The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-10

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the tempest ina teaport rage, which soon
blows over, being Latin characteristic.
The cigar makers have their Unions, call
ed Gremios, which are almost as prolific
of mischief as those of the United States,
and in the interests of law and order
| should be sternly suppressed by the
strong hand of the government in any
country.
The women and girls, employed in strip
ping the leaf, have large airy apartment
to themselves, and how their tongues do
run. Gossip, jest and snatches of song
keep time with their nimble fingers.
Each has powder box somewhere about
her, and when the day S work is ended she
dabs it in CHASTITY drifts over her face,
neck and ears. They are paid from 80 to
to so cents a day and their work is confin-
ed to the cigarette department. Notwth-
standing the need of hxible fingers and
the fact that women are supposed to pos
sess a more delicate touch than men, it is
claimed that they can never become sue
cessful cigar makers.
To tell of the interesting things seen in
La uonradez would be to fill every page
of this paper. A telegraph wire gives di-
rect communication between the offices
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the shipping wharf, store houses and
wholesale stores in various parts of the
city, as well as to the carpenter shop
where the boxes are made in which the
goods are packed, the residences of the
proprietor and his head assistants In the
lower salon are machines adapted to a va
riety of strange purposes Among the most
novel is that for citing picadura, the fine
tobacco used in filling cigarettes; the by
draulic press, used in COMPRISING tobac-
co for expectation into solid blocks as
hard as wood; and the press for stamping
brands upon the boxes which, instead of
being burned in, as they appear, are print
ed by a very rapid and ingenious process.
The barrel department is also worth in
spection-barels turned out by steam
with great velocity, all hoped and head
ed; and though in such numbers, every
one is perfectly air and water tight. On
the second floor is complete printing
outfit, every branch of Typography and
lithopraphy being constantly employed in
printing circulars, labels, wrappers, views
of the factory, letter heads and millions
of beautifully colored and tastefully de-
signed papers that enclose the cigarettes
in packages of twenty five. In the en-
craving room is fine magnetic electrique
machine, invented by Frenchman, for
drawing on stone by chemical action,
and machinery run by electricity. The
receiving and examining room is most
interesting. After the cigarettes are made
number, the packages are examined,
wrapped in large, round bundles and
packed in barrels. The store-r rooms are
as sacredly guarded as a bank vault--and
might each pass current as greenback of
large denomination. The products of this
factory find their way to all parts of the
world, being made to suit the taste of
every class of smokers. Some of the
cigarette papers are combined with rice,
coffee, pretoria perfumery, corn, ETC., and
cigars are strong, mild and medium. The
manager will tell you that the value of
the Vuelta Abajo leaf lies in its flavor
rather than its strength, and that the
Honradez cigars best known for the deli
cate aroma come from Pinar del Rio plan
tations The Remedies leaf is very strong,
SO strong that the Cubans do not like it.
and it is used only to mix with American
tobacco for the American trade; and he
will also add with shrug of his shoulders
that Los Americas do not know what
good tobacco is-they demand strength
rather than aroma and as a rule would
, rather pay ten cents for a crude thing a
aIthree- inch cigar fit for San Marcial him
self
What its churches are to Rome, Cab
ricas" are to Habana. Before the wal
there were more than two hundred OF
them in the one city, from the obscure
tiendas, open to the street and employing
two or three assistants, to the great fac
tories of thousand skilled employees.
The poor little shops turn out inferior
: grades such as wives and sisters have a
pernicious habit of presenting to the hus-
bands and brothers on Christmas and
birthdays, for some of the vilest cigars on
earth may be bought by the unsophisticat-
ed in Cuba. Among the largest and best
factories is La Cabanas, which has given