The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15
A MopEnN LAUNDRY.
Interesting visit to the Complete HON
steam Laundry Plant.

Interesting Visit To the Complete Home
steam Laundry Plant.
Judging by the wagons loaded with
machinery that have been backing in
at Lu;r Brothers Home seam laundry,
on Market street, it was quite evident
that extensive improvements were be-
ing made in that establishment, and the
ISrRLLroENcER man, like others, felt
pardonable curiosity. Yesterday a visit
70 the laundry showed that the suppo.
sition MAS not faulty. The laundry is
now one OF the most complete places OF
the kind TO be seen anywhere. Under
the guidance OF the proprietors, Messrs.
Will and John Luiz, the establishment
was seen under capable chaperonage.
The entire third floor Of the LutE
building is occupied, and an idea Of the
amount OF work turned out is gained
when the number Of persons EN-
ployed steadily is stated-thirty. With
the new equipment OF machinery the
laundry is prepared to do work in
astonishingly quick time. aud the fact
that the Windsor and Mcclure hotels
have discarded their hotel laundries
and given the Home Laundry the con-
tract for all their work, shows that this
establishment 10 able to give thorough
satisfaction. Hotel laundry taken to
the laundry in the morning is delivered
at II o'clock-it is almost your laundry
done while you wait" A new specially
is family washing which Is meeting
with great favor. Besides doing the
work quick the price is low-fve cents
a pound.
The Home is now supplied with six
washers, OF an improved pattern, in
which the clothes are washed, rinsed
and blued. From the washer they go
10 the centrifugal wringer, where they
are dried in wonderfully quick time-on
the average one and half minutes. The
next step is to the shaker, where the
clothes are shaken. The next step va
ries according to the class OF Laundry.
Flat stuff, such as sheets, table cloths,
etc, go into the new manRle, a machine
lust put in. which cost s., 800. 1t is
com posed OF number Of enameled
rolls, heated, and from it comes the ar
ticle ironed and ready for folding.
The mangle ia really a wonderful
machine, and that in the Homo plant
is the only one in Wheeling or West
Virginia. In an hour it does the work
OF, at least, fifteen women, and better
than is possible by hand labor.
The starching machine, drying rooms,
dampening machines, ironing machines,
are all OF the latest improved patterns,
and it is a pleasure for the employees to
work with such appliances.
On the fourth floor is found the assort-
ing rooms, where several young ladies
are employed doing that work. In this
apartment are also found several little
appliances, among them being shan
ing machine for collars that is very in
genious.
The carpet beating wheel is also some
thing that merits mention. In this
wheel carpets are placed, and as the
wheel reyolves the carpet gets fall Of
twelve feet that makes friendship cease
between Messrs. Dirt and Carpet-in
fact they agree to separate. Carpets
that have been cleaned by the "colored
boy and stick" process have yielded
bushels Of dirt when put through this
wheel. Wheeling is certainly fortunate
in possessing such complete estab-
lishment