The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-04-18
rpEWAN BROS MILLS AT WHIP
PANY.
The Hanover and the Caledonia
Makers of Folding Box-Board.

Makers OF Folding BOX-BOard.
A fine drive over a road hard and
dry though it had been drenchingly
rained upon for successive days ter.
minated four and half miles from
Morristown and abreast of two nota.
BILE mills that industriously grind and
rumble night and day, suspendine
their incessant energy only on the
Sabbath lay of each week
The Hanover mill, the larger and
more capable of the twain, was estab-
lished about 1898 and has since that
date made record of activity and
for the superi GRITTY and abundance Of
its products, the principal of which
is the conversion of refuse paper
into varied qualities and sorts of pulp
and the reproduction of this pulp into
what is technically known to the
trade as newspaper board This
material at the Hanover mills, is a
finely surfaced and delicately tinted
paper board into which sulphite enters
to give it softness and necessary fexi-
bility and which in the manufacture
of boxes is especially adapted for that
species of every size, variety and in
tent known as folding boxes,'' the
latter being shaped and put together
without special means for attachment
except by looping, or pptting one
part of box into the other, as is seen
in the familiar board cases common
to confectioners, oystermen and others.
Few among the matchmaking would
imagine the widespread and growing
employment of this unassuming neces-
sity of trade, except by acutely noting
the broad, smooth finished rolls as
they noiselessly unwind fine, never
ending fabric that pours itself, a
shimlnering cataract, to be cut into
manageable lengths and curled into
marketable bundles. This product
is shipped to numerous points, the
distribution being ruled somewhat by
consideration of weight and freight,
the product being quite heavy and
rates for it's transportation high.
Meanwhile the foreign shipments are
almost ample for the large output,
Liverpool being the main export des-
tination. The remainder goes into
home.
The famous patents of this company,
which are said to be fabulously valua-
BILE, relate to the basic principle or
pulp reduction process, which is I'M
doubtedly wonderful operation to
view. The engines and machinery
of the Hanover mill are of the highest
class of their especial species, the
horsepower equalling 500, to which is
to be added prodigious water power.
Present is also a complete and well
equipped machine shop, possibly 50xl50
feet and as for storage and stock
room, it is expressed best by the term
vast; for the single mill site under
review covers great area of ground.
The second of these mills, known as
the Caledonia, is not less excellent,
but is not so extensive. II is addressed
to the manufacture of plain paper
board of first class and we'll known to
commerce.
The writer was ost cordially re-
ceived by Mr.. Robert B. McEwan,
senior of the firm and treasurer of
the corporation, whose brother,
Richard, the secretary, and another
brother, compose the firm.
To Mr.. W. Fl Williamson, who
with painstaking detail explained the
general character, purpose and pro-
cesses of these mills, and of their
efficient machinery and appliances, we
are indebted for the circumstantial
matter here stated. Mr.. Williamson
is the accomplished bookkoeper for the
Messrs McEwan Brothers.
In conclusion, it is to be said of this
sterling and established mill enter
prise that it is not only a luminous
attestation of the industry, energy
and nluck of the pantlemanlv nrODrie-
to Morristown, Morris County and
New Jersey.