New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-16

The American Wood Paper Company-The
Growth Of the Paper Busines'-The Fir''
Paper will in America-The Riterhonse
Famiiy-searcisy in Rngs-Demand for Nc"
substancer-straw md Wood-Experimeni'
in Making Wood into Puip-The Works OF
the Americas Pulp Company nj Manay"nk
-suecessfuI Tests-Paper Falling IN Price,

PHILADELPHIA, April 10, 1896.
The readers Of THE TRIBUNE may be interested III ue
operatons of company gentlemen, who bear the very
Saxon name of The American Wood Paper Company,
and have been making curious experiments here ioi year
or two past Their individual names cannot give 70
fameexcept to say that Congressman Jenekes OF khode
Island is President; that many good men are interested
in its success and that here upon the banks OF the
Schuyki under the shelving town OF Manayunk, they
have erected magnificent works.
When the good German Gutenberg arranged DIS de-
vice Of printing he little knew ali that hs eontHvahee
was doomed to effect In the oden times made our
paper delberately-gving great time TO each sing'e
sbeet-snd furnishing tho monks and palmpsest
makers with heavy gray sheets from lalyIus' anu
smooth and well.polished parchment or yelum No
writing Of editorials in those dear old days when Father
Francis gave his life one book, pTayeTiuly proesths
much a6oundng in virgins and saints and very long
epises. Monks and yeilums nave ioNH goIv 70 'he
worms or the cheerful loren oil the eohOciast,
made sad havoc in this morning newspaper pcHod Oh
mankind Those who wrote found sufficient supply III
the sheep and the bulrush and 60 we migh nave goe
on in our condition of blissul ignorance IL the quick
wed German had not placed hrs nky stamps upon paper
and created new world Of the chaos Of manuscripts
and vellums and scraws long since gone 10 dusio' u'
thank Heaven-and doing duty as iertihzlhs l9au
Bnt men must print and must read ana thc she'l
was scarce and the Egyptian burush passed us uay o
motif and nature was placed under contribution 10 give
Rod ftbs nsotate Printing Press. Oh, wise Jack Cade
.Th has, most trtorosIv corrupted the youth of the
realm in erecting grammaT-school and, whereas, Deore
r had no other books but the score ana ne
tally thou hast caused printing TO be used andcontra 20
the King his crown and dignity hast built paPcI-'
For which he WAS beheaded thanks 70 my LORD or'mtf
China took her rice and the inner paik OF ms ~ pm
the savings of Confucus. Japan took the mulberry tTee
and made thin silky paper Of good texture deiicile
and inviting-good, should think Tor love sohne,s
In Spain linen was used as early as no Urea.
scribblors. those Spanish monks, as Mr.. Prescott
and other historians found TO their sorrow : over
hundred wears ago Germany exhausted rags ana Wa
forced 10 try straw but with little success. IWenty
Later France succeeded in maxi paper ont of linden
wood but the experiment was not pursued lnosc
Frenchmen years ago had more bloody notions III thei
have been as sorcy pressed for paper we who claim 10
he of the Ace of Cab and ScTbbe. 10 ~ on record dt
l772 there 90 varieties of paper made from "a different
materials while in 1886 there we're lbs varieties ron NV
same number of materials spare the reader the catalogue
Principal among them, however, were rags coton-H1Hl'
gunny hemp India baggng reed canes, ne'tles hops,
moss seed herbs and 50 on such Struggle WIN poo,
Nature for Cab and Scrbbe stuff and even now no resi-
In 1000 the first paper-m was erected III PenusylVhha
near stream called the Wissahckon about Two mles
from the location OF Of the Wood Paper Iopan!
in the suburbs Of Philadelphia. The founder was Na
Rvttinghuisen Of Holland whose family had ior genera
tons made paper for the Dutch, and whose descendants
to this day make paper in Manayunk, good iaInl!
that of notwithstanding and vlse-who sen
siLlv changed their name 20 R'itcnhouse, and gave to
science grand nephew of william named DAVID, mlch
addicted seeing stars among these hleh Nlssah'Ao
hills and now known 10 all mankind IS 40 en- nent astTu
omer have book made Do the hTsl mili over NV
wears since bearing the Ryttnghuisen wafer mark,
Nv r. PEssILvASiA,' with trcioi lncnsed IN
scroll-a neatly formed trefO that any lrshman would
accent "a the shamrock and rs evidence that old William
was a Fenian The paper ia hard-oi good texture
Drowned by time, but showing signs 81 careful MAKE ana
as Strong and nearly smooth the ordinary sheet OF
note paper on which these words are written. 1t wasa
noted NIL in those days, and the poets 81 the fchht!-
ysna colony rbymed about IL, something after THIS
fashion