The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-13
Bundles Left This Morning.
I Win be Ready Tomorrow Night.

Such speedy work is difficult to ac-
compsh. the old methods requiring a fun
week, but the development has been
forced by the demands of city life. In
deed, some laundries, especially those
which cater TO hotel trade have even re-
duced this time record and offer TO do the
work in less than a single day.
Then there is the clean-towel depart
ment of the larger laundries. About ten
years ago Chicago man conceived the
idea of furnishing towels to offices where
the occupants could not afford to bother
with laundries. In a small way he sent
around towels once in so often, taking
away the soiled ones and washing them.
The expense was small and the business
grew with marvellous rapidity. To-day
nearly every downtown store office
building and factory is furnished each
morning by a laundry agent with clean
towels of excellent make and durability.
And towels are not the only thing. Sew
eral laundry firms furnish with them a
fine antique oak toilet case with beVeled
plate-glass mirror, brush, comb and soap.
This outfit with six clean towels a week
everything being kept in faultless order
by the employees of the laundry, is fur
nished for only 81 a month Sometimes
boot-blacktng box ana brush are pro-
vided a a slight additional expense. This
relieves the subscribers from all trouble
or difficulty with their toilet rooms, ana
they are always sure of clean towels and
plenty of soap. oven 1900 business es-
Establishments In Chicago are provided in
this way, and perfect army of men
with horses and wagons is employed in
making distributions and corrections on
an average these establishments use
twelve towels each week. or a total of
100000 towels in offices, stores and fac
tories alone.
The linen used for this towelng is all
made in Ireland, Scotland and Germany
the looms of this country being unable 10
produce a good grade of cloth, and the
larger laundries place orders of 5000 to
Is a a far1an ~ 4
seven months before getting the goods
Most of the toWeling is made with the
name of the laundrymen woven into It,
Recently concern has begun to supDlv
liquor saloons with aprons and Jackets
for the bartenders and bar towels i'm the
same way that towels are furnished If
the progressiveness of the Iaundrvrner,
continues who can tell what the future
may bring forth? viii not the house
wife be getting her table cloth and nan
ktnS in the same way and the Young man
be using handkerChiefs and wearing col
lars owned by the laundrymen? 1t would
certainty do away with a great deal of
the public.
Most of the soiled clothing. table and
bed linen comes into the laundry on Mon
day and Tuesday. The big bundles are
united on a long bench worn smooth nv
Ihe iTletlon OF numberless packages. Here
a number Of girls separate the clothing
throwing all that has not been marked 10
girl who deftly pens the name of the
owner on the garment in indelible ink
Each variety of clothes goes into a Diff
erent bin-the socks here. the collars ana
cuffs there, the underclothing all to
gether. ana so on through the list The
wash bills which come with the bundles
are preserved on a hook, to be sent up
stairs later.
The wash now goes down into the laun-
ury, great, dingy, misty room full of
the odor of soapSudS Nearly all of the
employees are girls and women, and they
wear their skirts quite short and their
sleeves rolled up. Their hair is usually
moist and strinsy and their hands have
every appearance of being parboiled, as
room stands big vat with a pump at one
corner. Here is where the soap is mixed
The laundry has its own soap-manufact-
uring establishment in the basement and
as fast as 1t is needed the tank is filled with
water and soap in the right proportions
a change being 1000 gallons. 1t takes
S,JO sallohs every week TO supply the
washing machines the suds being bumped
out and carried to them as needed. When
all the machines are at work the rumble
OF the wheels and the swish of water I'm
the room with animated sounds Each
Of the washers consists of a double cylin-
der, the outer one of wood or brass and
about six feet long by three feet in diam
eter
The outer cylinder has a door opening
TO the inner one, which is always OF
brass and is full of small round holes
the inside being ribbed like washboard
The clothing is placed inside of the inner
cylinder. the door is closed, hot water
is poured over IL from faucet and the
proper amount of soap is put in Then
the workman starts the machinery ana
the inner cylinder makes one revolutiop
in one direction and then by an automatic
belt-shifting arrangement turns ana
makes revolution in the opposite di-
recton. This prevents the clothing from
tying up in hard knots. as il would 10
If the machines went always in the same
direction. The dirty suds are LEI oiIr
from time to time from the bottom of me
lower cylinder and the clothes are al
last rinsed and taken out.
Then they so 10 the dryer. This in
genious machine consists merely of an or
anSe-shapped copper receptacle open ar
top and full of holes. 1t can be made
TO revolve at great speed by means of a
shaft which connects with ii from below
When the clothing is inside the water is