New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

Spruce Logs Put End of Machine Come Ont in Rolls
Fa2er in a Fec Hours.

So great has this city become as a newspaper
centre that it now consumes enough paper III
a single day to stretch i'm q five foot strip from
New York to SAN Francisco. In one week TINS
ribbon might be heightened to sird the world
at the equator. In ten weeks all the NeW-Nork
papers, if put together in this way would rlath
to the moon. and in year if they were cut up
into a five inch tape line, they might connect
the earth with the sun.
CT all the paper produced in the United stat s
Ney-Yorl uses oue-cghth for its newspaper
1t is estimated that all the paper mills o! TINS
cCuntry turn out about four thousand toAS
each day. ana of this the newspaper presses OF
its chief metropolis consume FIVE hundred tons
Most If this comes from the Adro"dacts. an
on being unloaded from cars of the Ne'V-f"fh
Central Railroad at SiXtieth-st. ana thr lu' so
River is loaded on barges and then tlo2ted down
stream 70 the freight piers at Barclay s.. Her1
it is rolled onto trucks and hauled 10 the news
PAPER Offices.
Were il not for the tremendous capacity ~ TIE
modern rapermaking machine, the newspaper
of today would have been unable to attain its
present size. Some of the largest mills run at
q speed Of 800 feet of paper a minute or ABOUT
as fast as 4 horse travelling six niles an hotr.
The width of news paper varies from To- To '"'
inches one roll OF paper from the mn OF 'he
International PAPER Company, when was eA-
hibited at Buffalo, and which was SAID TO be the
largest ever made measured To- inches III
length, weighed two tons and, if unroied'
would have reached from Grace Church to
Grants tomb a distance Of some six miles. one
of the largest paper machines il the world
which is i'm operation in Rumfori Falls Me,
turns out eighty miles OF paper in tWehty-iouT
hours weighing nearly half a ton 10 the ul'ie.
So far have mechanical devices usurped the
work of human hands in the manufacture OF
paper that at the present time a machine VIII
feed itself with logs at one end and turn out
the finished roll of paper at the o,her- 80 81
gantic is such machine that /; takes on y
from eight to twelve hours to transform the
raw material into the finished product. 1t IRIS
saws up the logs of spruce, which have been
foated down the stream to the mill, taxes off
their bark, and then grinds them into pulp un-
der a flow of water. The pressure Of the grind
stone on the wood is sometimes as great rs 300
HORSEPOWER or oue-foIrth that OF the most
powerful locomotive built.
The manner in which the machine later
weaves TIE paper out Of what seems to be
stream of running water at first mystihes the
onlooker. Before reaching this stage of the
process the pulp has been boiled in a solution Of
sulrhuric acid which has destroyed the woody
fibre, and it has also been mixed with clay 20
give a smoother surface rosin to size it and
prevent the ink when printed it from spread
ing and blung to whiten it. The pulp mixed
with three times it's amount Of water. flows
along till it reaches an endless ribbon of wire.
which is a little wider than the intended width
of the paper The spread of the pulpy water
sideways is prevented by two endless rubber
straps one at each edge of the wire.
1t is while the STOCK" as the pulpy mass is
called, is being drained the rapidly moving
wire ribbon that to it is given the watermark.