The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-03-23

I edge ut which is even with one end Of the - s1
cite, while the other is folded down, when all :.
fastened with touch Of paste. We stood some
time admirine the deSteri,y Of one young fellow
who far surpassed all the others. NominalIy III,
wages of all are the same, four dollars a moAth
| with rations and lodging, bat the more exper,
receive grltuities in addition, and all are allow.
| 81 piece-work after their ten hours OF labor !,
| performed. Their over work is generally three
hours per day, during which time the one jus,
spoken OF earns enc dollar and fifty c-4ts.
We then went through every other depart.
ment OF the establishment. which exhibit, the
very perfection OF system and order. Bl1 il j. not
worth while to enter into detail. which would
occupy too much of your time. Everything but
making the oiEarets and making tn paper :.
done in the establishment.
The tobacco used is the clippings from he
cigarmakers, and only the best tobacco is used.
Il frat passes through machine, which takes
ont all the dust and other forei.n subss .uces l.
then goes to the cutting machine THROUGH which
it passes several times. When properly prepared,
with the paper wrappers the tobacco is given
out 20 the manufacturers all over the city, who
take 1t home and make the cigarets at so much
per thousand, scarcely any being actually made
IN the establishment. The product OF the con-
Germ IL now seventy thousand punches, of twenty
three each, per day. Besides this large amount
of smoking tobacco, which is of the same quail.
ity, though not cut so fine !; also, large amount
of cgaret tobacco, which is sold to be wrapped
elsewhere. This under hydraulic pressure is
made into pound cakes, and covered with faucy
envelopes. What l got cost 50 cents per pound.
The quarters where the Cinnamon were was
neat and clean possible. There were sixty
cots, consisting of canvass stretched one above
another, three deep, with cotton spread for
cover, and no pillows, which are disliked by the
celestials.
1t took us two hours to go through this estab-
where each gentleman of the party was present.
ed with package of cigarets with his name
printed upon it in the highest style OF the art
and each lady with piece OF music, similarly
marked. l was then invited to enter on the
register opposite my name such remarks as
choose, which ! did, am sure in complmer-
tary terms, which our observatol-s well just
fed
Very few Of the cigarets are sent 10 the Uni
ted States or Europe. Nearly all are sent to
Mexico and South America. Cigarets are, no
doubt, very fine for the eteminate denlzens of
the tropics, but for myself l would as soon
undertake to breakfast on Il white frost. Nor
will the tobacco, of which they are made, COM
pare with the substantial product OF our own
aud nelghboring states, when used in pi,e,
which. after all, is the only clearly and rational
mode OF burning the weed
Anxious 10 see more losely sugar plantation
that had been able to do from the cars, at Ii
O'Clock the next morning was at the depot Of
the road lending TO Marienao which Is near the
coast, nnr miles west # Havana, on my way to
visit Al Y.ao Toledo, which is situated two
mile, south of that ancient town; the balance
OF the party preierng to visit some pictures.
Twenty-Five cents procured the ticket, and had
scsrcely taken my seat when the train started,
and i'll thirty minute- Wa st the end OF the road
at Marlanao. This is "a pretty village, on ris-
IN ground, in full view OF the gull, which Is
about mile distant A broad drive of hall a
mile leads from the depot up to the old town,
which is built in the style antique, and suggests
a familiarity with those who hundred or more
years ago had lived on the Island.
Several cabs At the depot were ambitious TO
serve me- l had no trouble to tell them where
| wanted to 20, and finally got an offer of two
for the job, bat it was difficult tor me to prove
tina, that sum should include my return. ard
rather than leave that question open, made my
r,ques, understood to be taken to some one who
could speak English, and 80 was driven up to a
grocery, whence hobbled out an old fellow, " no
might have been sailor long ago, and who, in
the course of his professional life. had picked up
little more English than had Spanish. IL was
hard work, no doubt, and took some time, but at
last, with has help and AN abundance of gestures,
| concluded contract to be taken to the plauta.
,ion and returned, after remaining there as long
Nv pleased tor the eighth of All ounce, or two
dollars. Mind you, this was for 2-horse cab,
for had been admonished that two horses would
be needed, and found it so, for as soon as We
cleared the village, where the streets were very
good, we Tell into hard, stony road, only better
than that which took US to the cave OF Matuuzas
Halt mile before we reached the place we
struck the plantation, where the narrow road
was through uncut cane, unincosed by any fence.
This was really the first time l had ever had 4
good opportunity of examining closely Il fully ma