The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-23
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IS 1T THE PAPER AGE ?
SINCE PULP CAME mo USE THERE
HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES.
Paper is Taking the Place of Wood,
stone and IrOn--It is Now Made Alb
SOlutely irepr0Of--Shirt BosomS
That Don't Have to be
Washed.

Without steam and railways modern
society would undoubtedly exist But
what state of intellectual darkness would
be that of civilized mankind without paper
and the secret of it's manufacturer! For
many years the rag met all demands of the
paper industry. The increasing diversity
OF uses to which paper and paper pulp have
been put in the last decade have made it
necessary for manufacturers to cast about
for more effective elementary substances.
Boots, money, boats, gas pipes, impermeable
casks, toys, bottles, pipes, floors, doors,
ceilings, architectural ornaments, roofing,
chimneys and even complete tireproof houses
are now made of paper. Many claim that
it will eventually supplant wood, for it
will neither crack nor warp. 1t can be
triturated, put under great pressure and
subjected to certain chemical treatment
and will then take high polish and will
resist the effects of fire better than any
other material known. Paper is gradually
supplanting metal in certain lines. Loco
motive wheels have been made of it for
several years, ard even rails for railroads
for the manufacture OF ordnance, which is
not by any means remote possibility.
Paper has largely taken the place OF linen
We have paper collars and cuffs and
blankets. An ingenious inventor has de
vsed paper shirt bosoms, which can be
torn off like the pages from calendar,
thus enabling the wearer to have clean
shirt front as often as he desire. 1t is only
matter of time before cloths, dressing
gowns and entire suits of clothes Will he
made from paper. The soldiers of the
Japanese army wore paper trousers and
jerseys during their famous winter cam
plgn.
Wood pulpis the most effective substitute
for rags in the manufacture of paper.
Nearly every species Of wood can be used.
Some kinds yield more than others. More
pulp can be got from willow and chestnut
| lhah io'h walnut DlHtTent WOODS give
various qualities and effects. Aspen will
yield very white paper, but defective in
solidity, and is therefore mixed with fir.
This latter wood is most generally used.
1t was first imported from the Black forest,
in Germany. The chief supply is now OBJ
tained in Norway and Finland, in the form
| Of ,,lnpls E, 4,
or inches.
For the last half century the world $
| production of paper has increased tenfold.
In 1850 it was 22l 900 metric tons. The
latest recent estimate was 1000, 900 metric
tons. The European manufacturers are
Suffering from glut in production. The
wages have doubled. The European plants
are not so progressive as those in this coun-
try. They depend too much upon manual
labor. In the United States the manufac-
turers have substituted machinery for hand
work, and as result of the decrease in the
number of their employees are enabled to
pay high wages.
Attenti on has recently been called to the
utility of a little known species of paper
callee the boabab, OF Ansonia. 1t is made
from the wood of the boabab tree, which
is a native of west Africa, and is known
there as the monkey bread tree" 1t is
found in Abyssina, Senegal and south of
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very thick trunk. While it rarely attains
height of % feet, the trunk is usually 20
to % feet in diameter. The branches are
pendulous and bear an edible fruit The
inner bark of this tree is very ibrous. 1t
is used for making superior wrapping
papers, which have great tenacity. When
the inner bark is stripped from the tree, a
fresh growth supplants that taken away,
and in a couple of years the tree is again
in normal condition. The bark is peeled
off but once in four years.
The latest addition to the paper industry
is a sanitary note paper which is claimed
to be germproof 1t has long been known
that letters frequently spread infectious dis
eases by means Of the germs that contami-
nate the paper. An English firm has pro-
duced a paper which is impregnated with
an antiseptic substance which kills all
germs that may come in contact with the
paper. If this paper proves to be what the
proprietors claim, it is certainly meritori-
Gus invention and will become generally
used by hospitals and during the rage of
future epidemics.
Chinese and japanese papers have long
been noted for their quality. 1t has re-
Gently been ascertained, however, that even
finer grades are produced in Korea. One
eminent authority states that ''the Korean
paper excels the very best that is made in
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