The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-03


feet cigars. In the best factories the re-
Jected cigars are smoked up by the en-
ployes.
In some factories where cigars not Of
the very finest Quality are made the re-
1ected cigars are boxed and sold as sec
onds. In All the factories the cigarmaker
are privileged TO smoke all they want Of
thelr own product. and to take pocket
ful OF cigars with them when they go out
az night or course, this IS in part at their
own expense. for they are paid for the
cigars they turn In. One viii see cigars
Ior sale at the stands here for as much as
~ cents or s. Some OF them are packed
separately IN glass tubes, so as 10 pre-
serve their elusive Cuban flavor. A cigar
costlng 81 here would cost s. in the United
states, and man who smoked half a
aoen OF them day ought TO pay pretty
good income tax.
The greater part. In fact. practically all
OF me tobacco leaf raised In Cuba and not
used by the Cuban cigarmakers is shipped
70 the United States. AT certain seasons
OF the year the Havana hotels will be
llied with tobacco buyers from the United
states Some of them deal through the
brokers' IN Havana. but some who know
me country and the language so out
INTO the tobacco districts and buy directly
from the planters. often buying a promis-
ing crop before IL is picked. The tobacco
buyer mas 70 be good judge OF tobacco.
ne goes down into the very center Of the
Dales OF tobacco he IS examining, ex-
tracts some samples, and tests them in
different ways
OF course, the first test is that of smell.
me cuban tobacco has strong and pc
cullar odor. A little variation one way or
ihe DINER makes the tobacco good or bad.
AFTER smelling IL the buyer is likely to roll
a rudely constructed cigar out Of the leaf
ana smoke 1t. He win inhale the smoke
ana endeavor to determine exactly the
navor. He Will also examine the ash care
Iully ana test also the combustion of the
tobacco-that is, try TO find out how long
II wiz hold IRE. II is a great annoyance
70 smoker who is talking or writing,
or otherwise engaged. to put his cigar into
his mouth and ind that Il has gone out.
NO cigar ever tastes so good after it has
once gone out, and a fine Havana cigar is
positively rank when il has met such
catastrophe. So one quality sought for
is that OF holding fire. If a sample smoked
by the buyer will keep lighted four min
utes IT Is considered very good. Some will
burn for five minutes and even longer,
without being pulled.
The buyers who come from Cuba, or
some OF them, will tell you that from the
tobacco they ship to the states just as good
cigars are made as those made in Havana
from the same quality Of tobacco. This,
however is not the case. The establish
ment OF immense cigar Industries at
Tampa and Key West is an acknowledge
ment of the fact that cigarmakers know
that the nearer they get to Cuba the bet
ter the tobacco can be worked. The pro-
prietor Of large American establishment,
having a factory Ia Tampa for worlIing
Havana tobacco and one in Pennsylvania
for handling the domestic tobacco, told
me that the tobacco undoubtedly lost
some of its fineness when worked up out
Of Cuba. When taken to America. before
being made into cigars the tobacco has
to be resweated, and il loses something in
the process. Here the climate is such that
when handled in the factories it is kept in
prime condition without artificial aids
Sun, the American manufacturer said, the
difference between, the Cuban and Ameri-
can made cigar would hardly be percep-
tible except to the finest taste. American
cigar makers, he said, were even better
workmen than the Cubans. One trouble
he complained of was that the American
consumer insisted on having cigars of a
light color, believing them to be milder
and better, when, as a matter of fact, the
most delicately favored and finest tobacco
Is dark.
From a number of competitive models
the Partisan Fine AFat Association has
chosen for the Guy de Maupassant statue