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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
Connecticut Valley.

Sales are getting to be quite rare of
late. Probably two-thirds of the crop is
sold, most of it in the bundle, though we
hear of parties having from eight to 20
acres who are asserting and packing
their own, and will hold it for the sweat.
Again, we know of others who are assort-
ing and packing their crops who have
sold at from II to 20c through. This
plan is good one, for if there is any
damaged leaf it can be thrown out, while
it's presence in the bundle always shows
itself fully as large as it is. Probably
crops of fine leaf have been sold at l0c
on account of pole sweat, while if it had
been assorted the loss in weight would
have been small. Again, in such
course, the value of the crop would have
been largely increased. The prospect
now is that nice, assorted leaf will
easily command large figures, as the
market is practically bare of old goods
of Connecticut growth. The '98 crop
with forced sweat, is picked up eager
ly, and at good, round prices. The out
look for good prices was never better.
Probably full crop will be planted this
coming season. Many new sheds are be-
ing built all through the valley.-Culti
vatOr.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
New York.
New YORK, Feb. u, '99.

The domestic tobacco market has been
fairly active during the past week. Odd
lots of the new Connecticut, natural
sweated, have changed hands, and
brought good price, although, of course
this tobacco is not yet generally offered
on the market. A lot of 5Ocs wrappers
brought as high as 471sc. This was not
spotted goods, but of fine natural colors.
There continues to be good demand for
old BIS and binder stock, and such to-
bacco is sure to bring good price.
Havana-The activity in the Havana
market continues, and good sized vegas
are changing hands daily. Another con-
servative importer said to-day that he
had sold over 1000 bales since February
1st, and so far the month has proved one
of splendid business. The, great COM
plant is that importers cannot get goods
enough and of the right kind to supply
customere.
Among sales reported during the week
were SAG bales of 1893 Vueltas at p, t.;
113 bales of 1897 Vueltas at p. t.; 81
bales of 1896 Vueltas at SO cents, in
bond; 70 bales of 1896 Remedies at 80
cents, in bond, and 30 bales 1896 Rene
dios, 1st capaduras, at 80 cents, in bond.
A lot of 147 bales of Florida filters
brought 10 to AZ cents, and 62 bales OF
wrappers sold at $1.50.
Sumatra-.There is nothing to report
in this branch. Some business is being
done in a small way, but the market is
devoid of activity. Importers are al
ready beginning to think about the next
inscription, which opens four weeks from
tomorrow
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03

HARPER'S S WEEKLY presents thorough
discussion of tobacco culture IN Puerto
Rico by William Dinwiddie, special COR
respondent in the Antilles. II is stated
that tobacco equal to the best Havana in
quality can be grown very easily in
Puerto Rico, and that much of the tobac-
co imported from Cuba has been grown
in the smaller islands, imported to Cuba
and branded with the magical word Ha-
vana. Mr.. Dlnwiddie states that tobacco
culture in Puerto Rico affords an oppor-
tunity for American enterprise and
inveetmant fally equal to the sugar and
coffee planting, which industries he has
so ably discussed in previous issues OF
the Weekly.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
MIA1MsBURG, OHIO, Feb. q, '99

There is no change in the market since
the last report. The roads since the
thaw prevent rapid driving in the coun-
try. Local buyers are reported as seek
ing bargains on the outskirts. There is
no sign for the deadlock being broken
in the large growing districts.
Quotations: For '96 Spanish mouldy
stock, ~ to &c, good, to SC; '97 Span
ish, scarce II to 13c; '98 do, to &c;
Dutch 10 to lie; Gebhart Z to Sc. Ship
ments carloads. News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
BaIdwinsville, n. Y.

Despite the almost impossible roads large
quantities of bundle goods have been de-
livered this week, and some riding has
been done. A number of sales have re-
Gently been effected, particulars of which
we are unable to learn. Prices, however
are said to rule about as heretofore
Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Feb. "a, '99.


