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Show TH OL PAPERMAKER 24 required to work from six in the morning until nine at night three hours longer than a papermaker's day. The following interesting account appeared in a lttle book of trades in 1747 and give some idea of the requirements at that time of both the master an No. 14 The interior of an carly eighteenth century German paper mil the worker: "Papermaking requires much water and a great dea of room, and thercfore is :\ltogclhcr carried on at water-mills i the country, which undertaking are not numerous. It goes throug various operations and diversh'md before it is completed, an the moulding p;\rt, which is the principal, requires a nice han and good eye. They take with an apprentice5 to 10 pounds wh work from six to six, and he ought not to be a very tender lad they pay a journeyman moulder (vatman) 15 to 18 shillings week; and a mill with the g e (besides which ther must be a reserve of at least 200 pounds, cash for a stock of rags ctc) will stand one, mindcd t0 be a master, in 100 pounds, o which some have two or three, It is a very curious art taken as whole, and 50 useful a manufacture, that it ought to be encourage Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |