Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-09-28
NEW LAUNDRY
ABOUT TO OPEN
Capital City Laundry Will
Be One Of Most Modern
and Best Equipped Bust
ness Establishments in
the Southwest

ON Monday morning, Octobee 8,
possibly two or three days before
that date. there will appear upon the
streets Of Phoenix a battery of hand
somelv decorated, green wagons, with
realistic reproductions of the dome OF
the Arizona state capitol upon each
side At the same time wheels will
begin turning and machinery will be
placed in motion in the Capital City
Laundry, the newest, most complete
and most modern establishment of its
kind in the entire southwest.
In a handsome brick and cement
structure, erected specially for Messrs.
J. r. Wall and H. c. Reed, compris-
ing the Capital City Laundry Com
pGny, Inc, on the Bennett property
northwest corner of Third avenue and
Madison street, the latest Phoenix
industry is comfortably housed. And
III preparing to cater to the laundry
trade of Phoenix. no pains or brains
We're spared to make the new institu
ton equipped as completely as money
and the scientific understanding of
the needs of such business today
requires.
4 visit to the establishment, now
nearly ready to throw open its doors
for the inspection of the public, is
Well worth while. Here have already
been installed four modern washing
machines, steam-aperated, a dry hot
cir tumbler, a series Of five ma
chimes utilized in the operation of
Ironing shirts, a modern collar mold
er. a big hot roll mangle and as
unique and effective a cOnveyor dry
room as modern ingenuity could de
Wis. Outside stands an S0-hOrse pow
er marine boiler, employing oil for
fuel, while inside is a 3O-h horse power
engine operating the machinery.
One of the unique features of the
new laundry is the absence Of gas or
gasoline for the heating of the rolls
and other ironing machines. All rolls
are heated by steam. thereby insuring
absolute impOssibility of scorching
clothes. And in molding the collars
instead of ironing them. rough edges
are eliminated and the life Of the
collar is increased. The various pro-
cesses employed in the handling of
the different classes of clothes, would
require pages to describe
Not the least interesting of the
modern devices with which the laun-
dry is equipped is the conveyor dry
an hour, and drying the heaviest gar
ments in fifteen minutes. BY a sys-
tenn of COnveyors, which move into
a box-like room, steam heated to 800
degrees and having 400 individual
hooks, and reappear fifteen minutes
later, the clothes are dried quickly
and with but little handling In addi-
ton there is a separate apartment
known as the rack room into which
metal trucks, laden with heavy gar
ments, are sent and where the drying
process is completed in the same
space of time as in the larger COM
partment. Assisting the heat in the
drying process are two large fans
causing a complete circulation of dry
air.
The establishment is one Of the
roOmiest. lightest. and best ventilated
it would be possible to construct
Every garment coming from the
laundry will have been sterilized and
present hospital cleanliness. It is a
decided step in advance in the meth
cd of laundering the public's clothes
Messrs Wall and Reeds are vel
known in Phoenix Mr. Wall 70,
four years has been engaged in ranch
ing not far from town, while Mr.
INttu was formerly a member of tho
firm of Reed & Skipper For then
foreman they have secured J. r
Mcclure, for years manager of ar
up-to-date laundry in Texas anC
thoroughly competent to handle the
newer and larger establishment II
was at his suggestion that a vel
was drilled to a great depth provid-
ing clear water for use in washing
and for the boilers. This water i!
conducted to two 300 gallon tank.
just outside the building, where it i:
heated and then piped TO the various
washing machines. BY a process O
condensation the greater part of tn,
water used in the boilers is secured
after it has been made practically
free from those injurious substance.
which require boiler compounds t,
overcome and even then shorten tn,
life of the pipes.
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