Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-12
MEN AND CIGARS.
GREAT SMOKERS WHOM ACTOR WILL
IAN j. FLORENCE HAS KNOWN.
Habits Of Actors In Reference to Nicotine
Indulgence-Salvini' italian Cigars
Gladstone and Tennyson-Fisher-
men and Sailors Journalists.
[Chicago Tribune Interview

"Now, your Turk smokes and drinks
coffee, the one an antidote for the other, said
Capt. Cutie as he entered his dressing room
TO don the everyday habiliments of Will
lam J. Florence. Several gentlemen had
been discussing the public idea that Gen.
Grants mortal illness was due to excessive
indulgence in tobacco Mr.. Florence was
asked what he knew ABOUT the habits OF
actors In this respect
Edwin Booth" said he, "is an inveterate
pipe smoker. saw him during the war
with pipe, which he still uses, a heavy
meerschaum, which was his constant COM
panion. He often smokes in the morning
while dressing. John Mccullough smokes
cigars, mild ones, and perhaps too many. He
smokes q cigar the first thing in the morn
ing, and always q good one. Poor Ned
Sothern would get rid Of 100 cigars a week
He always shovel one on q visitor, with
brandy and water sometimes, and filled his
own overcoat pockets when he went out. He
was fearful smoker, always had one in his
mouth, burning it half way and then light
ing fresh weed. He and l imported our
own cigars from the Raphael Diaz planta-
ton in Cuba at cost Of $230 q thousand
The plantation seems to have given out now.
Salvini smokes long, black cigars with a
straw through 'em-the kind you get In
Italy. They light their weed in that country
On small iron frame over lamp The end
of the weed rests in the fame and burns a
third Of the way down, the heat drawing out
the nicotine King Humbert smokes in this
way. John Mackay smokes cigars costing
from 80 to SO cents apiece and gets away
with great many. Boucicault is great
smoker. I've smoked cigar Of his that was
fourteen years old
IAN Englishman always likes q dry cigar
They import them in large xinc-lined chests
There's the duke of Beaufort, for instance,
be gets Just the same number Of cigars each
year. He never begins till after dinner,
however, when he starts with q cigarette or
q mild cigar, and then smokes four or five
cigars, topping Of with the strongest. Bouci-
cault has an air-tight closet, built expressly
for bis cigars
The prince of Wales smokes cigars, be-
ginning generally with a cigarette. They
say Gladstone smokes pipe, but didn't see
him do it when I was at Hawarden. Tenny-
son smokes pipe, and may be seen lounging
about his grounds any time with q Guilty
between his teeth. The marquis of Harting
ton holds up his end Of the liberal ministry
by smoking good cigars Henry Irving
smokes cigars and a good many.
IAN fishermen smoke, generally pipes. l
think pipe the the incest thing in the woods
or In a canoe-a good, clean briarwood, with
Lone Jack mixed with cne-third its quantity
Of Perique. It's an indication Of a good
stomach to be able to smoke before break
fast. 6othern used to smoke while he was
dressing and riding cross country to hounds
Gentlemen csten do this in England, some
using cigars and others the short vest-pocket
pipe Sothern was very fond Of hunting,
and at one time kept eight hunters himself
''Good sailors all smoke as rule A man
who smokes at sea gene rally keeps . quiet
stomach
How are journalists in this respect, so far
Is you have noticedP
Il think most newspaper men smoke pipes
in their own Offices. Stilson Hutchns
doesn't smoke at all, however. Ramsdeu
smokes a pipa Neither Joe Howard nor
Willy Winter smokes. l never saw either
Joe or Albert Pulitzer smoke. James Cor
don Bennett smokes cigars and cigarettes
both, and q great deal Mr.. Dana looks
like man who INDUCES in a quiet pipe. He
likes q good dinner, for I've sat at the table
next to him. Mr.. Hurlbert, formerly of
The World, and Mr.. Dana are typical bon
vivant<
Il smoke q pipe always on the Restigouche.
After q &c cd days fishing give our Indians
handful Of my smoking mixture. They
have . square Of navy plug every two days.
They aro Of the Mic Mac tribe, decended, as
was suggested by a visitor, from Irish and
Scotch immigrants, possibly"