The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-03
POPULAR wuENLING sToGrE'

GainlnG FonIhuId IN New York Clty-A
LcNdIuE Newspaper Gives This CITY the
Credit of Being the Great Stogls Center.
In an article headed "Stogies Grow
Popular" tho New York Herald SAYS
that tho sign "PitIsburrh stogiea for
Sale Here" has within tue past two
months been posted on dozens OF New
York cigar stores. Numerou, previous
attempts to Introduce thOm have 70.
suited in failure, but they have now
come TO stay In tho great metropolis.
aud one firm iI now selling 10000 a
week Of tho popular three for a nickel
smoke.
The Herald also has tho following in
the came connection, which iI OF Inter
est to Wheeling people:
The name "PiItsburg stogie" Is
rather case OF mistaken identity.
That city can claim neither the birth
nor tho principal manufactures otthe
stogie, While there are numerous
factories located there, Wheeling, W.
Va, has better claims to the name. In
that small town there are forty factories
employing hundreds OF men. Here all
tho better grades OF stogies are made,
These are all hand made-'rho machine
made article, or "mouId" atogie, Is
product OF recent date, designed to use
up the Rcrap tobacco OF cigar factories.
Tho origin OF the name ''stoRie" or
"tobie," as It iI also called in Western
Pennsylvania, has been matter OF
considerable dispute. The most prob.
ablc derivation is that given BY o
Wheeling manufacturer, who has been
engaged in stogie making for sixty
years He sayI:
"The names 'StOgie' and 'tobie' are
both authorizations. About eighty years
ago, before tho days OF railroads and
after the completion Of the national
pike, connecting the cities OF Washing
ton and st. Louis, there was used for
conveying goods vehicle called a con.
eGtoRa wagon, or simply conestoga
The drivers OF those were called cones.
togG drivers. In those days the pipe
was used by those unable to afford
cigars. Some inventive genius-l have
forgotten his name-concelved the idea
OF making a cheap smoke for the driver.
lIo got some tobacco and rolled or
twisted II in a crude way 80 that smoke
would 70 through IT, and sold to those
drivers, whence they came to be called
IeoasItogA..' The tobacco used was OF
good Kentucky stock which was, in
those days, very CHEAP. Besides, there
was at that time no Internal revenue
tax on them. When began business
in 1910 there was one other man on
gagged In It, aud both iactorioS employed
from four to seven men,
Tho use OF staSis4 mas been largely
confined within radius Of 200 milOs Of
Wheeling. In this district overyonU
smokes them. The Pittsburgh million.
alrs aud the slroet urchin, tho coal
kings along tho Ohio and tho roust.
about on tho coal bArgos, meet on tho
same level when il comes to ItugOa
Within tho last few years tho stogie
has been burning its way into smokars'
hearts all oyOr tho country. In 1892 =
box Of Wheeling atOpios, which found
It's way Into the cigar'making town OF
KOy West, Fla, was exhibited ~
curiosity in tho Office Of ono Of the
manufactures thCro. Tho business OF
Gtogio making, like thGt Of electricity, fs
yot In Its infancy A taste Tor Atorjoi
has to be acquired, but, oncs acquired,
tho SlogiO smoker viii pass over
quarter Havana and select ono OF those
long, slender, black looking, puugont
smokes that cost n cent apiece.