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ices; averaging about eighty in a batch, The wonderful adaptability of the mind and the sense of location is shown in a distribut ing room. The men have to learn the exsc The modern systow of washing clothes, location of caeli of 1,000 number on the if not the perfection of mechanical art, is shelves, different each days and after they f one picco at least a great saving of labor over the old "have once found a ruber and put grandmother's plan of hand-work, and hay monye it, they soldton have to hunt for it s only the alight disadvantage of being rallier second time, but, when another piede of the rough on one's linen and such a sudden same mark turuh up will go to the place at When all the and sharp remover of buttons that the uso pace without a falmo stop ful stud has alice pupplanted the batton collars of the day's wash are in they are For tron's me. The process for washing sorted first into the ten or twelve subdivi dicthen in a modern laundry, and there are sins, and then aguis into separate piles for several such in San Francisco, is really in-cash owner. It is a treat to see a good teresting, mod is totally unknown except to 'distributor' cost collar, With a huge the few engaged in the busince. The per- bundle in bis left hand and seventy dr foction to which the business has been eighty piles in front of him, he will look To be obtained at the "" brenght is readily shown by the statement at the number on the collar, locate the ple that in any stessa laundry in San Francisco to which it belongs and place it anngly bundle of dirty clothes could be thrown there in a nest, without a false motion, and in at the door of the marking-room, onter- almost na fast as the aye out follow him. An ed on the books, markod, washed, dried, expert can sort more collare in an hour than starobed, peeled, sorted, wrapped in pa ten green hands, and never make a mis per and delivered to the wagon at the door take, while new men would make dozens. of the distributing-room in fifteen minutes Handkerchiefs are sorted on to the piles from the time they first entered the build and so are socks, almost as fast as one would ing dirty. Of course this would be rushing deal cards, though the distributors ofton things, and the way would have to behave trouble with the socks from the marks cleared for the work, but it crusid he fading. donc. The regular routine is for clothes brought in one evening to be re
THE COST OF WARNING. By night the bundles are all sorted and turned clean to their owners the second ready for tying up the next morning. If morning thereafter. The process of sun-one wants, to see lightning work let them. drying commoners with the collection of the take an early morning trip to some big dirty clothes by the laundry wagon drivers, laundry and watch the distributore at who have regelar routes Some laundries employ as many as a dozen wagons which make collections five days each week. When the driver has got through with his day's collections, he dumps the clothes, all neatly tied bundles, into the marking-room, where the lots of each driver ace kept parate. In caso the handle belongs to a te gelar customer, but his work reads to be dono in the marking room. The bundle of a new customer has to have the name, afl dras, day of colection and driver unit There are copied into, the day hook, and thon the bundle is opened. A gentleman, known as a caller, spreads the dirty clothes out on the door and with a few dextram twitches as the assorted. This done, he call out the list to the head marker, who
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work. The head man takes the bundles from the shelves in rotation and rapidly chocks off the piezes to see all are there, Then two men seize the bundle, one at each end, place it on a paper on which the number, address and cost is written, roll the papar round it and ties it up with string in less time than it takes to write one line of this paper As soon as the bundles are all tied up they are given to the drivers, and nothing remains to be done but deliver them and collect pay. The machinery and plant of a good-sized laundry will cust fully 250,000, and the place will give work to from 200 to 250 harde. On general work Fancy profits are small, but on ladies fina wear they are enormous. It is no rate thing for Indies bills to run from 875 to entors them on the day hook, her stare, as a rule confined to lending actecasco.
