The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
High Class Laundering Establishment, Columbia Square, Dorchester
The name of Taylor Bros. laundry is synonymous with all that is best in fine laundering and has been so for years. The establishment is situated in Columbia Square, Dorchester, and has long been one of the familiar features of that neighborhood. The concern was started n 1895 by William C. B. Taylor and J. [John]Louis Taylor, Jr., and was continued as a co-partnership until 1903, when it was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, with a capital stock of $10,000. William B. C. Baylor is the president of the company, J. Lois Taylor, Jr., is the treasurer, and J. W. H. Wright is the secretary. The company’s plant consists of a three-story and basement frame building, 40 by 100 feet in dimensions. The establishment is fully equipped with the most modern laundry machinery and gives employment to 60 hands and makes use of 13 delivery wagons. I has a boiler of 60 horse power. No less than 20 agencies n the neighborhood receive goods for it. The business of the company is distributed over a large territory, its patronage being drawn from all parts of Dorchester, Roxbury, South Boston, Brookline, the Newtons, Allston, Quincy, Cambridge and Boston proper. Such a high standard of excellence of the work done by this model industry causes its services to be in great demand among those who are particular as to the way their soiled clothing is handled. This concern makes a specialty of shirts, collars, cuffs, shirt waists, etc., and when these articles leave the laundry to be returned to their owners, they are finished as well as when new. Extreme care is taken here, also, that nothing is injured while being put through the process of cleansing or ironing and lace curtains and other delicate fabrics are treated most tenderly and are returned unharmed. All of the employees of the concern are highly skilled in their work, being laundering experts. The stables attached to the establishment are situated in Roseclair Street and ar emodels of neatness and cleanliness.
William B. C. Taylor and J. Louis Taylor, Jr., are natives of Dorchester, and both of the brothers are members of the Masonic fraternity and of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Wright was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. These three officers of the company are men well known throughout Dorchester and are universally respected and esteemed. They are popular in all circles of the community. As business men, their standing is of the highest, and in their social relations, they have the confidence of all who know them.
Note: the Boston Directory places the laundry at 10 Davenport Avenue, which is now Davern Avenue.