The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-11-07
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Present State Of Thingss
II read a recent article on cheap Gle
gars with interest," said a cigar manu-
facturer to a reporter. 81 not only manu-
facture cigars, but ] do retail business
as well. I don't think that the quality
of the popular cigar Is as bad as it has
been pictured. I"
aDo you think the quality could be
made any worse9D asked the reporter.
Certainly - said the cigar man. .sIt
could be made great deal worse"
Then should certainly give up the
weed and go hack TO the cob pipe and
oak leaves Of my boyhood delight" said
the reporter.
"The fact Of the matter is" said the
cigar man, There are great many peo-
pie who do not know good cigar when
they get hold of it. I've tested that
matter to my satisfaction. have delib-
erately retailed a 10 cent cigar for 5
cen-s, and / have had persons look at
one of these, turn it over, smell it, and
declare It was no good, and insisted upon
the regular old center. Again, GUS
toner, after smoking my regular grade
of 8 cent cigar for long time, was fur
nished some of the 10 cent brand. The
next time he came in here he said:
".Why did you change cigars ON me?'
4 gave you a better grade and I
thought you would prefer it
"fWell, don't think there Is any thing
better about it, and am sure / don't
prefer it. Give me some of the same
stock have been used to having
tfYou see, the mans taste Is thor
oughly vitiated. he would have made
the same complaint had given him q
90 cent cigar. The better the cigar the
worse he would have considered Il.
THAT all may be true" replied the
reporter, ''but the fact remains that most
Of the cigars offered at public prices are
simply stinkers. How do you account
for itt''
'.The fact of the matter is," said the
dealer, my custom Is good and I have
TO furnish q high grade Of cigar. But
there is q class Of manufacturers and re-
tailers who cater to what we call tram
Fient trade. They are the people who
get rich in a hurry and retire from the
business. They, the retailers, never
think of giving man the grade of cigar
he asks for. They never expect to see
him again, and unless he investigates his
cigar very closely he will not discover
the inferiority of it until it begins to
burn his tongue. Then he fires it into
the gutter with an imprecation. They
are the men who have no conscience,
who make the money and who are re-
sponsible for the growl about cheap ci-
gars. Where are they7 Everywhere.
Then, again, these transient trade
sellows calculate that when a man has
smoked the first half of cigar he throws
it away. To clinch an uncertainty they
have manufactured for them cigar the
first half of which is filled with first class
tobacco, while the second half is filed
with miserable pickings When the man
finishes the first half he Is in splerslid
humor; when he enters on the second
half he finds his tongue beginning to itch,
and the saliva in his mouth to have a
pungent, nauseating taste, which makes
him throw the cigar away. He cannot
understand it, but thinks that it is all
caused by the nicotine which collects in
the second half of the cigar the nearer it
Is burned out.
..oh, yes; it is sharp dodge-one of
the trade-and dealers who count almost
entirely on transient trade work it for all
it is worth. 1t is in majority of cases
this second half of miserable pickings
which is causing most of the complaints
about the bad quality of the popular
cigar. Not every man wakes up imme-
diately to the deception, and he puffs
away on the second half with as much
vigor and satisfaction as he did on the
first. Sometimes he don't discover it
and sometimes he does. but don't care a
fig. He smokes to be smoking, and a
stinker suits him just as well as the
choicest brand of Havana would. New
York Evening Sun.