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is almost impossible to follow with the syA
Again. on the next floor nimble fingers are put
ting on the outer wrapping, and the speed with
which the men and women in this department
can manipulate the strips Of leaf into cover
ing for the cigarette is shown in the fact that
many OF them can individually turn out over
two thousand cigarettes in a day. and earn
thereby as much as SD week. Although by
the time the product reaches this department II
is perfect and ready for the consumer, there are
still other details to be attended to. The stock
is carefully examined. and any badly made
cigarette is thrown aside. Then they are
bunched packed away in boxes and are finally
sealed with the Government stamp. In all these
stages not once has the little cigar. as 1t really
is. been touched by machinery. Each one rs
made entirely by hand, and In its composition
only the purest material is used.
ORDER AND CLEANLINESS EVERYWHERE,
One striking feature that instantly impresses
itself upon the attention Of the visitor to the
LIE Roy factory is the cleanliness and order tnat
prevail everywhere. Scrupulous neatness ana
tidineSS are everywhere observed, ana uuTlnS
working hours the strictest discipline is main
tained among the small army OF employees. Lax
management and good workmanship cannot go
together Mr.. Miller asserts, but while his bus-
ness methods are strict and exact II Is never
theless true that the firm in all the years OF Its
existence has never had the faintest semblance
of strike and has rarely had occasion to dis ;
charge one Of its hands. Printed instructions
posted upon the factory walls teach the men 10
treat the female workers with respect. ana,
moreover, the building is exceptionally well
eouipped for the comfort and convenience or the
men and women engaged there
The Arm was started by Leopold Miller In 1893.
From its inception the business OF the house has
increased each year In volume until IL Is now
one OF the most important cigar and cigarette
producing establishments in the United states.
Among some of the noted brands OF cigars II puts
on the market are the National Beauty"
..Maison Doree" 'Grumbler' and Maggie
Cline" The central salesrooms are at No. 043
broadway and as the building stretches some
two hundred feet back to Mercer-st., its capac--
ttv for the selling Of cigars is enormous
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$50 Besides adding the two tunnelled piocks
to the upper jaw, 1t has been necessary to put on
an entirely new lower jaw on each grip, tne
chief difference being an addition to It's length,
TO correspond with the extension OF the upper
Jaw. When ii comes to future renewals ny
ever, it will be only the attacnmen' 10 .he .he
upper jaw which will count, TOT those i,,nS az ,n
only parts of the apparatus "hich arc '~''
to increased wear. III, ,,,,oro
just how the foregoing figures will compare
with the cash damages awarded annually ny ,ne
the last few years IL would not be easy TO say.
But the new investment does not represent d
large net increase of expense, II u does any. l'
fact, the guess has been ventureu w @ sIii h tho
ple that the company will save money py tic
change. -, ,., o,,av
The substitution of the new grips began AVA
back in April last. The work mas peen S ooiiu -,
slowly, because the castings were receNeu -
small quantities About forty OF hily cars
week were changed. The new apparat,u , "ao ao
III st applied TO the open cars OF whlcn lhe,e a.,
nearly or quite FIVE hundred III Tn how cars
three cable lines of the company Inc DoN sal"
are now being adapted gradually, ana UeloIe
winter sets in they will all be equipped WITH '"e
attachment. ,o ov
nerin,ents were made with them on curves. Inc
tests proved satisfactory, so far as those par.
tic,.,ar cars were concerned: but the consah!
quickly perceived that it would no' 90 10 nav, 'S
mart of the ca IS slacken speed on curves any
enforce the rule of full speed for the other cdf
one of the latter was liable to overtaHe one W
the former going around the corner il pIodu" "y
and Fourteenth-st., owing 10 the ignorance vi
the s-ripman Of the rear car as 10 the purposes
and privileges Of the gripman next ahead Oh
him. Consequently, il was deemed wise 10 IN
struct all gripmen to run at full speed on curves
until the great majority OF the cars were @ Ieau:,
yhan the nov rules of slow speed on curves
could be made a general one. Now and then
box car that has not been provided with the m IN
proved grip is bothered to ADAPT fseil ~, w e t,'e
new system Occasionally such a car VIII lose
its hold and will require a little pushing |" ge'
il along to q straight stretch, where II can re-
cover the cable again. But such occurrences
are very rare. do not cause a serious delay, ana
will soon be unheard of. The gripmen are en-
Enthusiastically in favor Of the improvement, ana
are bound that II shall prove success IL Is
within their power, TO some extent 10 MAKE t'ls
system work well poorly, and their utmost
efforts are devoted to a demonstration Oh lts
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not until it was actually necessary At this Junct-
Captain OKeefe remarked that he had In
structed his officers their clubs whenever
they found there need OF IL. Magistrate Brann
angry replied 10 the Captain that he had no right
to give any such Instructions. There are
enough policemen In this city to arrest a man with
out clubbing him" said the Court.
