Seven Miles Of Clothesline

One oí the most extensive laundries in the world ia situated in a sontbern snburb of London, and was recently visited by one of our own representativas. The principal building, he writes, is upward of 400 feet long and fonr stories high. Over 250 hands are eruployed, and the machinery coat about f 18,000. There are ten solid ironing machines 9 feet long, and each capable of finishing 1,500 serviettes per hour. The vast extent of this business may be realized on learning that 15,670 articles a week ar. received from one great ■west end club, and 35,000 in the same period from each of several mammoth hotels. A hotel like the Metropole or the Grand, by the -way, uses upward of 4,000 towels every day. Nearly 3,000,000 pieces of linen of all kinds pass through this laundry ia the course of a week. and seven milea of drying lines