Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-02-01
RATION ROUGE La. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY
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sG Few persons are aware of the
extent to which certain fabrics, valu-
able to trade and commerce, are car
ried on 10 some of our Southern cities
The subject is one of vital Importance
to the common veal and we are glad
to perceive that able pens are engaged
in disseminating such information
relative to it as will tend to familiarize
it more fully to the public mind. It is
very desirable that degree of interest
should be kept up, by every possible
means, among intelligent and entepri-
sing young men, to prompt them to
increased exertions, SO to extend the
area of progression and improvement
everywhere in the South, as will make
herself sustaining and independent in
all of her home resources and acquire.
ments.
Among the successful experiments
which have been inaugurated and
tasted on an extensive scale in New
Orleans, and Of which from time to
time, we have read interesting de-
scriptions, is one relating to the To
bacco Mandatory of those well
known and deserving gentlemen
Messrs. MAYER & Bros.
The New Orleans Times of the
| 18th instant, furnishes its readers with
sketch Of that factory. The details
are graphically given and embody an
amount of novel information which
we have thought would interest our
readers.
We wherefore copy the sketch in
| full, which is as follows:
| THE CIGAR, SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO
| MANUFAoToRY OF MAYER EROS. l
| The house of Mayer Bros. established
| their factory in the year 1850, with fore
| sight and mercantile preseience, foresee-
| ing the profit that must result from the
/ enterprise. We, of New Orleans, have
men among us who have traditionally
| learned all that appertains to tobacco pre-
| paration, who have acquired it by the
| teachings of father and grandsire, apd,
| who, from the well-known quality of their
| workmanship, are capable of instructing
| Northern manufactures in the rudlments
/ of the art. in our city generations of men
| have followed the pursuit of cigar making,
| our warm atmosphere being admirable for
| the art, and the warm tastes of our people
creating a large demand for the article that
! kept busy these generations of men. Mayer
| Bros. have availed themselves of the skill
that is characteristic of this class, and have
now in their employ about thirty men
! whose sole occupation consists in the trade
of cigar making.
| THE CIGAR MANUFAoToRY.
The cigar manufaetory of Mayer Bros.
is located in the upper stories of build
ing corner Foucher and Poydras streets.
1t contains departments large, airy and
we'll adjusted to the bushes. The leaf is
| brought to the factory stemmed, and is di-
vided into two parts, the lining and the
wrapper. The lining is made of pieces OF
leaf,the wrapper of large portions that must
be of the fneness of silk. Wrappers are
made of the finest portions, and are selected
either from Havana, Connecticut Seeding
| No, foh be
kinds making different qualities of cigars
Wrappers and Innings are prepared from the
leaf in the lining room, and are bundled
in small rolls ready for the hands of the
operators. The cigar makers occupy the
building, and sit to their work as rters
before desk. Each cigar frame has q
small table on which the rolling takes
place, with adjoining space for loose tobac
co, lining or wrappers, according to the
| arrangement of the workman. Behind
| fifty of these desks in rows ftcing one an
| other, sit as many workmen, engaged ut
the business. He selects leaf from lining
by q sim pie touch, cuts it, if necessary, with
his knife, fingers move with the rapidity
of lady fingers drumming lively march
bundle is made of lining, the wrapper is
rolled around them toe rapid for sight at
the successive stages. While you count ten,
the cigar is made and though not ready
for smoking, is yet complete made cigar.
| The form Of each eigarmaker is like a
cease the operation OF bundling the liz
ing and rolling the wrapper is only exceed
ed by printing in the marvellous rapidity
of busy fingers. No man can properly
| make cigar bindfold, the operation
requires a constant application, unre-
mitting and untiring use Of eye, of brain
and muscle. The cigar when rolled is
ready for the operation of drying and is
tied in rough bundles and shelved in
the drying room, only being exposed TO
he action Of the air and requiring no arti-
fetal heat. Here the cigar stays only the
length of time required for the paste used
in the firm set of the end, to dry. There
is no sampler book for tobacco, it needs a
life timo to tell its many varieties, the ca
paeitles that tit if for the good, bad or in
different cigar. All the superior brands
of Havana cigars are here made of Cuban
tobacco, and the brand is the equal, if not
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