The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-15
VISIT +.
BRIN GSST0RY
FROM UNKNOWN
appreciation of Wonders
Found in Bismarck Laun-
dry Given Management
|INDS NEW METHODS

When ! visited the Capital Laun-
|ry Of this city, / had frankly some
| isgivingS, as to what sort Of an
'npIesSion it would make, reads an
|nsolicited story of visit made
4erc by an anonymous writer. ! felt
little like the judge who, in charging
Se jury, said, "If you believe the
,fendant, find for him; if you be
eve the prosecutor, find for him:
YOU'RE like me and don't believe
thor. Heaven knows what you ought
do" | knew that there had been
any improvements in laundry ma
incry and methods during the past
N years. But knew, too, that
any women, who had perhaps ttIcd
le laundry years ago and found 1t
anting. still believed that the Loop
I'd could not change his spots, and
|ld his old appetite for shirts to
new up and buttons to mash. SO
went hoping for the best and fc;r-
g the worst.
Now | wish that could have taken
it'll me every one in the city who
intercs ted in washing or in laund-
les. For | am sure that every
hir minded person would have JOIN
with me in bringing in verdict
favor of the laundry. OF coui Sc,
he laundry was admittedly on eNhl-
ton and at its best. do not sup
use that laundrics generally have
usic from q concealed band, or
erve their visitors with lee cream
nd cake. But, quite aside from the
cry successful attempt to make
Everybody feel Eat home" the ordin-
nv, everyday work that was being
one during my tour of inspection
ave proof Of the care, skill, and
,oroughncss habitual to the laun-
ry today.
Saw Much Machinery
had expected Tie machinery to
the most impressive feature. And
ldeed as / saw load that would
ave taxed a dozen washcrwomen
ashed in a Cascade, all surplus
alter removed by a Humatic Extrac-
pr, and dried in Il Vento Tumbier
lat ulu inc WORN VI lililtS VI ClDN.INo
ne, or saw the Tat work ironers
urn out their quantities of smooth
men in the space of Il few seconds,
felt that the wash tub and wrlnger
,ere )hopelessly obsolete. And the
mailer machines for handling indi-
idual pieces, the electric prim
resses that work with touch Of a
luton. the starching machine, the
hirt and collar units, each compos-
of several specialized machines
hat turn out shirts and collars that
re the despair Of the home washer
ry is a great cleaning factory with
Implicated and efficient machinery
or every phase of the cleaning pro
ess.
But the machinery was not the
iief factor in converting me to The
hundry. After all, machiner" i;
uilt primarily, for quantity prcduc
ion. 1t was the combination OF thu
nest work of the machine with tn,
lost skillful hand finish that strucl
he as being the best feature of the
hundry system. | had supposed
hat the laundry thought of clothes
nd other work in terms of $50 or 25(
ound lots. | thought that M.
undle and your handle and thu
undle of the family next door were
brown together, shot through thu
arious machines, and sorted out t
sent back to us.
But | found that each individual
iece. from the dantiest handker
hief to the largest bed-spread, il
arefully followed on it's trip through
he laundry; is checked and inspected
nd handled throughout with indi
idual attention. In the Prim-Pres
nd Fl mestc departments womel
ere taking work from the pressc
work that seemed to me complete
finished-and adding to it the fin
hing touch of shillful hand-iron
be.
How Pressing is Done
And the Prim- Prest department in
uded repairing service, not for thei.
ythical ravages of "manglers" il
he laundry, but for garments tina
ad left home with missing buttons
distressing rips and tears, serd
~ them back with holes sewed VI
nd their full quota of firmly fasten
buttons.
In the less finished service, which
Re primarily washing services witt