The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-07
MORE DURABLE
AND COSTS LESS
New Process of Grinding Out
Ten Dollar Bills.
IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION
MARK HANNA's MOTIVE FOR
ACTIVITY.
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Washington, Dee 6.-The day Of the
crisp ten-doilar bin is passing. A
chemical compound has been invented
which viii give to whatever paper 1t is
applied Yelvetiness and pliabiity similar
70 mat OF the latest millinery creation,
cnltIon velvet, The inventors are u. n.
Fowler, chief craftsman of the coast and
GeOdeuc survey. and ID. n. Hoover. chief
PRINTER OF the same bureau. When Mr..
foWler went into the survey he was told
that official maps had TO be done bY
mana mat they could not be printed. as
the paper would shrink during the print
ing, thus rendering the scale on which
the map was drawn inaccurate. Afr FoW-
Ter Went TO work on an idea of his own.
ana Two years ago he and Mr.. Hoover
patented the process by which il is pro-
posed 10 make paper nOnshFinkable and
pllAple. Inc invention has been endorsed
by the big paper manufacturers and even
Dy the Sapanese government AS the Jap
anese have been recognized as the master
papermakers Of the world their endorse
ment IS a guarantee
1t is held that by the application of this
compound 70 the paper used in printing
DIS and stamps the government win save
sixty days in the manufacture of the
former and % per cent i'm the cost of the
latter. At present the paper on which
gfeenbacks are printed has to be thor
ougmy soaked IN water While in this
eoaKed condition one side of it is printed.
me sheet is then placed in the steam
room and kept under high temperature
Tor thirty days. the time necessary to dry
the ink 1t is then soaked again and the
other SIDE printed. Back into the steam
room for another thirty days, and. if II
a. - = lnIes-coloreQ Dill -ouL again INTO the
TUBS, ana once more confined Tor thirty
days in the steam room. Three months
Tor the printing of a SO bill is a good deal
Or time 70 throw away in these hustling
ua&s- AFTER that it must be starched to
give It body. BY the use of the new in
vention the paper would be pliable enough
10 take the impression without soaking
and from sixty to ninety days would thus
De saved in making money.
IN me matter of stamps, the present
process shrinks the material so that by
the time the sheets reach the perfOrating
machine 20 per cent of them are ruined,
owing to the fact that the needles drive
down through the faces Of the honorable
gentlemen whose portraits adorn the post
age of the country.
New Belasco Play.
David Belasco has brought ont another
or his plays in Washington, Trying il on
the dog2 Hardly What Washington Will
put its endorsement on, New York will
rave over, ChlcagO viii sQuander its last
penny to see, and the rest Of the world
VIII travel miles to behold For the
Washington theatre audience is cold
frozen, so sOndly CONCEALED that IL takes
the true fire OF genius and the radiance
or art TO thaW 1t out. But there was a
time when Mr.. Belasco would never have
attempted a first night in Washington;
IN TACT, there was time wnen he thought
ne would never get a chance at a first
night anywhere. That was in the days
big producers and left them respectfully,
TO be pigeOnhOled. In his early experience
ne learned how prone is the successful
stageWrgnt 10 say that he has read a
manuscript and that it won't answer
AFTER several attempts with one of the
great producers, BelascO carried him a
last manuscript tied neatly with pink
tape. Two weeks later he called for an
opinion. but the other said he had not
reached the matter yets. Another two
weeks and Mr. BelascO called again. only
to have the play handed back. Have YOU
read IT, he asked. Sure was the an
swer. Sorry it won't do" Then Mr.
BelascO united the pretty pink bow and
iaid before the manager sixty blank
pages. FhIi
1he departments Of. commerce and labor
mas recently issued some figures regard
ing the commerce of the United States fin
IRON and steel which illustrate the great
growth of the production of these articles
in the United States. These figures show
that manufactures Of iron and steel form
the largest item Of our exports of manu-
Iaotured articles, and have shown a more
remarkable growth IN expectation than
perhaps any ether article in the large
number which form the classification
manufactures. Beginning with So IA in
1870, the growth was extremely slow dur
ing the first half Of the century. being
only 1888. 702 in 1850. in 1850 the total was
$3.50 ll4 IN $50, $l34S8,l63; in 1850, $4. rs
9Z4' IN 1870. SZo 42.ZOS. and 10 1900 Sl2l.9l3.-
5sS the increase in the closing decade of
the century being nearly four times as
much as IN the ninety years preceding. In
552,5 62. and in 1903, $50, 6f2 561. That the de-
crease in eNpOTta COUs since 1900 is chiefly
due to INCREASED home demand is indi-
Gated by the fact that the domestic pro-
ducuon Of pig iron. the basis OF iron and
steel manufactures has increased from
pa tons in 1900, the year Of the great
est exports, to 17,S2l,307 tons in 1902, an
increase Of about 80 per cent during the
period in which the reduction of exports
occurred. A further evidence Of the large
home demand for iron and steel is found
in the fact that during this recent period,
In which the production of pig iron was
greatly increased and the exports of man
ufactures of iron and steel decreased the
importatiOnS of iron and steel grew from
$50, 47S,72S in 1890 to S5l. 6i7.8l2 in 1903.
Hanna's Activity.
Senator Hanna can be given credit for
a uisintereSted motive in his present at
utude towards political affairs He would
like to be president of the United States,
but he realizes fully that a contest be-
tween himself and President Roosevelt
would injure the party. The senator s
IlfsI ldea and wish IS 20 perpetuate Re
publican control of national affairs To
40 this he would sacrifice his own inter
ests, and he has already taken prompt
measures to put an end to his incipient
Doom Tor the presidency. He could un-
dcubtedlv secure the Ohio delegation and
the southern delegates to the national
convention. With this nucleus his cause
would present considerable strength I'M
mediately following the Ohio campaign a
movement was started by mis- friends in
both these directions. but the senator him
self put a stop to the entire proceedings.
He has turned his attention to legislative
matters, He favOrs the Cuban reciprocity
law because he looks upon it as a fulfill
ment of pledges made by his friend, the
late president He will work for the pas
sage of a ship subsidy bill. but under
stands that 20 cannot become a law at this
time owing Co the opposition In the house.
He is keenly interested I'm the fight
against General Wood, this being purely
personal matter with him. incidental 10
the support Of his friend Rathbone whom
he believes to have been treated unfairly
by General Wood.