"AIR.BROOM" v, "HAIR-BROOM."

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 11

"AIR.BROOM" v, "HAIR-BROOM."

i- 1 1 A 'v 11 m I Hardly a room in the larger American hotels is now oloanod by moans of tho timo'hononi'ed broom and feather duster. The dust and dirt are removed by moans of air with) Infinitely less physical oxertion and with far greater rapidity. From > every room pipes pawi, through which tho dust is sucked down into tho cellar without allowing tho slighteol pniticlo 1o vescapo to tho atmosphere. So rapid him boon the development' of this sanitary syslom of house-oloaning that ovon d«ol« Hugs and small ofllco buildings, although not provided with tho olnbomto piping system of the hotels lofcrred to, am cleaned by air, It Is no uncommon night, in New York to soo a wagon carrying a powerful vacuum-pump standing in front of a residence, with llneH of hose extending through the doorway into tho interior. Tlio nmount of mint drawn out through the hnso is enough to alarm, every housewife and to confirm her dark suspicion of tho inelllciency of sorvnnls. Gloaning liourm in thin faihion is now a thriving buniiions. Tho Intcst application of tho vacuum cleaning method is tn bo found in the enr-bnrns of ono of (ho loading railways. After a long jnurnpy n, pnssonger>cnnch is anything nut n hnven of flwootneas and purity. l\!otoo\cr, it mu«.t bo cleaned villi the utmost <10, spatuh. Tho "air-broom" effect i\piy nud rapidly sui'kn out dust from eusliion i <, Rcatß,« hnn^mgi. carpets ami ni'iltio'set without Iho commotion of tho ohl mutlioiL