Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-10
MAKING HEAVY PAPER.
FROM SORTING, THROUGH PURIFY
ING WATTS, TO ROLLERS.
How the Rags Are Cleaned-MAny Baths
Are Necessary to Prepare the Pulp for
the sharp Knives That Rend the Bite



blowing from up the river. No wonder
they ask, Tor the odor is sometimes almost |
overpowering, and becomes thicker as one |
approaches Fifth avenue on Main street |
There may be found the source from which |
the smell emanates-the tarred paper mill |
Inside the odor is not SO had, and n per
son clad in garments not particularly valu- |
able can spend very pleasant hall an hour
looking over the machinery and following
the mass Of straw and rags, Of which the
paper is made, from the hopper into which
IL is first pound until IL comes out in the
shape ~ pSpcr-tough brown psper-st the
other end ~ the min Here three grades
81 paper are made. the finest being wrap
ping paper. Next comes a cNarSc grade
that j. used for building purposes, while
the last and cNarSest Of all is the tsrrsd pa
per,
The art step j. the careful sorting oi the
rASs Snd straw, This is all done by hand
Nv women ~ Siyl>, IN tables with cNSrss
wine eotyouaS, which allow much 81 the
&u>s ana jlys ~ fSll through
Il j. ncyy>Ssry - remove from the mass
81 g.s>S,>, however SMALL ~ metal. bone,
rahsev Sus lessse-. ana also O. iiSlcsdse ~
rnsch ~ tie dirt - cSn ne ~os rid Of
MAca tie so-SscS j. 0ni>he3 the mass is
tSNea u : ssSSptsc AOgs>cg Snd dumped in.
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e,eSi-gS. machine, Nacyc !; Is sivca It's first
~sS>r,e,e s-S sats2-.S,
ralRry5E TsE SEATING NACSlNsS
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tSa&- ahio1S ss lorna, tAroeSA a AscA water
= cas.>asE5,y -aar.pS Ia the csassr a.
tAi> tsuk Is q huge ku'a Ihrc.scA which
ARE pglr rnu~t psSs sewers, ilrnss aoso-e IL
thr IN ~ ~ iinc- snE ne v-sJsr SlsSaez.
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ing ro-u en- SAND uiace1stso mnsi Ehnrnueh
d uuti l would n h,,rt falling vhsi ths
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sis-S, marhinr- tht Str,S n IS - called
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tiu,f ana s-etsin. cisaper arc clsasner r. q,
hear iss tourney enc
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a. th- dtrcy water = drained NJ Ehs snfl
sirsSny mas r. drawn nf rutU isrCT Wax J a
tul basement when G. remains snmf aims
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fr1rr tnrS vst- 8. p d. q hght sTEy muddy
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raG-iT f1- tn uzIrrs~ nsHcnins. HnC b Rutr
-lzisoalIV suirissl mur STUFF chests AMI
u.o-s els1LI ssats- Alidsl tiari d b kan
n a1nSi.lrf. agitation N order znM 4 ma
b. . thonnurniy mixed with TN vsuer
f-u1n fhesr chesE TN nun pEls-es
through d ss-is-s o. no.g-s amt vRss nj Tn
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i1rozI stream III a. ilg-rsf c1-iInns- -uus-=C
WITH nns wiz TINS cviInas- nnIiug
am q uunu InsIus uIila 1ns v'Igsa- IL WINE
SIsf uuu rsuGIus spread upnr IIIs st--1Ets
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III F-EIHI-I1 FTs-rIu-1
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.. el.-isa.--If mex ss-aI. passing ron tins
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rllsa aI uEu--i.
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3 l..Gr-f Ius ulEuEsi and lnsI stxrTs 1'ui
-cc- re 1-r Ei1Is- u and uui tnro1Kr
? zl-l1sa -s- uug r1lls-s i su-zs- b-ro-iuE
Z C-Ter au1 1rysr TIE Edges are a. yet
VsrT rs-zza1. 11t THIS = FeDs1le1 a. TIE
b end q .as roller. some twenty-five in
: number. WHERE tDe paper, DOS hard and
dry. passes between knives which trim il
% The proper width.
Z From these knives the paper passes to a
large upright machine, where it is sub
jected 10 a tremendous pressure and wound
4 into rolls, ready for delivery TO the hard
1 ware men or builders. The tarred paper
is prepared in the same way up to the time
it leaves the hot roller. Then, instead OF
going to the upright machine, or presser
il passes down through tar bath After
being well dipped It is put through the
presser and then wound into rolls.
The earliest known attempts at the pro
q. duction Of an article similar to the paper
: of modern times was made in Egypt many
$ centuries before the Christian era-soms
: writers affirm $500 years b. c. The oldest
: manuscript in existence is on papyrus, and
z; is supposed 70 bear date 200 B. @.
HISTORY or PAPER MAKING.
+, helower part of the stem OF papyus plant
;, is, under the rough skin, composed OF thif
{, layers OF great cohesive power. These be
X ing separated were laid side by side with
j edges overlapping and on being subjected
q, to pressure became a sheet Of considerable,
D strength and tenacity. This rude kind Of
y paper was not improved upon for many
\ centuries, and seems TO have met the want,
: OF the consumers until about $50 b. G.
B: when parchment was first used for book
ii and valuable documents.
;; Toward the end OF the First century tn
) Chinese had, IL is believed, begun TO manu-
T. fscture paper from silk and other fbers
but by what process is unknown. Two o
three centuries later they were using cot
Ia ton fbers for this purpose and the art wa
:, either Independently discovered or learne'
by other nations, and in 700 A. d. pape
was made from cotton at Mecca.
III The art was introduced into Spain by tn
y Moors, and here il was first discovered TIM
s. linen and cotton rags were more suitabl
for the manufacture Of paper than the rs,
materials, owing to the hardness OF tn
a. fiber being partly overcome by wear an
use, making the reduction to pulp les
difficult From the Twelfth century Spai
appears TO have been the principal pape
producing country, Italy ranking secon,
In 1870 the first paper mill in England wa
built at Hartford.
About the end Of the Seventeenth centur
the manufacture In England received a
impetus from the immigration of Frenc
refugees, who introduced the improvement
Of the French manufacturers The art
grinding by knives around cylinder WI
invented in Bollar d during the Eighteent
century. nnes, oils Tribune
A CHiNAMAN'S TRICK.