New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-26
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
WRITING PAPER AND CLIMATE.
AN AMERICAN MANUFACTURER sTOUTLY STANDS
UP FOR HOME PRODUCTS.

AN AMERICAN MANUFACTURER sTOUTLY nrANDs
| UP FOR HOME PRODUCTS.
| TO the EdfiOr Or The TrIbnne.
SIN In your issue OF the Odd instant find
the following paragraph regarding tho manufacture OF
writing paper
An experience Of twenty-five years IN the Manufacture
or paper has convinced me That climate hts nu'h 20 40
with the quality ~ hne whiting pnpcrs. You may hhvo
~ good mills ana workrn Eugnud but your climate
rhlhgrH 80 suddenly ana Violently mat the greatest 'h.
In the process cannot provide, Hny Tor ~" hiHl"ni
amonnt ot sizing that must he PIT n the pup nnd mat
| !nro. win the weather EyeD thRUrh N0lkmn ~ ~
American paper cotton mill Viii tel You TINT the ''r
ul~lt ~ the air ~ ms country IL mnch more 'nn"
lh " u over The water 40 hn'i % lhl,'", ,n, ,
s"cnl apparatus y mnlo 10 correct it, influence about
inaclnc Lngll'h writing p"Jer r. ,nTly ngd ~ 'm'
partmcnts nnd the White House With paper
Mr john Glenn. the agent ~ Marcus ward CO.. who
IA quoted above does not say plainly that English writ
Inc paper "a of better quality than American pnrcr bat
he evidently Intends that the reader shall draw that In
ference. This question ~ the relative merits Of paper
made In the two countries the American manufacturer
has always been eager to have solved AZ Philadelphia IN
1875 and at the Paris Exposition the American manufac
trer Of paper prepared to have his papor compared
with that of any other country nut the question has al
ways been Olcd by the rules governing the Exposition
The American manufacturer is really today 80 meet the
question Of the relative merits Of the papers. and
~ Marcus ward CO.'S paper Is sold to quite an extent
viii undertake To furnish American paper of equal or
superior quality to any sold 10y that firm To
decide the question, | suggest that the sam
pies which are to test the relative merits
of the rnrer be submitted to three
PERSONS In ths country who are experts to The quality
~ paper. and their dersinn shall be given IN writing and
published suggest further that - 200 he deposited
IN some bank m NewYUt by each riity tU the test ana
the 400 Deposited bt the parts whose rairr "a he
rlr iu i- lnei0t shn he pain Utrt US these esrtits,
t6 compensate them ut ihpr tne anh US rag all me
necessary e$rphsts pertaining Us ihe solution 80 he
Hluttiiii oall
$50 'r'ninti 90 iin, tnsi ihH Air ubhh vii ii "
| tHi rrhitN' i0 aatii TBS AhNtr tfNrNsiilui,
~ aiinNira itn Ntipi1 ~ Wf uAiar W. 100 fil'ha'e
aN in iia iApi iha hptp 10 mnrr 80 eflaN ~ pNr papr
| tan ~ lha Hn-ah. 900 aNfn mai the presence az
electricity dnes En aiinc iHrouslI hr HHail opapaf
aud kaoW climate Is lul as faNarahc Ia The man'i-
Afulo u pdrlr as the English climate. tnglish alnT
- made ny dlHrreul turrss ifunl mo AnellraI IN
| stead OF hcug ar.ied 1t Is dried by machine,
ahd ie paper does not carry sn much SIZING nor Is II a.
strong and In these respects 1t Is decidedly inferior to
he American In reference To Mr.. Glonn's statement
partmcnts at Washington, 1t is to small extent true
but there Is less and less of IL used every year. because
Americans quite scneial5 uW'rIsanu tlat our paper -
equal II not superior TO any other Ten and twenty
years ago English paper was consumed largely IN TINS
American is now following the example of the English
The tact is tho climate of England moist that II
is impossible to make paper with the fine surface ana
| firm texture Of American paper me climate OF INC
United states may 1e changraDlc but my Information
| leads mc 70 think that OF England Ia equally So
IT. nad enough TO nave n, a s,ir,n,eu us apy
shortcomings 10 the climate perhaps it would be well for
him to inform himself thoroughly ~ u that Of England
Whlc II dcScflbci by many 81 hrr WrlteSas apolnhapr
And for information thar subject refer him To de-
| scripton that find in Christmas carol The fog
pouring every chnk and key hole and was so
dense without that although the court was Of the mar
rowcSt, the houses opposite were mere phantoms 10
see the dingy cloud come dropping down. oDscurlnS
everything one might have thought that nature lived
hard by and was brewing on large scale" u,,,,r,,
Very respectfully WILLIAM WHITING,
Hoiyoke, Mass, Dec %, 1884.