Arizona silver belt., 1894-03-31
THE PAPER BOX AGE.
NUMBER OF USES TO WHICH CARD,
 BOARD CASES ARE PUT.

voniences the paper box holds a front place. Emf century ago the dry goods dealer would present an empty box to the little daughter of his regular customer as mark of special fayoi Boxes were then used only by tho wh0l sale houses to send out their goods iu, and the retailer kept them to show his wares in. Now the customer insists upon his purchase boing placed in neat box. Not only is this so in the dry goods business, but in every other business, The oyster try in a box as peacenaker was popular joke half dozen years ago; now they put ice cream in boxes, and all sorts of things Candy used to be sold in paper bags. the smallest purchase has to be put iu a bcS. The saucy confoctioner might hand a paper bag to a woman who had made q small purchase, but never to a man. The man is probably moro lar ticulsr about hie parcel than woman. Hc hates to be seen carrying parcels anyway. and those he Goes carry must be thoroughly well disguised. If he bugs a bo,tleoi whisky, he must hayeit iu box, so that his friends may mis- take it for a par of shoes.
 l. Is moi surprising, therefore, that paper box making should have grown into an important industry. In this city alone no less than 1000 girls are employed in it. It Is a comparatively clean. healGg husiness, is regular and is well paid, the wages averaging be- tween &7 and @t0 q week, There are in this city e firms engaged iu the busingss, but three-fourths of it is done ty 20 large firms, whose individual ont put will run from $l00,000 to $l50,000 year. AS the average cost of q paper box is cents, you cau form some idea from this 0t the enormous number that are used One candy maker alone dnr ng the month of December last used $l0000 worth Of boxes.
 Philadelphia. Boston and Chicago are also prominent iu this industry. and the workmen and girls employed ty the Grmsof thoseciues cannot he much less than 20,o0O There are small 6rms. too, iu every large city, IT addition Co which many large manutaetarers make th.n own paper boxes.
 The first paper box maker was George " Plumly, who started in the busi- ness at Philadelphia iU lsi6 lie and bis Fagtncrcut cut the hoxas their only tools being a straight edge, cpmplsscs, shoe knife and eiofs. They employed Gyg girls to paste aud for aS or seven years had monopoly of the business. Then Charles W Jencks started iu tho busiuess ia Providence and introduced a rough scoring machine Co cut partly through ihe cardboard where it is fold ed t0 make the ax. At that time ii WGs a struggle to obtain proper nate rials There were few paper mills in the country, and the straw board used was very poor stuff. not two sheets coming oui uf tao mill of the same size. lt was made ly hand of straw meadow hay, refuse straw from stables, dried IT the open air Jn tue ground, and rouse queatly was often flied w.1b sisnd. which madl t interesting for the cut ters The best quality Of mill board was all imported
 Tn tho garly days the yuung women jn th Eap-r tox factor made boxes as their uotbela made pies, one at q time and that oae we'll A girl who could make pies quickly and well could make boEcs in similar style. The operations were somewhat similar TDure was tho same manner of cutting out material, the same caressing way of batting down and smoothing ont the tox coverings as the pie crust aud tie same way oi trimming off surplus ma terial Now everything is done by ma clinery in paper box making, and the girls have nothing to do but ieed tlg material Co tLg machines.
 George A. Diciermau Of Boston darlca in Che husmcss in 1868 n Eos ton, and about t8i0a FrenchBlan nalned Rouyon inuodFced the busin in this city. Theold fashiouel way oi scoring the pasteboarl with a rule and a ccb- Ullr's knife continued until IS7i when the frst machine was introduced. This was the invention of Mr Big low of New Haven. This scoring machine was such a success that number of Grms spra1g mp. Six years aitera mar named Marshall of Boston made q lighter and easicr running machine, and in 1881 John T. Robinson & Co. invented the preeent scoring machine The trouble with the former machines was in the time it took t0 adjust the kniyes 10 new size or pattern of box. In the Robinson scorer there are two sets of knives, SO that one set can be adjusted while the other is being used
 Nowadays the whole of the material is made in this country, and 1t is a sat isfactiou to know that the scoring ma chimes and the boxmaking machincs ere all tue result of Yankee ingenuity Paper boxes arc used all over the world now, and all the world has to get it's machines from this county In France paper boxes are still made by hand by many firms, but Che machines have been introduced there, and it will not be long befme these Yankee inventions will be at york in all thoir factories.
 The boxmalzer Low receives S2 for tho same work he got s for 9 years ago, yet he makes t larger profit and is able to pay higher wages. The ma chimes arc uncoHllicated and not ex- pcnsive. The business gives steady employment as there is practically no particular season, and when not work ing on orders the machines are running on stock of which large supply has always 10 be kept on hand.
 Such IS the rapid growth of the paper box indutsry, which now has three good trade papers to represent it's interests. New York Advertiser.
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