The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-15
MAKING P0STAL.CARDS.


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The Factory at CastIet0n--A Retired
Neck ON tgle Hudson Production and
Distributi0n-A Business That Has No
Competition.
The.sillage OF GastIeton on the east
bank of the Hudson River is about eight
miles below At0ahy@ Three-quarterS of
mile north of the village deep land
cave se5saShael1sintosfh the range. of hills
From the depot at Castleton q railroad
track lies between the regular tracks OF
the Hudson River Road and the high
way till it comes to this cave, and there
it curves sharply inland and follows the
bank pf n crooked stream to q cluster of
buildings situated close in the mouth of
the rayine. In these buildings all the
postalrardspf the United States Govern
ment are manufactured. .r..
The most conspicuous feature of the
factory, as viewed from the river or rail-
road trains is an exceedingly tall, sym
metrieal brick chimney that rises high
against the background ofsecond- growth
pines. This has been built in connec-
ton with the new steam power for
the paper-mill, the creek not being suf-
ficientlN, constant tozdrive the werks and
at the Same time furnish The water re-
quired in the manu- qfacture of the paper.
The plant of the paper mill has long .ex-
isted here, but the postal card factory
was @AbHsAeds at tbs point less fhan
three years ago, having been removed
from Helyeke, Mass Hhe paper-mill is
owned by tie Fort Orange Paper Com
pany, of which Williains r. Sheffield,
saugerties, is Vice President and Man
ager:s 1t is not confined to the manu-
factures CT cardboard for postal-eards,
nor will the latter, when improvements
that are now IN progress are completed,
constitute the largest article of praduc-
ton. The only obligation that mill
owners are under to he Government is
TO supply the .pQstal-card factory with
board as fast az. it lis needed. and ofthe
quality called for by contract. The Gov
ernment has no monopoly in the prod
uet of the mill. The same quality of
cardboard that the Government demands
Is open to the market. The color of the
pOstal-cards 8, slaGfed in The contract,
nat even this the paper-mi11 is at liberty
10 furnish to any one, who may want
mat particular shade of cardboard.
PostaI aid REEd is matle of the best
quality OF linen and cotton rags, which
are treated IN all respects from. the, rag
oale to the calender roll, as they are for
tae manufacture OF, any other, cardboard
OF like quality. A certain quantity of
chemical on wood pulp ism1ed with the
rag, and this is of a quality almost as
expensive as ragpulp.
ThepoStals@dfactory proper is a new
onerst0Fy bFieR building, of very nnpre-
lending appearance. In this respectit is
IN harmony with the process of prepar-
ing the cards, for the latter is extremely
simple and apparently inexpensive. The
cardboard is received from the paper
nill in sheets twenty7one ainehes by
.hirty, a size just large enough to be cut
INTO forty postal-eards. The sheets are
lEst printed on an ordinary large cylin,
aer sgosaR 1 printing press, there being inj
,te factory two Hoe presses and one Tay-
ior. The impression is taken on a plate
containing e forty card faces with stamp,
me monogram Us, the Scroll and Words
Postal Card, ''and the antruthful print
ed hne Nothing but the address can be
placed on tha side. y = Rlfas. when a
sneet of card boards is run through the
press II comes out with forty postal
eaFqS FqSc9mnietely printed, ready to be cut
apihlo The one-cent miSsives with which
sne pnbite are familiar, Any two effthe
p,ss1Ss are sufficient to supply the de-
auaad wltfleUt being Fdshed. ~ eGE9
rom tffatnr6sses he n,inted sheets sra
ssseA TO- sksuttiIlg machine, where. they
s rapidly cut into strips, containing
n -, cards each. They are fed between
iig9esFs' on which there are four circular
ss @ Ille cutting into strips IS done
+ lase asa Aolerably active boy can pass
- = tne sheets. From the first c1ttino-
1enine the strips are taken to a second
s'sger' where they are fed through rollers
ts. ..A Z Aistsaaisr blades set as far apart as
sas width of postalcard. Thus the
oss's are produced ready for use from
es 1sry strip that is run through the
nas asser' They drop into ten pockets
sLsss sLee oI tin,a and CONSTRUCTED on a
;.aaiH the boy who feeds the strips
~ Ihe cutter passes TWENTY-FIVE
~ a. and then calls out "tallv. y
aiee girls remove the cards from the
tas t. peeESets, pack them in stacks of
s,s 49, y-hye each. and wrap each pack
spout with the paper band with
H. S;.ca every body is familiar who buvs
e-. o. oates m quantities of TWENTY-FIVE and
epa.s spSatu' In addition to emptyinr the
SSAe'' and banding the cards, QUO . ol