Evening journal., 1912-07-18

Industries which are found on its
banks. The beauty of the valley of
the Little Elk is greater than many
suppose. Early spring and summer
In this locality is especially beautiful.
The waters of the creek are often so
high during a freshet that bridges and
dams are washed away. The hills in
summer are green with all kinds of
foliage Ferns abound; ferns of all
kinds. the native Maiden Hair, so diff
ficult to find, grows along these
banks IN the greatest luXuriance. The
stately funnel fern, the common
coarse evergreen fern, the beautiful
fringed fern and the military looking
sword fern marches down the banks
till II reaches the soft water fern
growing along the waters edge. Is it
any wonder this region was chosen
by our earliest manufacturers? The
practical, matter of fact man will
laugh and sneer, asking what all this
has to do with the making Of paper.
/ reply It's more than likely the ma
tural beauty first attracted the mill
man, whose next thought was to
utilize the fine water power found
here.
The Cecil Manufacturing Company
was organized in 1874. This company
Is thought to have been organized by
Colonel Henry Hollingsworth, of Elk
ton, who was at this time one of the
owners of Marley mill site. Colonel
Hollingsworth bought ten acres of
land on both sides of the Little Elk
creek, from one, John Anderson,
July 81, 1894 Colonel Henry Hol-
lingsworth, of Elkton; Levi and
Paschall Hollingsworth, of Philadel-
phia Francis Partridge. John Gilpin
Levi Hollingsworth, Jr., James Mac
key, of Cecil county, with Soloman
Maxwell and William Cooch, of Del
aware, were members of said com
pany, which is supposed to have or
ganized on November 1, 1894. The
company built a stone mill Marley
the walls of which are extremely
thick, and are now standing. The
superior work of constructing thi:
mill was noticed by a historian, who
said it was the best mill of the kline
I'm the United States Some of the
machinery was imported from Europe
Marley at this time was manufacture
ing linen, woolen and cotton goods
The company bought in 1896 abou
i've NunQIeQ acres OF ldnQ.
Thomas Jefferson was presented b,
this company with enough cloth t.
make a suit of clothes, which sui
he wore when he was inaugursteC
President of the United States in
1901
The custom of the people in thii
community was to make their owl
cloth, using spinning wheels anC
hand looms. For this reason tn,
Cecil Manufacturing Company die
not flourish. Samuel and william
Meeteer we're the first to Introduce
the manufacture of paper in Ceci
county. They owned Providence mil
on the Little Elk in the early part o
the last century.
Another authority says: "Rober
Carter came to Cecil county in 1871
and established the first paper mil
in Maryland.
This mill was known as the Ceci
Paper Mill He afterward bought tn
mill formerly owned by the Ceci
Manufacturing Company and ais
carried on Marley mill, which mad
paper for the Philadelphia Publi
Ledger. Mr. Carter was the first I
use modern methods in the msnufac
ture OF paper, expensive machiner,
etc. and by these means did much {
develop the paper making industry
Marley mill is now owned by tn
Marley Mill Corporation. It make
only wall paper of the higher grades
These papers are the standards TO
the whole county, Carey Brothers an
the Jacob Thomas Company of New
ark, Del. get a greater part Of tn
product of the Marley mill.
The census of 1880 shows 5000 90
invested in the manufacture of pape
in Cecil county. which sum is d
vided among Charles II. Wells an
Company, owners of the Cecil mill o
the Octoraro, the Ledger mill (Mal
levi Providence, owned by William n
singerley, Of the Philadelphia Recor'
and Mr.. Day Carter Of the Cecil Pape
Mill. on the Little Elk. Statistics al
not available for recent years, but N
paper making industry in Gee
county has grown by such leaps an
bounds that IL is many times in exces
of the figures quoted. Marley mil
while it was making paper for III
PHILADELPHIA Ledger. was owned b
the late George w Childs, proprietc
of that paper
In 1879 Mr.. Singerley bought Il
Providence mill and started il up n
next wear. making the Philadelphi
Record paper out ole ground woo
pulp and -four bags using but one mi
chine at that time. Later he addf
another machine and took contra
20 make book paper for the govern
ment. This paper was made OF ral
and chemical pulp. In 1888 spru'
wood cooked in sulphuric acid can
on the market. and IL was known
sulphite. It was a substitute for RAJ
as II made a very strong paper. III
use of rags was dropped at this tim
Mr.. Singerley built in 1885, 9,another mi
TO cook old books and old newspaper
The ink was extracted and the pr
duct bleached. The old book pap
was used for book paper ana u
newspaper material made paper Il
the PHILADELPHIA Record. Eliminatf
the chemical pulp process In maki
hook paper and dropping ground wo'
pulp in the manufacture of the Recol
paper.
Process Of Manufacture.
In 1898 the Baltimore & Ohio hal
road built spur from Child's static
to Providence, which saved all u
hauling of material from and q
product to Singerly Station. Twent
one mule teams had been nece
sary to do the work. From 1898
1895 he increased the paper mill to
six machine MILL making paper f