| Show MEAT TRUST AND SOAP Laundries Advance Price of Rough Dry Work INCREASE IS 20 PER CENT Scarcity of Fat Cattle Causing Advance Ad-vance in the Price of Tallow From Which Soap Is Made Ono of the Reasons Given for Lifting the Price of Family Washing Other Rca Sons Arc Higher Wages to Employees Em-ployees Expensive Starch Etc Regular List Prices Not Affected S Week Week Kittling irmihrtg May 3 c May ID Hank clearhiRB SiVJloM JMVJa Really I inuisiera n7l 3i > L17 Building permits itfiV i 17KO The connection between the meat trust and a steam laundry may seem to the average citizen rather remote but to the increased price of cattle is attributed in part an advance In the cost of washing clothes which will he made by practically all of the larger laundry establishment1 In Salt Lake within a week It IB argued that thu high iguix al which cattle are sold has advanced the price of tallow out of which soap fs made Corn is very high also and starch has risen correspond ingly I The raise wilt apply only to that christ of washing designated as rough dry which Includes family washing done by the pound The new price will be C cents ji pound Instead of 5 cents with the further proviso that no bundle weighing less than nine pounds will be accepted under this schedule The reg ular list prices will remain unchanged After ii thorough trial we have found thai we cannot profitably do thorough tho-rough dry work for 5 cents n pound said Jj ii Terry one of the proprietors of the Troy laundry Just think what Is necessary to be done with this class of work Firs a man goes out with < l vttl uil iliiu gllllirrs lip U1U IHIHUKS They have to be sorted and every piece carefully marked Then they are put Into the tubs quite separate from the starch work and a great deal of soap Is necessary for them much more than for collars and cuffs and the like After that they must be mangled many of the pieces starched dried sorted again and carried back to the house in the wagon The cost of materials bus advanced steadily In the last fetv months High priced corn has elevated the cost of starch scarcity of fat cattle has sent up the price of soap and so on through the list Vhy It even costs more to take cure of the horses and get them shod than It used to Added to that and more important than all the others our salary list has hecn steadily In creasing and we pay much higher WilETnfi t him 55e fnrmorlv i illil Vlinn tr > started to doing the rough dry work there was only one other laundry In the country that had taken It up so we didnt have much In the experience of others to guide us We started by charging 3 cents a pound but we have found it is quite Impossible to keep on at this figure hence the advance There will bo no Increase In the listed prices of starch work That time local advance Is in any way due to the marked increase of prices made by l the laundry trust In Chicago recently was denied bv managers of local laundries The Salt Lake estab lishments have no outside connections and their action was due entirely to local conditions STore New Cottages Despite the high prices of building matcrfal many new homes are being nrceted this Hummer and building ac tivity Is likely to continue unabated until the return of cold weather Among time smaller residences projected aTe a 5ISOO house for H S Campbell on Main street near North Temple by Architect Vhtttiker u SLiiOO cottage for Mr Davis on Fifth South near Fifth Past by l Archictect Ulmer and a 2100 house for Dr John T 1 While at Muray by Archi Wet Ware |
