The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-15
THE MAN|LAS
COME HIGH
Prices Of Filipino Cigars
Have BalIooned.
HONOLULU SUPPLY SMALL
It Takes a Quarter to Buy Three
and They are Growing
Scarce.

A year ago Manila cigars were prac-
tically the only kind smoked in the Is
lands. Two reasons We're accountable
cheapness-first-c class whiffs being pric-
ed at six for a quarter.
Decentralization ran up the price,
which had previously been about $50
per thousand, to $55, and the same
goods were retailed three for a quarter.
The Manila cigars which have been
consumed here during the past few
months have been goods which were
stored here for very few, if any Ma
Mia cigars, have been imported since
the plague.
Now the stock is running very low,
and by the end of the year there will
be but few left. Then another big adj
vance in price will take place and
good Manila cigar will hardly be OBJ
tainable for less than a bit.
The reason for this advance will be
that Manila cigars cannot be shipped
here for less than sS5 a thousand.
The result of the increase in price
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bellas has resulted in the local smoker
switching his allegiance to American
manufactured cigars. He can obtain as
good part Havana cigar as the aver
age consumer requires, for a nickel
Honolulu is a city .of smokers-all
smoke-Haole and Kanaka, Pake and
Jap A great portion of the white
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mint of money on the fragrant weed.
If the number of half dollar and
twenty-five cent cigars burned up ev-
cry month could be accurately estimat-
| ed, it would stagger the community.
Honolulu's taste in tobaccos is COM
paratively speaking, more extravagant
than is San Francisco's.
The Hawaiian rarely pays more than
| five cents for cigar, but he does not
smoke so many as the American me-
chanic or artisan. He stands second
on the list of consumers, however.
The little brown men burn only Gig
arettes at the shrine of the Goddess OF
Nicotine but they burn vast quantities
of the cheapest kind obtainable. John
Chinaman affects a pipe, which
is generally in his mouth when he is
not working. He smokes reprehensible
weed imported from his own coun-
TRY.
The cigarette fiend in Honolulu
wants good goods, and the leading
lcigar emporiums carry most of the A
brands, such as Khedive, Mahdi, Shah
Victoria, Royal, Pasha, Sultan, Oxford
and others, costing as much as from
81 to 81 per hundred.
There is a big demand here for Eng
fish tobaccos and cigarettes, the favor
lite goods being exports of Wills & Co.
who claim IS per cent of the English
tobacco shipped to these Islands.
Neither the native, Pake or Japanes
chews, but the white laborer consumes
much plug" The practice of snuff
taking is unknown.
| The Hawaiian women are grea
smokers, and the younger ones do no
allow much time to elapse without TAX
ing a Whit or two at a cigarette The.
do not smoke a cigarette right through
however but lay it down and relight /
perhaps a half dozen times before i
is consumed. The luwahines, or oil,
women, console themselves with hug
orange wood pipes loaded with nativ
tobacco of villainous strength
The tobacco business in Hawaii ha
been greatly revived by American
during the past year, and the ka
maaina and the native are being rap
idly educated up to American smokin
ideals.