Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-26
Alexandra Gazette
A VuLcAN1zED Woop COMPANY have es-

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A VuLcANIzED WooD COMPANY have cs-
tablished manufacture in this city which is
carried on no where else, by process known
only to themselves. From u composition OF
sawdust with some chemicals, picture frames and
furniture ornaments of very elegant designs are
formed The mixture of sawdust and other
material is worked into paste OF the conslstaice
Of dough, and is then pressed into rough re-
semblance of the forms which the articles are
to take when finished, which are then set upon
shelves in the drying rooms until they are thor
oughly dried and hard as bricks. In this state
they are cracked, and it would seem could not
be pressed without crushing them to powder
and dust. And, when COOL they are not capa-
bic of being pressed into shape, but when sub
iected to heat, they become plastic as clay in the
hands of the potter under the power of the
large screw presses While the vulcanized wood
is being pressed heat is applied to it by means
of steam pipes, and what appeared but mo-
ment before to be a cracked and brittle frame
becomes coherent and is pressed into the forms
of the dies applied The articles are colored to
resemble various kinds of wood, and very ele-
CANT frames which could not be distinguished
from ebony, are produced by the application Of
Il brown powder to the dies before pressing the
rulcanized wood into them. After the articles
lre taken from the press they are trimmed and
such Of them vanished as require it, others
gilded and otherwise ornamented. The dies
made at the company S works, and hydraulic
which will expedite this part Of the process
The picture frames are not only of elegant pat
terms, but as they closely resemble the most
costly kinds of wood and are without joint or
flaw, and moreover are furnished at much
less cost than are the ordinary frames, they find
IL ready market and constantly increasing de-
mand One small frame of an exquisite design
and of jet black especially attracted oar atten-
ton and it would be difficult to decide which
excelled in beauty the form or the material.
DR.. Marquard, whose chemical knowledge has
been applied to the discovery Of this process,
has introduced new industry. into the city,
and is also making cheaper things of beauty
which are a 10y forever Ne,vbauyport Herald
RAILROAD FARES. The Baltimore l. Ohio
Railroad Company make public the following
in regard to the through fare from Washing
ton to New York: On December 9th the Su-
perior Court of Baltimore city decided adverse
ty to the claim of the state of Maryland for tax
on travel between Baltimore and Washington.
Although the state at once appealed from the
decision, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany ordered reduction of its fare from 81 80 to
81 90 for this travel, telegraphed to the presi-
dents of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Bal
timore and New Jersey roads informing them OF
the decision, and expressing its desire to JOIN
Them ina reduction of the fare between New
York, Philadelphia and Washington
The price Of ticket between New York
and Washington has been ss. The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company proposed to reduce
to 81 50, making of this reduction from it's pro
portion 27 cents, and asking the Philadelphia
and New Jersey railroads to deduct each ~
cents, still leaving them Sc 05 between Baltl-
more and New York, or 50 02t each.
These companies on previous OCCASIONS pro
essed a willingness to accept less than IS on the
New York ticket They now refuse to make
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company pay its
minimum rates, ST 90, and 25 cents for transfer
in Baltimore.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has decided that as these companies accept 81 ~
each for precisely the same service as their pro-
nortion on various western tickets, where COM
petition controls them, that it is SO unjust to the
public to refuse to reduce to S. Q2t, although
at present no nocompetition exists, that 1T has de,
termined to break the through ticket, and sell
only its local ticket at it's reduced price, rathtr
than assist in the collection OF the rates demano-
ed by those roads.
Important interest in New York, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore are arranging to build, un-
der State authority. competing line, with
which the Baltimore and Ohio Company will Co
operate when President Garrett anticipates the
charge will be reduced to 81 so between Baltl-
more and Philadelphia and Philadelphia and
New York.-Baltsmore SIN.
BUTTER AND CHEESE-The attentive read
er, and even the casual observer. has doubtless
noted the action of the Virginia Senate upon
the bill ito protect butter and cheese manufac-
nrers' to prevent the sale of skinned, adul-
terated or diluted milk, to the manufacturer
Taking caption, iAGd one that doubtless caused
raw Of hope to illumine: the countenance of
many, especially the dyspeptic and weak
stomached, who vainly imagined that, By legis-,
from the imposition so long practiced upon
them in the way of that ''villainous compound, "
vclept butter famiiarly known to the
guests of hotels and boarding houscs-of the
component parts of which, however, it would
REQUIRE the astute skill of an analytical chemist
to determine. But, alas
Man never is,
But always to be, blest';
and upon careful reading of the bill visions
of Virginia mountain, Glades or Goshen sweet,
golden nutricious butter vanishes into thin air,
and cheese alone receives the fostering care of
the Swans and gourmands of the Senate, and
considering the various tastes to be consulted,
it is questionable whether sour, SKINNED, adul-
terated. and even decomposed milk don have
TO be used in the manufacture Of some kinds
the Limberger for instance-in odor peculiar
to that variety The bill emanates from good.
quarter though copy of the New York law
+ comes from the genial. well-fed, weil-dispos-