The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-12
,w,RMs or CHINESE COMING.


pire to Arrive-Sew York to be Invaded
by Cigar-Makers from China Imported
via san Francisoo-A Great american in-
dustry msnaced by Cheap Labor.
sis it true that between one and tw
thousand Cinnamon are coming east nom
San Francisco to make cigars in New York
aud other cities?" was the query addressed
to well-known uptown cigar manufac-
tu-er.
eyes, it is true" was the reply, "and the
Cinnamon will make their appearance here
within shorter time thsn most people
suppose.
Mr.. Strat0n the manufacturer referred
to. then described the manner in which the
Cinnamon in San Francisco live. lie said
that the living expenses of half dozen
Cinnamon will not more than equal that o
one white citizen They are economical t
an extent almost beyond belief. With
them nothing goes to waste. They will eat
what people OF other natiOnalltles would
not consider fit for pigs. Rice, is their IA
vorite food, but they subslst largely upon
whatever can be bought the cheapest in the
market Stale vegetables ana mouldy
bread are purchased by them, Mr.. Strai-
ton spent much time in the Chinese quar-
ter, even visiting their lodgings and dens at
night with good local escort.
There ave 10000 of these Chinese, all To-
Gated in a small area, and they jabber and
run about the street like bees aud ants.
They live in dirty tenements, their build
ings smell rank, and house once tenanted
by them can never be purified save by fire.
They sleep in boxes and hunks, and, TO
save room, one box or bunk does for occu-
pants every hour Of the day and night.
They are clannish, and buy as little as pos
sible of "Mellican men," importing their
own rice, and living on twelve to fifteen
cents a day. As they make about 81 n
day, they lay up money rapidly-fOr them
and become bioated arstOcrats in II short
time and go home TO China.
When asked if he favored the substitu-
ton Of Chinese labor for that now en-
ployed in the eli gar factories Of New York
city, Mr.. Straiton said. II am not in favor
of Chinese cheap labor. 1t would be de
moralizing to our business, Just the same
as IL would be to any other industry. In
stead of beneiiting the manufacturers, the
Chinaman would prove detrimcnt to the
business by throwing cheap cigars upon
the market and running the prices down
could not afford to compete with them.
Cinnamon would establish small manufac.
tories ON their own hook, and there would
be fewer large factories and Wholesale con-
Germs than at present. Cinnamon are great
cheats. They will defraud the United
States revenue on every opportunity that
presents itself. examined into their sys.
TEN of doing business when | was in San
Francisco. They are in the habit Of gather
ing up empty cigar-boxes upon which are
stamped the brands OF well-kn0wn manu-
faCta,ers and after filling them with in
ferior cigars of their own make, put them
out upon the market at low prices.
The Cinnamon are no strangers to to-
bacco. The cultivation OF tobacco in the
Chinese Empire at the present time is inn
mense, though the plant was not known
in that country until a very late period.
Tobacco is said to have been imported into
the Central Empire by the Mantchous, and
the Chinese were much astonished when
they saw their conOuerors inhaling fire
through long tubes. II WAS at first diff
cult Tor them to initiate this accom-
plishmeht. The Chinese designate to-
pacCo by u word that is equivalent to the
English word smoke Thus they say they
cultivate in their fields the smoke leaf. .
They call their pipe the smoke funnel. a"
throughout the Chinese empire. Men,
women and children, everybody, smokes,
almost without ceasing. They go about
their daily business, cultivate the fields,
ride on horseback and write with pipe al
ways in their mouth. During their meals,
they stop for = moment, it is to smoke a
pire, AT i hey awaken in the night they
are scr, to unuse themselves in the same
VIZ. IL may be easily supposed, therefore,
That ia country continuing 3OO,UD,ooO
smokers, without including the tribes of
Thin,t and Tartary, who lay in their stocks
III the Chinese iuarkets, the culture of to-
bacco has become very important
The manufacture OF cigars and the prep
aration OF tobacco in other forms for
smoking is most important industry in
all countries where the herb is cultivated.
The best tobacco for cigars, holding the
highest rank Tor the exceliency of its flavor
is grown on the Island OF Cuba, FROM
whence innumerabe cigars are exported
20 all parts OF the world. The cigars
known rs cheroots have a good reputation
they are made of manila and exported in
Large quantities. Mexico produces a large
amount of tobacco, but entirely for home
consumption, OF which the greater part is
used for smoking. Cigars are made IN
SPAN and most other countries in Europe
N great numbers, the City OF Bremen alOn,
employing more than four thousand per
sons in making them and exporting, 500,
100000 annually. In France tobacco il
grown in larger quantities than any othel
vegetable, except wheat. owing to the ex
tensive consumption OF cigars and snu.
among all classes Of society.
There are in the United States about >,
coo establishments for the mauutaC
turc of cigars, using more than So,
001uOO OF capita, and 100000 of ray
material, There are employed in these Is
adjustments about 10000 persons,
The probability that Chinese cheap labo
will soon superccde to great extent tn
labor OF cigar makers of other na,ionalitlc
naturally causes much comment anon
the parties interested. Cigar-makng
especially adapted To the Cinnamon. TIL
natives of the Celestial Empire are greg
imitators. In many cases their copies u,
more excellent than the original.-[N \
Star.
X, Fromme, ESQ.,, u prominent druggi
OF San Marcos, Texas, writes; "priCkl
Ash Bitters have given entire sntiarrti,