The morning times., 1895-07-14
HlR OF SOlP Ind IROH
No let-Up in the Contest of the
LaunlriaS.
RATE CUTTING CONTINUES
Girls Employed Said to Re safe Be
cause None OF the Rival EstabIiS
Some Employers Heartily in Favor
of the Young Ladies' Union.

The fight between the Iaundrymen OF
Washington, Caucasian and Monaghan n +.
bids fair TO rival the somewhat celebrated
thirty years war.
The present embroglio between the vari-
Gus concerns began nearly fifteen years
ago and is just now as lively as 1t was IN
the beginning.
Once upon a time the biggest laundry in
Washington was the Swiss, which has re-
Gently been broken up into at least two
rival factions, one of which sticks TO the
anti-Chinese rates and the other Is making
money Out of the cut rates
When il is known that there are about 200
laundries in Washington and that all those
who have abandoned the washerwoman
assomcthing out OF date and style, patronize
one or the other of these establishments,
it viii be seen that the laundry rates are
things that have a living interest for all
but the grand army of the unwashed.
What is meant by cut rates VIII be seen
by a glance at the slips of the various com
panieS.
COMPETING PRICES.
The Pearl, for instance. having a branch
office at No. sos Twelfth street northwest,
Will do up a collar for one cent and
pair of cuffs for two cents. The Godfrey
will charge two cents for a collar and four
cents for a pair of cuffs. Ladies collars
and cuffs dt both establishments are done
at the same rate. The Pearl Will do plain
shirts for eight cents aud the Godfrey
for 10 cents.
In a general way the Pearl, aud certain
branches of the Swiss have made u rate
one hundred per cent below the other com
panies, such as the Yale, the Tolmau, the
Dexter and the Fra uklin-
A union, S organized labor among the
managers, seems TO be practiCable but
they are ali agreed that the laundry girl
shall be protected against Chinese cheap
labor.
Manager Newton, who is the head of one
branch OF the Swiss laundry, said yeSter-
day that it was a common impression that
tTo of the larger laundries. which he
named, were the real owners OF the various
undcrSelling establishments. At most of
the places where the cheap work is os-
tensibly dOnethere isno machinery,
and, in fact, they admit that they send
il to be done at other establishments.
NOT WASHED IN THIS CITY.
at the Pearl branch office. No. 6O9
Twelfth street, the information was given
that the clothes sent there were forwarded
to Alexandria to be washed.
There is Il lot of inside method in the
sub-laundry stations to which there are
two sides. one mana ger, who has no
outside offices, said that the IaGndries
that slashed prices really belonged to the
Yale and Godfrey, and that these estab-
Iishments had thus the benefits of cheap
trade and the ordinary. The ladies
in charge of the Yale and Godfrey were
seen yesterday and furnished their printed
slips, on which the rates appear higher than
those of the slashing companies.
Manager Newton said ii was absurd to
charge the reduction of prices to the
Chinese cheap business. They were never,
he said, regarded as material opponents or
the laundry business any more than were
the oIdtIme washerwomen.
Que of the tricks in the reduction trade
is said TO be worked in this way. The
establishment proposing to advertise it's
cheap work rents room near the office
of the establishment to be attacked aud