Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-24

go out and without putting it inces
sanity ?"
Thirty minutes" said Billy Mon
roe. If he smokes a Perfecto, fit,
minutes"
"Then the man who says he smoke.
thirty or forty cigars is not to be be
lieved?"
"He is not" This was the opinion
OF Monroe and of the representative
of the big house. They talked it ovel
together and cited menwpp.sa are con
sidered yesGate. sntakers-1~
eff man." said the representative
smokes more than six cigars day
every day, he is above the average
How many of your customers, Billy
smoke more?"
"Not many. You know Henry j
Furber, Vice President of the National
Life Insurance company? He buys
twenty-five cigars day to chew up.
He never smokes. C. K. q. Billings
the gas man, smokes a 25-cent cigar
He smokes 200 q month. That's a
little more than six a day. And he is
considered a mighty good smoker.
Frank Lawler smokes three for a quar-
ter and uses up about nine day."
Dolan, another dealer down the
street, who figured up in his mind,
said he didn't know many men who
smoked more than eight or ten day.
The average was six. Henry Wulff,
County Clerk, was the heaviest smoker
he knew. He consumed fifteen day.
But that was above the average.
Where one man smoked fifteen cigars
q dozen would smoke fewer than six.
The man at Mas, who has been
watching emokers in Chicago ever
since the concern had its stand in the
Sherman House, said there are not
many men who smoke more than $40
worth Of cigars q month. OF course
he did not refer to men who smoke 25'
cent straights.
"a dollar day is about the average
sum that good smoker will spend for
CIGARS" said Diffiey's young man.
"That is for men who smoke lO-cent
cigars or two for q quarter"
The representative said: "a man
who is an artistic smoker and who
smokes according to his moods will
always have three or four sizes. A
man does not always like to smoke q
large cigar just before retiring. He
will have the Coquette size for that,
and another size for morning, and one
for siesta after six o'clock"
"There is man in New York who
says he smokes forty cigars day."
said the reporter.
Four cigsr dealers and the represen.
tative wanted to bet forty boxes that
he didn't and that he couldn't, pro-
vided he smoked the cigar two-thirds
away.
al know q man up the country"
said caller, "who weighs about
ninety pounds, and he smokes twenty
cigars . day and I'll bet he'd smoke
fifty if he could get them. That's
George Aver"
Ex. Mayor Heath used to be q dry
smoker and used up about ten day.
Martin J. Russell is pretty good
smoker. He is smoking just now more
than usual. He will average about
eight cigars q day.
els there any truth in that Califor.
MIA story to the effect that the mil
lionaires out there smoke cigars that
cost $4O0 and $500 . thousandf"
"There are not three men in San
Francisco who spends that money for
cigars to smoke every day." said the
representative, who has big trade in
Frisco.
Then the talk drifted to cigar boxes.
They are made of q cedar that grows
in Cuba or Spain. When the cigar is
. cheap grade they are put up in ve-
neered boxes. The cigar box trade is
one by itself. A box that will hold
fifty cigars costs about Z cents. and
the average cost of the fancy label
that goes with it is about 81 cents.
Everybody knows that . cigar box
cannot be used by the dealer more
than once.
There is nothing more susceptible
to odor than tobacco. Hence good
smokers always see to it that their
cigars are kept free from contact with
other odors. A South Side smoker
had complained that his cigars were
getting too dry, and his wife thought
she would be smart and surprise him.
She puts his cigars in the refrigerator,
where onions and other odeIiferous
table truck had been placed, and that
husband came very near swearing that
he would never smoke again.
One cigar story begets another al.
ways. Here is one that was vouched
for. Just before the Fair closed some
sharpers dressed themselves like the
sailors of the Santa Maria, Nina and
Pinta and went around town repre-
senting themselves as Spanish sailors
from the caravels and offering snug.
gled cigars from Spain for sale. A
West Side capitalist, who though he
had a good thing and who is . steady
smoker, bought all they had, about
1000, and the next day he gave them
TO his teamsters and they gave them
to the drivers of the scavenger wag.
ons.
President Cleveland is not much ol
. smoker. Vice President Stevenson
loves a quiet puff. OF the Presidents
who smoked most Grant was in the
lead. Arthur was also found of the
weed aud it was punishment for him
to have TO forego his cigar on account.o
business. Harrison smoked his hal