Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-24
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TOBACCO MATTEEs.


SSsne Recent SAlee-Afflv0l OIL buyers.
Of the crops in Conestoga township sold
green in the field, We are reliably assured
of the following prices Amos Warfel, IA
acres, 80. 10, S; David Miller, 12 acres,
30, 10, 5; Benjamin Miller, 5 acres, q, s.,
3; John Warfel, 12 acres, :25 and 1S, sold
to Amos Fenstermacher, Millersville, for
A. s. ROsenbaum, New York.
The large tobacco house which Eusebius
Il. Bernard, Of Pocopson, Chester county,
has been building is now completed and is
said to be the best in that county. 1t il
36 feet wide, 72 feet long and is 20 feet to
the square with top ventilation. 1t has
a stripping room, packing room and damp
ing room. The drying room is capable Of
holding five tiers Of tobacco in height.
The Slab, Gatchellville, Stewartstown
and Shrewsbury, York county, boast of
big tobacco.
ShOrtlidges' academy, at Kennett, Ches-
ter county, which has been standing idle for
some time past, is now being utilized for
the drying and curing of tobacco. The
idea of taking building so dong used for
educational purposes and using it for cur
ing the 'ilthy weed' is exceedingly dis
tasteful to those in that vicinity, who are
rigidly opposed to the use of tobacco.
A number of tobacco growers in West
Marlborough and LondOngrOve townships,
Chester county. have suffered severely
from the effects of the hail which visited
that section of the country some time ago
Many Of these growers were insured in
the York hail insurance company, and it
will pay over 81 900 losses there. ...
Numbers Of Buyers In the Fiold.
We stated in yesterday ay's1NTELLIGENCER s
that owing to the shOrtness of the crop of
seed leaf tobacco not only in this but in
other states, the buyers evinced a great
desire to secure the finer lots, and that
quite number of them were in the field
already and that several crops had been
bought as they stood in tho field. The
boom " in this direction was started by
Mr.. II. c. ROsenbaum, of. New York, who
had scarcely commenced operations, as
sisted by two or three agents, until
other buyers took the alarm, and exag-
gerated statements of Mr.. Rosenbaum's 3
intention to gObble up all the finer
lots in the county were put in Cir
culation. 1t was stated that lie had rented
four large packing houses in this city, that
he wanted to rent two more, that his
agents were all sections of the county, and
that his intention was to secure G, 600 cases
at least of the crop of 81 of this county.
The result of these stories, added to the
generally known, shOrtness of the crop,
was to bring to Lancaster large numbers
of buyers from New York and selsewherc.
Most or these gentleman say they do not
come to buy but merely to take a look at
the growing crop, and at tho old crop
which is now being sampled.
But they are evidently q good
deal disturbed and arc buzzing around as
actively as hornets whose nest has been
disturbed by the naughty small boy. A
look at the hotel registers shows the fol-
lowing names thereOn-all late arrivals and
all tobacco buyers and samplers.
Stevens HOuse-Frank Pentlarge, B.
Strasser, S. Gershel, New York ; J. Roser-
myer, NJ. Newberger, s. Pretzfield, Pitts
burg S. Spingarn, D. Lederman, NJ. L.
Fisher, Fred. Hoffman, NJ. Fringent, New
York; s. Hernsheim, New Orleans Louis
Teller, Philadelphia Henry Hollander,
E.. Arndt, H. Levy. New York; F.
Conklin, sampler, of tho firm Of C.
Hamilton & Co.. tobacco inspectors, New
York. George Myers, of the firm of Myers
& Son, New York, was at the Stevens
house a few days ago, but has left.
Caldwell HOuse-Joscph Lederman 4
Sons, Moses J. Lederman, Martini Leder-
man, L. Wertheimer, NJ. Lachenbruch.
I. Lachenbruch, II. Rosenberg, Daniel
Mayer, New York Louis a. Teller, Col.
r. Teller, Philadelphia NJ. Rosenshine,
San Francisco Chas. II. White, Connec-
ticut. Tho following named samplers arc
also registered at tho Caldwell John Stu
art, Allen Hunt, Charles F,nke, Edward
Conc, Frank Rusher, w. Hernandes.
Grape HOtel-H. G. ROsenbaum, New
York NJ. Shirk. New York Amos II.
Fenstermacher, New York Jacob Ber-
liner, New York: L. Rosenthal, Phila-
delphia.
City Hotel-M. Merfeld, of 1Ierfeld &
Kemper, Baltimore. '''..
Cooper House-L. Mayer, New York :;
NJ. B. Davis, New York.
To the above rather long list of buyers
from abroad are to be added a great num-
ber of local buyers-both those who buy
on their own account, and those who are
the agents of other firms in other cities,
nearly all of whom are riding tho county
and apparently looking after their own
or their employers interests. Most
of them declare they have bought
none of the new crop and don't
intend to buy any of it on the
field, but their activity indicates that they
mean business and don't intend to let MI.
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