Morning Appeal

THE STEAM LAUNDRY.
Some Queer Freaks of the Management.

The Steam Laundry has again been leased; this time to Mr. Mansfield. The Laundry has had many ups and downs since it started, but there has hardly been a week since it started that it has not had sufficient patronage to pay all expense and have a surplus left.

The troubles with the Laundry began when H. S. Mason went to San Francisco and recklessly invested in machinery sufficient to run a laundry three times the size of this one. After it got started it had no less than half a dozen bosses, no end of book-keepers and collectors, and some how each one appeared to be looking out for himself. Patronage was pouring in all the time, and yet the hands did not get paid, and the place was continually being threatened with attachments. All sorts of rumors were flying round, and several men connected with the Laundry have been charged on the streets with crooked work. Where did the thousands of dollars collected from the citizens of Carson go to?

The Board of Trustees are not held accountable for it, as they, too, seemed to have very little to do with the management. On one occasion, when the Board went to examine the books they were snubbed and left the building with the idea that they were in considerable luck not to have been kicked out. Yet the same Trustees gave their individual notes for the machinery, and have had to pay several hundred dollars apiece.

Another mystery connected with the place is the remarkable disappearance of clothes. Almost everybody has lost clothes, and yesterday the APPEAL editor was informed that over twenty bundles of clothes had been stowed away in a house in this city, said clothes having been taken from the Laundry.

The women who worked like slaves in the Ironing Department were often unable to get their wages, and on some occasions they received as low as 40 cents a week for their work. They say that certain male help in the place got their wages all right, but the women had to take what they could get.

If half the reports are true about the place, some of the cheekiest cases in town have got their fins in somewhere.

Since Mr. Mansfield has taken hold of it he informs the APPEAL that he cleared money above all expenses, and this in the face of the fact that scores of families disgusted with the loss of clothes and the delay in washing, have gone back to the Chinese.

The new management states that it will pay for all clothes lost, and solicits the custom of the families of this city. There is no reason why, with honest, conscientious management, the Laundry may not be made to pay dividends to the stockholders.

The APPEAL recommends the new management to the public, and hopes that it will be given a fair chance to pull the Institution out of the rut.