EDITOR TOBACCO REPORTER:
It may interest your readers to learn
that Tampa is going to make cigars this
year for the courts of both England and
Germany For generations these cigars
for royal consumption, made of the finest
quality of tobacco and with superior
workmanship, have been made IN Ha-
vana and have cost the crowned heads a
dollar apiece, or over. But now the en-
terprise and the particularly fine work
manship of Tampa manufacturers have
captured a part of this lucrative Euro
pean trade, and it will probably never go
back to Havana. It is only fair to state,
however, that it was doubtless refugee
Havana cigar makers OF whom
earn as much as So day occasionally on
very fine work-Who gave Tampa this
prestige.
Americans in general will not glory over
this triumph with the adulation of
European hunkeys and tuft-hunters,
butswill regard it chiefly from an eco
nomical standpoint as an indication OF
rising eminence. 5. POWERS.
n ***
The United States Tobacco Journal in
an editorial article discussing the recent
ruling of the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, says there are three things the ag-
gregate trade can do: First, the trade
can petition Congress to amend the
Dingley tariff bill so as to obliterate the
obnoxious ruling. AS the present Con-
gress has its hands more than full, and
has only ten days more to live, this plan
is manifestly impracticable. Second, to
lombard Senator'S and Representatives
with letters ndIpetitions, not once but
repeatedly, until Congress itself takes
action on the matter; lastly, to disregard
the obnoxious ruling-not to mind them
at all. It says thelocal officials have so
far taken no notice of them. They are
aware that to enforce them would be to
bring want into the homes of thousands
of innocent, honest and self-supporting
people. Finally, the Tobacco Journal
says: ''If the local revenue officials
should be compelled by their superiors
to enforce the ruling, then combine and
throw the decision into the courts.
At present the situation appears to be
that any leaf dealer who buys from the
grower and packs in the usual way may
go to work and repack his tobacco either
into boxes or bales of any size, ., 1O, oO
or 100 pounds. But man who does not
purchase from the growers. but from
another dealer, even though to be lOO or
1000 cases, cannot repack any portion OF
it to suit the demands of MS trade. 1t IS
also suggested by the Department that
packers shall pack their tobacco in pack
ages of such quantities as to meet the
requirements of their trade. That IS,
instead of putting into cases of uniform
size as now, thev shall pack it into cases
of all sizes and weights. This would be
costly, yexatious and absurd.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
New York.

Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
j. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 128
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, Feb. 27, 1899:
12OOcs '96 Wis. Hav at 10 to lie.
35Ocs '97 Wis Hav, at 9&1134c.
1O0cs '98 n. E. Hav. at 30 to 45c.
5Ocs '96 Onondaga at p. t.
1OOcs '97 Dutch at Is to 18c.
15Ocs '97 Zimmers at Is to lie.
2OOcs '96 Pa Seed at u to be.
15Ocs '97 Pa Seed at 1115c.
Total 2300 cases.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, Wis, March 3, 1895

EDGERTON, WIS, Mdrcn D, 1888.
Buying has continued unusually spirit
ed in most of the growing sections dur
ing the week and another large slice of
the unsold portion of the crop clipped
off. In the aggregate possibly as much
tobacco passed out of first hands the
past week as any time since the market
opened Late transactions embrace some
of the holdings of the large growers
which count up pretty fast when added
to packing. Prices show but little
change except that they are we'll main
tanned though buyers claim that good
many growers that were holding for &c
and better are loosening up and accept
ing less offers of late. The cheaper
grades and especially filters are actively
sought after and buying in the storm
sections has been as lively as elsewhere.
In the Stoughton section where more
tobacco remained unsold than any other,
large amount was lifted last week.
Sales reaching us since last report are;
Nels Kittilson 1Oa at 711a&2c.
J. e. Klinert 18a at 61a&2c.
A. Asleson 16a at 558&2c.
Henry Luton 14a 5A&3c.
Thor Olson 24a 511a&5c.
Robt. Arthur Ga at 1872
G. G. Rodenberg 1Oa at 61a&2c.
O. Cherry 8a at 61a&2c. +.
J. j. Pierson Ia at 61a&2c.
VIM. McComb 5a at 64&2c.
J. w. Robinson 3a at 6a4&14c.
O. M. Selle ia at 614&2c.
A. johnson 3a at 5119&2c.
VIM. Wachlein ga at 5&1c.
G. Knudson IA at 51ac.
D. Mcneil 18a at 5&2c. j..
G. Saxby 3a at 619&2c.
J. w. Lienau 8a at 61a&1c.
III. G. Bergholtz 3a at 4A&2c,
r. 1. Cults Ga at 411a&2c.
The deliveries at the warehouses both
from growers and by car from out lying
| points continue large, keeping ample
stock on hand for the sorting rooms
which are being run at full capacity.
Some old stock is moving but generally
in moderate sized lots, no large transac-
tions coming to notice. S. B. Heddles
picked up carload from local dealers
here on Monday.
The shipments out of storage reach
| 10 carloads, 5O0cs, for the week from this
station to all points. Since last report
1120cs of cigar leaf were exported from
New York.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
For Sale.

