Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Waste Substances.
ClGAr- ENDS.


-"Probably few people in this conn
try are aware that at usually wasted
substance, cigar-end, is utilized in
Germany TO large extent, and with
even beneticent results.
"We can imagine many Of orr
readers wondering what can be the
object of collecting these small ends .
and we will therefore briefly explain
that they are sold for the purpose of
being made into snuff and that the
proceeds OF such sales are devoted To
charitable purposes, there is in Berlin
a society called the 'Verein der Samm
Ter Won Cigarren Abschnitten.' or the
Society OF Collectors of Cigar cut.
tings, which has been in existence
some ten years. and has done much
good. Every Christmas the proceeds
of the cigar.ends collected by this So.
ciety and its friends are applied to
the purchase of clothes for some poor
orphan children. In 1876 about thirty
children were clothed BY this Society.
each child being provided with shirt.
a pair OF woollen stockings, a warm
dress, and peck et.handkerchief In
addition TO this, large well. decorat.
ed CTlstmas-tree is given for their
entertainment, and each child is sent
home with good supply of fruit and
sweetmeats. Altogether more than
two hundred poor orphan children
have been clothed by this Society
SIMPLY by the proceeds of such small
things as cigar ends.
"The success of the Society at Ber-
I'm has induced further enterprise in
the same direction, and it is now pro-
posed 70 erect building TO be called
the Dutsches Reichs, w aisenhaus'
Imperial German Orphan Homel.
where orphans who are left unpro.
vlded for may be properly cared for.
clothed, and instructed. The site
proposed for this institution is at Lair
IN Baden, where there are a number
of snuff manufactures, and it is there
fore well adapted to the scheme.
which we can only hope may be sue
eessfully carried out. Although the
directors of this Hone propose IN
have plan prepared for a large
building, only a small part of it will
at ilrst be erected, to which each year
two or more rooms may be added, i'm
accordance With the original plan. in
proportion to the success which ia
found to attend the undertaking. II
will be readily understood that a good
many difficulties beset this scheme. for
1t requires the most perfect co-opera-
ton of the smoking community and
some assistance also from the nom
smokers; but much can be done by
friends who will undertake the duty
of collecting, and some of the most
energetic OF these are not unfreauently
of the fair sex.
"The system of collection, which is
extended over large part of Ger.
many,is generally undertaken by one or
two ladies or gentlemen in each town,
who collect now and then from their
smoking friends the ends which they
have been saving up. These collect
ors either send on the cigar-ends to
the central Society, or sell them on
the spot and transmit the proceeds.
This latter plan, when it can be
worked, is preferable, as saving ex,
penses in carriage and packing. 1t is
proposed that the number of children
which each town shall have the priv
ilege of sending to the Home. Shall
be regulated according to the amount
which they have contributed to the
Society.
TO insure the success OF this irsti.
tuition, it will be absolutely necessary
for all to unite and work together;
each one must not leave it for his
neighbor, thinking that one more or
less can make no difference. To show.
however, what might be accomplished
by a thorough unity in this matter.
let rs say that there are at least some
ten millions of smokers in Germany:
or to be very much within the mark,
we will take only five million smokers
who will give themselves the trouble,
if such it is, OF saving up their cigar
ends; and assuming that the cigar
ends of each person during one week
are worth only quarter Pfennig (ten
Pfennig-one penny English), we
have a total revenue for, one year OF
six hundred aud fifty thousand marks,
or thirty-two thousand five hundred
pounds. Now, these thirty two thou
sand five hundred pounds, which, as
a rule, are thrown away and wasted,
can be used to provide Home for at
least thirteen thousand poor orphan
Further, if the five million
would contribute but once a
year the value only of single cigar,
say in Germany one penny, this
wonld make an additional five hun
dreds thousand marks, or twenty-five
thousand pounds, which would clothe
another ten thousand children.n
A CITIZEN of Groton, Conn.,, some