Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-20
PAP Err MAKING.
Origin and Growth OF Business Which
HAS 80 Much toDo With Modern
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" her the aciies ei,lsits IL the ninas
ssfssl N century ere recorded Il he prog
$50 wiaaeh MAS made il the nla,,ifac-s
tuIs u paper should hot bespverlooked.
say tbs. New York Tribune This
necessary article Of commerce. which
mas become one of the most important
N the Isfosress af the World, was given
e man by Chinss, whore for many vears
aiterlts Manufacture HAD been i'm
sis5Yea in otlsr lands il MAS siiil pro-
duesd by the original methods This
Chinese about A. D. 50 discovered the
art of taking lie fibefs .f plants ana.
rolling then INTO sheets after they had
been reduced V pulp. They used bam-
boo, rice straw bark q the mulberry
stree AID rags They also made paper
froma mixture 81 vegetable fibers re-
dueed TO pulp. and hemp and silk
The pa per mad by them MAS d soush!
str9ng article and ii resenibled The!
papyrlls which was III use in the ether.
countries. strong brown paper Was
ma by he Romans from the bark ii
trees md bout 500 a. -. the Cefealls
made .. good paper from The bark of
the mulberry tree. But China was the
maker OF. superior paper. aud from thai
country the arr Of paper making vas
transmitted 10 he Hindoos, Arabs and
lerSans. and Later TO the Moors, wh,
ma sis Paper In pain from linen. cotton
manufacturing pant was started in Ger
many 1t was ailother half century be-
t9is France had lis own paper mill. and
lsi gland becataf paper making coun-
try 90 a smallsseale about the time that
America Was dlsGoy cred
/ In America there was no paper made.
llI 81 los0 when j little mill was started
isat Philadelphia. but SINCE that time tile
Pc ner Industry has been a feature III
liiiae manufa curing of the country Thu.
Idemarc for the article grew WITH The
develop ment of the cur try; it became
an Indispensable commodity. ansi In,
lshanamade paper of lie early ages savt.
Way 70 mci-e easily produced finer
land Handsome, article. But the prinei-
Isple ION whichsraper IS made today * the
same as that employed by the Chinese
ages ago.
PAPER MAKIN6; MACHINES.
| When. in 1898, Louis Roberts invented
q machine IN which paper could be
4 the people who wer. consumers of the
Z
sof paper making had been reached But
improvements have been made on the
machine ever since that time, and the
/ Fourdrinier paper machine OF this day
is like the originel only in principle
IThe demand for paper and the neces-
sity for good product at a low COS,
stimulated inventors to activity, and
1.-the result YVES the substitution of wooc
4 pulp for the old paper ingredients
A Wood soon became the main factor il
I paper making business, and the article
made from the fibre is in many respects
equal to any other paper, and the quail
+ ity is being improved continually ano
the method of manufacture changed
4 with a view to making the product bet
ter and less expensive.
Civilization has created new uses fol-
paper, and what was a luxury in TIL;
4 country where il was first made has be.
come. in its improved form. an abso
Lutte necessity in every part of ths
4 community. The habit of correspond
ence has multiplied with increasing ra.
pidity under the stimulus of iowel
4 postal charges. Each succeeding day
! makes the demands for newspaper.
greater, books and pamphlets max,
tremendous drains on the paper manu-
facturer, and these outlets alone for tn,
paper product would keep many larg'
4. plants busy. For newspapers thu
amount OF paper used last year wa:
millions OF tons. In the book business
4 the amount consumed may be es-imat
ed by the fact that two novels pub
iished in the United States last yea
consumed in their manufacture 1.500.00'
pounds Of Dhper. But aside from THU