Two good work horses, young and
sound In every respect.
HEDDLEs LUMBER Go.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

The annual craze after filler stock has
begun again and buyers have been post
ed in nearly every growing district to
buy up filters when farmers can be found
that are willing to separate this grade
from their crops Some very attractive
prices are being offered, better than &c
in certain cases, and yet the amount Sc
cured is less than other seasons. Grow
ers who have anything like choice crops
are always aversed to selling out their
filters as they we'll understand that the
parting of this grade Injuries the sale OF
the crop. Buyers frequently pass crops
they would like to own because the filters
had been sold away from it. Ostensibly
filters are wanted for an export demand
which the past few years has proven a
ready market for unlimited quantities of
these goods. Frequently too, there has
been good home trade with the stogie
manufacturers and cutters and it is also
suspected that more or less cigar leaf
filters goes into the cheap grades of plug
tobaccos that food the market of late
years, when quantity and not quality is
the chief aim sought for. Wisconsin
filters never sold for higher prices than
during '98 and possibly dealers hope for
similar figures forsswhat can be gathered
up of the present crop.
***
The success of the Edgerton Fire De-
partment in controlling the blaze that
started in warehouse No Ii, a short time
age, under such adverse circumstances,
demonstrates unusual efficiency in our
| firemen and water supply for fire pro-
lection in town of this size, and is the
best advertisement for our city as to-
bacco packing point that could possibly
be made. Good fire protection is ne
cessity for tobacco storage in order to
command low insurance rates. Appar-
| emily we are in the enjoyment of both
| these conditions that conspire to make
| this desirable storage point when judg
| ed from the fact that the storage ia
| cilities ofthis market has more than
doubled the past two seasons. Another
| fact which is so well known that it hard
ly needs repeating is that Edgerton han
dies annually more cigar leaf tobacco
than any town in the world. And it
further may be said such a business
needs encouragement and protection.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03

Ample Accom building. Re
and when required.
Correspondence Solicited.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
DIRECTORS:

ANDREW JENsoN, Pres. w. A. SHELLEY,
w s. HEDDLEs. V-Pres lDR. E. l.. ShEPARI
w. 5. BROWN, Cashier, ALEX. WHITE,
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
SToUGHToN, WIS, Feb. "a, '99.

Everything seems to be moving along
in the same old ruts. No new develop
ments of startling nature having trans
pired during the past week. The several
warehouses are all working good force
and local buyers are still in the field.
Prices remain unchanged. Henry Miller
has picked up few lots of old goods,
among which might be mentioned the
following: Daniel Anderson Aces of '97;
Grit Jehu 44cs and Thore Olson 76cs.
Clouden Stebbins reports the purchase
of ga from Jens Anderson at 5&4c; Tom
Keegan IA at 415&2c; Harry Boothroyd
Ga at 5&2c. Ell. T. Hanson has six rigs
out buying all the filters to be found in a
circuit of ten miles, for which he is pay
ing the highest market prices Courier.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
Sun PRAIRIE, WIS, Feb %, '99.

This week has been pretty lively at
this market. A great many deliveries
have been made to G. L. Culton and Bar
nard & Wilder. A. S. Flagg and Ell. S.
McGiffin of Edgerton, are in this market
this week as is also Chas. Barnard of
Evansville. They are riding every day
for the new crop.
Mcfarland Henry Skare is on the
road buying filters for Edwards Bros.
He has purchased a carload this week at
PIC. Tobacco sales since last week:
Valdemas Larson to P. E. Erickson at
515c; Andrew Bjork to Sweeney of Ed
gerton, at 615&2c; Erick Olson to Swee-
ney, 13a at 619&2c.- Countryman.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
EVANSVILLE, Wis, Feb. "a, '99.


