Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-22

invented by the wife Of blacksmith in
Troy and that Methodist minister first
began to manufacture them for sale in
1S25. The laundry was an adjunct to the
collar and cuff factory. because they had
TO be sold ready to wear. At first all of
the work was done by hand, but ma
chinery was designed from the necessity
of the demand. The first laundry ma
that city is still the headquarters for all
the best articles and the word Troy"
upon any kind Of a laundry machine is
supposed to guarantee its quality.
At the beginning laundry work was
limited almost entirely to that fpr men,
especially collars and cuffs and shirts,
and for some time all of this work was
done in Troy. Different towns had Troy
laundry agencies which collected the
work and shipped it by express, some
times for hundreds of miles. Then laun-
dries began to spring up in different
cities. The first one usually bore the
name Troy to indicate that those well
known methods were employed. Grad
the work and other names became
known, although Troy always will rep
resent the word laundry throughout the
country.
After mems laundry work had become
we'll established came the idea of doing
fiat work for hotels and other public
institutions. and machinery was designed
for doing 1t with much speed. BY de-
and machinery which were needed for
the different classes of family work, and
there seems to be practically no limit to
the appliances being utilized for doing
this economically and well.
The earlier washing machines were
crude affairs. wearin alike on the cloth
ing and the
Earlier Machines operators.
Were Crude Affairs. Those now in
better grades OF laundries have elm
mated these defects. They are run by
applied power. usually electric, and are
great improvement upon the old
fashioned hand methods. The use Of
chemicals has also been carefully con-
sidered and the time is not far distant
when graduate chemist will be required
In every well equipped laundry. Every
modern laundry now contains liberal
chemical laboratory with formulas for
the different processes connected with
clothes cleaning. Each Of these has been
carefully prepared with reference to its
erect upon the fabric.
For instance, ii has been recently dis
covered that the fluff which few
years ago was SO frequently found upon
white work. especially fiat work, was
not the result of the wearing Of the ma
chinery. as was at first supposed, but
rather the product Of an excess of alkali
In the soap or cleansing fluid. 1t is now
possible to completely overcome this ac-
cumulation of fun. thus aiding In pro-
noting the durability Of the clothing.
There are different chemicals provided
for the washing of the various kinds Of
fabrics. and special attention has been
paid recently to the washing of colored
goods in such a manner as to preserve
their color. Some colOred goods are
printed with an acid coloring and others
with an alkali, and the properly qualified
laLndryman must be able to distinguish
and to use a formula suited to each. In
many instances clothes which have been
faded by being washed by some ignorant
washerwoman have been restored to their
original brightness by this laundry proc
ess. The time is past when a good laun-
dry dumps all kinds OF clothing into tnes