Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-24
DELIGHT OF SMOKERS
DEALERS OPINION OF CIGARS
AND THEIR CONSUMERS.

Average Smoke-Sums Expende'
for Tobacco I'm Various Forms.
Smoking is a luxury. Now an
then you find a man who says OF hi
drinking that it is a habit and that h
does not like the taste V8lbt, Blu
the man who sm6fe5 HI
may smoke too much; but he doesn'
say he doesn't like it.
Bismarck has a good opinion OF
smoker. He is one himself. One da,
when the Prussians we're in Versatile
and the French had been beaten every
where and the empire was . thing o
the past, Bismarck had sent for julie
Favre to come to him SO that they
might have settlement of what Zols
very appropriately called "the smash
up" When Fsvre sat down across
the table from the Chancellor the lat
ter pointed to a saucer on which there
were three cigars. Favre said he never
smoked.
"There you are wrong" said Bis
marck. "When q conversation il
about to take place which may lead tC
a difference of opinion it is better to
smoke. The cigar between q mans
lips, which he must not let fall, con-
trolls his physical impatience. Il
soothes him imperceptibly. He grows
more conciliatory. He is more dis
posed to mate concessions. And
diplomacy is made up of reciprocal
concessions"
The luxury of smoking has grown
upon Americans until they have nc
inclination to throw it off. The fra
GRANGE of a cigar or pipe is their in
cense.
"Do you know" asked q man who
has made the subject a study, "tha
the origin 0f the club OF to-day was {
cigsr store? 1t is so. 1t was where
men met and gossiped in the evening
Il mean gentlemen; those who would
not 60 into . saloon. Out of it grew
the club"
The same man, and as he is The
representative of one of the bigges,
cigar houses in the world he ought te
know, said to reporter that there are
made annually in the United State.
4,50O, 100000 cigars, and that in addi
ton there are imported annually
about COL 100000. The average
weight is about ten pounds TO q thous
and. The cigarmakers OF the United
States pay to the government 50 on
each 1000 cigars manufactured. The
importers pay the same, and $3.50 a
pound and Is per cent ad valorem in
addition.
With this array of figures the talk
became more or less local. The repre-.
sentative of the greatest concern, who
spends much of his time in this city,
said: "There are 5000 places in
Chicago where cigars are sold; and
Chicago, according to actual statistics,
10 the best cigar market in the world.
More than that, the finest cigar stores
in the world are in Chicago, and there
are more Of them"
The most generally smoked cigar is
what is known in the trade as the
"Concha Special" It is about four
and one-quarter inches in length. In
Chicago the smoker, on the average,
prefers merit to the brand. He usual
ly takes the dealers word for it. In
New York, st. Louis, and Southern
cities the consumer relies on the
brand. In most Southern cities
smokers use what is known as the
/" Regalia Reins," q long, straight
cigar.
A man came in during the talk and
asked for light cigar and got it. Az
ter he had gone out the man from the
big factory said:
II suppose that man thinks he is
getting mild smoke in buying light
cigar"
"Isn't hei"
Not . bit of it. That is the big
gest fallacy I know Of. The man who
puts in the filler of q cigar doesn't
know what sort of q wrapper il is
going to have. And besides, light to-
bacco does not mean mild tobacco by
Q long shot. BY the way, the demand
for light cigars 10 not as great as it
used to be. The smokers have found
out that light cigar may be as strong
as black one."
"What is the shade of the mild and
best favored cigar?"
"Take Q chocolate shade always"
"What price cigar has the largest
sale in the country"
"The five-cent cigar, by long odds
There is no cigar made which has the
advertising that nickel cigar has. II
has to be advertised to make it 60
The minute . five-cent cigar ceases Il
be doomed it is gone. And one five
cent cigar is as good, on the average
as another. How often have you eve
seen q 10.cent cigar advertisedi Th'
average smoker buys . 10-cent straight
and the next purchasers in number
are the two.for a-quarter. When 20,
get above that strike the exception
The most generally smoked brands o
the two-for-a-quarter class are tn
Bachelor and West End The.
are five inches in length. The three
for-a-half brand most called for is tn
Perfecto,' five inches long with BIZ
belly on it. That is . term used by tn
trade. It means q fat cigar. The bes
25-cent-straight seller is the Invinci
ble,' which is six inches long"