THE officers have a right 10 protect themselves
returned the Captain, growing angry
Magistrate Brann told Captain OKeete TO keep
quiet, ard ne asked the defendant to tell him how
the trouble began The prisoner said that he could
tell. RE had been drinking, and that was the
reason why his memory was blank. The Magis-
trate then remarked that the policeman took
mean advantage in clubbing an intoxicated man.
Captain OKeefe tried 10 get a word in edgeways
but was again cut short and told 10 keep quiet
There were two complaints against Hillen, one for
assaul,ng the officer and one for being dsorderly
In the barber shop Magistrate Brann dismissed
both OF these charges. saying that Hllen was pun
ished enough from the clubbing he received.
Captain o. keefe and Policeman Kennel were In
dignant at the decision. Captain O'Krefe Will prob
ably bring the affair to the attention of the Grand
InrN
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NO NEED TO HOLD FAST NOW
CABLE-CARS TAKE CURVES SLOWLY
WITH THE NEW GRIPS.


AND HOW IT woRKs-ITs COST TO
THE COMPANY AND ITs FAVOR
WITH THE GRIPMEN
"IIold fastr' cried the conductor of a Broad
vay cable-car as the latter approached Dead
Mads Curve Friday evening; and the passen-
gerJ instantly braced themselves with deter
mnation born Of unhappy recollectcns. But the
car Awung around the three successive angles
Of that historic bend without a jolt or shake
The conductor looked silly, as he realized
tha1 force of habit had been too strong
for him. and that new regime had De-
gun, while the other occupants Of the car
rubbed their eyes as if waking from troubled
dream Yes: the old procedure. by which passen-
gers who were standing were thrown into the sit
ters laps. bundles were knocked out Of the bear
ers. arms, and a general readjustment Of hats
and bonnets was made necessary at Union
Square every trip of every car. has been abol-
isheti in the twinkling of an eye. And every
body--at least, almost erybody-wonders how
the Travelling public ever had the patience to
submit to such treatment for so long time.
The new arrangement gives universal satisfac-
tion. 1t is a matter Sf course that the patrons
Of the road are delighted with it. The gripmen do
lot approach Union Square with their old dread
and nervousness Life has some charm for them,
now that they no longer in danger of COM
mittng homicide at any hour of the day or
night. The conductors are tickled to death ana
say: 1T ought TO have been done years ago.
Policemen on Union Square agree that vast
improvement; has been effected. No blockades
have been produced. and no such accumulations
Of cars around the southwestern corner of the
Square as had been predicted have been OBJ
served. In fact, anybody can see with half an
eye that the loss of fifteen or twenty seconds.
from half speed on the curve is ATTENDED with
practically no visible congestion of traffic, and
is not comparable with the interruptions caused
by trucks crossing Broadway at Chambers and
Fulton SITS
Although The Tribune announced several
wcens ago both the change then impending and
the means by which it was to be accomplished,
there is still good deal of popular curiosity
on the subject.
THE OLD WAY
one can more readily understand the precise
uature Of the alteration which has been made if
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cigarette is rapidly pushing its way into genera
favor with smokers The demand for this form
of cigarette, which, covered with the pure leaf
is without the sometimes deeterious effects Oh
smoking tobacco through a paper wrapper
has increased to such proportions that one iirm.
at least which devotes it's attention to making
this class of goods has been compelled to extend
its facilities largely. The firm to which REFER
ence is made is that Of Leopold Miller & Sons.
of No. 543 Broadway. They manufacture the
Le Roy cigarette one Of the best-known and
largest sold brands of the al-tobacco variety
In order to keep pace with the calls for TINS
particular brand Messrs. Miller have just started
in operation large factory at Nos lo3. lob ana
1J7 Crosby-st near Bleecker-st. Here a few
days ago q representative of The Tribune
was enabled 10 see the different stages
through which the lie Roy cigarette passes. from
the preparation Of the raw Havana tobacco
leaves to the time it is packed away in boxes
perfect miniature cigar. In these processes more
than thousand women and men are employed,
and they turn out many thousands OF packets
of these cigarettes 4 day. The mandatory, IN
the production Of the all-tobacco cigarette, is
the largest in the country. and the lie Koy
brand is exported to all parts OF the world
ARRANGEMENT OF THE FACTORY.
