Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-01-16
PAPER COLLARS.
Their Product and Manufacture with
COnnectcut Valley Details.


As near as can be ascertained
from the most reliable estimates at
tainable, not far from $50, 900 of
paper collars, or rather cloth-faced
paper collars-fOr no other kind
than this latter is now made or call
ed for-are annually manufactured
in the United States and of this
large number about one-sixth, or
from 100000 to 3O,OOO,OOO, are
probably made in the three establish
ments in Springfield known as the
cray q Taylor Manufacturing Co.,"
'The Springfield Collar Co." and
"The Nonpareil Paper Collar Co."
Mr.. Walter Hunt of New York,
who was among the first to engage
in the manufacture of paper collars,
secured his first patent on the 25th
of July, 1854. 1t may, however, be
said that he made collars of cloth
and paper combined, the cloth be-
ing put between two sheets of paper
instead of being attached to a single
sheet as now, but about the year
1859 Andrew Evans, of Boston, be-
gan making an all-paper collar, and
at nearly the same time, perhaps a
year later, S. S. Gray also opened a
similar mandatory in Boston. In
1868, D. H. Brigham & Co. began
making paper collars in Springfield.
From the initiative enterprise of
this last-named firm, the business
has grown to such large proportions
in Springfield as to now be a nota-
bic industrial feature of that busy
and beautiful city. As subsequent
history of the first establishment, it
may be stated that in 1854 George
W. Ray and Charles A. Brigham
bought out D. H. Brigham's interest
and continued the business under
the style of Brigham & Co. until
January II, 1875, when V. n. Tay-
lor bought out Charles A. Brigham,
and with George W Ray carried on
the business under the style of Ray
q Taylor until July l, 1874, when
Mr.. Taylor bought ont his partner
and since then has conducted the
business alone, retaining however,
the firm name of 'The Ray & Tay-
lOr Manufacturing Co."
When D. H. Brigham & Co. be-
gan the manufacture of paper col
lars, the business was still in its in
fancy, and to make and sell from 10,
900 to $4,000 collars per day was
considered quite a satisfactory busi-
ness achievement. With the i'm.
proved facilities of the present time
10000 collars can be turned out by
the Ray & Taylor Manufacturing
Co. per day, should occasion require;
and the Springfield Collar Co. can
produce $4,000 collars per day. The
latter company will produce from
100000 to 100000 collars dur
ing the year 1879, and are prepar-
ing to make a round 100000 in
1880. The Denison patent collar
machinery is used by the Ray (E
Taylor Manufacturing Co., and by
the American Collar Co., of New
York, which enables these two COM
panies to turn out 10000 collars
per day as against 10000 in the same
time in the earlier days of the bust
ness, and with the machinery then
in use.
The quantity of paper now used
annually III the manufacture of pa
per collars amounts to about 1000
tons. In 1875, 1O,OOO,OOO yards of
cotton cloth were required in this in
dustry; in 1877, 100000 yards; in
1878, 6,5OOO,OOO yards; in 1879, 6,
100000 yards for the first ten months
of the year, The largest establish
ments whose business is that of com
bining the paper with the cloth be-
fore being made into collars, are
those of GeorgeW. Tapley of Spring.
field, the Reversible Collar Co, of |
Boston, and the Fall River Bleach
cry, of Fall River. /