Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-15
TOBACCO TRADE.
The General Advance-Stogie
Statistics-Spanish and Ken
tucIxy Leaf.

Wheeling is not satisfied with her
title of "Nail City" and puts IN claim
TO be the "Stogie City of the country
Cambridge viii have a word to say be-
fore that question is settled.-JsyeTSo-
MAN.
A REGISTER representative read this
extract to prominent tobacco dealer,
Yesterday, and asked his opinion. He
"That's a Joke. Cambridge might as
well set up claim against our nails. The
entire number of stogies manufactured
there in a year will not run above a
million and hall, while Wheeling will
turn out, this year, in the neighborhood
of 50,OOO0O. You newspaper men can
not be taken too literally
Flows the tobacco market
every brisk. Everything booming
and orders coming in faster than they
can be filled.
What is the advance on stogies?'
"Well, they have risen from $40 500
10 60 to $40 1jGlO ~, aud tomorrow
they will 20 To Sll 90. We
have made, YOU might say, double adj
vance-the first was in sympathy with
the higher price OF labor, and the sec
ond on account oi!the advance in stock. y
elias leaf advanced
LEAF is going up and the end is not
| vet. Both branches OF Kentucky, filler
and wrapper, and rs seed goods have
advanced from II to , cents on the
| hundred pounds, which will make a
difference of nearly 80 cents on the
/ thousand stOgieS.
"The retail price OF seed stogies has
| been increased and common ones not
/ why is this?
"Seeds should have been higher all
along and now they are raised because
there is a greater difference in the al.
vance paid for making them. Still there
is not enough difference, now. II COM
mon stogies are worth S2,25 to make,
seeds ought to pay -.
"Why SOP
Gust look ut the difference in the leaf
and You'll see" handing the reporter u
leaf of each kind. The reason was then
apparent. The common leaf is pliafle
and elastic and can be handled with
out danger Of tearing. Further 1t Is
worked quite damp. The seed, or
Spanish leaf. on the other hand, Is
much more delicate and brittle, being
unable TO endure half the rough hand-
/ ling which may be given the other,
with IMMUNITY. The consequence Is, a
| iourneymen can make three common
| while he makes two seed stogles, or one
/ half more OF the former.
| Our Wheeling manufacturers are
now largely engaged in the manufacture
| of a cigar after the general pattern OF a
\ stOgie. though more neatly made and
/ finished, and moulded. IL is a HAVANA
| stogie, though some OF the man
uiacturers give it specific names
/ Of their own. 10 is shipped
/ in al directions, and finds 4
l ready market everywhere. Try one,
| said the tobacco man, and, as usual, the
reporter got the puff. The cigar has an
excellent flavor and forms the delicate
grey ash so priced by connolsSeurs.
"Why is it made so thin
"There seems to be growing demand
for such a shape. Why, ! don't know,
unless it is that il distorts the mouth
less than a thick cigar. Though there is
a reason, too. Perhaps you have
noticed, in smoking rather
| thick cigar, that so much tobacco Is m
your mouth that before the cigar is half
/ smoked il becomes sOggy and rather
nauseous. Now in these slim fellows, |
. mean cigars, this never happens, and /
believe that is the main reason in max
ing them 500
This cigar is put up in wooden boxes,
iancily labeled, and reaches Chicago,
/ California and Boston, or wherever
sent, in as good condition and OF better
quality than the favored cigars which
sell here at six for quarter.