The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-08-22

The casual visitor to the plant of
the American Steam Laundry, on
Main street, is at once struck by the
absence of the heat and steam that
is the obnoxious feature of the major
ity of similar institutions. In other
places the great warmth and clouds
of steam makes it decidedly uncom-
Portable for the visitor and especially
unhealthful to the employees. At the
American laundry all these uncom-
Portable features are eliminated by
the use of electrical machinery, which
does away with the heat and at the
same time makes the work far more
strated in the ironing of the clothes
turned out. The customary method
in the majority of the other laun-
dries is to have a large stove in the
center of the room, encircled with
racks where the irons are placed to
be heated. To do so it is necessary
that a hot fire be maintained in the
stove at all times, thus heating u the
entire room to a high temperature.
The girls who have charge of the
! ironing are compelled to make fire.
quent trips to the iron rack whenever
| the irons they are using get cool and
replace them with hot ones, and if too
hot the irons are dipped in a tub of
water. Aside from the uncomforta-
BILE heat, the walk to and from the
stove so many times a day tends to
greatly fatigue the girls, and at the
same time there is danger of turning
out work that is unsatisfactory, ow-
ing to the dirt and SCOT that is the
constant attendant of the majority of
stoves.
This great disadvantage is entirely
done away with in the popular estab-
lishment of French Bros. The plant
is equipped throughout with the most
modern electrical laundry features,
the first of the kind ever brought to
Kalispell. The irons are all connected
with wires and heated by the dyna-
mo, rendering obsolete the methods
of heating by fire and at the same
, time turn out work that is considered
, superior. In the laundry there are
!, six of the electrical irons and the CIR
} in charge has but to stand at hel
! table and use the same iron hour
: after hour. When they become toe
hot, all that is necessary is to turn
: off the current until they again be
7 come cool, when it is again switched
on. The irons are of the most i'm
t proved pattern and do excellent work
/ The stove is done away with entirely
The entire plant is lighted by cleo
tricity generated by a 2O-horse power
engine in the engine room, rendering
: 1t unnecessary to rely upon an out
: side company for power. The ma
= chinery, with one exception is driver
- by the powerful fluid, and in a shor
. time every piece of machinery in tn,
= plant will be controlled in this man
= ner The dynamo is a marvel of cleo
: trical machinery of 100 light power
y with a speed capacity of 1900 revolu
u lions per minute.
: There is also in the plant two larg
u washers with capacity of Z
. shirts each, dry house that is tn
. equal of any in the state, with caps
= city of drying 100 shirts and 200
VI collars and cuffs per hour. A fore
- of nine girls is employed at all time,
~ besides other employees. When tn
plant was first opened on May 4, 19Ot
but two girls were employed. Thi
one fact gives comprehensive ide
ID of how the business has grown unde
p the careful and efficient manageme1
OF the proprietors, who have ha
years of experience in the bushes
e. That they are constantly alert to
III their plant with modern machinei
is proven by their latest purchas
The proprietors take a pride in the
> business and leave no stone unturne
that will enable them to satisfy the
- ever growing list of patrons.
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