Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-11-26
Tn. Tobacco Trad. Movement.

4 few days ago a meeting Of tobacco uer
chants and shippers was held 81 the BOARD o
Trade rooms, at which committee Of six wa
appointed s'to mature and determine upon
plan by which exporters and factors OF tobacct
nav obtain much needed redress from the cry
ing abuses which peryade tie inspection of To-
bacco in the State This committee consist
ed of Messrs w Seemuler. G.. a. Gorier
George W. Gail, George \. Won Lingen, J
d. kremelberg II. Arens and u. VI. Hodges
This committee held a pro,rac;ed session at thu
Board of Trade rooms on Saturday with Closec
doors. The result of the deliberations Of ;h'
committee was determination to call n meet
ing of tobacco merchants, manufacturers anC
all Others interested, at which the feasibility o
adopting such measures as will lead TO tbs
adjustment of the present system Of tobacco
inspections in this State will be considered. j
is proposed to draft bill covering this ground
and then appoint n committee TO urge its adop-
ton before the next Legislature. The time fol
the holding of the meeting was not decided
upon, but it will probably be on Thursday
nexi.-1mericdn.
A reporter Of the Gazette states that
In conversation, gentlemen engaged in ;h,
shipping trade continue 10 express the Creates
dissatisfaction with the present system, AID
especially with the work of many of the in.
spectors and their employees. They state tina
with one or two exceptions, no reliance can bt
placed on samples from the warehouses in thi:
city, while those from the cities in the West
and North where tobacco is inspected by pri-
vate parties, and not by the State, always re-
presents the hogshead fairly. The real want
Of the trade, and the idea will probably be ex-
pressed in the resolution to I've adopted next
week, is that the buyers and sellers shall con-
troll the appointments Of the inspectors and
clerks in the warehouses, so that competent
and faithful men may be kept in these posi-
tons 1t is proposed by tobacco men that a
Board of Trade be formed in this city, and the
system of inspections by private hands is con-
sidered far preferable, though it is admitted
that tobacco could be properly inspected under
the State LAVISH the men by whom it was done
were thoroughly capable for their duties. An
other cause of much complaint is that the
average taken here in very many cases does no,
fairly represent the qualities of tobacco in the
hogshead. For instance, where n hogshead
contains two or three different kinds of tobacco
varying in length, q sample which represents
the average length and quality of such hogs
head is not proper, but the sample should con.
tain all the qualities in it, including both long
and short leaves, with bad and good qualities
each divided in proper proportion. This car
easily be done by men who really understand
the business of sampling and such only should
be selected. In proof of the great dstrust o.
Maryland inspections a number of letters arr
shown from houses in Germany and in Other
parts of Europe. The following extract upor
this point is taken from letter Of Mr.. Johr
Katz, of Bremen, dated on the 3oth of October
and received by one of the most prominent
shipping firms in this city. Mr.. katz was for
merly of the firm of katz and Laupold, of THU
city, who were well known shippers here fol
some thirty years. He says:
Maryland tobacco is at present very dull
in our market, partly caused by the late arrivals
especially out of No. warehouse having turn
ed out badly. Two-thrds of the samples o
your last fifty hogsheads were inspected at tina
warehouse, which fact frightens buyers
1t is also stated that in single instance
where very large firm shipped four hundred
hogsheads to France, eighty five of them were
rejected on account of their containing guam
titles of stems, sand, dirt and false tobacco
In regard to the manner of inspection, it i:
claimed that hogsheads are not broken in NOR,
places by European inspectors than by ours
but that the samples are larger because more
hands are placed in them, and that the qualities
of tobacco are better represented.