The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-10
MILLIONS OF CTGRETrEs.
Turkish Makers Looking for New
Trade in This Country.


About 200 of the elite of the financial
and commercial world of Constantinople
assembled at the new mandatory of the
Turkish Reggie Export Company at Dju-
bali on Thursday afternoon to witness
the official ceremony of its opening.
At the ceremony Mr.. Caillard presided.
When those present were seated, Mr..
Caillard delivered an address. The chair.
man said
1T is interesting 10 notice that with
out employing any extraordinary effort
to develop its export trade, the Reggie has
made sales abroad to the extent of 30
100000 cigarettes in one year. You will
agree with me, gentlemen, that the taste
for tobacco, after having been regarded
as vice by the generation which pre-
eeded US, is now an admitted frailty, to
which society lends countenance, and
which governments encourage in all those
states, which derive revenue from it,
One of the most favorite forms in which
tobacco offers its attractions is the cigar
cite. In Turkey this is especially evil
dent, for the picturesque old tchiboul1 is
now only a memory, and the cigarette
scarcely known in its day, is smoked by
almost every body.
A WILLARD CONSUMED,
''In France the consumption of cigar
cites for the year 1890 was l1lS. $50, 900; ;
in the following year it was kls GAS, 900,
aud in 1882 the figure was kls. !, 04S 09O,
which means a thousand millions of Gig
arettes. This is exclusive of the cOnsump-
tion of cigarettes which individual smok.
ers made for themselves out of manufac-
tured tobacco purchased, necessarily, from
the French Reggie. If added to the milliard
this item would bring up the total to con-
siderablY larger figure. In Austria Hunga-
ry l,520, 600, 600 of cigarettes were smoked
in 1890; /, IA 000, 900 in 1891 1920, O00.-
600 in 1892 That is to say the present
annual consumption of cigarettes in the
Hapsburg monarchy is 100000, 900. 1t
has not been possible to obtain equally
precise statistics from other countries.
From England, for instance, the returns
only show the Quantities Of tobacco i'm
ported into the country; but looking at
the general adoption of the cigarette form
of smoking and at the number of the pop
ulation, il is reasonable to estimate the
British consumption of cigarettes as
equal to that of France. Thus in three
countries alone we have the huge figure
1900, 1905, 600 of cigarettes.
CIGARETTES FOR WOMEN.
BE 1t noted also that the taste for
Oriental cigarettes is widely spreading;
that in many countries this taste is
nascent, and that it devolves upon US to
cultivate and encourage it, and so develop
it to our profit. Day by day new clients
come forward and the growing demand
for ladies' cigarettes indicates a clientry
upon which we may count in the future.
Gallantry bids US minister specially to
this demand we have therefore decided
upon a special type of cigarettes for the
fair sex.
ITO secure the principal custom Of the
world by satisfying all tastes, we find
ourselves singularly well situated. Our
two principal competitors are (for choice
cigarettes) Egypt, and for common ones
America. Egypt last year exported
l5O. 600 O00of cigarettes, while America
served UP 1870. 200, 900. These figures are
encouraging TO US for 1 90 not entertain
the smallest doubt but that, II our bush
ness is intelligently conducted, large
share Of the orders now sent to Egypt
and America viii come into our hands.
EGYPT AND AMEKICA-
eve well know what is known only %
an inhnitesimal majority Of smokers OK
Egyptian cigarettes, that the cigarette