Report on the Power Laundries in Massachusetts, 1913 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report on the Power Laundries in Massachusetts, 1913By far the greater volume of business is done in laundries which handle finished work, either (1) ¿at work, tablecloths, napkins, towels, sheets, pillow-cases, etc., or (2) starched work, such as collars and cuffs, shirts, shirt-waists, and other wearing apparel. This type of laundry, which we shall refer to as the general laundry, is of older and slower growth. It requires much more capital and involves greater risk. Here several machines of more or less elaborate construction are used to do the work, the principal ones being ¿at-work ironers, starching machines, press machines, body ironers, and a number of smaller devices according to the size of the laundry, and the variety of work to be done. These laundries employ the greater part of the wage-earners in the industry, and, outside of the drivers engaged in the collection and delivery of the goods, women employees predominate in most of the occupations.Intimately connected with the laundry business, a new line of work has developed known to the trade as the coat and towel supply. This industry, as well as the manufacture of coats and towels, is sometimes combined with the operations of the laundry, thus securing to the owners a return from three distinct sources of investment. The data included here, however, refer only to the laundry departments of such establish ments, separate reports having been made for the manufacturing opera tions, - by estimate where exact figures were not kept, - and credited to our report on manufactures. Since the ownership of the towels is Vested in the supply departments, the latter also have been omitted, in order to obviate the introduction of an element which is more or less commercial, and because of the fact that many proprietors operate supply lines indepen dently of laundries, and even extend them by furnishing cabinets contain ing brushes, combs, and soap. The custom for such establishments is drawn from professional men, from club houses, barber shops, restaurants, factories, and similar sources, and while more or less of this kind of work is done by all laundries, there are establishments in which it is made a specialty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.