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Show ELEPHANTINE JOB Peerless Builds New Face To Better Serve Public "We can launder anything no matter how large or how small." "Have you ever washed an elephant?" ele-phant?" ' No, but we've laundered some mighty large circus tents." And that's how Ira F. Kimball introduced us to his gigantic Peerless Laundry, one of the most industrious plants in Sugar House. Mr. Kimball and his associates with Peerless, are just completing a new front on their laundry building for offices and to better bet-ter accomodate and convenience cash and carry customers. As we entered the laundry the pieces in a preheated dryer to fluff them out. After being thoroughly cleaned, the goods are then channeled through various finishing stages. Flat work goes through huge mangles; shirts through ultramodern ultra-modern and high speed ironers; hankies through a machine that automatically irons one while another an-other is being spread on a companion com-panion board. Compressed air plays its part, too, by forcing the items against the steamer, the ironer or the shaper. The shirt system is a dandy. One girl does the sleeves and cuffs; another the collar, while a third fits the shirt on a stufftd man sort of a thing, and wham-bo she goes, right into a two press affair, when is comes out, it is thrust onto an automatic folder, and no human hand can do in less time what this precisioned machine can. Anyone, a fellow's shirt comes out done up like a bon bon one of 100 that are smoothed through the mill every hour by the three girls. Each item of clothing, tagged, marked, pinned and identified 100 per cent all the way through the laundry, finally winds up at its destination, along with all its companion pieces of the original bundle but its clean, its smooth, proper with the proprietor, we noticed it was comparatively cool even comparatively cool with the outside. And we know it is difficult to cool off a laundry or a cleaning establishment, because hot water, steam, irons, boilers and the like lend plenty of humid heat to the air inside. Mr. Kimball promptly explained his place is air conditioned, and "that huge circulators blow and keep the air as cool as possible all day long, greatly adding to the efficiency of the work of the men and women employed there. But to get back to washing, not only Monday, but every day in the week, Sundays and holidays excepted. First, you go to the rear of the building where you learn some mighty interesting facts. First, 50,000 gallons of fresh artesian water are used every day on the more than 1 tons of soiled clothing cloth-ing that passes through the laundering processes at Peerless. This water is treated with a softening process before it is heated heat-ed for washing clothes. Peerless puts each batch of clothes through seven to nine fresh waters all the used water going go-ing down the drain after it has been used just once, Mr. Kimball stressed. But to go back a bit again, you go into the boiler room where you see tons and tons of coal stacked up outside the furnace room. This boiler gets up to 100 pounds pressure of steam and the first motion of the laundry begins, for Peerless generates its own power save for beginning a day's run or closing it down. With its own water and its own its neat. Buttons are sewed on, minor mending done to peices that begin to show the worse for wear. But there is little or no wear in the laundry itself No, indeed! " The huge churns into which the clothes are dumped are as smooth as soft ice cream. Each drum, made of monel metal, is perforated in order to permit quick induction induc-tion of water and the fast expulsion expul-sion of it when it has done its bit. Sox and wooolen blankets, drapes and spreads and the like are all finished off in separate processes of stretching to soften and loosen the knap. Each item is . treated individually, and no two are put on a rack to any set pattern. Fine and delecate clothing are given special treatment, too, and are nursed through the rougher processes with skilled fingers which make every precaution against damaging effects of laundering. Mr. Kimball, and Scott Linell, the president of the firm, keep 62 employes busy a good long shift each day. With the new office space aiding employe and customer custom-er alike, everyone will be better suited to the process. And customers need pleasing, for no one with a sack of dirty duds is too happy until something nice can be done about it and so that is where Peerless Laundry conies in with its new office, its up to date equipment, its honest, amiable and hard working management man-agement and its staff of willing workers who have the best with which to do your laundry chores. power, much is available to start the job. Girls are busy sorting and tag-ing tag-ing the soiled clothes as they come in and are unbundled. Every single item is listed, tagged or marked and then checked as it is routed on its water sloshing way. After through washing, rinsing and centrifugal force pushing the water ouC of it, the clothes are put through dryers nearly everyone every-one in this day and age being somewhat familiar with the modern mod-ern methods of rollng and tumbling |