New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

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the difference.
Then we turned to the workmen who,
taking all these different colors, assorted
them into qualities, of which there are
three-for, first and second. This also
requires wonderful skill and great judg-
ment, which we appreciated when we came
to understand it. For as all these cigars
are of exactly the same quality and cost,
and it is only the degree of the perfection
Of the manufacture which is to be consid-
cred, and when this difference is matter
of from thirty to fifty per cent in their
value, and that upon the certainty of this
choice rests the reputation of the establish
ment, our readers will see that these must
be both trusty as well as skillful men.
In the next room the cigars, after being
assorted, are placed in the neat little cedar
boxes, also made ON the premises, out Of
wood imported expressly for the purpose,
and nailed up, branded, stamped, labeled,
etc., for the salesroom, to which we will
return and pick up few more facts in con-
versation with Mr.. Alces, who we find
most courteous and intelligent gentlemen.
THE TOBACCO.
In the manufacture of cigars heretofore
in this city, but little effort was made to
compete with Havana, although the heavy
duty upon the products of that city offered
large inducements. But our cigar manu-
facturers, doubtless for want of enterprise
and capital, contented themselves with con-
Stunning domestic tObacoOs, or at best mixing
such Havana tobacco as they could get
with the domestic. 1t was for Mr.. Alces to
conceive the bold idea to enter the lists
against the great Cuban manufacturers,
and, adopting their own mode of business,
beat them, horse, foot and artillery. He
went to Cuba in person, and, inspecting all
the different plantations where the finest
tobaccos are produced, made his selections
and engaged their whole crops for several
years to come. This, of course, took large
sums of money, but that did not
deter Mr.. Alces; he went pre-
pared for such an emergency. The
great cigar manufacturers of Havana
were no little astonished at this coup on the
part of our bold Orleanian. They had
grown to think that it was only themselves
who could command whole crops of the
finest tobacco; but when this stranger came
unexpectedly and snapped up the whole
crop of such q man as Juan Conill, a planter
whose tObaccOs were second to none on
the island, they opened their eyes wider
than ever since the last earthquake. But it
was too late to growl or to groan, the thing
was done, and Don Juan had pocketed mis-
money; there was no retreat if he medi-
tated one This is how Alces gets the to-
bacco which we saw being manufactured.
A few more words and we will leave the
interesting locality. Our readers are doubt
less familiar with those cigars that are called
oppressed intimidads." These are made of
the very choicest tobacco by the most skill
full workmen in the establishment-the to-
that only such hands can be trusted with it.
After being rolled they are pressed into
shape while wet, and SO when dry retain
the shape. The sorting, of course, is done
before they undergo this last process.
Although cigars may be made of pre-
cisely the same tobacco, and by the same
hands, still there may be wide difference
IN LOelr price Oh dCCOuut VI tuclF ulucTcuct
in size as well as those differences in
quality of make which we mentioned
above. Thus several names have been
adopted by manufacturers which indicate
the different sizes as do the terms middling
ordinary, etc., quality in the cotton mar
ket. These names are as follows: Opera,
Londres de Corte, Princessa, Cylindrado.
Conchas, Londres Chico, Reyna, Regalia
de la Reyne, Londres, Media Regalia, Re
gala del Rey, Brevos, Regalia Victoria,
Rothschild, Regalia Britannica. These go
from small to large, as set down, and the
names indicate their shape as well as size
in many cases.
So after lighting one of those splendid
Regalia Britanicas Colorado, we press the
hand of the courteous Mr.. Alcss, and bid
ding him esta venatta, take our way back to
our abiding place in the upper faubourg, no
little edited by our visit, as we sincerely
hope our readers will by the perusal of our
account of it.