The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-06

has been found to keep water fro,
freezing longer than anv other m,
teTial used. In 1868 Col. Muratori ,
the French army, began experimental
with q paper cuirass, light to wea
but tough enough to resist bullet
Papyrus, chiefly of Egyptian manufa,
ture, continued in use in EuroDea
countries several centuries after III
Christian era, and was finally disnIace
by cotton. The art of manufacturer
paper from vegetable fiber was derive
from Samarcand, where it was lntr.
duced from China in the year 651 an
thence spread over Europe. havir
been introduced at Mecca in N
About the same time Saracens are 81
to have learned to make paner fro
cotton, and they brought It to SpainT
I'll. The bulls Of the Types in |
eighth and ninth centuries We're writA |
upon cotton paper; the Oldest maj |
script written upon it in Erfyland :
in the Bodleian collection of thtRr,t;,
Museum, having the date 1O46. Tn IN,
the Christian successors of theSna.
ish Saracens made paper from ras
instead of raw cotton. The Oldest sne;-
men of linen paper having a dat is saq
to be treaty of peace between tie kincs
OF Arragon and CASTLE, of III &
stated in the Chronology ofPano.
and Paper-Making," by j. Nuns p 70.
per mills were in operation at 1ledo.
in Spain, in 1885. making paper rom
rags with the use Of moulds for I'm.
ing the sheets; and in ISL the est
paper was made at batavia from NV
cotton and rags, which were redcd
to pulp by stamping them in milin-
stead of grinding. after the Modsb
method.
We do not learn from history AT
any further improvement worthbf
notice was made in the manufacte
of paper until the year 1868, when jon
Spileman, German, who was jeal-
er to Queen Elizabeth, built a mia
hartford in Kent. This is celebred
By poem on paper of the date of 1se.
AS late as 1868 England impond
100000 worth-from Holland. In Ee-
land great improvements were mo
duced by the French refugees Of 15.
and from this time the business n
Epr0yedi in Importance. In 1890 partjl-
lar attention began to be directedo
the production of white paper, almst
lall previously made being brown. lie
celebrated manufacturer, James Wilt
man, had his mill in operation at Nal
stone in ITO; and from that time to ie
present its product has been famas
for its superior quality. The rag n
CINE, by which the raw material is J.
duced to pulp. is a German inyentio
and less than two hundred years oil
AS late as 1855, in this lani of ingen.
Gus W0rkmen, rags were reduced +
pulp by mortars or stamps. The geat
est advances in the manufacture o.
paper were now made by the Frernb
In 1893 Louis Robert, an employees
Francois DldOt, of Essences, Frame
introduced an invention which WIS
patented the same year, by which D,
per, twelve feet wide and of indefnit
length, could be made. In 1901 tn
machine was exhibited in England
where the stationery firm of Messrs
Foudrlnier Bros. made arrangement
for its purchase, at the same tim,
spending 100000 for improvements
Their experiments ended in the pres
ent Foudrinier machine of our nils
a machine that has made possible tn,
enormous paper industry of the worlr
AN industry Of which Piiny wrot,
1900 years ago: "All the usages o.
civilized life depend in a remarkasI,
degree upon the employment Of paper
The brothers Foudrinier reaped no ad
vantage from their invention. The
spent their entire fortune and died il
poverty Is IA ON
The first paper miiIin this countr
was established bya native OF Holland
in 1890, Mt Roxborough, near Phila
delphia. The paper was made froD
linen rags. 4 paper mill was built il
1714 upon Chester Creek, Delaware. T
was afterward owned by 4 Mr.. Wilcox
who furnished Franklin with pape
from it. In the Colony of Massachu
sets Bay, as appears from the state
ment Of salmon in his Modern History
(vol, 3rd, p 494, apaper mill was bull
about the year 1880, the date of tn
first mill in Massachusetts under en-
couragement of the bounty offered b.
the legislature of 1928 The mill wa
run with varied success for some year
and then ceased operations. In 1T
the legislature passed resolutions 70
the appointment of a suitable perso
In each town to receive rags, and til
people of the State were urged to say
their rags for paper making,
The first paper mill built in north
ern New York was in 1863, at Tro,
In 1910 the number of paper mills i
this country was estimated at IS;
For want of time we will now pas
over period of IL years, pregnan
with vast Improvements, not only i
the uses Of the means for reducing th
raw material to pulp, but also in th
machinery for making paper, and stat
the condition of this branch of Amer
caA industry as it appears to-da,
There are now about one thousan
paper mills (thiS includes those maxim
lpulp as well), built and being built, i
| the United States, with a productiy
capacity of about 2S0 tons per Ga,
and employing a capital of not le:
than .$50,0OO,000. The value of til
product made is estimated at Sl2O,00C
900 per annum. 1t is safe to say til;
no other product of home manufactul
so completely excludes the foreign a
ticle. American paper may be foun
in the markets Of every civilized natio
on the globe. 1t has taken the fir
premiums at the International Exhib
tions. The late international Exhib
tion at Melbourne. Australia ha
eleven American exhibitors of pape
eight of whom carried off first prize
Our export trade in paper is CROWN
each year. A manufacturer of fir
papers at Holyoke, Mass, said to me
short time ago, that our writing paper
are coming more and more into fave
every year with foreign dealers. |
conclusion, Mr.. President and gentl
men of the Stationers' Board of Chic
go, may we not feel like congratulatin
ourselves on the fact that we are men
bers of an organization whose profe
sionS and business, though varied
methods, yet all combine to build up
business conducive to a higher type {
manhood; and like the rays of tt
morning sun, giving out its light to I'll
II q ,.lr I.b- Of hn M