Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
New York Tobacco Market.
Last Weeks Operations i'm Seed Leaf and
Tobacco.

Last Weeks Operations i'm Seed Leaf and
Tobacco.
U. S. Tobacco journal.
Old tobacco continues to be sought after.
There was rumor that a packing OF new
Wisconsin and one of Pennsylvania had
been taken by packer, but no substantl-
alton of this could be had. Over the Lam
caster press a cheerless stiffness has come,
as far as reports of sales Of '79 Pennsylva-
MIA are concerned. The boisterous glee OF a
few months ago, when every packer OF
high-priced tobacco was eulogizcd as
miraculously bold, shrewd and courage
GUS operator, has now given way to the
meek and vague statements that perhaps
a great deal of money will be made by
these bold, shrewd, courageous operators
if the worm will SO thoroughly destroy
the plants as to insure the fail
urc of this years crop. So far the
worm has positively refused to do this !;
and if the editors of the Lancaster papers
can't coax them to do it with their good
looks and bland smiles, their writings
never will. In the meantime, the manu-
facture of cigars throughout the country,
but especially in New York city, grows
larger almost from day to day. There
certainly exists a discrepancy somewhere.
Either the figures of the crop reports of
former years-in particular those OF
the last three-were much below the
yield, and consequently the stock OF old
tobacco is larger than estimated, or else
manufacturers all over the country are
working with unusual economy and now
use less tobacco (wrappers and blnders)for
a thousand cigars than in former years.
The stiffness in the leaf market and the
{ixr;fx i,,o oifvar fo pfurInD
cles certainly present a situation counter
part of which can not be found in any
other line of business. The absence of
any speculative movement in new tobacco
in our market is explained by many as a
consequence of the result of sales of pack
ings of ~ and '7S tobaccos by packers
samples, operations by which, it is said,
buyers were in most cases losers, these
tobaccos, presenting quite different and
worse appearance when they were sub
jccted to regular inspection sampling.
There certainly exists a we'll justified fear
against buying new tobacco by packerss
samples, and even the best reputation of
packers for honesty is not sufficient to
induce any one to buy new leaf merely by
the samples drawn by the packers. Ex-
port remains inactive, though the reports
from abroad begin to be little more
hopeful. The sales of the week were as
follows
Pennsylvania-Crop '7s G1O cases fill
ers, IL to IL cents running, 10 to 81
cents; wrappers, 80 to 45 cents. Crop 70:
(rumOrcd) 400 cases, 81 cents.
Connecticut-Crop' IT: SO cases rum
ming % cents. Crop rs: s3O cases, p. t.
Wisconsin-Crop rs: 195 cases run
ming, 1s cents; fine wrappers, 1S cents.
Ohio-Crop '7S: 100 cases fine run
ming, 81 cents.
Havana-Market active sales 500 bales.
No change in prices.
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by j.
S. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and S6 Wall street, New York,
for the week ending May "a 574 cases
1879 Pennsylvania, Is to 22c. 300 cases
1878 Pennsylvania, 10 to SOC. 163 cases
1879 New England seconds and filters p. t.;
$50 cases 1878 New England, wrappers.
13 to 21c. 100 cases 1878 Wisconsin, 81
to lie. 800 cases 1879 Wisconsin, Havana
seed. 15 to 1Sc. Total, 1887 cases.
His Way of Spelling 1t.
A very amusing incident which hap
pcned in the leaf tobacco trade last week
has given rise to much merriment and fur
nishcd topic for discussion to the at pre-
sent no business Over-burdened habitues Of
Water street and vicinity.
The story goes that very wealthy leaf
dealer of Water street, who is located not
far from Maiden Lane, but whose early
education has been much neglected, has
the not very uncommon habit of writing
and spelling the word five, "fife.' Last
week he engaged new bookkeeper. WHO
seeing the employer make out a check and
spell "five" in the manner mentioned,
called his attention to this attack upon the
English language.
Mine tear friend,'' said the principal.
schpelled dat word so OH mine schecks
fur de last dwentie-fife years, und de
schccks have always pcen baiyed budt auf
you dink it looks peter, l fur onced will
schpell it nit a Q - and forthwith he tore
up the check and made out new one,
changing the offensive second f to ..
The recipient of the check deposited the
same, but next morning it came back un-
paid. The paying teller of the bank re-
fused to pay it, claiming this check to be
different from all the checks that for the
past twenty-five years have come to the
bank frcm that source, in the respect that
the word five, whenever it appeared in
them, had been spelled "fife."