Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-09-29

Tho Weeds that BRING Fancy Prices,
and the Men who Buy Them.

The weeds shat Being Fancy Prices
and she Men who BUY Them.
New York Ssn.
A young man with neatly brushed hal
and . light-blue necktie stood behind
cigar stand in q fashionable md vel
known cafe up Town the other day. It wa
very dull, a. the Wall street men had no
begun to drop in on their way home. an,
the ~loungers had wandered out on Broad
way. In the case we're cigars Of ever.
variety, from the ordinary 10-cent kind Il
wicked and powerful looking things II
inches long.
1.-THE law compels us to sell the cigar
ont Of the boxes just as we buy them, !" SAT-
the clerk, feeling for the sprouts OF . bud
ding mustache. formerly we had q Sc
Of beautifully polished rosewood trays, bu
We had to throw them aside"
Every box bore Q small illuminated card
on which was the retail price of the cigars
These cards we're 10, 10. 20, IS, 80, As. 81
and 30 cent?, and two boxes were marked
81 and 81 so apiece respectively. Their,
were no cigars missing from the 45-cen
box, though the 50-cent n was almost
empty. The clerk said that If q mar
bought a ~high-priced cigar he preferred tt
pay the extra five cents, and get one fol
half q dollar rather than As cents.
cat one time we thought 1t would ado
tone to the stand" said the clerk, "to taxi
OF all price tags, but WI found 1t wouldn'
work. Customers cannot remember the
names OF cigars, and resort to the figures
for Identification. Besides, the Ignorance
Of the price often led to awkward situa
tons. A man would stop at the stand OF
his way out with some friends and say:
"'Gimme some cigars
"'What kind?'
"Well, he would look around blindly fol
. time and finally order half . dozen Of the
kind that struck his fancy. II they hap
pened to be the 80.cent or dollar variety
he would pay the bill, but he would never
buy of as again. So w put the tags back
again."
"Do you sell many cigars at q dollar
ap~iece?"
1.-THE sale is very uneven. Sometimes
the box will lie for weeks untouched, and
then again there will be q sudden rush on
them. l have smoked . dollar and q hall
cigar" said the clerk with q proud smile.
"Did you enjoy it?"
"Not for q cent. 1t was given to me one
night by . prominent broker who had just
made . big turn OF the street and felt gen.
erous. He bought so OF them, and hand.
ed them 10 whoever he met. 1 took mine
home, and after dinner on Sunday 1 in.
vited some friends in and / smoked it.
Well, I s'pose I'm not up in extra fine
cigars, for l didn't get . bit OF comfort
out Of that one. It WAS 80 strong that il
parched my throat and left an unpleasant
TASTE"
Don't you consider 81 and 81 so
apiece purely fancy prices ?"
swell, l don't know but they are q BIZ
spectacular. A cigar can be so good and
no better. On the highest-priced whole.
sale list the most expensive cigar is the
Para Ia Nobleza, which sells to the trade
for SAB a thousand. This is q little over
Al cents apiece. They are retailed at any
price above so cents. We can't sell them
at so. because. singularly enough, every.
body who buys a 50-cent cigar expects
three for a dollar"
"What men buy very ~high-priced ci.
gars?"
"Nearly all of our customers buy as high
as 80 cents, and we sell hundreds of so.
cent cigars. The purchasers of the very
expensive ones are a few men whom ]
could count off on my fingers. They buy
them because they are so very expensive,
and not because they like the favor. ]
suppose that If We had cigars at So apiece
there would be purchasers"