Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-09
FouRTH AND FIFTn sroR1Es.


These floors, covering the length and
depth of the building, are used for the
storage of tobacco, in cases and hogsheads,
and for cigars, paper and other articles
us ed in the business.
The sales rooms on the second story oc-
cuPy the whole front of that floor; the pipe
room, or room used tor the sale of import
ed pipes and home manufacture, is repre-
sented in drawing, and is one of the
chief attractions of the building, being
sixty by forty feet In size, aud furnished
with ornamental sheIvings which cover its
entire walls. They are grained and warm
ished IN Imitation of oak. The ceiling is
supported by four Turned columns with
iron caps furnished in the same manner
Here are to be seen an assortment of pipes
and cigar holders, from the common sort
make of wood to the elegant and tasteful
y carved meerschaum aud amber,
The filling room for putting up smoking
tobacco in packages is forty by forty, and
presents scene full Of life, men, boys and
girls, being busily engaged in the various
branches of labor performed here, such as
Weighing the tobacco, making bags, filling
and pressing the same with the aid of va
riously contrived machines. The cutting
room, hfty-two by forty feet square, con-
tains machinery for cutting tobacco, roll
ing out stems, sitting etc There are six
machines for cutting fine tobacco aud one
OF large dimensions for coarse cut, this lat
ter machine alone being capable of cutting
ten thousand pounds per day.
The snuff mill contains six cutters or
stampers for reducing the leaf into snuff
grain and one mill for grinding up stems
into common snuff, also one sitting and
one cutting machine, the latter being used
to facilitate the work of the stdmpeT.
10 the snuff sweating rooms the tobacco
is made to undergo chemical process by
which its peculiar qualities are developed.
and its whole nature undergoes a change.
According to the nature, origin, or quality
OF the raw material, il is either staEed mn
into large squares one of which We saw
holding over sixty thousand pounds, or re-
duced into powder and deposited in large
boxes, capable of contsining the same
quantity, and of which eight occupy a
room, thfrty-four by fEty-six feet satiare.
These boxes are nineteen teet high.
In the opening aud asserting room
number of females are engaged in packing
and asserting the leaf as it opens from the
hogSheads, according to Its color aud quail
tiles.
The two wings, before alluded TO, eu-
close yard 44x43 feet, which is entered by.
~ aASuS4 gateway Oh granite IN tue center
OF the troal building, and in which all the
receiving and delivery of goods are carried
on. The yard also contains stabling for
the horses employed in the business. Be-
sides this, there is Ggasometer, the gas be-
ing manufactured on the premises to sup
ply the whole building. The machinery
is worked by steam engine of so horse
power.
Water is introduced all over the bpild-
ing, even to the upper stories. and on eT-
cry floor of each wing there is -suf5cient
length of three inch, india rubber, hose.
always attached to the water fixtures: to
reach the entrance ends Of the building,
50 that In case Of any accident by fire, ali
that IS required is to turn the water on
and be ready with the hose. sj,s5 :
There are three large hoisting machines
connected with the establishment. A.
constant night watch is kept, and con-