The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-02

prove it. Which ne proceeded to 10, &C
cording TO rules not laid down at -Annap-
oils. He made a search Of the city, gath
cred all the rifles he could find, and put
them in the hands of his wOrkmen. W hen
he marched his fmrronptu marines tc the
scene of action the foreman Of tho sec
ton gang concluded that discretion was
the better part of vaIor, and the fridge
stands today, monument TO the fighting
naval officer.
But the Transformation from the wood
ed SIRENS threaded by the lonely canoe
Of Indian vogager so busy centers by the
gigantic brick buildings filled with whir
ring wheels been more marvellous than the
changes in the process OF Paper-rakinC-
In tho early days it was though that
rags were essential even for the cheap
grades of paper used by daily journals.
The old firm Of Smith & Van Ostrand.
which began on the Fov river about
forty years ago and got rich. ahan-
doned the bushes when the price of COM
mon newspapers fell to II cents a pound.
That must have been a quarter of cen
fury ago or longer. but these pioneers
believed tho industry had seen its best
bic. Yet in recent years news paper has
sold as low as IL cents a pound. It is
now telling at cents ard the manufac-
turers arc making good profits.
Tho secret OF this remarkable re5luc-
ton in the cost of paper, a reduction
which makes penny newspapers possible.
IS 10 be found in The substitution of
wood for rags When a western man
takes up his favorite Chicago daily It
the breakfast table IL Is quite possible he
holds in his hnds 4 section OF a spruce
tire ethat was growing a short time be-
fore on the northern shore OF Georgian
Bay. beyond Lake Huron. It may have
teen said part Of the log that was RATED
cross the lake behind q tug 70 port on
Green Bay. where It was loaded on Q flat
CT and railroaded TO a mil on the Fox
River, there to undergo the wonderful
process which changes hard logs into
miles Of white, soft paper.
The stock now used by newspapers
IS wholly OF wood Raes are TO longe-
needed for such cheap paper. The first
process in Transforming the spruce wood
into paper is % grind IL into -four in "A
pulp mill Above the stone are several
AN-rk t-tCAeS 4Lk A-lNi-S ga N---- y iA---t
are pressed against the whirlius stone by
hydraulic plungers
The wood meal IS conveyed 70 great
watts called heaters which carry out the
process Of bleaching and turning the
wood into pulp. Saturated with water
and treated with lime tho powdered wood
flows round s16 round the watts. and the
axle armed with knives tho-ouehlv heats
and mixes the rnushy mass. The pulp
soon hocomes as white as snow under tha
acton Of IKE lime and II Acquires the
cf 2 tfl-poster's paste. u
due time IL Is run through q set Of Rollers
which squeeze out tho wafer L IS -1rn
OF in laree. thick sheets v-hicl are
folded up ana piled = stacks that re-
scribe the piles q white blankets one
sees 1t times II 2 dry goods store.
The uioneer Wisconsin WOOD prip uli
was the Atlas. establishes II Appleton
about thirty years ESQ hv Bradas-. Smith
< Co. ofChieago.
Las. year TIE Fox mills alore COR
suued nearv I5aes cords Il weed and
the cons 1nlptfoa ofalitheETIscolsia NILS
Is placed 2. esa.e1o cords One may SET
a better conception II what J1is means
BY rejecting that IL these cords were
placed end 10 end they would stretch
cut reaTiy 20 miles Most of rha R1oa
comes from .-nrshern Wisconsin and
but Canada contributes = ls-re
share and Mar esota q smaller part or
the 1ss.eS eo-ds used n The Fox river 4