San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

Laundry
Bundle
BY ONE WHO KNOWS.

no you count your clothes when
~ you send them to the laundry!
Do you count them when they are
brought home? II there is a sheet,
or shirt, or pillow slip missing, what
do you do? If there happens to be
an extra sheet or an extra pair OF
pillow slips, or if you happen to find
six shirts for your husband when you
sent only five away, what do you do?
We met laundryman the other
day from one of our Texas cities and
he said, You know, there is some
thing rather surprising about the wo-
men folk we laundryman deal with.
There is an average of 100000 gar
ments passing through our laundry
every week. We try every way we
can never to lose garment. But
sometimes a garment will get mixed
up with another's laundry and be
sent out to the wrong place. Or
suppose it goes to the wrong place
because none of us at the laundry
ever EATS that shirt or sheet.
None of us ever steals it. And none
of us ever tears it up and throws
it away.
DON'T REPORT SURPLUS.
@But in all my years of experience
running laundry l have never known
a woman to count her clothes when
they come home except those who nave
lost something. We ALWAYS hear
from them but we NEVER hear from
the other woman who would surely
find that extra sheet or shirt if she
counted her laundry when 1t comes
home. So I have decided that only
those who lose something ever check
up on their laundry list after it comes
home. No, No! / don't want to mis-
Judge any woman, but / am just re-
marking that is one of the things j
have noticed in the laundry business.
Only those who lose something ever
count their laundry when. 1t is re-
turned. And it seems little strange,
don't you think?"
During the course Of the conven-
ton of laundrymen held in Amarillo
a few DAYS ago we listened to a most
interesting discussion on CLAIMS.
And you'd be surprise at the claims
there are in the laundry business. We
have lived out on the plains where
Everybody used to LIVE out their
{claims, but it seems in the laundry
business it is the fellow that gets
nothing who has to pay out MS
claims. Yes, sir, every rag and sheet
and tsuit that is lost or destroyed Mt
the laundry must be paid for. Wouldn't
we fafmers get rich if we could only
collect on all VIC lose? ! wonder II
there rs another business where the
claims come as regularly as they do in
the laundry business. Yes, there's one
ana that's the railroad business.
That's another business that always
hears about the losses.
PAY FOR SUIT.
One man told about one OF his
patrons SO summer suits he sent
10 the laundry a few weeks ago to
he removed. And in the process OF
making a new suit out of an old
one the owner claimed his suit had
been shrunk until he couldn't get
into II. But instead Of giving that
snit to one of his boys as he prob
ABLY would have done IL he had not
sent TO to the laundry that man
Just put in his claim for the whole
so and took it and bought him a
new suit. How's that for good
business. VI course sucn cldluis
make the whole laundry fraternity
careful and in this way render valu-
able. service to humanity.
Then we learned another lesson
that must be pretty hard on the
laundry profession. Comparing the
laundry business to the banking
business and the methods of salts
flying customers one man said, when
you take a dollar up to the CASHIER
Of the bank and turn it over to him
to take care of for a few days he
doesn't have to check that dollar and
when you call for it give you back
the same identical dollar. Any old
dollar is just as good as another. But
when 100000 garments are turned
over to me every week, / am expected
TO hand back the same identical gar
ment to the same identical person that
sent 1t there. And that's some respon-
sibility that every patron could help
us bear if they would only report the
extra garments when they find them
in their laundry
And he is about right, don't you
think?
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