The Crosby-st factory is an immense building
six stories high and extends through to New
Elm-st In the basement provision is made for
the storing Of twenty-five hundred cases and
bales of tobacco leaf Men are employed In this
part of the building in unpacking the leaf, and
IN dampening 1t ready for the "stripper's' hands
Down here in the basement, also space Is given
to the cutters who carve the leaf into the mi
mute portions necessary to supply the filling Of
the cigarette 1t is sometimes asserted that
SCRAPS" and pieces Of any kind of tobacco are
used to fill the all-tobaccO cigarette, but the
filling used in the lie Roy. it observed is
cut from the pure full leaf Unlike the method
adopted by many makers, Miller & Sons do their
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TOLD To KEEP QUIET IN COURT AND THAT
THERE Is 40 NEED To CLUB PRISONERS
Captain OKeefe OF the fifth-st. station and
Magistrate Brann in the Essex Market Court.
terday had words. Captain OKeefe in
court to uphold Patroman Kennel OF MS
mand charged with clubbing Henry Hilicn. twen-
ty-two years old OF No. i2 Fifth-st on Friday
night Hen had his head done up in bandagss
and his clothing was saturated with blood. lille
intoxicated he went into the barber shop Of Angelo
Zemenze at No. ls2 Frst-ave.. threw bottle OF
hair oil at the barber and pulled the hair Ct the
barbers wife. Her cries brought the policeman.
who had Il rough time with Hilfen The latter
knocked the officer down and struck him a vlolent
blow I'm the face. Some one ran TO the Fifth-st.
station and told the sergeant on duty that there
was a riot near Zcmenze's barber shop The re-
we're sent 10 kenDes relief. but when they
reached there they found that they were not needed
Ilillen was a sorry looking object when he was
placed at the bar. and Magistrate Brann's sym
pathies seemed 10 be aroused
Who struck you?" he asked
''The officer" replied the prisoner.
Kennel admitted that ho had used his club. but
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SOMETHING or MRS. LEASES HUSBAND

From The Kansas city Times.
Anent the slurs recently east at Mrs Lease II Is
not generally known that her husband Is a man
who has not only the willingness TO fight when
occasion requires II. but who has the requisite
brawn to do battle TO successful conclusion
Charlie Lease was a mighty good man in his day.
and his day has not ended yet. He has mad only
about TWO fights In the last ten years. and unless
somebody doesn't know him runs up against
him he won't have a fight In the next ten years
In the carly days OF the Alliance Fred Bailey.
who was afterward Jerry simpsons congre ssional
committeeman. and who is a member OF the
Townste Board of Perry Okla. boarded or roomed
at the Lease home. Fred was poor in those days
and couldn't 'lquidate' promptly NJ was in
keeping with sound business principles. Mr.. Lease
took no stock In that Jealous regard Mr.. Bailey
had for reform movement because Mr. Lease was
then as he Is to-day. a sound Democrat. one
fine day the whole Third Ward OF Wichita was
thrown into the greatest excitement at seeing
Charlie Lease following Mr.. Bailey, both running
with the feetncss OF the coyote. With the great
regularity Mr.. Lease administered punishment
Mr. Bailey every ten seconds alternating Kicks
with blows often enough to give the affair variety
No arrests made for the whole Police De-
partment knew that Charlie Lease would not Tight
unless ne justified In doing
The other fight he had was In drugstore. and
1t illustrates Mr. Leases makeup to dot lie
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an, Tho p,iladelphia Record.

From The Fail1deIphIu RtVUru . ,.I,.A
A young man who had broken MS tema%ar's
watch stood before the counter OF wac .hn ,hs
shop in Chestnut-st few days ago az anu naaa out
Matchmaker had the parts OF his watch .p cau,on
him not TO lose any The veteran hot9Ioss,, ,s,s
al him in dsdsi II suppose you th'nh ,,,ie I'll, ona-
horse affair with scarcely fifty parts Last wer min
handled watch that was a waten. en.,onas =, and told
the days OF the month so finely ADJUSTED, WA
that II skipped thirty-one on AL ,ne :, counted
mouths and once every four years ~ 20 co" ~ery
twenty nine days for February. There wy,e The
nearly Ave hundred parts TO that @ ." he Cleaned
once year al cost OF SIS he pays tsx & OF YOUR
month FOR the privilege OF carving ,s !" Young man
moved out OF the store remarking that ne "'''-
call for Il on Wednesday.