The moderate weather the past week
has given the buyers renewed courage
and all are riding and buying a crop
when they find holder who is thawed
out enough to get down to lormer prices
This is one of the years when there is a
buyer for everything. There has been a
special effort made on the part of some
Of the dealers to get hold of the filler
grades and prices have advanced in this
grade when bought separate from the
crop. The asserting of the crop is pro-
crossing rapidly and the crop will all be
in the cases before fermentation takes
place. Considerable tobacco has been
shipped east in bundles and the goods
shipped for export are all being packed
loose in cases so that the goods packed
for home trade will run far below the
estimate made by dealers as to the num-
Der of cases of the 1898 crop A few
sales coming to our notice this week are:
James Gagan 3a at 44&2c; Martin
Heshen "a at 5&2c: J. A. Cassidy 5a at
4&11ac; David Partridge 61aa at 419&2c;
E. Taylor ga at 515&2c; Natson Fisher
10a at 5&2c;
About six carloads altogether have
gone forth from this place the past week.
Leaf
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

In the '4Os the best men in Chicago
were identified with the fre force.
Lawyers, doctors. editors and business
men did not think 1t beneath their dig
nifty to run with the machine-in fact.
active service as a volunteer fireman
brought rewards in the way Of polit.
ical and social preferment. to which
even those in the highest ranks OF pro-
fessional and commercial life were sus-
ceptible. One of the most cherished
privileges was that Of appearing on
parade in the red flannel shirt and
leathern hat, which, with a pair Of
black doeskin trousers, with the lower
stuffed into the tops OF
boots. constituted the full
dress uniform. 1t was these things,
simple as they may now seem, that
gave enchlntnnent to the fireman's life
and drew into the ranks the hest men
In town. The actual fire service was
not particularly arduous. While the
city was built almost entirely Of frame
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

lot. dragging the engine behind 1t, and
then halted at the south end, where the
machine was given conspicuous place
and the firemen drawn up In line
around 1t while the chief and his as
sistants received the congratulations Of
the citizens on the visible evidence of
Chicago's coming greatness. Most Of
the population got inside OF the fence
and mingled in a free and easy manner
with the firemen. but some OF the kick
ers-the men who thought the pur-
chase Of fire engine at cost Of $3.50
a bit Of wicked OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ed on the outside and passed uncom-
plimentary remarks about the outfit.
In taking his picture Of the parade by
the old daguerrotype process the artist
set his camera on Clark street, and
this brought into the foreground the
men who were hanging on the outside
Of the fence on that thorOughfare. max
ing their daring coat skirts and oddly
shaped high hats the most conspicu-
Gus feature Of the scene.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

The Greek ecclesiastical authorities
at Aleppo have been called upon to de-
eide a case which strongly recalls Sol
omon's famous jud sment BY .
strange coincidence a woman and her
daughter both gave birth to female
child at the same time. But the ba.
bies got mixed, and. as one Of them
was ugly and the other pretty and
healthy. both mothers claimed the lat.
ter. The elder woman maintained
that, as all her other children were
handsome. the ugly child could not be
hers, while the daughter claimed that.
being young, handsome and strong.
she could not be the mother Of a weak
and ugly babe. The religious chief Of
the town settled the affair In a sum.
mary way. He adjudged the beauti.
full child to the daughter on the ground
that, It being her first, the occasion
was not to be made one Of humiliation
and disappointment, while the elder
mother could afford to forego her
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

Chicago had fire fighting force AZ
early as 1885. but the equipment con-
sisted solely of leathern buckets, in
which water was passed by lines Of
men formed for this purpose. In case
of fire the fighters would range them
selves in line. with one end at the near
est we'll or cistern and the other at
the burning building. Along this row
the buckets Of water would be handed
and dashed ON the flames. 1t was not
until 1874 that William b. Ogden had
succeeded in working the people up to
the point Of buying an engine, and
even then there was strong protest
against 1t, the assertion being made
by Mr.. Ogden's opponents that 1t was
a piece Of wild and useless extrava.
gance. Despite this the engine was
bought at a cost Of $3.50. 1t was a
goose neck. piano box machine, work
ed by man power by means of long
''brakes" at the sides. These brakes
were connected with the pump. and
when forced up and down by forty
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

