East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-21
LAUNDRY IS EQUIPPED
IN AN IDEAL FASHION
j. y. Robinson Anticipates New Laws
and ImpOves Plant To Meet De-
niands-Has Spent Thousands Of
Dollars I'm Past Year in Modern
Machinery.

]. F. Robinson, proprietor and
owner of the Domestic laundry. has
just completed a years program Of
improvements to buildings and equip
ment which makes him the proud
master Of one of the best plants Of It's
kind in the northwest. He has spent
a good many thousand dollars in this
work but believes the investment will
be profitable one to him.
The changes in his laundry are the
result OF his foresight, being made to
meet the new standards established
by new laws. Two years ago he saw
the drift Of legislation and set about
! to get his laundry in condition so that
he could operate It in conformance
with the new demands and still real
ize profit from his business. The
| changes in his building and the addi-
ZION Of new machinery has taken the
teeth out of the nine-hour, employ
ers' liability, minimum wage and
sanitation laws.
The addition which he built to his
! brick building on the corner Of Court
and Thompson street as we'll as the
purchase of an additional lot has
more than doubled his floor space so
that there is no congestion any place.
| Every worker has plenty of elbow
room. By means of high windows
and big fans, a system of ventilation
that gets rid of the steam and suf
/ locating heat has been introduced
that takes the laundry far out of the
! sweatshop class.
Most Improved Machinery.
The new machinery which gives Mr..
| Robinson almost complete new
| equipment, has been arriving at in
tervals during the past year but last
week the last and largest shipment
! arrived and is now in place. 1t con-
sisted of an entire carload. The prin-
cipal piece of machinery in this car
was one of the Troy Laundry Ma
| chinery Company's famous Trojan
I Flatwork Ironers for ironing sheets,
| pillowslips, towels, napkins. etc, be-
/ ing the modern successor to the old
! styled mangle which has been a ter
I ror in name and fact to laundrymen
for many years.
The machine weighs over five tons
and is huge affair. 1t has an iron
| ing width of 1870 inches which means
that three feeders can be used at all
| times, two on sheets. and one on tow
els or napkins. With towels and nap
| kins not over 19 inches wide, six
! feeders can be used. Inasmuch as a
folder is required opposite each feed
ell and four shakers necessary, sixteen
workers can be used at one time on
this machine at rush times such as
during the Roundup. And one OF
the beautiful features of it is tina,
these workers are protected from in.
jury by a guard rail in front of the
rollers which throws the entire ma.
chine out of gear as soon as the
hand touches it.
This style of Trojan ironer has q
capacity that can hardly be overtax.
ed. One of these machines in the
laundry of the Blackstone Hotel Chi
cago, turned out 1920 pieces in II
hours and one in the Middlesex Steam
Laundry of Lowell. Mass, 5000 towels
in one hour. Besides having the ca.
pacity. the machines do superb work
giving a finish equal IL not better
than the average hand work and al
one-fourth the price.
In addition to the flatwork ironer
included in the car last week were g
Huebisch clothes dampener, a ma.
, chine that throws hot spray ovel
. the starched goods and prepares them
for rolling in cotton blanket fol
seasoning, a collar and cuff ironing
machine, collar shapers and body
ironers
With this modern machinery. Mr.
Robinson is able to work his employees
the nine hours, which is the limit
. placed by law. and still get out his
work for his patrons in this city ant
other parts of eastern oregon without
= delay. He is now employing thirt!
' people in his plant and his weekly
, payroll runs from 1926 to $500 Some
. of his employees have been with him
, for twelve and fourteen years and it i:
upon them as we'll as his new i'm.
provements that he relies for eff
, cheney of service.
RJJGJN GIVEN OVATION