The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-08
Cigar-Smoking.

During the process Of purchasing
some tobies and lighting one at cigar
store, nearly opposite Municipal hall,
yesterday afternoon, the proprietor be-
came communicative and impaired to
DI$patch reporter some facts concern
ing the quality Of the weed most
smoked in Pittsburg and what class Of
men usually smoke the best cigars.
There arc more tobics smoked in
Pittsburg, said he, than in any city
OF It's size in the United States. Smokers
mere smoke poorer cigars, too, than
those Of any other city,.
"WhO are the best customers, or
rather who buy the best clgars?"
My best trade is transient; drum
mers and the like. Very few people
to fttsburg born smoke ANYTHING bet
ter than a 2-for-j cigar although |
nave some customers who purchase )
and lO-centers, and a few very few,
who 90 even higher than that
business men, such as well-to-do
manufacturers and the like, are your
best customers, next TO the travelling
public are they not?"
mo, sir. Most of these smoke to-
bies and 2-for-js exclusively. Neither
Is 1t the mechanic, who earns from $lS
to $50 a week, 1t is the dude clerks,
on salaries mostly from S. to $l5 a
week. Many Of these smoke 10-cent
cigars. How can they afford it? Well,
guess they don't smoke more than
one or two day
Here the conversation was interrupted
by the entrance Of young man, stylish
~ dressed, who purchased a Havana
for dime, Following him came an
ordinary-looking, middIo-aged gentle
man. who bought nickle's worth of
tobieS.
That young man clerks for IS q
week, and the older gentleman is worth
few hundred thousand" said the
dealer after they had departed.
another curious thinr about most
men is that they smoke better cigars
on Sunday than on week DAYS, he
continued. Now, often sell one
hundred Decent cigars on Sunday, and
probably not as many more Of the same
kind during the balance of the week.
" hen young man drops his working
clothes he also drops tobies and buvs
D or 10 cent cigar. Then, again, can
also tell when certain young men are
going to see their girls, for on that
evening they always purchase much
better cigar than usual"
When asked how he knew Pittsburg
smokers were not up to those of other
cities in regard to taste, the dealer
said:
Because travelled for wholesale
cigar firm for years. 1t is almost i'm
possible TO get toby in the east, and
in the west nothing less than scent
cigars are sold
A well-knOwn revenue agent, now
connected with the department in this
city, but late Of Chicago, where millions
OF cigarettes are manufactured, was
spoken to on the subject of cigarettes.
Il used to be confirmed cigarette
smoker but now you could not induce
me to touch one OF them, he said.
"WAy, htw's that?'
"WelI, its because | went into q
large cigarette manufacturing estab.
Eshment in Chicago on business one
day, and what | saw there sickened
me on the imitation smokers. How are
they made, and of what? OF all that
IS vile and injurious and mean. Cigar
butts, picked up from the street; barks
Of certain kinds and tobacco stems and
refuse are heaped together in one filthy
pile and then saturated with opium,
which gives the cigarette that soothing
effect desirable to all smokers. Iteli
you, sir, if all cigarette smokers could
see, as have seen, how one of the
greatest firms in Chicago manufacture
cigarettes, the trade in the same would
soon fall off or cease entirely."-Ptts-
burg DiSD4tch.