The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-29
WONDERFUL
CHANGE In
LAUNDRY WORK
Mr.. Adams Of the New
Method Plant Installs Lat
est Machinery for Work

would be considered quite a DAY
work for the average housewife. Ii
fact, it would probably take hel
about month to do this work. But
at the New Method Laundry with the
new machinery which has just been
installed they can do 40 family wash
ings in the forenoon and deliver them
before dinner and for good measure
do the same number in the afternoon
and have them in the home before
supper time.
This is all the result of wonderful
new machinery which O. d. Adams,
owner of the modern plant, has just
installed. During the nine years
which the New Method Laundry has
been at it's present quarters it has
more than doubled it's business. 1t is
now prepared to triple it's weekly out
put with the same high-class of work
which has always been it's policy.
Mr.. Adams showed representative
of the Evening CALIFORNIAN over his
plant today explaining the new meth
cd machinery. The New Method
Laundry impressed the visitor as a
marvel of system and efficiency.
The so-called family washings are
put into huge washing machines of
which there are a battery of five
capable of doing thirteen different
washings at the same time. These
machines can be reloaded every two
hours. From the washing machine
the clothes go into centrifugal
wringer. Here the clothes are whirl
ed around at high speed. There is
none of the old fashioned method of
running the clothes through a wiring
ing machine. There is no wear and
tear upon the clothes by the new
method
For washings that are flat work on
ly the partly-dried clothes are then
put through the flat work ironer and
come out we'll ironed and completely
dried. The fiat work ironer is heated
ing or burning of clothes.
For work that needs special drying
is new electric drying machine
which cost $1,000 alone. This method
of drying clothes takes away the old
fashioned drying bins or closets. 1t
leaves the clothes light and fluffy as
if hung before an electric fan blowing
warm air at the clothes. There are
few laundry plants in the country
with this modern equipment.
The method of handling shirts and
collars is a revelation to those not
acquainted with modern laundry meth
DDS. There is none of the old-fash-
toned rubbing of collars and shirts
with an iron. The shirts are launder-
ed by steam heated pressing irons
which complete the entire operation
of ironing in two or three different
moves. Collars are ironed without
rubbing an iron at all. Delicate ma
chimes which are perfect in their adj
iustments launder the collars with
the very minimum of wear upon the
fabric.
Another new feature of the New
Method is a darning machine which
takes all the drudgery out of darning
socks. The machine does a better job
than even a grandma could do.
There are twenty-five girls and six
men employed at the New Method
Laundry. The firm runs one auto
truck, one auto delivery machine and
one team. 81
Miss Olive A. Barry has just COM
pleted twenty-five years of laundry
work in st. Johnsbury. She was for
eight years with the w. o. Shaw Co.
which was succeeded by Mr.. Adams.
For II years she has been an impor-
tant executive and looked after the'
office work of Mr.. Adams.
, Mr.. Adams, proprietor of the New
Method Laundry, is one of the best
known laundrymen in New England.
For two years he was president of the
Laundrymen's association of Vermont
and New Hampshire. 1t is now
Joined with the National Laundry
mems Owners Association which
holds it's annual convention at the
new hotel Pennsylvania in New York
on October 6, 7 and g. Mr.. Adams is"
planning to attend this important,