The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-07

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| Insealled Al d Up-so-Date
| Laund- zAiae..
A few months agosrhen the Green.
vile Steam Laundry On Noeth Wal.
mt street. awas destroyed by 6re, the
building and contents being almos,
= total loss, every one sympathized
with Messrs. Fletcher and Harris, the
| proprietors. But now these enter
prising gentlemen are receiving the
congratulations Of every one on the
completeness of their new laundry
on South Walnut street, and the push
| and activity of Messrs. Fletcher and
Harris are indeed commendable.
Hardly had the smouldering en-
bers of their former ili-fated laundry
died out before they had purchased
their new site next to the levee board
building. This is now a fifty by sixty
foot brick building, remodeled and
improved Cement floors were put
in, and windows added and enlarged
The next move was to install the nee
essary machinery, and in this work
Messrs. Fletcher and Harris have
spared no means TO get the best inn
proved machines made for turning
e
they have a laundry that cannot be
excelled in all its appointments In
the new Greenville Steam Laundry
there are machines that are used III
the largest laundries OF Memphis,
Birmingham. and in fact in all the
large laIndries of the country; and
among these machines are the fol-
lowing: Five steam pressure ironers,
for shirt bosoms, yokes. neck bands
and cuffs; cuff starcher for cuffs
attached to shirts This machine isl
operated 50 that the starch is applied
only on the cuffs without any get
ting on the sleeves. There is also .
starcher for detached collars and
cuffs There are two starch cookers
holding twenty-five gallons OF starch
! piece. and starcl, IS made in these
every day. In the steam drying room,
eight by eight feet, which has a ven
dlating fan, $50 shirts and 500 collars
can be dried every thirty-five min
ates. Five washing raachines are
are used and two centrifugal wringers.
4 large steam fiat ironer, of many
steel rollers 100 inches long, has a
capacity of ironing 1000 shirts daily.
A Monarch collar and cuff ironer,
one of the best machines of the kind
ever put into a laundry, and is useo
by Loeb and the Memphis Steam
Laundry of Memphis, has a capacity |
Of $4,000 collars per day. Other |
machines are patent steam damp |
ner, which saves collars from crack |
ing; collar shaper, which does not
make rough edges, and wing point |
Upper, which rounds collars perfect
ly in turning points. Each hand
ironing board has individual gas heat
ers. The laundry has its own artesian
we'll, with tank capacity of $4,000
gallons. The water used for wash
ing white clothes is filtered so tina,
they will not need drastic treatment
to get the proper color. The exhaust
steam is used for heating the water
for the wash tubs. In the rear of the
laundry a building is being erected
which will be used for dining and
a dressing room for the employees. |
Of which there are thirty, every one
of whom are experts in their differ
ent departments.
From the brief description of the |
new Greenville Steam Laundry given |
above, our people can readily see that |
Messrs. Fletcher and Harris believe
in growing greater Greenville. They
have installed only such machinery
as will handle growing and exter-
sive business. Their one aim is to
give the people hrst-class laundry |
in every respect. and to turn out such
high-grade work that will keep the
local laundry business at home. and
they should succeed in their efforts.
They have agents in Memphis and
and all the surrounding |
towns, and no one doubts but that |
the Greenvilie Steam Laundry vii: |
meet with deserved success.