The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-19
AN INTERVIEWING INVENTION

1 By Well Known New Haven Citizen-Use-
 full Practical and Coming Instantly Into
 Great Popular Favor.
 Having invented and perfected sev- eral devices for preventing the de- | struction of collars by the old method of turning white wing and turn-down col
 lars I started out upon the road with sample machines to see what was the demand in the west for such appliances. I have found an immense field for them. It is the universal cry, broken collars" "collars destroyed in the laundry" This complaint has become SO serious l that have been hailed as deliverer from 6 crying evil. I have received such unbounded praise, and have sold my moulding devices so fast that, I think can say that it has been one con- tinuous success from day to day. When we can guarantee to turn any white wing, or wing point or turn down col lar made and guarantee not ito injure it in any way, we surely are saying a great deal, but when we add that if the collar is broken, having a saw-ltke edge, to cut into a mans neck, making him think life hardly worth living, when we can take such a fearfully ug
 ly looking collar and restore 1t to thing of beauty and comfort that is just what can be done by any laundry using my inventions. Is it any wonder that every laundry halls it as a blessing? have called and practically shown l., T lI,s sIo7 oI
 phia, Pittsburg only and in ten days have sold over 100. I intend to re- main in this city for a week, then go to St, Louis and then back to New Ha- ven, and form a company to manufac- ture my patented Inventions in large way, giving employment to a number of skilled mechanics, and add to New Haven's busy industries one more. From my long experience has come the knowledge of the wants of the laundry
 industry. Few people realize that thelaundry business is a very large and widespread industry. There are about 10000 steam laundries in the United States only, with a capital Mf from a few thousand to half million dollars invested. Pittsburg has several very large and perfectly equipped laundries employing from one hundred and twen- ty-five Q2E to two hundred (2OO) hands
 The general public knows but little what the laundry men have to contend with. Take, for instance, the white wing collar. or as it is often termed wing point or picadilly collar. It Is made in many styles of long point or small point, but it must, of course, in all cases be just ironed out flat and then turned; now this turning is where all the trouble occurs. The collar must be starched stiff enough to stand up, and then the customer expects it to be turned without cracking, and when the excuse has been offered by the laundrymen that it is almost impossi- ble to do this the answer has been, Well, the manufacturer can do it." Little does the average man know that even the manufacturers break many the first time they turn them. Yet they have one remedy; they put such goods in the waste rags and customers are no wiser. But the 1aundry-men cannot do this, for 1t won't pay to put out twenty-five (25) for (0 two cents. Then again, collar that is first turned at lue HldHuIdcluIer IS oIteH stunned ana damaged, yet not SO badly as to show. But the next time it is washed and ironed away 1t goes, and the cumtomer makes the complaint. "Now, there, that was a new collar. I only had it on once; and just see, Mr. Laundry-man, what you have done; it is ruined" All this is now changed for the collar manu- facturer, as they will turn all collars before long by the use of my moulding machines, and so place the axe at the ] root of the evil and the laundry men will turn thereafter with the same de- | vice and will therefore be sure of not cracking or breaking.
 HENRY BARNES. l