The cathedral OF Cologne is naturally
the chief place of interest in that fam
Gus city. 1t took almost six centuries
and half to build, having been begun
in l248 and finished in 1880. Its style
of architecture is Gothic, and it has
eight chapels, which contain the re-
mains of eight archbishops, and the
skulls of 1.-THE three wise men OF the
East" The Church Of st. Ursula is
decorated inside with the bones OF
some of the 1000 virgins who, with
st. Ursula herself. were murdered by
the Huns.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

C.ncago Fire Guards, more popularity
known as the "Forty Thieves" 1t be-
ing the custom then to apply the sObri-
Quet in gOod-natured way because
tie efforts of the guard were solely d.
rec,ed to the saving Of portable prop
erty.
Scene on Courthouse Fquare.
This parade was held on the court
house square. the site Of the present
city and county building. 1t was then
a vacant lot, and, while In the heart Of
the young city, was Enclosed with a
rough slab fence like q piece Of pas
ture land. Washington street, on the
south. and La Sale street. on the west,
both Of which are shown in the picture.
were muddy, unpaved highways, prom
inent only because Of the churches To-
Gated ON them. The Universalist
Church stood on Washington street
about where the Chamber Of Com
merce building now stands, and the
Baptists had house of worship on the
west side of La Sale street, just north
Of Washington. In those days the
court house square was fav0rite spot
for open-air shows and displays. as 1t
was within handy reach and yet far
enough removed from the business part
of the city to prevent interference with
the trade and commerce Of the town.
1t was In this lot that Chief Engineer
Gale marshaled his firemen in 1874
and paraded before the admiring popu-
lace that wonderful addition to his
fire-hghting force-a piano box engine.
The department marched around the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

GUS nor extensive, owing to the strin-
gent precautions taken to prevent their
origin. When the department was
called out the disagreeable features of
the work were more than compensated
for when those who had been most &C
tive in fighting the flames were singled
out as members Of the floor and recep-
ton committees at the next dance.
Such was tireman's life In Chicago In
1874.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12
An Amt.ble wifc's Way.

y have an infallible rule for the man
agement Of husband" says an amia,
BILE married woman. III he comet
home at night very tired l keep every
thing quiet for him and have very lit
tie to say until after the soup course
at dinner. ny the time that course IL
over the soup has. as 1t always will do
warmed the very cookies of a tired
mans heart. and he is In a good mood
for anything and everything that may
follow York Times.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12
swindled Forty Lawyers.

Everybody is laughing in New York
at the success of rogue In swindlina
forty lawyers. His mode of operating
was to retain lawyers to prosecute
IA lroad companies for fictitious inju.
ries. agreeing to divide the proceeds
and on the strength OF such retainer
to borrow small sums Of money. Cheat
ing lawyer is regarded az q remarka-
bic feat OF ingenuity. much as the
Yorkshire wagner regarded the feat
Of Nicholas Nickleby, when a scholar,
in thrashing a schoolmaster who was
famous for nogging his pupils. The
honest WAGNER gave Nicholas a guinea
in token Of admiration for his exploit.
Albany Argus.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12

The first Australian newspaper, the
Sydney Gazette, was published March
8, 1903, Is years after the rise of the
colony. The delay was caused through
there being no printers among the
convicts, who represented every pro.
fession, including the legal. The plant
was brought out in the first feet, but
it could not be used until the authori.
ties caught q compositor.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12
To DO Away with Ear Trumpets.

A telephone has been invented for
deaf people which is intended to do
away with the necessity of carrying
large and clumsy ear trumpets which
are now in common nse. The new de-
vice consists of small transmitter
which is fastened to the coat, while
the receiver can be carried in the
pocket except when wanted. 1t Ii
then to be placed to the ear exactly as
is an ordinary telephone receiver. The
whole apparatus is worked by small
electric battery, which also finds
place in the pocket. Not only is tbs
new apparatus moro convenient than
the old fashioned ear trumpet, but it ia
claimed by the inventor that it entire
~ does away with tho necessity OF talk
ing in loud tone OF oice.-Chicago
Tribune.