St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-08

The growth of cigar manufacturing
IN st. Paul has been phenomenal, and
yet it IS destined to grow still larger.
The recent agitation for home industries
Is having most healthful effect through
cut the city, and probably no industry
Is reaDjng more beneficial results from
this than The cigav-making fraternity.
Il has been clearly demonstrated that as
good cigar can he made in St. Paul as
can be supplied by manufacturers in
any other city in this country, and in
many respects equal to the best i'm
ported Article. 1t is argued, under
these circumstances, that citizens should
patronize home industries, and if the
agitation be continued in the same az
gre>sIye spirit as il started, some good
work Will be accomplished. While it
will be a great thing for the cigar manu-
facturer, IL Will also add to the prosper
ity or the home factories, as all must in
the eud reap some of the bene-
ITS by the creation of a patriotic
spirit among citizens to assist in
building up their own industries.
For long time st. Paul was handf-
suitable labor. but all this is changed
now, the city having reached that point
OF her growth when the particular class
OF labor needed IS plentiful. Another
thIng worth mentioning is the fact that
there has been marked change in the
last few years III regard to the way
IN which The trades are regarded
by the people. Time was, and not so
very far back either. when there was n
decided aversion on the part of parents
to allowing Their sons to learn honest.
useful and Valuable trades. This feel
ing happily no longer exists, and the
people are new glad TO have their chill
dren taught trade like cigar-rnaking.
that Is both lucrative and permanent.
81. Paul cigars are sold all over the
Northwest There is a ready den and
for them wherever they have been in
trOduced, and it is the experience of
the large factories that the demand in
creaSeS much more rapidly than they
can Increase their facilities. Remark
able as has been the growth of the to-
Dacco manufacturing interests in st.
Paul, it Is destined to be much more
rapid in the next few years. The
smokers and dealers in tobacco in st.
Paul can easily add % per cent to this
already large industry with little effort
II they will smoke ana push the sale of
the goods made at home Why should
a mau smoke Il cigar made i'll the East
%hen lie can get as good, if not better.
made right at his home for the
same money? The cigar manufacturers
OF St. Paul are doing their full share to-
ward building up the manufacturing in
terestS Of the city. and with the proper
amount Of encouragement from their
1ellOW-tOwnsmen it will be but'a short
time Until the Sanity City will lead in
the man ufacture of tobacco, as she will
In many other lines. From the first
place as cigar manufacturing point in
the entire West to the first place i'm the
same line III the entire country is a long
step, but 1t is one that St. Paul can take
II she Will Elatterlng as has been the
growth OF the cigar manufacturing in
duStry III St. Paul. it has really only
commenced 10 grow. In three wears
there viii undoubtedly be I,5CO men
employed in this one Industry.
where now but one-third of that
number are given work. The work
OF these 500, however, places
St. Paul at the head of the procession
IN the West, and gives her the further
reputation Of making one-third of the
whole number of cigars made in the
state. When it is remembered that
every town and hamlet, almost, has one
or more cigar factories, this is saving a
great deal. st. Paul cigars have a
splendid reputation throughout the
country They are well made and of
all grades and qualities. A few years
ago the Jobbers of this city went East
Tor their cigars. Now they buy nearly
all Cheir goods of ST. Paul manufacture
ers and job st. Paul goods almost ex-
eluSiycIV