The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-18

CHINESE CIGAR Makes
They Are Ihs Most Expert in
the World.

| New York, IT.-Refe ring to the 5 n
Francisco dispatch about Chiue7e-made
ieigaIs, the Times has the following: a
Reporter visited sey eral manufacturer.
and dealers in this city, yesterday, and
| found that the statement 10 the Bulletin
/ was not only true, but that much larger
amount than Cue, coo had been received
within thirty days. The great Who'll -sEle
dealers in Gig ATS 4 n t co aid r ], 00e, 600
an extraordinary amount. Albert 5
Rosen baum, whose f III sells leaf tobacco
in this city, says that in its lsrge cigar
mandatory At the corner of California
and Battery streets, III San francisco.
the firm employs many ChinEmen, and
does not Manufacture cIgars in this city,
but does an extensive business in the
sale OF tobacco in the LEAF. Mr. ROsen-
baum informed the reporter that 10 his
opinion the CHINESE IRE the best c'gar
makers in the world. He regards them
as magicians in the use of their fingers.
Thy are Clean worker, aud In this re-
spect are visib'y superior 20 the Bohemian
cigar makers here. Ths factories in San
Francisco ara airy and kept scrupulOusly
clean by Chinese workmen, who are in
variably saVir q, frugal and careful.
With Joseph Brundesteen, Mr.. ROseD-
baum has been in the cigar manufactur-
ing business on The Pacific Coast since
1850. be says that it is due to the
Chinese TO say, in all his dealings with
them, e1teEdiDg over Aquarter OF CEN
tury, he has never wronged them; they
have been his tenants during that time,
and they have never reg elected TO pay The
full amount Of their reats. He could
not say so much for the hundreds Of
white men with whom he had transacted
business.
In referring to the Bulletins state
msnt that 1,000,0C0 cigars had been
shipped east within month he said that
his firm alone had sent here over 600, 90
within one week, and that the prices
ranged from SIS TO $50 per 1000. the
firm ships the finest tobacco 10 San
Francisco. Much of it Il received there
direct from the island of Cuba. 1t is
made into cigars by hand and not
moldf. Here in New York Rosenbaum
says cigars are made in filthy garrets and
Easements. Little children fit the tobscco
into wooden or tin molds, and the flavor
of the tobacco is destroyed. 10 Cali
fornia Chinese work in factories with in
telligent men of their own race, or white
men IS their foreman, and Rosenbsum
says that there are no batter conducted
factories aud no finer cigars produced
anywhere than those which come from
the establishment IS Of William Lewis &
Co., Plagemsn & Rsnble, and other
firms Ia San Francisco, and their
workmen are exclusively Chinese. He
adds that the best wOrkmen in Havana
are the Chinese. They always make q
cigar by hand, and it smokes freely.
John 3. Romero. one of the largest
manufacturers on the island OF Cuba, was
formerly partner with Rosenb baum. He
is the maker of the famous La E-panela
brand, and his workmen are all natives
of China. Rcsenbaum thinks that
the talk here among cigar makers
about the Chinese was started expressly
to benefit the ROhemians who work at
The trade in tenement houses. 1t is esti-
mated that there are about 400 expert
Chinese cigar makers in this city who
a;s employed in factories, and it is laid
that their wages amount to the large
sum of from S35 20 $40 week each for
the best work done. The msjOrity of the
Chinese who sometime ago worked IN the
big laundry in Bellville, n. j., are now
engaged in the manufacture Of cigars
here.