. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . a laundry, as he will savehis wages many times over in the amount of goodssaved from relaundering. An operator of this sortrequires quite an extensive paraphernalia. He shouldhave an ironing-table, sponge cloths, flat-irons, a barof soap, a bottle of bleach, a bottle of acid, and thevarious liquids necessary to the cleaners art. Of course there will be many shirts that are sosoiled or poorly ironed that they will have to be washedover. These shirts should be sent directly to the wash-room, and should
. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . a laundry, as he will savehis wages many times over in the amount of goodssaved from relaundering. An operator of this sortrequires quite an extensive paraphernalia. He shouldhave an ironing-table, sponge cloths, flat-irons, a barof soap, a bottle of bleach, a bottle of acid, and thevarious liquids necessary to the cleaners art. Of course there will be many shirts that are sosoiled or poorly ironed that they will have to be washedover. These shirts should be sent directly to the wash-room, and should be Avashed before everything else,and relaundered in preference to any other work, asa lot of shirts can not be shipped until the washoverscome through. — 157 — Great care should be given to wasliovers in orderthat they may not have to be washed over a secondtime, for any small number of shirts in a lot thathave to be returned to the washroom will delay theshipment of the entire lot. Therefore it is necessaryto make a special effort to organize a quick system inrelaundering Fie. 47, TROY EYELET RAISEK. (Troy Laundry Machinery Co.) The inspector will frequently find shirts whichneed repairing. These should also be attended topromptly in order that they may get through in timeand not delay the lot. Usually a shirt which has tobe repaired must be relaundered, and it should be re-paired in time to be relaundered with the washovers. The examining table should be provided with aneyelet raiser, and the shirts that are passed should — 158 — have the eyelets raised and then passed on to the assort-ing racks. There are several makes of eyelet raisers, hut thekind recommended for large quantities of new workare those which are attached to the table and oj^ a lever. A machine of this kind is the Troyeyelet raiser, shown in Fig. -±7. — 159 — CHAPTEK 21. BOXING. After the shirts are examined they are ready forboxing. There are various methods of handling
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