The times., 1899-03-12
sToGIEs IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Triumphant Progress Through the
Nation of the pitIsburE Smoke.

Nation of ti,c PittsburG smoke.
Pittsburg Correspondence New York SUM
People here say that Mr.. Mckinley is
| the first President of the United States TO
introduce the Pittsburg stosy into the
| White House. He has been an admirer Of
the stogy for years. He acquired the habit
| while member of the Ways and Means
| Committee and got it from John Dalzell,
| Pittsburg's Representative. Congressman
! Dalzell is never without a poCketful of
stogies.
The Presidents friends say that it has
got To be a regular thing with him to have
| a stogy for companion when he is study
| ing out the perpleXites of office. Who
! knows but it may have been the aggres-
! sive little stogy which led him to take his
stand on the Philippine question? The
| Pittsburg stogy is certainly aggressive. 1t
has forced itself into channels of trade
| side by side with Pittsburg steel until it
! is known throughout the land.
II is in the Ways and Means Committee
room that the stogy made its greatest con-
quests. The members of the committee
were not obliged TO take to the stogy, as
they could have had Havana cigars by the
box merely by ringing a bell. 1t may be
that Congressman Dalzell's colleagues at
| first accepted his proffered stogies not
wishing to hurt the Pittsburger's feelings
III may also be that at times when they
were intensely busy Dalzell slipped the
stogies, in on the members of the commit
tee Just to enjoy their discontinue when
they discovered the trick. 1t is fact that
the stogy became a part of the Ways and
Means Committees smoking supplies. The
members learned that the Havana cigar
was delightful smoke in hours of idle
ness when an easy chair was to be had
and castles could be built in the air or
possibilities of future advancement be
dreamt of, but when it came to active, en-
ergetic work the stOgy was the thing to
give life and vim. 1t is said that President
Mckinley was among the first to discover
the quality of John Dalzells smoking
beans One of their points is that they
can be smoked and chewed at the same
time. Every week a box OF stogies is ship
ped TO the White House from P,tsburg
Recently the maker adopted a special
brand for the President. but it is doubtful
If he enjoys their aroma more than he did
the rank weed Dalzell passed around in
the committee rooms of Congress.
The custom adopted when President Nc
kinley was Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee holds good today. Serene
E. Payne of the Twenty-eighth Congress
district Of New York is an admirer of the
Pittsburg article. When the brain of the
Ways and Means Committee works it must
have smoke; it is just as essential as air
The day has passed when each member
held the article handed him up to the light
and asked if it was one of Dalzell's Jokes
When the committee works the air is soon
filled with Pittsburg smoke, and some of
the best legislation has been framed amid
It's surroundings and under its influence
Speaker Reed is another lover of the
Pittsburg stogy. He orders them by the
thousand. When Gov. Pingree sought to
beat Julius c. Burrows for the Senate he
should have taken to smoking stogies His
opponent did. There is apparently no use
in lighting 4 man who can revolve a stogy
in his mouth. chewing and smoking at the
same time. Senator Burrows frequently
passes through Pttsburg on his way from
the Capital TO his Michigan home. News
paper interviewers often find him engaged
in burning a stogy and getting heaps of
consolation out of it. Senator Stephen
Mallory White of California has a warm
side for the Pittsburg rat tail" That is
one name the enemies of the stogy give it.
Nevertheless, the shape of the stogy has
not so much to do with it as il did of old,
when the Conestoga drivers twisted into
shape dried tobacco leaves that they had
stolen while driving through Adams, York
and Lancaster counties of Pennsylvania.
\ stogy today is a deceptive article and
can be as beautifully shaped as the choic-
est brands of Henry Clays. The stogy can
only he known by its weight.
Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama has
fallen under the spell OF the stogy Gen.
Joseph Wheeler stocked up a well with sto-
sies before entering on the Sentiago cam
paign. Thomas Battle Turley who sue
ceeded the venerable Senator Harris from
Tennessee. has acquired the habit of smok-
ing stogies. He is a regular contributor TO
Pittsburg's wealth. Aston Gordon Dayton.
one of West Virginia representatives, rev.
els in Pittsburg smoke. All the Senators
and Congressman from West Virginia are
fond Of Wheeling stogies, but these are too
strong except for the most hardened to-
bacco burners. as they are made of the
strong Kentucky leaf which kills a begin
ner at ten PAGES. Representative Gear of
Iowa. Postmaster General Smith and host
of other prominent men have become ad-
dicted TO the stogy.
Allegheny county is the home of the sto-
gy however. Every smoker from Andrew
Carnegie down to the humblest Iaborer
consumes them. or the 4G0 600, 600 stOgies
made in Pittsburg last year 4O,00O.00O were
consumed al home, while New York city
took l2.G90GCO.