Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-01
Al BIG PLANT
Under New Management-FinestL Laun- dry in the South-A Place to Get
 Your Laundry Scientifically Done.

In these hot, sweltering, simnering sum- mer days-days that cause collars and cuffs done up by ordinary washerwomen to go in- to a state of premature collapse-it is refresh- ing to know that Birmingham has one of the very largest and best fitted up laundries in the southern states; laundry where washing is done by scientific methods, and where only the latest improved machinery is used. Such is the Avondale steam laundry, visited yesterday by an AGE HERALD representative. This laundry is now under the management of MT. M. !. Reed and MT. J. H. Hill, who have for their chief assistant Mir. J. B. Alverson, all three being intelligent and practical laundry men, each having a thorough knowledge of the business. Mr. Reed has the supervision of the inner workings of the big plant. MT. Hill is the hustler who looks after the outside interests, while MT. Alverson is the man who personally sees to it that not stitch of clothing leaves the laundry that is not in first class condition.
 The people of Birmingham have recog
 nized the excellent work of the Avondale laundry and are giving it a liberal patron learned to know that cleanliness and promptness are the watehwords of this busy institution, so they are shipping their soiled linen in increased quantities every week. Especial attention IS given to these out of town orders. Collars, cuffs and shirts received one day are ready to be re- turned on the next. The collars and cuffs como mostly by mail, while the heavier articles are sent in by express. Coming either way they receive the same care and there is the slightest chance of loss, for the work is so systematized as to render loss impossible. The Avondale laundry has several new pieces of valuable and costly machinery that cannot be found in any other esta bli lishment in Alabama. While a great deal of the work is done by ma chinery, yet in first class laundries there is always work to be done by hand, and for this branch of the business the Avondale steam laundry employs large number of highly skilled and deserving laundresses, thus adding materially to the pay roll of this district.
 Inside the works everything moves along with the regularity of clock work, no pickering or boisterousuess, all perform ing the labor assigned to them cheerfully to them, but their surroundings are 80 far removed from the old-time filthy wash tubs that they do not rebel against their work.
 All visitors are accorded a polite recep- tion and the managers take pleasure in showing them the intricate workings of those fine new machines. Really every one would be we'll repaid by visit to this orderly place, for then they would have a knowledge of how sup to date" wash ing is done. The works are located at Avondale, where the clearest and cleanest of spring water is used, but the main of- flee is in the city at No. 10S Nineteenth street, under O'Brien's opera house. This is their office only recently fitted up in ap- proved style, where all orders left for call ing at the different houses for laundry will be promptly attended to, and the com pieted work will be as promptly delivered. If you have any work you wish done on the very shortest possible notice, call up the Avondale Steam laundry, telephone 1904, and you will find out after one trial that you have sent your clothes to a laun- dry where they know how to do "good
 washing and ironing.'