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cutting entirely by hand. Although more cosby
It has the advantage Of cutting the tobacco 10
requisite uniform size, without rendering II, as
machinery often does, to the fineness almost OF
dust. and II enables men employed In the cut
ting to earn from SO to s. day. The leaf al
ter leaving the easing" department-where. as
INST stated. It is dampened and spread-goes to
the "strippers." whose work Is TO tear OH the
stems and other useless parts Fully two hum
dred girls and few young men are engaged In
,h,s operation and in the selecting and throw
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THE NEW GRIP.

Griffith Moses the irregular plot in the west side
OF Amsterdam %nere JOINS Htg, ays2
fna d%I 'iN''N''S'''N'-
NJ L and G. Erqs, SOLD to T.,lIam $. RSssnfsa Ss,Gd!i
corner OF Park-ave.. and Nos ~ ll6. llS ana lD
story private dwellings each a lot about lsxloO.
and Mr. Roscnfeld pays an average Of ~ 2s9 each r
sold for Isabella D. berry No. ~ West Eighty
% The sr n4%R r scs o4 @~ss da schas Sn 10! Sd
East One-hundred-a twenty -sixth-st.. a three
s2Fy 4%%n sd to- fwfs M b ahn lot os on
the north side OF cne-hundred and forty -fourth.s
S75 feet west of the Boulevard. Four-story fiat
Mccaffery & buckley. the builders. have sold an
east of Fifth-aye.. recently completed by them
Price pad is s01 said + to BE- T Seary 0 5000 ana the
o- James A. Fran Frame & Sons sold to Mrs. Halk No
stone private dwelling on lot lsxl0oS.
William Crowley has bought No. 226 East Seventy
secondst.. three-story brownstone private dwell
Max c. Baum sold to William Litkei No 900
Firstave.. fve-story hathouse. 25.3xS0x9 at about
II Rinaldo & Bro. sold for Fay & staGom to John
Sn Marx and .Sd or r on wa pryae
1oS and Il" East ne-hundred-and-f d-forty-ffth-st,
Holman Brothers sold through ]. n. Kalley g.
Son the hve-story business building at No ~
Whi.oe-st o on d plot Allxlol feet. to an investor,
H. H. Cammann & Co sold for John L. Hubbard
the block 'front.' on the east side of the BOulevar rd
from Ninety sixth TO Ninety scventh-st, POI 10x
1l2sx236Xo6S The plot extends back from the
boulevard TO the line of the old Bloomingdsle
Road The buyer intends to Improve the Boule-
ward front.
John y. Crimmns sold for improvement the plot
l5cxlOC feet, on the northwest corner OF Seventh
ave and One-hundred and -eleventh-st. on private
terms.
A. l.. Mordecai & Son sold for the estate of Ed
ward j. King to Leopold Kahn the block of ground
boundeC by seventh and ST. Nicholas aves and
One hundred and ifteenth-st.. l5l.4xl59xl77. Mr.
kdhn Will erect handsome apart inent- houses.
Charles Griffith Moses sold for the Union Real
Estate Company 10 Sale w. Wachsman one OF a
row Of six new two-story brick dwellings, in One
hundred seveniy-ninthst 2i2 feet west of Am
sterdam-a ave. l6x4DxlG0
Mrs. Eugene Conkln sold No o27 West Forty
Wth-si.. a four-stCry brownstone dwelling on lot
20.1cXl005. for about $32 Coz
Lionel Froenlich sold No. l3 East Sixtieth-st
j. Brown.
Mr.. Froehich also sold No. 224 East Seventy
secoHd-St. a three-story dwelling lSx55xl0O fo.
Mrs. Katie Chock 10 Mr. Crowley
fitzsl'nmons Smith sold for Eugene H. Conklin
the .our-stoIy high-stoop brownsione private
dwelling No. 20 West Foriy-ffth-sf % 1i0x56x1005
charles NJ Heymann purchased No 2s4 Column
Dus-aVe:, nve-stoTy double brick fathousc on
l9t 2'Xl0N Mr. Ileymann has sold No Gs9 West
End-ave., southwest corner OF Ninety-ninth-st
tnree story brownstone dwelling, on LOT 2lxsO FOR
about $500 ' "
Following is the record Of convcyances mort
cages ana buildings projected in New-York i'm the
in 1896: WYNN
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ing aside Of leaves deemed unsuitable for the
making Of the lie Roy cigarette. Only the hnest
quality OF leaf Is used. and to this fact the
Millers attribute the success their article has OBJ
tanned. Each bundle of tobacco Is carefuiy
sorted by men whose experience teaches them
TO choose at sight the leaf best adapted for the
ou,er wrappipg of the cigarette and that for the
inner binding OF the filling.
HOW THE TOBACCO IS DRIED.
