The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
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 Fellow Townsman.
 The institution of the steam 1aun- dray was about thirty (3O) years ago, and yet it is one of the important in dustries of to-day, employing, as it does. about seventy thousand hands, and paying out every week for pay roll alone about $5OO,OOO,
 The average business man of to-day, if asked about the laundry business, would probably answer that an old woman and a wash tub constituted all that he knew about it. Yet it is fact that the laundry business is a very large industry, and has grown up upon solid business basis, and that is the real want of mankind. This fact alone shows that 1t has come to stay. 1t is an old and trite saying that
 cleanliness is next to Godiness," and there is much truth in the saying. We speak of character as being ''spotless- ly clean" One very large laundry in the city of Philadelphia has conspicu- ously displayed large sign reading
 " WAll Wttoll CNNl J IAAllEo SASeeAt NS your character" Steam and n1achin- cry have been the two great factors in the development of the modern laun- dry. It would no doubt be of interest to anyone to inspect well appointed up to date laundry" First comes the business Of collecting the goods. This in all well conducted laundries is care fully looked after. The drivers having call cards or books upon which they check off all the packages that are col lected on the route, and calling back for those not received upon the first days call. Next comes the examining room, where each bundle must be quickly and carefully marked and ex- amined. Then graded or separated in- to table linen, bed linen and personal linen. Also silks, f1annels and color ed work must be separated and washed carefully. Now to the wash room in which are huge revolving cylinders, in side of which the goods are placed. The cylinders are contained inside an outside cylinder, into which the soap and water are placed. These cylinders revolve three times in one direction, and then automatically reverse and revolve in the opposite direction. This hydraulic washing process Is continued from two to three hours, fresh water being let in and the dirty water drawn off from time to time. After well rinc- ing and blueing the goods emerge from the cylinders as white as snow. What Is usually termed wringing at home laundries is called extracting in the steam laundry. cannot speak too highly of this machine, the "Extract- or" The principal upon which it works Is one of natures great laws. Every thing rapidly revolving tends to move from the center to the circumference. The clothes that are to be wrung or freed from water, or as it is termed in the "steam laundry" extracted, are placed in a large copper recepticle, somewhat resembling a bushel basket, said basket being so arranged upon a single steel shaft that when the power is applied this basket revolves 1,50O times minute. The, clothes therein contained are forced from the center by the centrifugal force only, and not a thread of the finest garments will be injured. This machine is perfect. From the "extractor" the goods go to the starch room or dry rooms or mangle room. Starchfng Is all done by ma- and so perfectly and carefully that no injury can occur. All fanne1s go directly from the extractor to the dry room. and after quickly drying they are carefully steamed and ironed | The table linen, bed linen, towels, etc, go from extractor to mangle, and so perfectly has the ingenuity of man constructed these machines that 50,000 pieces a day are now ironed upon the 1 machine. After starching all the goods ! go to the dry room, and here again l Is shown one of natures laws, that is | well understood. A first cluss dry room Is not simply a hot room, but well l hot room, where the air Is | changed every few minutes. l As the heated air becomes partially | saturated with moisture it is lifted | away and fresh heated air takes It's | place. This constant heating of air, fresh heated air in contact | with the goods constantly produces hose beautiful white goods so much | admired by the public, and so impossi- ole to obtain by work done at home. After all these processes comes the and ironing, each of which s performed by machines made ex- 1ressly for this work only, and right lere let me say that in nothing are the public so much in error as in regard to roning. Most people think that all he damage done to the collars is done n the ironing, but such Is not the case.
 The injury to collars is almost en- frely caused by the manner of turning hem after the ironing. They are all irst ironed out fiat, then shaped to conform to the style the manufacturer made them to. Now right here is the rouble and all the trouble. The goods ,eing now stiff to turn them cracks the dges, and after a few turns the goods Ire ruined. For long while this has ,een a stumbling block in all the laun- Tries, but thanks to the ingenuity of nan, it is now as easy to turn a col- ar without the slightest danger of reaking as 1t isto iron them out fiat.
 A wonderful machine has been in- ented to do this work, and to do it And still more wonderful 0 relate this same machine will re- air collar if it is already broken, o as to make 1t a, thing of usefulness, S well as beauty. This machine has ao.. hut o fa,rr ,xra.aIr, |