Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-08

For example, cartridge paper that costs 80
cents roll Of eight yards receive 80 cents a
roll for hanging. Friezes Of a moderately ex-
pensive sort pay US 40 cents . roll for the past
ing. But you must remember that friezes are
the most difficult things to do properly. There
is nothing so. hard in our business, though it
looks so easy to . person not expert, as to
spread that strip Of paper properly along be-
meath the ceiling. Next to that the least easy
point 10 to join the strips that the lines will
not show.
"Paper hangers are always employed on the
piece-work system. That is to say, they get so
many cents for each eight-yard roll OF paper
that they put on a wall or ceiling. In WASH
inRton frst-rate man can make $50 week
Tor eight months in the year. The other four
his per cent bonds. 1t takes six years to
make good paper hanger, and during that
time the apprentice gets IS q week. There are
too many apprentices in the business who are
insuficiently trained, do bad work, and make
wages lower. But paper hanger has to know
his business pretty well or he will not get along
very satisfactorily. A member or agent of the
firm that takes any contract usually goes
around to the house and sees that the paper
ing has been done properly, and each man is
responsible for his own work. There was
fellow ] knew who did half a dozen rooms 80
badly the other day that the inspector after
looking at it, made him scrape all the paper of
and do the thing over at his own expense not
only for time, but for the paper which he had
TO pay for. -,'.r,.
MANUFACTURING WALL PAPER.
''The business OF manufacturing wall papers
70 something immense. There are about twenty
mills in Philadelphia devoted to 1t and quito q
number In New York. Those are the two great
producing centers though there are several
factories in Baltimore and number more scat
tered elsewhere over the country. The manu.
facturers have their designs made for them
mostly by women. though not few men pur-
sue this occupation for q livelihood. In New
York there is . big school where women are
taught the art OF designing wall papers as well
az carpets, oilcloths and such things. At the
establishment l speak Of instruction 10 given
in the methods for producing work in practi-
cable shape from tho manufacturers point of
view. To certain extent it is mechanical in
character, not merely as to the conventional
izing of natural objects. such as flowers or what
not, but in relation to the set rules which gov
ern the adaptation Of colors. Manufacturers
are always eager to buy new patterns that are
good, and they pay excellent prices for what
pleases them in this way. A design for q wall
paper to cover the biggest room may not be
bigger than foot square, being simply ex-
banded over any space by repetition, as you
may see by examining the papering Of any
apartment, but il may easily be worth to the
producer &26 or even more il it strikes the
manufacturer favorably. Thus it comes about
New York school and other workers in the
same line in various parts Of the country make
very good incomes by this sort of labor. par
tcularly il they have talent. The designing of
wall papers IL an art and, il you have OBJ.
served, you will have noticed that wall papers
have become very much more beautiful within
the last few years. Especially does this apply
to the cheap papers. which, ct Is cents roll or
even less, are now produced in really lovely
patterns
"Having got the designs, the manufacturer
has his type made. The type il somewhat after
the manner Of printers type, save that il ID made
Of wood in roller form. To begin with, for
cheaper papers, roller that carries the pat
tern Of the ground receives the endless strip
of white paper fed to 1t and puts on the tint de-
second roller that applies another color, and
80 until the paper comes out ct the other end
OF The machine finished. In making fine grades
Of goods only one color or tint 10 put on at
once, the paper being passed each time through
. different machine for each successive effect
Al the paper comes from the machine it il run
into drying room and from thence it passes,
when dried, to q continuance that rolls it, cut
ting it of automatically into eight-yard lengths.
80 You ind wall paper in the shops in the shape
Of eight-yard rolls.
"Pssss il . very important item in the OK
made BY concerns that do nothing else. There
are four Of them in Baltimore. In the manu-
facture Aour Is mixed with water in great tanks
that bold four barrels each and the STUFF il
cooked by steam, though not to boiling point
An sea = put y % h:'R t.sn getting
month exposed to the air without its turning .
particle. By Wholesale paste costs about o.. 80
barrel and one barrelfL viz paper perhaps
tventy-four roomA"