet "A popular and increasing demand for
TIE convenient and economical care OF gen
The company has z number Of agents which
Il sends around at request VIII explain
that a man can send all OF his clothes around
every week and have them cleaned. pressed.
pany max es is that he shal! subscribe for a year
and that no shall not send IN other clothes than
out that It viii not make much profit on a
mans clothes until it gets them IN good shapo.
but after they arc in share that there will not
clothes. or VINO have trousers patched and
New York. who like to have their clothes look
spruce and neat. and who want them to BIO
tailors.. The most profitable business Of many
tailors is pressing and cleaning the clothing
Of their customers. A suit should be sent 10
the tailor about once a month to be sponget
and pressed. otherwise the, coat says. tho
trousers bag at the knees. 1t is economy in
clothing to buy good clothes and ksep them IN
must often, oconomize: and the %iailors have
been r%rolting by this branch OF, bpsiness. II
pressed only six times a year ut the rate o:
$3.50 "a time. the profit from that work will be
almost as great as the profit on tns sale OF the
sive cutters. OF, costly help. as the cleaning
and repairing OF 2 well-made suit is easy. -,u
find that their repairing, pressing. and clean
ing. II the same tailor who made the clothes
does the work. will amount to $50 or SO a
year. This is u profitable business to the little
tailors in Easements. from whom no men ever
seem to buy any clothes. whodoa big business
in cleaning. r0rniring. and pressing. because
they cut under the Fifth avenue tailors', rates:
This clothing company proposes to do that
same work In a factory. and to have wagons
going around town which will collect and re-
turn their customers clothes. They save In
tude of little shops. They save In wages. be.
cause they can keep thrir employees busy all
the time, and besides that they expect to get
additional business from men who nre not In
the habit OF having their clothes carefully
looked after on account OF the cost.