Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-11

The wheeling stogie is famous. tanle
of this sort brings revenue with it, and
thus it happens that this city has an
industry which is peculiarly its own
The manufacture of stogies is one Oh the
principal sources of employment lot
the working population. The prouuc'
Of tbe Wheeling cigar factories mas
gained its enviable reputation through
Dure tobacco and honest workmanship
No foreign substances, or. 'snipes' or
imnure ingredients of any nature enter
into the composition Of the long smoke
which many devotees Of the weed pre-
fer to the most fragrant and expensive
Havana.
It is but natural that the success OF
local manufacturers should stimulate
competition here and elsewhere. In
this case. however limitation is" not
che sincerest fiattery," for the reason
that the imitation is nothing more nor
less than a counterfeit an impure
smoke in which turks very frequency
the germs of disease. The following
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer VIII
tell something about the stogleS -i10'10
in That city $50 doi1,,
"Bundreds of young boys are daily
engaged in the delectable Occupation Vi
shooting snipes.' The snlpeS a. {
nlaced in bags and sold to the mahuIac-
turers of stogies at nominal pIICo'
The latter buys the leaf tobacco 10 MAKE
the wranDer. puts the 'snipes' lLJo d
cbonner and makes hundreds OF stogieS'
selling them to reputable and unsus-
nectinq dealers. who, in turn, dole them
out to the equally unsuspectlng pun
lie" ,,.4,o diff
cnItv in recognizing the "snipeD stogle'
especially after smoking the WneellH :
brand. The former IS mica WIN
"scrap" which falls out when the emu
of the stogie is cut. The Plain-Deale.r.
describes a visit TO one OF he "Shlpe
stog.e factories. -, -,
I'm the first room was an ola Tou
stove. coated with dirt and grease; an
old table with q burlesque table clctn
for a covering and an old bedstead. Ine
bed-clothiug consisted Of a couple OIL
ouilts. where at one time red, but had
grown black with grease and dirt. IN
nhe next room was an old table covered
with newly made stogies, many OF them
boxed and ready for sale. Jaifa was
unite communicative and told his VS.
itor that for some time he had purchased
mis- tobacco and that when he conducted
factory at No. $40 Broadway, he never
used "snipes." but purchased all the
material for making cigarettes and sto-
g.es. But this, he said, had not proved
as profitable as the present method. In
explaining his business he said that a
half dozen boys with large sacks hunted
the streets N the down town districts
and gathered the stubs of cigars and
cigarettes and brought them to the
house. There they are sorted out, the
longest placed in one pile and the short
er in another. Each stub is carefully
inspected, the part which is burned is
cut off. and if the other IS chewed too
much OF is wet, it meets with q like
fate. The stubs are then put in a
chopper and broken up. Then the stubs
are in a condition to be rolled into the
stogie, put into the box and sold. No
effort IS made to cleanse the filing; all
the disease. microbes and filth gathered
in the cutters is rolled in the stogie and
smoked with delight by thousands Of
men. Throughout the ne.ghbOrhoCd
several factories Of like nature are do
ing a thriving business. Generally the
big iron pot in which the cheap meat
is boiled, is utilized as a steamer to get
the tobacco in a condition 10 be rolled.
The territory is reeldng in dirt and evil
IDENTIFY is never visited by the sanitary
police or health authorities"