The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-05
sroe1Es IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Triumphant Progress Through tho Nation
of %PittsburE's Peculiar Product.

Triumphant Progress Through tho Nation
of PittsburR's Peculiar Product.
PITTsBURG. March 4.-People here say that
Mr.. Mckinley is the first President OF the
United States to introduce the Pittsburg stoRy
into the White House. He has been an ad-
mirer OF the stogy for years. He acquired the
habit while a member OF the Ways and Means
Committee and got it from John Dalzell. Pitts
burg's Representative. Congressman Dalzell
Is never without a pocketful OF stogies.
The Presidents friends say that It has got to
be n regular thing with him to have a stogy for
a companion when he is studying out the
perplcxities of office. Who knows but IL
may have been the aggressive little stogy
which led him to take his stand on the Philip
pine question: TIL PlttsburG stogy is GER
tainly aggressive. 1t has forced itself into
channels Of trade aide by side with Pittsburg
steel until 1t ia known throughout the land.
1t is in the Ways and Means Committee room
that the stoGy made it's greatest conquests.
The member OF the committee were not
obliged to take to the stogy. as they could have
had Havana cigars by the box merely by ring
ing a bell. 1t may be that Congressman Dali
zell's colleagues at first accepted his prnffered
stogles not wishing to hurt the ~Pittsburger's
feelings. 1t may also be that at times when
they were intensely busy Dalzell slipped the
~stogies. in on the members OF the committee
Just to enjoy their discontinue when they dis
covered the trick. 1t Is q fact that tho stogy
became a part Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee's smoking supplies. Thu members
learned that the Havana cigar was a delightful
smoke in hours OF idleness when an easy
chair was to be had and castles could be built
in the air or possibilities Of future advance
ment be dreamt OF. but when 1t came to active.
energetic work the stogy was the thing to give
life and vim. 1t Is said that President McKin-
ley was among the first to discover the quality
OF John Dalzell's 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 shipped TO the White House from
Pittsburg. Recently the maker adopted a spe-
cial brand for the President. but 1t is doubtful
II he enjoys their aroma more than he, did the
rank weeds Dalzell passed around In the COM
mittee rooms OF Congress.
Kinley was Chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee holds good to-day. Serene E;
of New York is an admirer Of the Pittsburg
article; When the brain Of the Ways and Means
When VII 10 each member held the article is' handed
h baize ep to j sas iishWt fnd asked the c u II Ess 0 %erf e.
the air is soon filed With Pfttsburg SMOKE. and
some Of the best LEGISLATION has been framed
burg stogy. He orders them by the thousand.
W u NIONs hDuknt - DtuIJ III VI,
Burrows for the Senate he should have taken
TO smoking stogies. His opponent did. There
Is apparently no use In fighting Il man who can
revolve a sto9y In his mouth. chewing and
smoking at the same time. Senator Burrows
frequently passes through PittsburG on his
way from the Capitol to his Michigan home.
Newspaper interviewers often find him engaged
ton out OF it,. Senator Stephen Mallory White
OF California has n warm side for the PittsburR
rat tail" That Is one name the enemies Of
the stogy give 1t. Nevertheless. the shape OF
the stoGy has not so much TO do with ii as II
did Of old. when the Conestoga drivers twisted
stolen while driving through Adams. York aud
Lancaster counties Of Pennsylvania. A stogy
to-day Is a deceptive article and can be as
beautifully shaped as the choicest brands OF
Henry Clays. The stogy can only be known by
its weight.
fallen under the spello the stogy. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler stocked M well with stogies before
entering on the Santiago campaign. Thomas
Battle Turley. who succeeded the venerable
Senator Harris from Tennessee, has acquired
the habit OF smoking stoRies.. He is a regular
contributor to Pittshnrg's wealth; Aston Cor
tives. revels in PlttsburG smoke. All the Sena-
tors ana Congressman from West. Virginia are
fond OF Wheeling stoRies. but these are too
strong except for the most hardened tobacco
burners. as they are made OF the strong Ken
lucky leaf. which kills n beginner at ten PAGES.
Representative Gear Of Iowa. Postmaster-Gen,
eral Smith and n host OF other prominent men
have become addicted to tho stogy.
Allegheny county Ia the home OF the stogy.
however, Every smoker from Andrew Carnegie
down TO the humb!est laborer consumes them.
or the 4OO,ODO,OOO stoRies made in Pittsburg
last year a.. 10000 were consumed at home.
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