The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-22
row NEW YoRk Is PAs1Ep.
-Four Factories make the Paste, and Make
some, Too, for Distant Regions.

Four Factories Make the Paste, and Make
sons, Too, for Distant Regions.
Look at that man posting bills across the
way" busy young man said to Sun reporter
a few days ago. pointing to temporary fence
that was rapidly disappearing behind some
Immense posters DO you see how scientin-
cally he does tho work. You don't happen to
know. I suppose. that within few years the
art Of bill posting has been reyolutonized all
over the world. and that IL came about through
lively New Workers. desire to m AXE money p
No. the reporter did not know IT. but he was
ready to hear about II.
Not only bill posting" the busy young man
went on. but incidentally a dozen other
trades 1t was the man who invented tho
business OF making paste to sell In old
times there was NO such thing as paste E a;
lice boys to making It. This was not 80 very
paste that would do anything but stick. The
bill sticker made n miserable thin paste out OF
cheap flour, and the first lively rain washed
all hfs sheets into the gutter. The shoemaker
OF course, made his own paste. and used dol
lars worth Of time making very poor mix
thousand knows anything about raste.
" 1t was about 1851 that this New Yorker
conceived the idea OF making paste to sell an
1; he had known then how much he had to
earn in the next few years he'd very likely
did not know. so he rented a small place at the
corner Of Gold and John streets and started in.
AZ first everybody laughed at him, Taste
Why should we buy paste, people said. when
we can make 1t for ourselves? And things
looked very cloudy at the beginning. But the
New Yorker meant business, and he reHsone ed
it out that IL he could make better paste than
people could for themselves he could sell IT,.
greatest users Of paste. Tor the newspapers
had not begun to paste their sheets together
s1a a6lf MAXINE srsa
bill posters, and that took great many ex-
poriments; But he did it. and the bill posters
soon found II out; IL did not take them long to
learn that they could buy great deal better
paste than they knewhow to make, and buy II
brother. whereas their own homemade stun
was weak in the back. Sothe bill posters were
conquered. and they became the first large
Then the paperhanRers had to be looked
| after. They used large quantities OF paste.
suited the pil stickers exactly, would not an
sary to make another long series OF expert.
ments and by this time the New Yorker began
the paperhangers exactly as he had treated
the bill posters. making them much better
article than they could make Tor themselves.
The paper box ID ak rs had to he gathered
in and the book bi nders and the shoemak ers.
paste OF particular kind. One by one these
trade were brought Into line and the paste
oily when Somebody started an opposition lac.
tory. The general public had begun to buy
It's paste. though. and as the emand increased
the factories increased. too. only the factories
increased faster than the demand: that IL. ns
factories. somebody started II third. and soon
Afterward fourth was born. THIS was only
in New York city. mind. IL was not long before
all the large cities. and many small ones. too.
had their paste factories.
The public benefited by this competitiop,
the time. Every one Of the trades | have
nam cd does better work. because II has better
paste. Then came the great printing press
that binds as Ii prints. and that requires the
most particular paste OF all Without the
great improvements recently made in paste.
this machine could hardly work at all
The way these special pastes are made Is
always a trade secret. and IL has become n
valuable one will give you q single example
some newspaper in an inland city In Australia
in the binding 1t uses four barrels Of paste a
month. Butthere Is nobody In Australia knows
how to make the paste required. and 1t has to
he bought In New lork-four barrels month.
costing So o barrel for the paste. and costing
S33 a barrel when 1t IL delivered In Australia,
see that Is a trade secret worth something,
There are four paste factories in New York
az present. and one Of them makes 100 barrels
OF paste q day. a considerable portion OF which
is shipped TO other cities Every large factory
- 10 S. a barrel Bin posters use tho 80 pas e.
and book inders and shoemakers use the best.
50 q barrel. Paperhangers nay - barrel.
and box makers 81, Flour and water are
always the principal ingredients. but other
what the other things are he won't tell YOU.
and he'd be foolish II he did. A big factory
employs ten or twelve men. and uses about
1000 barrels OF flour month"