$30
a werk, though anchi extravagancas to ne mistake, in liris to Aug laundeymion Eliis Wiltou is spoken ways makes it a point to-lou's over nee no valuable etiads have been left there,
, till today as the most extravagant of and it is a treat to see an old hand at the her sex in the natr of clean linen, and business go tlauugh the pockets of a white among the men of this city, Dasdiah Liver vest to make a that neither ding, car- qore is granted the palm by common ticket nur Ove-Lollar pices Jurks. there. ssent. Miss Wilton often had to pay as No trouble is ever taken to are com-high as $5 for a single picca, so elaborate mos bone
or peart studsey re were the lace flounces, frills and Butinga thrown into a box, free to all com she affected. The cost of wishing to single ers, but valuables are always carefully gentlemen ranges from seventy-five cents untered the book and returned. Dis-
on
io $3 per week, depending to course on the honest markers are almost unknown. As frequency with which they change their soon as the list is entered the head marker linet, but no a has any chance to gives out a washing number, by which the approach the other sox in the cost of keep owner's wash is ever after designated. ing cloan. These numbers run from 1 c 2,000, and un ingenious arrangement of v'e and dashabe tolls the driver, Thus a before the dumber means Brown, after it Jones: y dash bofere, Richards, aitar Hendricks, and so on,46 soon as the muck is given out the inker rapidly maris all the clothse, selecting x- gular places on each piece, to give the dis- tributors as little trouble as possible. Whoo markod, the ink is pressed over a hot iron and the clothes dumped into a universal pile, which contains the whole day's wash. This pio is then handed over to the head washer, who roughly segregates the pieces, putting flannels in out lot, soeks in birle and plain gosta in autothe BCNAL STATION, VICTORIA PAK, HONGKONG,
the
Government Notification.
No. 50,
HAKWOUR DEPARTMENT.
The following Rules regarding signalling at tho Faak are published for general in- Formation.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWAŃT, Acting Colonial Serdary. Colonial Secretary'e Ottice, Hongkong, 17th February, 1888.
1823 Feel abore Sew Eved.
1. The Union Jack will be hoisted at the Mast Head when any voss is being signalled.
2. The Commercial Code of Signals for all Nations will be used at the Station.
3. All Signala made by vessels in the Offing will be repeated.
4. When Signalling to Meu-of-War in the Harbour or in the Ong, a White Bu sign will to hoisted at the Flagstad; and st the Mast Hand of the Man-of-War.
5.. Whou a Steantor, or the smoke of a
lace-trimmed pieces and silk goods are kept carefully apart for special bandling Same goods are put into a copper to be boiled, others go into the big washer at once. This is a huge cylindrical dram revolving in trough of boiling water into which is put a liberal allowance of soap, borus or some patent, washing fluid. After the elether have remained in this long enough to loosen the dirs they are takon oat, allowed to drain, and thou plused in a trough full of clean water, constantly resets ed. At the one of this is a wringer worked by hand or stcam, and the attendant dextrously weaves the clothes Steamer, is sighted, the Compass Bearing at the Yard Arm, and Distanco off at the into ft cope as they enter the Most Head, will be hoisted. If, when the machine and pass through into another vessel is made out, sin is not & Mail Sta trough full of fresh water beyond. After a VARE the Vessel's Distinguishing Flag will bu stirring and pounding in this they are substituted for the Compass Signal, and it wring out into a third trough. And thence will he kept flying until the ship anchors. toa fourth-and--nre then ready for the last To Distance Signal will be kept up fifteen wringer. This is mutal dram fall of hales, which reyol vus on
minutes after the Steamer is made ont.
cus speed, and the presses the last drop of water out of the clothics,
aimply moist. The heavy pieces are hung out to dry, while the shirts and surall pieces and all fine goods go rpatairs to the hot aloest, where in a fox minutes they are as dry as a bou. From there the white picces go downstairs to the starcher and the flannels direct to tho roner. After the starcher has rubbed in a sufficient toimit of stiftning the clothes go down to the ironing Toora, which engrgus more help than any part of the work. The best ironers work on shirts and collare, the learnors o fluxnels. The shirts go to the ironers, rolled up, with the starch still wet. The ironer opens the roll and apends about five minutes rubbing the starch into the green light at the East Yard Arim until she
leaving trekr
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6. If the Steamer is a regular Mail Steamer a Gan will be fired, and a Ball over the English, Franch, or American Ensign,. with the Distance off at that time, will bu thosen at the Maut Head. The Compass Signal and Symbol will be handed down. The Ball and Ensign will be kept up until the vessel anchors, The Distance Signal will be kept flying for half-an-hour, and changed at each succussire hall hour to show the Distance of it those times. When the versial is between Green Island and the North Fuint of Hongkong the Distance Sigual will be hauled down. If the Mail Steamer in not in the Harbour when it is too dark to distinguish flaga, a red light will be exhibited at the West Yard Arm, ora
grain of the ixen. This is hard work, and anchore
to loosen the bra the ironers take the roll |
7. River Steamers will be signalled.
and best it against the ironing board. The approach of other Stounion from Macao
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