The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-25
LARGE AND ELEGANT PAPER WARE.
HOUSE.
johnson 6 Sawyer.


The paper house of Messrs. johnson
; & Sawyer, No. 3l6 and 3fS North Third
street, may be looked upon as fairly
one of the institutions" of st. Louis.
as 1t Is the most extensive in the West.
and is not greatly surpassed by any
similar house in the country. The first
floor, entered from Third street, is a
large, airy and lofty room, where are
stored all kinds of paper, including
home and foreign manufactures; in
front is all grades of printing, manillas
and wrapping papers, and going back
on one side we find a great space taken
up with tissues, white and all shades of
color. In this line our Yankee manu-
facture Is now Successfully competing
with foreign as TO quality. The same
may be said of the stock of bond pa
per, the Messrs. Crane, of Dalton, Mass,
now manufacturing largely for the
, Government aud filling European or
ders, especially a large one for the Ital-
ian Government. OF Cranes bond pa
per the house keeps always good sup
ply, as OF all other grades. No one
could be otherwise than pleased with
their tine stock of printing paper, a lot
of falntly orange tinted of the finest
face being most noticeable. This floor
is the full size of the building-421S by
$50 feet-and contains samples of all
fine papers.
Under this is the rag warehouse,
lighted 1T the front with bulls eve glass
pavement, where can be stored 3,00o
bales Of rags, the floor opening on the
alley IN the rear, thus averting the ne
cesssity of handling rags at the main
front. Above, on the second and third
floors Ga partition dividing the upper
stories into front and rear floors, with
separate stairways) are the rag rooms,
where women are engaged all day as
sorting rags-taking out the linen, cot
ton and woolen stufls, and placing them
in separate piles for baling, there being
a baling press on each floor. The wool
rags are made into roofing felt, the cot
ton into printing paper, and the linen
into fine or smooth faced papers. There
is vast amount of work done in rags,
and the subject is very suggestive in
philosophical point of view, as it util-
ICES waste paper and rags, and brings
them back to US III the shape of fine
white paper.
The building was erected with espe-
cial reference to the requirements of the
business and affords facilities for the
sale and handling of paper and paper
stock unequaled in this country. The
front portion of the second and third
floors is to be rented for offices.
y look through the house viii satisfy
any one of the extent of the business
done by this firm, and of their ability
TO furnish any grade or brand of paper,
in aly quantity, at the shortest notice.
Their connection with two very extern
sive paper mills gives them great adj
vaDtages III the matter of prices,
though the staple character of their
wares allows, ~of course, no great re-
duction on circular prices, other than
that they may be able to make by the
immense amount of business they do.
Paper is like gold as to value, and vac
illates with the precarious price of that
commodity. On this head, we feel con-
fident in>saying, the goods of this house
Will be marked down to the lowest fig
ure for which they can be afforded.
In the paper bag line they are also
operating very extensively, having large
stocks of this quality of paper onAand
Paper machine belting-an article late
ly introduced-is also being brought
into notice by them and those running
machinery might do well to inquire in
to the advantages of this new and cheap
auxiliary of their business. In short,
there is nothing that can be needed in
the paper line that cannot be supplied
by this extensive establishment.-iSt.
LOUIS Republican.