The times., 1897-08-10
Net Merely in Smoke, But in
Price to the Consumer.
DINGLEY BILL RESPONSIBLE
Other People Besides Those Who
Smoke Them VIII Suffer-A New
Cigarette fich In Promise of
New Odor to Be Placed on the
Market.

people who have TO sit behind it to
know that new cigarette has been
rolled wEIch defies the tariff specifically
and incidentally everything and everybody
and the retailer may f1atter themselves
that this Lew cigarette will diffDse itself
at the old price, and as an Old friend, but
it will undoubtedly be discovered as
something Lew and altogether undesirable
OF summer excursion cars, and in general
ON the windward side OF that half of the
population which doesn't smoke. This
new cigarette ought to be called the
SubteIfuge or the Taxdodger, but it isn't.
But for all this it has raison d'etre,
also a bad smell.
Tho new tobacco tariff, as was expect
ed, has affected the price of most tobacco
products. but especially the more or less
odorods or nalodoIous cigarette. The
change III price has already gone into
effect at some places, while at others the
rise wih not take place until next week,
and almost in all cases there is T. wide
range OF opinion as to what the price
will be at retail
Representatives OF two OF the largest
wholesale dealers in the city were seen
last night, one on Seventh street and the
other on Pennsylvania avenue, and each
submitted different figures, which are
primary explained by the fact that they
are supplied by different manufactures.
On Seventh street, for instance, it was
stated that the increased tax was 80 cents
a thousand on ciga rettes. The house VIII,
howet CT. increase the price 10 the retailers
only 30cer.speT thousand. On Pennsylvania
avenue the wholesale man said that his
manufacturers raised the price go cents a
thousand, ard that he would raise it TO
the retailers 20 cents a thousand.
In both cases there appears to be a COM
promise between the wholesale dealer and
the manufacturer as 10 the 50-ceut raise
on the thousand.
Notices OF these changes were sen by the
II anufacturers on July 81 and July 20, not
very long after the adjourn ment of Con
greSs. a great many of the retailers had
STOCKS on hand and did not meet the tax
with the old stock, bat 1t is evident that
most OF them viii raise as soon as the old
stock has gone.
| The philanthTopists in the matter appe ar
! TO be the baT-room keepers. One was
asked yesterday what he proposed to do
considering the 50 cent raise. He said
| that no matter what the increase was the
| price OF cigarettes would remain the same
at his establishment. We could he said,
| afford to give them away. but we don t.,
and you needn't mention it,
A druggist said that he proposed TO raise
| cigarettes this week from cents a pack
| age to / o cents, and the 10-cent pack
| ages and 5-cent packages in proportion.
One retailer said his price would be .
| cents for 5-cent package, and 2 cents
| Sor "a 0-cent package. His neishfSDr said
hls prlce would be cents for q 5-cent
| package.
4 frank nd candid dealer on street
was asked what he vas going To do about
| it, We'll, III tell you," be said I'VE
| are rot going TO push the cigarettes on
| which We make only nine-tenths of n
cent a pack age. But we viii push this. y
Here he exhbiIed a package neat enough
and attractive enough, and it probably had
the picture OF an actress in the semi alto
gether on the inside. Now, this, he said
lis q cheap cigarette. We buy Il so cbeap
that the tax amounts TO nothing, and this
Will be sold &C the same price, you see, as
the former Scent packages"
| This cigarette, the dealer said, was good
enough, and probably it is
This incident explained the remarks oI
Messss Luchs & Co, W no said that in then
opinion there would not be any decrease
in the number Of cigarettes consumed
and that the paradox would be explained
by ohe largely increased number OF cigar
fI.fn -.Ad
Several OF the recent pflce lists wer
exhibited last night. The average in
crease was TO be found in the chang.
from the old rate of $3.50 per thousand
to S4.1o per thousand, the new rate
As above stated the raise in the price Is
as yet n ninety ca ses out of a hundred
prospective 81 far as the retail dealers are
concerned. Some few We're selling yester
| day at cents and Z cents 1t is quite
likely, as jntimate by the salconkeeper
| that where there are other paying spe
cialties for sale there will be no very ap
| preciabIe increase or none at ali made iE
the case of cigarettes
| All the same it might he Just as Well fol
| people same days from now to see what
kind of cigarette it is that can be SOLD
| at a profit regardless of the excessive
| tariff, and that kind of cigarette is sl
| ready on the market.
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