Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-12
VARIED Uses or PAPEI:
American Paper Machinery i'll DEM
IN Europe

I; u>"i 70 h- said thIt there ,,l-
a"thins that rould not L- made. uut ~
Gather The same thing ~ moW S..l
Z p.r"i. From water mains. iina
barrels ana window rnnr> to ,iu,h,aS
-ahi"oioths ani NAPKINS. The range mi
,rti,lrS into which, paper is sau.- ,.,..i
nun and chemically wrought j b.-
~,ld"ring Further Jhan THAR tE-
4HAe III u~cs "a hivh paper is lr-
Piled " Increasing rapidly. The t'ni...d
states Irr noN. the greatest produces
II paper In the world hui thu srlil3-
NJ "Xrnrt~!. Thc latter Tact il t,-
"use W. use more paper than "nv
other nation ana because in ~la.
in~s W manufacture Germany inrun-
-otablv leads the world says inr
Now York sun.
The adaptation of paper to i'll pres
M manifold uses j. simply i matt
j applied chemistry ANA in this sci,a...
H. Germans have long been pre-tIni-
Tent. Eur even in Germany ami in
Frame. where paper making iaS
.cdrhtd 50 high stage of adNan' ~
N,rnt il Is still Yankee brains thAi
uyniSh the machinery with which me
:.,hijc IL produced ana not only " u
Am"ricIn paper-mak machines aE-
,nit"d to Europe. hut American Skill.!
Nurkmcn al" employed to go with III
machines and Operate them in tH'
nipc: mills on the other side ~ t3r
vat"r. An instance of this has Ia-'
h"-n afforded iii TIE great copper
mining company OF Falun. Sweden.
which has recently added to its oii'
producing plant several large pap
Mills. .AS part of It's equipment. 'niI-
'Ipcr making ma chimes have Just n.-''.
,rdcred IN this country. and Num-
10Y "f expert American paper makers
nave been engaged Ia 20 abroad with
hem. put them w and run them uhrn
hoy are in working order This ,uiH
'nation of copper producing and paper
making IS. ts matter Of fact. V"rN
Al result Of existing conditions.
rhc Swedish company. the Stnrl
'<opparbcrcs Bcrgslog Aktichralog. ~
i is called, and by the way. it is said
- be the oldest corporation in n"
world. uses for supports in its min"S
i vast quantity Of timber. After hli
he supports pUSSihi" are cut out ~ y
rec there still remains larG" sun
piueagc Of excellent wood which for j
long time, in a sEreat measure. I"
waste. Now paper making in SWEDEN
great industry because Of tn
great forests which produce the wood
cor pulp. SO it occurred TO the con
Der company that here was a good W1E
tn dispose of its waste timber. ""-
pccally as the heat used for roa 81 'I,G
the copper ore could he applied al thr
same time for the generation OF the
steam necessary to the drying rr"re'
in paper making. Hence the big heM
paper mills which are now Just ! il
ginning operations
Reverting to the use Of Amcrican
| machinery in paper making. as "N-
empliiied in the case of the Swedish
company above mentioned. thrf" Is
still more striking instance OF IT n"d'ar
home For a long time back n" ma
chine used in Germany for putting -"
finish on envelope paper was called me
Yankee machine II was the inNeE-
ton of an American. Yet strangely
enough there was not a single on" "f
the machines in use in the iand wher"
it was invented. Ana even now the
only ones with "A single except oa.
that are in operation or that soon VIII
be. are in a big paper mill now about
| completed in Pennsylvania. by German
| capitalists and under German direc-
ton. The other Yankee machines ar"
| in the mills of another German in Wis
consin. The regularity Of paper re
Quired for envelopes Is that II must he
| rough on one side. so that the muciiate
will stick well. and finely finished on
the other in order I" give "a
fine smooth surface for writ
ing. Reverting to the PennSyl
! vania mill that is using the Yankee
machine, there is the interesting fact