Upon the floor above the cut tobacco Is dried.
spread out upon big racks that rise. tier upon
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was a salesman in the wholesale drugstore OF Zen
Aldrich One day a bully. who wanted TO start .
Joint In a neighboring town, came In TO puy sonS
drugs 10 nut In front. He mean cnap eiu
swore at Mr.. Lease frequently and applied dls.
graceful epithets to him repeatedly; MT LEASE
smiled and treated his customer with the utmos.
affabiiity all the time. In due time the sale was
made the goods loaded on dray and carusu n',s.
away Mr. Lease took the money from MS GUS
toner. gave him the change and thanked him
As The fellow went out on the sidewalk MI
Lease followed and hailed him What's inc
Sai;s SRas~ Names chvrlIe' v5 called
me-" and so saying. he moppcd up The sidewalk
and half block OF the gutter with his custcnehr h
Saturday might when ths store was aGoIs he 70 was IS
wanted at the desk OF Mr.. Aldrich He though, sin
sure that his cake was dough but wnen w,ncress,d sd
s. a week. he felt better toward himself ana 'ne
world and even the man he licked
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ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.

Mrr. Patrick Mahoney. twenty-five years old. com
mitted suicide yesterday morning At her hone. No.
rs Amsterdam-ave. by cutting her throat. She
used two razors and cut -four gashes In her throat
The woman, whose first name Is Lydia, lived with
her husbn nd in the third Hat al the above address
Her husband Is porter In the San Reno Hotel
Mahoney went to his home about II o'clock In the
morning and could not get into the rooms Finally
he forced a door open. on the floor he the
body OF his wife. with her throat cut She was dead
with -er head In a basin. which was filled with her
blood.
The body Of the woman lay near the bed Behind
her was a rockng-chalr. Under the basin a
pile VI rags The woman's throat had four great
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tier, to the height OF the ceiling. the tobacco 10
deprived OF the moisture obtained In the earlier
preparations by being subjected 10 volumes OF
rest of the huge building is given over to the
manufacture proper Of the cigarettes. Each Of
the floors is apportioned to some separate proc
ess through which the article passes until 1t Is
ready for the market Thus on the second moor
several hundred employees. with stacks Of cut
tobacco and tobacco leaves piled before them.
are rolling up cigarettes with a rapidity that II
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gashes Near her two razors covered with
blood which she had evidently used In killing fer-
self. She had apparently placed the rocking-chair
close TO the bed Then she prepared the rags 30
that the blood would spatter on the hoor and SO
that they would hold up the basin. She placed the
basin on the top of the rags Then she put her
forehead on the side of the bed and drew the two
rdzors twice across her throat.
Mahoney said that his wife had been afflicted
with religious mania. The woman, said her .hus-
ba ha attempted commit suicide twice be-
fore for no reason that he has ever learned.
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way. Among the creditors are The Louisville
COurier-Journa" The Chicago Advance" and T..
H. Moore Co. The members OF the firm were
present with counsel II is stated on excellent au-
thoriiy that the assignment was The direct result
The accounts OF the concern were carefully gone
over, with the result that the creditors decided to
ask for the appointment of Mr. Sykes TO take charge
OF the affairs. Mr.. Sykes IL manager Of the Pub
lishers Commercial Union The amount OF the
failure is In the neighborhood Of $4,000
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TO ASK FOR 4 PECEIVER

Application viii be made on Monday to one OF the
Justices OF the Supreme Court for the appoint
ment OF George A. Sykes receiver for the Bates
Whitman Company. which failed recently The an
nouncement IS the result Of a protracted meeting
Of creditors Of the COMPANY held yesterday after
noon at the Offices Of Charles Strauss, No 2l Bread
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THE REALTY MARKET.
MANY DWELLINGS SOLD. AND GOOD PRICES
PREVAIL. GENERALLY.

Dealings in real estate the last week were on a
moderate scale. as was have beer expected AT
this season OF the year. The bulk of the transfers
were dwellings, though there were sorse sales oil
apartment and tenement houses. The prices op-
tained were generally good. The TRANSACTIONS py
private contract included the following;
w T. Tay,or & Sons sold for Charles Coudert
the four-story brownstone dwelling, No. IS West
F'ftieth-st on lot 2Dx10o5, Columbia College lease
William b. Brownell purchased through Charles
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POPULAR CIGARETTE.
HOW THE LIE ROY" OF THE ALTO
BACCO VARIETY, is MADE.

THE GREAT FACTORY OF LEOPOLD
MILLER SONS, WHICH WAS
STARTED FORTY YEARS AGO.
While not at present used in such vast guam
titles as the paper cigarette. the all-tobacco